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Recently I Chanced on The County's Library System and They Asked for Comments About Their Services They Probably Regret Asking An Author.

Since they went to the trouble of making it easy to post comments about resident's experience with the library system in this rural area of west-central PA whose biggest (likely only, although the local newspaper once wrote on the front page that I was the second biggest celebrity in the area) celebrity is Phil who gets international attention on Groundhog Day here in Punxsutawney. But children's birthday parties occasionally make the front page so I didn't take it too seriously. I have had nothing but bad experiences with the local library but am a big fan of libraries and librarians in general, so I welcomed the chance to make content - the new local librarian has failed to supply information for my community web site, information I had asked for and which she agreed to send. Nevertheless, this was the association of multiple county libraries so I provided the following based on years of working with librarians. Below is my reply:   IF you want the truth... I used to visi...

FEMA will pay up to $9,000 in COVID-related funeral expenses.

  FEMA will pay up to $9,000 in COVID-related funeral expenses. See: www.15767.com for details .

Nature Magazine Says No COVID-19 Herd Immunity. Also, NO FLU was bad news.

U.S. adults getting vaccines sounds great but, BUT, there is no vaccine for kids so herd immunity requires 98% of all adults being vaccinated. Many Republicans and others are refusing to get the vaccine to the tune of about 20% of Americans who WON'T get any of the vaccines. Variants are getting worse and the next one may ignore all the vaccines. You get those mutations/variants when there are lots of infections. Some parts of the U.S. and many countries are not getting vaccinated at all therefore it continues spreading and generating more dangerous COVID versions in these low vaccine pools including entire countries with air service to the U.S. COVID-19 isn’t going to end, ever. It will become endemic like the common cold or yearly flu which normally kills about 40,000 Americans each year. Did you notice there was no flu this year? Social distancing and mask wearing has saved tens of thousands of influenza deaths. Actually that is bad. Researchers trying to predict next year’s inf...