First, though...o n the front page of the   Sunday Star Advertiser   was a rather startling reality regarding the decline of vaccine effectiveness after six months: Johnson&Johnson:  86%, down to 13% Pfizer:  87%...43% Moderna:  89%..58% I receive my Moderna booster in two days.  Apparently, one can take any of the other two to boost your original sequence.  Based on the above, I'll stick with Moderna.  The Feds are rather tardy in making this official for everyone. My original plan was to feature some facet of TED every Friday.  However, this morning I saw a few  Quora  queries that begged to be added today: Becky Blanton 4y Why is attending a TED conference so expensive? Is there anyway I can attend the TED conferences without spending huge sums of money? I attended and spoke at TED Global in 2009. There was no way I could have afforded the $10,000 cost of attending, air flight, hotel etc. without having someone else pay for it - which Dan Pink did because I won a contest he

The  New York Times  this morning well described what is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic and how people will probably adjust their lives into the future.  First, there seems to be a reversal of new cases from the south  (Florida, Texas ) to the north and mountain west.  Why?  Those states are getting colder and their populace is more and more staying indoors. About how you and I will react to this pandemic, the  NYT  talked with someone named Dr. Robert Wachter, who is the chair of the medicine department at the University of California in San Francisco.  He thinks we all should return to a new normal, now.  He is vaccinated and boosted, but still wears a mask in supermarkets and planes.  For people like him, and me, this could well be how we will so live for the rest of our lives.   This virus will NEVER go away.   The combination of vaccinations and the Pfizer pill to reduce hospitalization and death will simply make COVID-19 a type of flu that will return in the fall and winter