If you are one of the populations in New Jersey who is actively seeking an appointment for a vaccine settle in for a long haul. Despite the state doing well last year during the worst of the pandemic it has seriously dropped the ball on the vaccine appointment scheduling. Having had a year to anticipate that…
Category: Coronavirus
High Anxiety – Election Stress & COVID19 – How To Cope
2020. The year that is proving to be an enormous challenge. The political landscape has been ugly, the coronavirus has changed lives radially and now there is an election looming. Unless you have been living on a tropical island it is impossible to be unaffected. In the spring in the early stages of the virus…
COVID19 – A Reminder
The COVID19 numbers are rising – in some places significantly – in others less so but as the weather has turned cooler the expected increase is occurring. Northern New Jersey is increasing, and each county in the state is reporting increases, Rockland County has somewhat stabilized. But every day brings a change. Time for a…
Risk Assessment of Catching COVID19
What are the risks of attending an event during COVID19? Georgia Tech and Stanford have created a very useful interactive map with risk factors – in real time. Bergen County right now is 51%. Rockland County is 93%. Find map HERE. Check out the other tabs across the top that has more information –…
The October To Do List
What adjectives would you use to describe life now? In a week that has gone from bad to worse, in a year when calamitous seems to be the theme it is easy to get distracted, confused and forgetful, all symptoms of an overloaded life. There is so much going on. Easy to miss things. But…
Things In Rockland County Are Heading South
Spring 2020. While we were all occupied with COVID19, quarantined and on pause some troubling happenings across the border in Rockland county were going on. A reader, a resident of Rockland County, wrote of social happenings occurring – in Airmont – that were against the directive of Governor Cuomo. In the close vicinity of Upper…
Back To Life?
Back to school, back to work. Back to life? Yes, the hiatus is over. After what seemed to be like forever, but was only a matter of several, long, lonely months life is stumbling back. COVID19 arrived and stayed, has made a mark on lives and businesses and created a new normal. Some places were…
Coronavirus – The New Normal
Changed and / or updated information in blue The coronavirus has arrived. There is no waiting, wondering and thinking it is a hoax. So, how is it going for you? Kids at home (yikes), no social time, super market shelves looking a little raggedy (assuming you can find what you want) and to quote the…
Coronavirus – Taking Some Sensible Precautions
Coronavirus Coronavirus Covid-19 is creeping around the globe and has arrived in the US. Epidemiologists are working tirelessly to understand this new virus and figure out control, pattern, expectation. Each day the situation changes as the virus develops. It is confusing for members of the public, official organizations, government officials. Will it be like a…