This may be a controversial statement, considering how many folks have died and how many lives have been turned upside down, but here it is.

The damage being done to institutions is a far worse consequence of COVID than anything else.

We should make a plan for the things we can control, execute honestly and consistently, and see what happens.

This blog will give a brief model for planning your winter. There are two main points we’ll cover:

I'm not going to fight anymore.

Instead, I'm going to offer my suggested alternatives for better forms and higher quality ingredients of options being promoted for immune health right now.

I want off this merry-go-round. I’m getting off. That does it. I’m not going to do the normal thing this month. 

Instead, let's discuss this sour, watered-down, Las Vegas-overpriced COVID cocktail du jour.

A local doctor has helped all of two COVID patients with antioxidants, so Neal takes a hard look at each of these supplements and explains what they do, how effective they could possibly be, and if they are even worth taking.

Neal was a recent guest on The Political Pharmacist podcast with Dr. Eric Geyer to discuss the abomination that is the America’s Frontline Doctors video.

This is his portion of the episode.

The phrase “new normal” is getting used and abused.

I want to define the bigger picture of what we can expect over the next 3, 12, and 24 months.

Dr. Mercola is an online “doctor” in title alone. He has a medical degree, but in my opinion, he has been practicing the opposite of medicine for years now.

“First do no harm, unless you can get lots of money.”

People will be dying en masse shortly, again, because of a selfish desire to go to a bar and to get a haircut.

Reopening the economy overrides the desire of safety - in a situation where BOTH can exist.

With COVID cases spiking in parts of the country and most states reopened, Neal and Daena take a minute to look at the risk factors of various meeting spots such as restaurants, music venues, and sports arenas.

If there were a lifetime limit to the number of WTFs I could mutter, I would have used all of them up during this pandemic. “Mind-boggling” is the G-Rated adjective I use when asked what I think of all of this.

Steve reminds us to forgive ourselves and to allow ourselves to slow down. He also reinforces the fact that accomplishments are not required right now, and suggests that keeping a schedule may be helpful especially where sleep is concerned.

There's been a release of some "papers" connecting Vitamin D levels to higher survival chances with COVID-19. Let's talk about Vitamin D a little bit and how these "papers" and resulting discussion are wrong, but also right.

Dr. Neal welcomes his own therapist to this installment of Coping with COVID to talk through isolation, unhealthy manifestations of grief, being in a full house, and handling the loss of physical contact during this pandemic.

We’re deep into the coronavirus woods. We’ve hit the chain-letter-grade-information-is-completely-true phase of the grieving process.

We lasted longer than I thought we would, but we’re here.

The idea of boosting immunity is commonplace, but greatly misunderstood. Today Neal elucidates the concept.

He explains how this all ties into COVID - including dangerous assumptions of how immune we are after recovery. 

Steven Ball is a psychotherapist who did advocacy work during the early days of the HIV epidemic. He and Neal have a thoughtful discussion about the emotional side of COVID19 and the complicated emotions we're all experiencing.

The response by the federal government to COVID-19 is not the first time our elected officials have ignored an emergency of this magnitude.Let's discuss the parallels between the government response to COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS.

This pandemic is 100% a problem of leadership. It's not like our "leaders" had unforeseen challenges. It is the result of a lack of leadership and an addiction to money, profit, and power.

This virus is serious. We must overreact. Anyone downplaying this is doing a disservice to the front line people, the soon-to-be-sick, and those who have died.

We should have been more aggressive sooner. If you need to hear from someone that it's time to act, I'm going to be that person. It's still not time to panic, but it's time to get serious.

On this week's podcast, Dr. Joseph Carreno talks about how coronavirus patients are being treated with no established treatment protocol at this time. 

We have to realize everything the media makes (social media included) is to get and keep our attention. With the ACTUAL emergency here, they’re rushing to cash in the fat check with hysteria.