Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

[…] This was originally a post on COVID booster shots, but I’ve now broken it into two separate posts, the first a prologue offering a very general summary of my approach to issues in health care, and the second, a post expressing skepticis…

[…] my due date for a booster. Though I’m no longer a full-time hospital worker, I’ve been waiting for twelve weeks now for the paperwork to go through on my bid to work per diem for Hunterdo…. Assuming it goes through, I’…

[…] a (then) full-time hospital worker actively exposed to high concentrations of COVID, I got my second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot on January 6. If the vaccine’s effectiveness definitely drops from 95% to 84% in four to six months, t…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I wish I had given more thought and done better replying to your comments, Irfan. They have been really helpful. I’m retracting [2] above, in favor of the following alterations or additions to the kind of approach that I’m wo…

In reply to Elizabeth Lynn Brunazzi-Weyhe. Thank you so much for writing. It’s so wonderful to connect after all these years. That said, I was kind of hoping you’d forgotten my paper….lol Very best wishes, Irfan LikeLike

Dear Irfan, I was very moved and delighted to read your piece about the program in Humanities Studies at Princeton, late 80’s. I must tell you that the experience you describe changed my life as well. Thank you for remembering our preceptorial. I alway…

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Dear Irfan, I was very moved and delighted to read your piece about the program in Humanities Studies at Princeton, late 80’s. I must tell you that the experience you describe changed my life as well. Thank you for remembering our preceptorial. …