Day: April 13, 2021💾

April 28th is my COVID-19 liberation date 💉

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April 28th is my COVID-19 liberation date 💉

That’s what my mom likes to tell me, two weeks after I got my second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today. I am kind of glad to be putting COVID-19 behind me, to know that I won’t have much of a risk of getting very sick from COVID-19, especially after that two week date passes. Not that it will mean much of a change in my day-to-day routine, as I’ll still be working from home and wearing a mask at the store — but it does mean I won’t have to worry much about getting sick from COVID going forward.

I am glad, because it’s been quite the year plus that has come and gone. A fair amount of worry and concern, change and surprise. A lot of grim statistics to study, but also reason for hope now that at least I am beyond it. Sure, there are people who get vaccinated and then still get sick, but those are quite rare — statistics that will certainly diminish as more people get vaccinated the virus is further starved.

8-14 Day Outlook – Tuesday April 13

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I hope your enjoying the warm weather of late, because the 8-14 day outlook suggests we will be closing out April on the cool side of things. 💨 But a cold late April day, is a lot warmer then a cold January day for sure. 😎 When there is no hope of warmer weather, there is summer …

 

CDC and FDA recommend US pause use of vaccine over blood clot concerns – CNN

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Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine: CDC and FDA recommend US pause use of vaccine over blood clot concerns – CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are recommending that the United States pause the use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a "rare and severe" type of blood clot.

The six reported cases were among more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered in the United States.

What is Pinkster? – Historic Hudson Valley

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What is Pinkster? – Historic Hudson Valley

Pinkster is a holiday that was celebrated over several days by African and Dutch New Yorkers throughout the 1700s.

The holiday was brought to the New World by Dutch settlers in the 1620s and flourished in the areas of heaviest Dutch settlement: the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and western Long Island. These same areas also had significant populations of enslaved Africans from the 1600s until emancipation in New York in 1827. For enslaved people, the year offered few holidays or breaks from tedious and often grueling work. For rural captives in particular, who were often isolated from larger African communities, Pinkster became the most important break in the year.

Albany’s Dutch-African Spring Festival – New York Almanack

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Pinksterfest: Albany’s Dutch-African Spring Festival – New York Almanack

About Pinksterfeest, Harper’s explained:

“The Pinkster festivities commenced on the Monday after Whitesunday, and now began the fun for the Negroes, for Pinkster was the carnival of the African race. The venerable “King of the Blacks” was “Charley of Pinkster Hill,” so called because he was the principal actor in the festivities. Charles originally came from Africa, having in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and when but a boy, he became the purchased slave of one of the most ancient and respectable merchant princes of the olden times, Volkert P. Douw of Wolvenhoeck.”