GET YOUR COVID UPDATED VACCINATION

Got to start with Donald Trump. There are so many court cases pending that I've lost count. Here was one I did not know even existed. I'm a bit confused, for New York Attorney General Letitia James has a wide-ranging non-jury lawsuit against Trump and his family, which is scheduled to start anytime soon. But Judge Arthur Engoron (right) somehow made a pre-judgement, I think. Read this article. Maybe you can better comprehend what exactly is happening.

About that second GOP presidential debate yesterday, nothing much happened. Here is NBC News' take on the five biggest moments. Or, Time's assessment of the biggest moments. I once visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Library in Simi, California, as my attire shows: Air Force One jacket and cap, which I bought when I was there.

Who won the debate? Maybe Donald Trump in another successful boycott.

I'm nearing the end of my Thursday Covid summary, for there were only 148,860 new cases in the World this past week, and 221,582 cases the previous week. In January of last year, the USA alone had more than 5 million cases per week.

About what Covid vaccinations, does it matter if you get a booster or the new update?

Both are mRNA-based.
Both are made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.
Both are approved for 12 and older.

The updated vaccine targets the XBB.1.5 subvariant, even though the EG.5 and BA.2.86 subvariant are now the most prevalent. But not to mind, for this update works for all of these variants.

Novavax's vaccine has not yet been approved by the FDA and is based on recombinant viral proteins.
So when it does get approved, can you mix and match? The answer is yes.
However, the best medical advice is NOT TO WAIT. As only the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech versions are currently available, get one of them now.
Finally, should you get old booster or new update? The CDC recommends the new update.

As vaccines and past cases have made herd immunity now the world condition, and those who do get infected rarely die anymore, with the mortality rate approaching that of the seasonal flu, one of the remaining fears is LONG COVID, which now is found in 7.5% of new cases. Researchers are working on a specific test for this ailment. Long covid patients tended to have significantly lower levels of a hormone called cortisol, which causes profound fatigue. Further, dormant viruses, such as the one that causes mononucleosis, sometimes awakens for some.

It was thirty years ago that the USA Ryder Cup team beat Europe 15-13 at the Belfry in Warwickshire, England. Remember Bill Clinton in the White House. It was that long ago. Over half the 2023 team wasn't born yet. Since then, they have lost in Spain, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and France. Play begins in Rome on Friday.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

THE FIRST 84 YEARS OF MY LIFE

The first half of my life was spent preparing myself for my final 42 years. This was a mostly trying and stressful period involving a less than ideal youth, then struggles to get through school, my first few jobs and accompanying life, ending two months later on a Sunday with Part 15E , so it was a spiritual conclusion to my final transition. I never did count the number of actual postings, but I suspect it was around 25 parts. The ending had to do with golf, the disappearance and re-appearance of an 8-iron cover. That was the final clue to whether the beyond after death would be eternal gloom or Heaven. Today, I provide only one transition, but hint about a final one, for this, after all, is Sunday. I'm 84 years old, so let me summarize what happened during the first phase, from 0-42, and follow with the years 42-84. As this is 2024, that key transition year was 1982. I can't seem to find this photo, but as a one-year old baby, I was fat....

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