I have read it once. Now I will go back and essay your information; essay in the somewhat archaic sense of that word (to study).
Your comments on Sars-CoV-2 and ACE2 reflect, exactly, my wories as COVID-19 began it's gallup. And I, too, voiced my concerns to my wife (a brilliant woman, with a PhD from Ga. Tech). She understood. My youngest brother (59, I'm 73) in Atlanta, who is an Emory-trained, practicing radiologist (who regularly lectures to surgeons .. especially oncology surgeons .. in his hospital's CE program), totally understood my concerns vis-a-vis Sars-CoV-2. He got COVID in July of last year. He has residual neurological problems from his bout with COVID that might require him to take an early retirement from medicine.
My father and his older brother, my uncle, both died of esophogeal cancer. My father had an esophagectomy in 2003, at age 83. The surgeons were the best in Atlanta, collegues of my brother, and my dad was the oldest patient they knew of that had ever had a goozle-ectomy (as my dad - another PhD in the family) called it. After a rough recovery, he had another eight very good and active years. He died in 2011, at 91, of the same cancer in the trachea.
As soon as I recover from this surgery, and before the next, my primary care doc wants me to get an endoscopy. Actually I have been getting an endoscopy every five years, with my colonoscopy - the endoscopy because of family history. But he wants one now because of some mild dysphagia I was having. I had a barium swallow test (nothing but old-age there!) before COVID ramped up and before I headed to Idaho for fire season last year. I came back with the cervical and lumbar problems, thus the delays in the endoscopy.
Anyway, reading your words is like looking into a mirror! Kind of like Kris Kristofferson's line, ".. have you been reading my mail?"
Modigliani and Like Summer, Like Rain are moving to my front burner. And I have seen Picasso's Guernica at MoMA. Powerful. I don't know if you were around DU when Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq, but I frequently invoked Franco's bombing of Guernica in my anti-war posts (and I often posted the Picasso work).
That said, I need to get back to something else I have open on my computer. You might see it elsewhere.
Thanks!
Mac
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