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I received my second Moderna vaccine over a month ago.  I don't plan on dinning inside restaurants anytime soon and I still avoid crowded subway cars and shopping in crowded stores.   I believe that continued prudence in order. It is clear that a number of more contagious varients are around and spreading. Last week I had dinner at my son's apartment ( He and I have both been vacinated) for the first time in a year . It felt great to see him in person without us wearing masks.  That being the case, even though I have been fully vaccinated, I continue to double mask when I am treating patients and taking public transportation.   Also there is evidence that it is possible to get Covid a second time.  Its likely that those who are vaccinated may get a less severe form of Covid if they do come down with it ( a good thing!) but the best policy to follow is still exhibit some caution. Dr. Fauci believes that it is relatively safe for those who have been fu...

  In 2005 I was going through a rather contentious divorce. I have to admit it affected my mood. I would meet every week end with my brother and we would  riff on movie ideas. I was in a somewhat unhappy place and most of my ideas were influenced by  my cynical state of mind but were funny, in a dark way.   We came up with an idea and a character called the "bad humor man" because both of tended to like dark humor jokes. Together we came up with a movie scenario involving the "bad humor man". He was either a doctor or an orderly whose wife had kicked him out of his house and now he walked into patients rooms and cracked cynical jokes sort of like Don Rickles. The patients initially would be angry but after awhile would look forward to his visits and invariably their condition would improve partly due to the "healing power of humor. I felt that the character would be like a dark version of Patch Adams. There was more to his story but that is not the point of...