Vaccines and the royals. Toastmasters with Zoriana. Tales from the war zone.

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The Daily Exposé answers the vaccination question that had crossed my mind the moment I heard that Queen Elizabeth died. As of January 9, 2021, the day they got their first shots, Prince Philip was 99, she was 95

Per the SSA actuarial tables, he had 37 months of remaining expected life.   She had 59.  That’s assuming that American averages can be applied.  By all accounts they were in better health than the average American man and woman of those ages.

He lasted 3 months after the shot.  She lasted 20 months. 

A Timeline of Royal Vaccination and Health Events

2021 January 9. The Queen and Prince Philip both receive their first Covid shot

2021 February 16: Prince Philip is admitted to King Edward VII Hospital with an infection and ‘pre-existing’ heart problems.  Has a heart operation.

2021 March 31: The Queen receives her 2nd Covid shot.  Prince Philip most likely receives his second shot.

2021 April 9: Prince Philip dies of “Old Age” according to the Royal doctor, Professor Sir Huw Thomas. 

2021 Late September: The Queen gets a Winter booster jab – her 3rd shot

2021 October 21: The Queen missed a reception for business leaders at Windsor due to ill health and spent a night at the King Edward VII Hospital.
It marked her first hospital stay in eight years and led to her being on doctor’s orders to rest between mid-October and February, during which a series of royal engagements were cancelled.

2022 February 20: The Queen loses her mobility and says: Well, as you can see. I can’t move

2022 September 6: 4:00 pm: Queen Elizabeth II dies. 

While I’ll be lucky to make it to their ages,  I’m convinced that vaccines are not the way to get there. Now, I wonder as well about King Charles.

Eddie and Oksana went to an airplane museum with longtime friend Olga Klimova today, so Zoriana and I went to Toastmasters.  Zoriana joyfully took Eddie’s role as photographer.  I delivered my speech on Joseph Mercola’s book on the dangers of microwave, cell phone and Wi-Fi radiation. 

The quickest way to get to Podil is by regional electric train and metro, but the schedule is not convenient.  We arrived three quarters of an hour early, so we went to the huge Podil market.  It is a sad shadow of its former self.  Three quarters of the stalls are vacant.  There are only two fish sellers, both offering exclusively high-end products.  Sea Bass was 650 hryvnya/kg - $8.00 per pound.  Dorado /mahi mahi  a bit more.  Salmon about the same and sturgeon – don’t even ask.   We let ourselves be gouged a bit for spinach, broccoli, peaches, blueberries and raspberries.  Maybe not worth the price, but they are high quality. 

Zoriana bugged me for something sweet.  The compromise was Vietnamese dried mangoes.  Expensive, but healthier than candy.  I fought all day to preserve a few for the family when we got home.

I’m glad to say that the camera kept her occupied for the whole of the two-hour meeting.  She only got restless during the conversation over lunch, after the meeting. 

She had to show the pictures to her grandmother when we got home.  She could not wait for me to take them off the camera.  And, somehow, she managed to delete them all.  Oh, well.  Five year olds have accidents.  Last night her mom told her twice not to goof around standing on the big pumpkin in the kitchen.  She went right ahead, slipped, and pulled down the curtains as she fell.  This is how kids learn.  Neither one a catastrophe. 

Gary in London’s wife Marina reported that Yuri’s father accepted some medicine for her mother in their hometown on the occupied left bank of the Dnieper.  His dad walked the mile to deliver it.  Yuri said it was no big deal.  The folks who had driven to Kyiv and back, and bought the medicine among many other errands, were the real heroes.

It took a few days each way crossing roadblocks at the front lines.  They had loaded the car with watermelons, now dirt cheap because they can’t get them to market.  By the time they reached Kyiv there were only two left.  The Russians at every roadblock took one as they passed through.

That’s the brief news from Lake WeBeGone, where number one son and the good looking woman are still gone and Grandma is entertaining the girls as she waits to cook the luscious corn she bought this morning.

Graham