Photo by Anjali -- The Water Series I

8/15/2015

Anjali was looking into a pool and saw the sky.
What else does a photographer need?
She is embarking on a soccer road trip that will include rivers -- the Susquehanna, the Monongahela, the Allegheny, the Ohio, the Kentucky and the Tennessee.
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That reminded me of "The Water Song" by the Incredible String Band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZG5is9QqrE&list=RD8ZG5is9QqrE

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8/15/2015 09:03:06 am

It has been awhile since we have been treated to Anjali's photos. Reflections of any kind offer some of the most interesting and challenging. I'm looking forward to your updates of her travels.

I do not know she was a soccer player. I have mixed feelings about travel teams in most youth sports, but Anjali is traveling through wonderfully picturesque country side.

Since tomorrow is one of my milestone birthdays, I can appreciate the excitement of the young.

George Vecsey

8/15/2015 09:41:38 am

Alan, thanks for noticing. Actually, she is taking a road trip with Laura, who is covering the two US women's friendlies in Pittsburgh and Chattanooga. Hence, the rivers. Be well, G

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8/15/2015 09:48:27 am

That even even better!!

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8/15/2015 10:12:11 am

But not my English.

How does one become Laura's relative?

Ed Martin

8/15/2015 01:52:58 pm

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" asked the stranger. "Practice, practise!"

Ed Martin

8/15/2015 01:51:07 pm

Proud Dad and Grandad, fully justified. And soccer, too, wonder where that came from. Bon journee, Anjali and Laura.

Brian Savin

8/15/2015 11:47:02 pm

Water has fascinatingly powerful attractions well worth exploring as the source of life, though leave it to the ancient Greeks to spoil the fun with their downer story of Narcissus.

George Vecsey

8/16/2015 01:42:54 am

Ed, I used to take my kids on business trips -- Laura to Yankee spring training, Corinna to anti-power-line activists in Minnesota, David got to visit the Pirates' locker room in Bradenton with our friend Bill Robinson...Take Your Kid to Work Day.

Brian, you are right about Narcissus. Selfies, anyone? Did you check out The Water Song?

GV

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Measuring Covid Deaths, by David Leonhardt. July 17, 2023. NYT online.
The United States has reached a milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically abnormal….

After three horrific years, in which Covid has killed more than one million Americans and transformed parts of daily life, the virus has turned into an ordinary illness.

The progress stems mostly from three factors:
First, about three-quarters of U.S. adults have received at least one vaccine shot.
Second, more than three-quarters of Americans have been infected with Covid, providing natural immunity from future symptoms. (About 97 percent of adults fall into at least one of those first two categories.)
Third, post-infection treatments like Paxlovid, which can reduce the severity of symptoms, became widely available last year.
“Nearly every death is preventable,” Dr. Ashish Jha, who was until recently President Biden’s top Covid adviser, told me. “We are at a point where almost everybody who’s up to date on their vaccines and gets treated if they have Covid, they rarely end up in the hospital, they almost never die.”

That is also true for most high-risk people, Jha pointed out, including older adults — like his parents, who are in their 80s — and people whose immune systems are compromised. “Even for most — not all but most —immuno-compromised people, vaccines are actually still quite effective at preventing against serious illness,” he said. “There has been a lot of bad information out there that somehow if you’re immuno-compromised that vaccines don’t work.”

That excess deaths have fallen close to zero helps make this point: If Covid were still a dire threat to large numbers of people, that would show up in the data.

One point of confusion, I think, has been the way that many Americans — including we in the media — have talked about the immuno-compromised. They are a more diverse group than casual discussion often imagines.

Most immuno-compromised people are at little additional risk from Covid — even people with serious conditions, such as multiple sclerosis or a history of many cancers. A much smaller group, such as people who have received kidney transplants or are undergoing active chemotherapy, face higher risks.

Covid’s toll, to be clear, has not fallen to zero. The C.D.C.’s main Covid webpage estimates that about 80 people per day have been dying from the virus in recent weeks, which is equal to about 1 percent of overall daily deaths.

The official number is probably an exaggeration because it includes some people who had virus when they died even though it was not the underlying cause of death. Other C.D.C. data suggests that almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths have fallen into this category. A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases came to similar conclusions.

Dr. Shira Doron, the chief infection control officer at Tufts Medicine in Massachusetts, told me that “age is clearly the most substantial risk factor.” Covid’s victims are both older and disproportionately unvaccinated. Given the politics of vaccination, the recent victims are also disproportionately
Republican and white.

Each of these deaths is a tragedy. The deaths that were preventable — because somebody had not received available vaccines and treatments — seem particularly tragic. (Here’s a Times guide to help you think about when to get your next booster shot.)
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From the great Maureen Dowd:

As I write this, I’m in a deserted newsroom in The Times’s D.C. office. After working at home for two years during Covid, I was elated to get back, so I could wander around and pick up the latest scoop.
But in the last year, there has been only a smattering of people whenever I’m here, with row upon row of empty desks. Sometimes a larger group gets lured in for a meeting with a platter of bagels."

--- Dowd writes about the lost world of journalists clustered in newsrooms at all hours, smoking, drinking, gossipping, making phone calls, typing, editing.
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"Putting out the paper," we called it.
Much more than nostalgia.
---https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/opinion/journalism-newsroom.html

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