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Events In China Are Sure To Spill Over To The United States
The United States Is About To Go On A Wild Ride Buckle up and get ready for a new COVID-19 rollercoaster ride. The United States is about to go on a wild ride because of events in China. After almost three years, China is abandoning its “zero-COVID policy,” which has resulted in hundreds of millions…
Read MoreLearn About How To Keep “Man’s Best Friend” Safe
Dog flu, i.e., canine influenza, is coming to Florida. It has reached epidemic proportions in other states and will soon get that bad here. Dog flu is not dangerous to humans, just to dogs. So far, according to the media, there are no known humans that have been infected with dog flu. Essentially, dog flu is an…
Read MoreThe Newest California Craze
Every few days, I see a newspaper story that I simply can’t believe is true. And, today is one of those days. Exercise While High? Apparently, the newest fitness craze in Los Angeles is to exercise after getting high. I saw this story reported in the Los Angeles Times (link to the story here),…
Read MoreAnother reason to get the shingles vaccine ASAP
Remember when you were a child and got chickenpox? It was no big deal. In my case, I got lots of ice cream, watched a ton of TV, and got to stay home from school for a week or so until I recovered. I wasn’t very sick and had a lot of fun at home…
Read MoreHelping you avoid being economic road kill
There is no good way for me to say this…most baby boomers (I am a baby boomer) will end up as economic roadkill and die penniless because of the cost of long-term healthcare. Poverty Doesn’t Have To Be Our Future But poverty doesn’t have to be our future, even though long-term healthcare will most likely…
Read MoreThe Craziest Internet Scam Ever
For the past two weeks, I have been inundated with calls (primarily men aged 20 through 30) who want to sell their poop to our firm. People Are Calling To Sell Their Poop That’s right…this is not a typographical error…people are calling us to sell their poop (at $500 per poop). There’s gold in them…
Read MoreHearing Aids No Longer Require A Prescription
I have good news and bad news to report. The Good News About Hearing Aids – They Are About To Dramatically Come Down in Cost While Improving In Quality After decades of hearing aids being incredibly expensive because they required a prescription, as of early October 2022, hearing aids are now an over-the-counter product. So,…
Read MoreInspector General Finds That Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Critical Care
When I was in high school, I went to New York City with my friends to “hang out” in Times Square, where there was a “99-cent” store. At the time, I was thrilled that for $0.99, I could buy anything in the store, and to my adolescent eyes, there seemed to be thousands of items…
Read MoreWhat To Look Out For and What Not To Worry About
Worried About Developing Dementia or Alzheimer’s? I am reaching an age where everyone I know is worried about developing dementia, Alzheimer’s, or some other degenerative brain disease. In the last two years, two close friends have gotten the bad news: one friend was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and the other with Alzheimer’s. Both individuals are in…
Read MoreSea What??? Feeding Seaweed To Cows Helps Global Warming.
In today’s installment of “life is stranger than fiction,” I discuss the impact of cow and sheep burps on global warming and how scientists are solving the bovine burping crisis We have been told that human consumption of meat is a significant contributor to climate change (it is) but given no solution other than not…
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