Writing early again today, as I had a doctor’s appointment over videoconference.
This Telehealth stuff is really a game-changer. The particular doctor I saw this morning can get the clinical data he needs from a sensor, and I don’t have to actually go in to an office.
Even if I lived close to his office, that’d be something like two hours of missed work time. Given than his office is probably a good 30 minutes away, now, I’d be looking at an extra two hours for travel.
I’m wondering, too, what it’s going to do to doctors’ office space requirements. How much is a practice paying just for office waiting areas?
But, because I’m in my appointment window, I can write.
If you could have any career, what would it be? (Assume anything you choose, you are the best in the field)
I think I’d want to write. I can’t see very well. I can’t be on my feet very long. I can’t speak that well anymore. I can still write, sorta.
I’ve been trying to decide how I could do something. Everybody and his brother has a podcast now. I have a blog. Yes, like all of them, it sucks. Could I do something where I take the one biggest story I see for the day, and offer a bit of my take on it? Would anyone care? Probably not.
News for today…..Moderna is all like, I’ll see your 90% effectiveness on a COVID vaccine, and raise you 4.5%.
I do need to find some more analysis of what they’ve done with these vaccines. It sounds like they’re really a departure from what had been done for years.
It’s no longer finding a similar less problematic virus, or giving dead or live viruses to build immune response.
These use RNA that build immunity without using the actual virus, or something similar.
Medical science is advancing. But, if only Donald Trump had acted sooner, we’d have less of the sort of thing we were accustomed to, and maybe they’d sort of work.
I really hope that Biden is the least powerful president we’ve had since before the Great Depression.