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It was a great episode. I really enjoyed it!

I must say... the ads are annoying. I dislike political ads that present opinions as facts -

So.... I've been seeing a lot of ads against these (1,3,4) ballot proposals. So I decided to look into them. I have to say, I'm not sure I fully understand all that is included in proposition #1.... Anyone really understand this?? https://www.elections.ny.gov/2021BallotProposals.html

I made these one year during my annual Christmas cookie baking marathon and let me tell you, they are awesome! Here's the recipe: Ingredients For the cookies: 3/4 cup butter softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup dried cranberries finely chopped 1 tablespoon orange zest For the rolling sugar: 1/2 cup sugar 1 tablespoon orange zest Instructions Preheat oven to 350. Using an electric mixer, mix butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add to butter mixture and mix until just combined. Fold in cranberries and 1 tablespoon orange zest. Chill dough while you make orange sugar. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon orange zest. Use your fingers to rub the 2 together until everything is combined and mixture is fragrant. Shape dough into 1 inch balls and roll in orange sugar. Place on baking sheet and flatten slightly. Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks.

I love this show! Can't wait to see it!

Ok... that looks interesting!

Numbers in the hospital are going up too 😥

Argh... this is frustrating. The J&J vaccine was reported to possibly be linked to Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis because of 6 cases reported out of the 6.8 million doses given. The EXPECTED (not vaccine related) annual incidence for this type of clot is 5 out of 1 million So the incidence in the post-vaccine group is LESS THAN what should be expected... Get your vaccine! And hopefully they restart administering the J&J vaccine soon! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/cerebral-venous-sinus-thrombosis%3famp=true https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1263898

I have been wanting to try the food at Cocina del Gordo since I read about it. I finally made it there yesterday. And I am happy to share it was DELICIOUS!! Not to mention the portions were huge!! I picked the fajita quesadilla. It comes with rice and beans, but I had no idea there would be that much food! Of course, half of it came home with me. Honestly, it was even better the next day!! You should absolutely check them out. I will definitely be going back soon!! https://cocinadelgordo.com/menu-4

https://mymodernmet.com/rice-art-maria-lynn/?fbclid=IwAR3PVILTH3YaExdpbWQNcZAng1h9K164BlqQJXhqr_Ti3eQG6Jx2rEz0scA I'm not sure what is more impressive... the picture, or the fact the rice doesn't go all over the place!!

If anyone is looking for a financial advisor I would highly recommend Lynn Williams. She is great! Smart, accurate, easy to talk to, and quick to get back to you.

Awesome! I was going to say Harry Belafonte was my favorite, and it's number 1! But I'll have to rewatch them all to see what my top 10 are...

Congregate living conditions are more difficult to manage when the issue is a contagious disease. But a hospital isn't an improvement over a nursing home. Letting people out of jail/ prison (right or wrong) probably let's most of them go back to their home. Not too many people in nursing homes had the luxury of a family member who would be able to care for them in a home setting. Tracing the location of infection was possible early on, but once an area reached the point where community transmission was wide spread it is all but impossible. 40% of patients are asymptomatic. Very few people (nsg home staff are the only ones that come to mind) are being screened on a regular basis) - and the some of the tests used to screen were not approved for that use (meant for symptomatic people with presumably higher viral load levels) It's was / is a hot mess... hopefully things keep getting better - but in order to really learn from this (what worked, what didn't) I think we need to be better at analyzing the experience without second guessing / politicizing it (on the national, state and local levels)

Just to throw a couple thoughts out there- I remember when the state put out the guidelines that the nursing homes needed to take their patients back from the hospitals. I was very happy with that decision. At that time we didn't have great testing capabilities, we were worried about census surging and exceeding the staffing capabilities of the hospitals. Nursing homes are not set up for testing/diagnosing medical issues in many cases, and it is often easiest to send the patients to the ED for a work up. However, to expect hospitals to be able to keep patients who did not need inpt care, or who only wanted palliative care, because ther the nursing homes weren't sure they wanted to/ were capable of safely providing care for them if NOT the answer. Yes, nursing homes have staffing issues (so do hospitals), yes, PPE supplies were low (same in some hospitals). And overwhelming hospitals with nursing home patients would be bad for the ALL the patients (in the hospital/ waiting in the ED for an inpt bed/ not able to get into the ED because of the rooms being full). To say that a patient with minimal to no symptoms required a hospital bed is crazy. And would potentially take a bed away from someone who did need that level of care. If nursing homes needed help with staffing or PPE supplies they just had to ask the state. I have not heard of any nursing homes who asked for help and didn't receive it. I have heard of nursing homes who had the national guard helping for a period of time. And for anyone to think that the nursing home staff did NOT bring COVID into the nursing homes... that's just crazy. The part of the AG report that I think was most upsetting was the private nsg home that did not take the steps needed (presumably for $ reasons), and the CHRONIC staffing issues that nursing homes have faced for decades. Staffing models/pay issues/ and the work itself are issues that have not been addressed for years. And when the system was stressed the cracks got bigger. The same thing will happen in the future if the only thing that people pay attention to from this report is the hospital vs nsg home placement debate. So.... coming back to where we are now. It's OK (I guess) if you want to be upset about the delay in releasing the info. Anything that looks like a cover up is always going to make things worse. I can't see a big difference in counting nsg home pts who die in the hospital in the "hospital deaths" bucket vs the "nsg home deaths" bucket - as long as they were counted somewhere. And I think Cuomo was great during the spring/ summer of 2020. At this point I think he should give up most/all of the emergency powers he was given during the height of the outbreak at this point. I don't think he needs them at this point. But I think the politicians in Albany/pundits should be able to make that point without politicising this issue. So- just a few thoughts I've been kicking around🙃 In case you want to read about the AG report: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-releases-report-nursing-homes-response-covid-19

That's so neat!!!

Yup, but now he is really retired

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tom-brokaw-announces-retirement-after-55-years-nbc-n1255367 I remember when he took over the Nightly News from John Chancellor. I always liked watching him on the news

That's awesome!!!

70s- "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass. 80s- A-Ha “Take On Me” 90s- "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles 00s - ??? I've got nothing