January 26, 2022

Paris Hilton has invested in Crypto since 2016!

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/paris-hilton-has-invested-in-crypto-since-2016-heres-why-shes-betting-big-on-nfts-and-the-metaverse.html

What more reason do you need?

January 26, 2022

How to Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Covid by 99 percent!

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1485695982117425153

Just get vaccinated and a booster.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1485981638148296713

January 26, 2022

Omicron BA.2 shows up in CT and MA

https://twitter.com/NathanGrubaugh/status/1486083856860123137

Dr. Grubaugh does the Covid sequencing at Yale. The entire thread is worth a read, although I only understand a little of it. He thinks it'll overwhelm the present Omicron strain BA.1 pretty quickly. Doesn't seem to think it will result in many new cases but he admits he could be wrong.
So if things go downhill I guess it will happen in New England first and soon.

January 25, 2022

State says NYC restaurant can't offer 25 cent drinks!

https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/state-says-nyc-restaurant-cant-offer-25-cent-drinks-to-fight-january-blues/

But it can charge 12 bucks for a martini and throw in a dozen oysters for free!

January 25, 2022

Ten Infamous Mob Hangouts in New York City.

https://untappedcities.com/2022/01/21/mob-hangouts-nyc/2/?displayall=true


And who wouldn't want to visit a spot where Louis 'Lump Lump' Barone knocked off Albert Circelli, a made man in the Lucchese Crime Family?

January 25, 2022

Omicron Hampers Broadway!

After a shaky December, when as many as half of Broadway's shows were shut down because of breakthrough COVID cases, things are on a more even keel; there were no canceled performances on Broadway last week. But the winter doldrums have hit – with temperatures and tourism plummeting, fewer people are seeing shows. The most recent box office figures show roughly two-thirds of seats filled, many at a heavy discount. Several musicals and plays closed for good, because of COVID — presumably the omicron variant — including Jagged Little Pill, Waitress and Ain't Too Proud. And, in a new trend, three shows have closed for now, in the hopes of returning in the spring.

There were very few people at the half-price TKTS booth in Times Square last Tuesday night, and many of the 21 shows still playing on Broadway were offering discounts. Roger Wilson from Sweden was looking for bargains. "I understand the industry is really struggling," he said. "On the other hand, it's easier for someone like me to get last-minute tickets."

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/23/1074817122/pandemic-broadway-closed-shows-actors-producers-tickets


We'll be there ere long.

January 21, 2022

Where Omicron Began: Gauteng Province SA

https://twitter.com/rid1tweets/status/1484222326392688643

https://twitter.com/rid1tweets/status/1484464675182071808

The rise is similar in UK and US. Hoping for a similar decline.

January 21, 2022

How to Avoid Being Hospitalized for Covid.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1484375953329377281

It's basically pretty simple.

January 21, 2022

24 Hours in Ukraine by Sen. Chris Murphy

Normally you wonder about the value of overseas junkets by congress people, but this report by CTs Sen. Chris Murphy on the recent trip to the Ukraine is pretty interesting and worth the read:

https://chrismurphyct.medium.com/24-hours-in-ukraine-86cbfcaf51e4

January 20, 2022

An actual Covid variant: BA.2

I hate to feed the Covid fear beast, but there is an actual Omicron variant out there called BA.2. In the interest of keeping people informed I thought I would put up a post. Not too much is known about it other than what follows. Something to keep an eye on, no need to panic yet. BA.1 is Omicron. BA.2 is a sub-variant:

Should we be worried about BA.2?
There is no evidence on if BA.2 is more or less severe than other variants of COVID-19.

Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, said the earliest indications from Denmark and India "suggest there is no dramatic difference in severity compared to BA.1".

Peacock also said: "There is likely to be minimal differences in vaccine effectiveness against BA.1 and BA.2."



He pointed to the fact several nations, including the UK, appear to be past their Omicron peaks and said he thinks it would be surprising if BA.2 caused another surge.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/government-monitoring-new-potentially-more-transmissible-omicron-variant-165522269.html