What is long Covid?

It's kind of hard to say since nobody has actually defined it yet. Here's an interesting article from NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/18/1055071699/coronavirus-faq-what-is-long-covid-and-what-is-my-risk-of-getting-it

The answer appears to be the same as everything else about Covid: Get Vaccinated!

Nice article in tomorrow's NYT

All about why BBB is likely to pass the Senate now in late December. It turns out Speaker Pelosi has been chatting with Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema for months. An article about how things get done by people who get things done. We will miss Speaker Pelosi when she is gone.

With Back Channels to Manchin and Sinema, Pelosi Found a Path to a Deal https://nyti.ms/3kXdUTM

Politico Playbook is mentioning that the Supreme Court will issue an opinion Monday.

Speculation is it will be the Texas abortion ban cases.
Tune in scotusblog at 10AM est to see if the speculation is right.

Big doings in New Haven today.

Interesting article from Reuters about the possible end of covid

Knowledgeable people are coming to some conclusions. They could be wrong. But I hope not.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/country-by-country-scientists-eye-beginning-an-end-covid-19-pandemic-2021-11-03/

That's a little unusual.

Apparently there was a Tucker Carlson film crew embedded with the defense team during the course of the trial. The chief defense lawyer didn't have a say about it.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-verdict-watch-11-19-21/index.html

Theranos trial.

I see Elizabeth Holmes took the witness stand for an hour today. To be continued next week. Should make for an interesting few days before the holiday. That one I would watch if it were televised.

A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders

Just wondering about Joe's future.

To my mind all of the hit pieces on VP Harris this weekend might have been the opening salvos of the 2024 campaign. They were launched by somebody.
Joe Biden's my man. I thought he was the only Democrat who could defeat Mr. Orange. But 2022 doesn't look great. The hightwater mark of his first term.
Will he really be interested in a second term. Even if only BBB is the last major piece of legislation he will have accomplished a lot. He saved the economy, passed the first infrastructure bill in decades, signed all the programs in the BBB into law and I even bet Covid will be brought under control while he is President. It will be quite a record. He's no kid. So maybe he thinks he will have accomplished what he set out to do.
I acknowledge he might feel that he has to protect us from the ass clown and decide to run again, but the country and the party can make demands on him. He's been too good.
I guess we will find out.

Nobody likes those masks!

There was a funny little story in Politico Playbook this morning. Dr
Faucci was at a book party at a D.C. restaurant last night. Apparently he kept putting on and taking off his mask at the party. People thought he was trying to avoid having his picture taken with the mask off. He said he'd take it off when he talked to someone he knew. Put it on when talking to someone he didn't know them. The thing of it is the D.C. indoor mask mandate doesn't expire until Monday. Nobody likes those masks.

https://www.politico.com/playbook