What did they learn in this time that isn't being tested? How'd they do with cooking, imaginative play, dealing with unexpected stress, respecting the needs of others, becoming more autonomous in making good choices. How about their game playing skills? Did they watch Nova, Shakespeare plays, WildKratts, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood? Did anyone learn to play the piano or to knit? Did they participate in something cooperative done via Zoom or FaceTime? Did they collect and donate art supplies to the hospital? Maybe they helped make and deliver meals? Or was this truly just a wasted year? Might it be possible to incorporate life learning credits into the ways we view schoolchildren?
I heard on NPR yesterday a clip about long-haul COVID. Researchers are beginning to think there is a relationship between this syndrome and what happens with some auto-immune diseases, in which the body turns ON an immune response that uses inflammation, but somehow when the illness clears the switch isn’t turned off. I get that that’s how an over-active immune system works. But then they said some other illnesses can throw the switch on also, but not turn it off, such as chicken pox (zoster virus). !!! That made me sit up and take notice, because I have inflammation issues and I have recurrent shingles (zoster virus). So, as they work on a treatment for long-Covid, they may also develop a treatment for recurrent shingles. That would be so cool.
I wondered if they could be right, since my immune system isn’t OVER-reactive, but UNDER reactive. But then they said having the immune system constantly switched on can exhaust the immune system resulting in a diminished response! How I wish I could discuss this with the wonderful Infectious Disease specialist I went to a few years back. Only...he transferred to a medical center in Maine.
Wishing you good luck finding somebody expert to talk to. The thing about shingles, of course, is that it's the virus actually reactivating. Exactly how the immune system might play into that I don't know.
“Federal regulators are likely to approve a Covid-19 booster shot for vaccinated adults starting at least six months after the previous dose rather than the eight-month gap they previously announced,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The person said approval for boosters for all three Covid-19 shots being administered in the U.S.—those manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson —is expected in mid-September.”
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ReplyDeleteOh, I do hope so for you sake, Alan. I suspect it would affect fewer people that way, yes?
DeleteWell, in this area--but the population of the greater Los Angeles area is the majority of Californians.
DeleteMany predicted some kind of 'Covid slide' in learning. Test results show how bad it is.
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What did they learn in this time that isn't being tested? How'd they do with cooking, imaginative play, dealing with unexpected stress, respecting the needs of others, becoming more autonomous in making good choices. How about their game playing skills? Did they watch Nova, Shakespeare plays, WildKratts, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood? Did anyone learn to play the piano or to knit? Did they participate in something cooperative done via Zoom or FaceTime? Did they collect and donate art supplies to the hospital? Maybe they helped make and deliver meals? Or was this truly just a wasted year? Might it be possible to incorporate life learning credits into the ways we view schoolchildren?
Points well taken, listener.
DeleteI heard on NPR yesterday a clip about long-haul COVID. Researchers are beginning to think there is a relationship between this syndrome and what happens with some auto-immune diseases, in which the body turns ON an immune response that uses inflammation, but somehow when the illness clears the switch isn’t turned off. I get that that’s how an over-active immune system works. But then they said some other illnesses can throw the switch on also, but not turn it off, such as chicken pox (zoster virus). !!! That made me sit up and take notice, because I have inflammation issues and I have recurrent shingles (zoster virus). So, as they work on a treatment for long-Covid, they may also develop a treatment for recurrent shingles. That would be so cool.
ReplyDeleteI wondered if they could be right, since my immune system isn’t OVER-reactive, but UNDER reactive. But then they said having the immune system constantly switched on can exhaust the immune system resulting in a diminished response! How I wish I could discuss this with the wonderful Infectious Disease specialist I went to a few years back. Only...he transferred to a medical center in Maine.
Yes, it calls for some serious pondering, and one way or another we will learn from the pandemic. Well, at least some of us. . .
DeleteWishing you good luck finding somebody expert to talk to. The thing about shingles, of course, is that it's the virus actually reactivating. Exactly how the immune system might play into that I don't know.
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ReplyDelete“Federal regulators are likely to approve a Covid-19 booster shot for vaccinated adults starting at least six months after the previous dose rather than the eight-month gap they previously announced,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The person said approval for boosters for all three Covid-19 shots being administered in the U.S.—those manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson —is expected in mid-September.”
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