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Scaling Properties of COVID-19

Posted on May 5, 2020 by climatechangefork

Saturday was a beautiful spring day. The Brooklyn green market downstairs was open. The street and the market were relatively (in the pandemic era) crowded; well managed social distancing was enforced but many people went without masks. The talk of … Continue reading →

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Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst: COVID-19

Posted on April 28, 2020 by climatechangefork

Last week, I promised to shift my focus to COVID-19’s impact on developing countries. So far, most of the media attention has been limited to the coronavirus’ impact on richer countries (e.g. US, Europe, Australia, Canada, etc.). The exact definition … Continue reading →

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Propagation of Pandemics: Please Stay Inside!

Posted on April 14, 2020 by climatechangefork

Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the day the 30th Infantry Division of the American army liberated me after two years of imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen. I was supposed to memorialize this event with my wife, other survivors and liberators, and … Continue reading →

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Corona and Climate Change: Is Climate Change a Pandemic?

Posted on April 7, 2020 by climatechangefork

I started to address COVID-19 in my March 17th blog, a few days after my college and almost everything else around me closed to try to minimize infection. In the eight years that I have been writing this blog, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, apex, asymptomatic, attribution, CDC, Climate Change, contagion, contagious, coronavirus, COVID 19, definition, Election, exit poll, Government, indicator, infection, mask, mitigate, Mitigation, pandemic, representative, social distance, symptom, test, viral | 3 Comments

Holidays During a Pandemic: Let the Young Lead the Way

Posted on March 31, 2020 by climatechangefork

My first entry for this blog was on April 22, 2012. April 22nd is Earth Day but we will celebrate many other things throughout this coming month, including my wife’s birthday, spring, and many religious holidays, including the following: April … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged access, Ashkenazi, Bhuddist, Brooklyn College, ceremony, Christian, coronavirus, COVID 19, CUNY, Easter, Eid, Electricity, equity, Hindu, holiday, isolation, Israel, Jew, Jewish, muslim, Online Education, pandemic, Passover, quarantine, rabbi, Ramadan, religion, remote learning, Sephardic, Shabbat, social distancing, tradition, zoom | Leave a comment

We Stand Together (Separately)

Posted on March 24, 2020 by climatechangefork

January 27th, the first day of classes at Brooklyn College, also happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was also near the start of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States—a few days after the first positive diagnosis outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust | Tagged 30th division, Brooklyn College, China, coronavirus, COVID 19, CUNY, epidemic, Farsleben, Gal Gadot, Germany, History, Holocaust, imagine, Jew, Jewish, John Lennon, liberation, Magdeburg, pandemic, Poland, Scranton, teen symposium, US, WHO, WWII | Leave a comment

The 10 Plagues, Coronavirus, and Passover

Posted on March 17, 2020 by climatechangefork

The world is in a biologically-driven pandemic and trying to adjust to the coronavirus. I am obviously no exception. My university, like many others, has shifted all classes to online until the end of the semester. It’s given students and … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged blood, coronavirus, COVID 19, Egypt, frogs, Germany, Health, History, Israelite, Jew, liberation, locusts, nile, pandemic, Passover, plague, Poland, quarantine, Science, social distancing | 3 Comments

Insanity at the Helm: Are We Steering the Wrong Way to the Future?

Posted on October 2, 2018 by climatechangefork

The last two weeks have seen a great deal of heavy breathing and crying. I summarized much of it in last week’s blog. The climax in this week’s news was probably Thursday’s testimonies of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine … Continue reading →

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