Dr Matt’s Newsletter June 23rd: Two Hospice Covid Stories: both with happy endings, and a health round-table coming next week, on June 27th, hosted by RFK Jr.
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Here are the topics in today’s newsletter:
Inspiration of the week – Two Hospice covid Stories… with happy endings. One of them is another example, like “Mrs. S’, from February 18th, of a person who tested negative repeatedly on the “covid tests” until after getting the “covid vaccine”, and then tested positive. Does this remind anyone of anything? Perhaps the many research studies I have reviewed in prior newsletters showing “negative efficacy” of the covid vaccines?
Community Update: Next Tuesday, June 27th , RFK Jr will join with a panel of health experts challenging the social-isolation-solitary-confinement-vaccine policies. If anyone wants to host a watch group please let me know and I will spread the word. Here is a link to an article about the panel.
Even though I respect the health panel members for their courage, I always find myself feeling a bit depressed. It seems no one mentions that the vast majority of “excess deaths” would have been avoided if people had gotten normal high-quality healthcare and caregiving, instead of healthcare disruption and solitary confinement. That said, isolation of sick people is a self-fulfilling prophecy that has been occurring throughout human history, so maybe I just need to take a mindfulness-based “chill-pill” and focus on the tiny slice of the universe I can control - the here-and-now :-).
Music of the Week – Beethoven … again? Perhaps I return to Beethoven so much because it brings the feeling of my Dad’s presence. My Dad was a classical violinist who raised me with an appreciation of all types of music. In addition to playing for the Portland Symphony in his younger years, he played in a jazz band in high school and college, and in his later years he got me to join him in an American folk-jazz-dance band, the Capital Quicksteps Quadrille Orchestra.
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Yours truly, one moment at a time.
Matt Irwin
Music of the Week – You can never actually have “too much Beethoven”, so here are two movements from his violin concerto in D major. Amazingly, his violin concerto languished in obscurity until nearly twenty years after his death when a young 12-year-old virtuoso brought it back to life.
You may recall that on May 14th I featured his 9th Symphony, which he composed when completely deaf. I included a section from a movie made about his life, “Immortal Beloved”, which artfully brought to light his abusive childhood, his struggles with relationships throughout his life, and his incredibly beautiful creative genius.
Augustin Hadelich: Beethoven’s violin concerto 2nd movement.
This melodic 2nd movement brings tears to my eyes at some point – pretty much every time. Perhaps it is the reminder it brings of my Dad practicing in the next room, but Beethoven can also do that to everyone when the mood is right 😊.
Hillary Hahn: Beethoven’s violin concerto 3rd movement. A bit livelier and bouncier, and a great chance for a young virtuoso to show her incredible ability, just like 12-year-old Joseph Joachim did in 1844.