Ted Rall for January 10, 2022

☞Happy you’re surviving reasonably well☜

I suspect that you’re seeing what we sometimes call “the bike shed syndrome”: When a company plans a new building, the committee often seems to spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the bike shed. Because everybody understands … or at least understands about bike sheds, but a lot of the rest of the building is well outside their comfort zone. It does play out a little differently when the folks only think they understand something.

They have strongly held beliefs ONLY about things they can weaponize.

Hope you are feeling better.

Just get better then we’ll talk about that

If you want to talk about that then you should use you influence as a cartoonist to make people to start talking about it

I hope you feel better soon, Ted.

Get well soon.

Hopefully he doing better than what’s depicted above.

If “All politics is local,” what can be more local than something that may affect the mortality of your own body? And therefore most politically sensitive?

I am fully vaxxed and got the new and improved variant. It went away when I installed Windows 11. Thanks, Bill!

I hope it passes quickly and uneventfully, Ted. Unfortunately, Covid has to take a number in the litany of issues the U.S. is ignoring.

Get a doc to treat you with the zinc + ionophore (+ an antibiotic if you might have a bacterial infection too) protocol.

You’re in the early stage of CV so stuffing your cells with zinc to stop replication should get you a quick clear-up. You could self-treat if you like: zinc & blueberries (which have a lot of quercetin, a safer and more readily available if also less-efficient ionophore than HCQ. Plus they taste good)

Don’t let them put you into hospital unless you can trust them to treat you curatively with a protocol known to have a curative effect. No “experiments” that have already been shown to be crap, like HCQ + antibiotic.

Most of all: get healthy again fast!

Get well soon.

Flurona? Hope you feel better ASAP!

Here’s hoping that 1) Omicron is for real (very little sequencing done, at least in the U.S.), 2) it’s as “mild” (or at least non-fatal) as it looks like it is, and 3) that’s what you have. Even a cold is miserable, much less a flu, and adding COVID to the mix is scary.

Disease spreading republican traitors are murderously stupid.

Sending healing thoughts your way. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world. You make a difference.

I had someone ask me after I had covid if I felt stupid for getting vaccinated since I still got covid.

No, of course not.

Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery.

Best wishes Ted. You are right. COVID is a major issue, but climate change or nuclear devastation is far more likely to kill us as a species. Malaria is a far more serious disease However, the reactions of people to the current pandemic is very telling. We are completely screwed if we ever have to face a more deadly disease.

COVID-19 no trivial matter. It has already killed millions of people worldwide, including more Americans than all U.S. wars combined. But yes, I wish people would care about all those other things, too.

“Iron Will”

I hope your recovery is swift. I am not surprised at people’s reactions, although two (or so) years ago I would have been aghast.

I’m very glad you protected yourself, Ted. It is likely that those measures will ensure you will come though your infection with little or no harm, in spite of your relevant pre-existing conditions.

Please get vaccinated, folks. Protect yourselves, but also protect those around you like Ted here. He deserves better than he’s getting.

May you have a speedy recovery and not have long covid.

Something that I found more or less by accident is that when I have the sniffles, I apply a little hand sanitizer at the nostrils (not deep, just at the opening) The sniffles go away for a while. You could also use one of the small (about 1″×1″) alcohol wipes. It’s not a big thing, but when you’re sick, little things help.

The Israelis found that Fenofibrate (which I take to reduce my Triglycerides), can help reduce the recovery time for covid. It is a medicine which has been around for something like 50 years, and should be safe with most other meds (but check with a pharmacist and your doctor). It reduces the lipids upon which the Corona virus feeds, so there seems to be a reasonable expectation for it to help. You would need a prescription.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563083/

https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(21)01439-8/fulltext

That’s my favorite retort when people ask “How are you today?”. I say, “Hanging in there”. Hang in there Ted.

Vitamins will cure covid . . . yeah. I recently learned of a relative who died of covid. That’s exactly what she believed, and why she didn’t get vaccinated. She refused the antibody treatments too. It was very sad. I am glad you’re vaccinated and taking care of yourself; you’re doing what you can to improve your odds. Good luck!

Ted, we may have disagreed on many things, but I am sorry you have gotten Covid. Trust me, it isn’t just you. AOC got it, after all. Omicron is highly contagious (more so than earlier forms of the virus). My nephew in NYC got asymptomatic Covid during Christmas time, but he’s fine now. You just rest and keep your doctor’s number handy if things get worse, but this too shall pass.

Feel Better Big Ted, we care about all of it Ted that’s why we read you Bro.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34408721/