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Hello, all…. last newsletter, if you have not already gotten up to
Happy New Year! A fresh start for us all; time to
dust off the 2020 resolutions we did not complete
last year and add some new ones for 2021….
Speaking of which, getting vaccinated against
COVID-19 should be on our 2021 list! In Lake
County, the county health department has estab-
lished an AllVax website that allows residents to
add their name to a county-wide vaccination priority
list. My understanding is that this list will be used
by most, if not all, medical facilities in Lake County
to determine priority for COVID-19 vaccinations.
For those of you who live in Lake County, here is
the link to the AllVax website: https://
allvax.lakecohealth.org/s/?language=en_US.
(If you live outside Lake County, I encourage you to
check with your county health department, your
medical provider or a nearby hospital to find out
what process is in place to prioritize vaccinations in
your neck of the woods – and to get your name
added to the priority list!)
In the December LCACE newsletter I mentioned
that the head of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, had
publicly acknowledged that U.S. COVID-19 deaths
could reach 450,000 by the end of February, and I
said that this sounded unbelievable to me. As of
today (12/30), the official U.S. COVID-19 death to-
tal is 338,686; our current 7-day average daily toll is
2,223. If this average death rate continues for the
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next 60 days (to February 28 ), our total deaths will
be about 472,000!
(While vaccination roll-out may help reduce this to-
tal, it takes two shots spaced over three to four
weeks for full protection. Given this lag, plus the
challenging logistics of getting this vaccine to eve-
ryone, we may not see a significant reduction in
infections, hospitalizations, and deaths for a while.
Please be careful out there!)
For LCACE, this means we will be meeting remote-
ly for the foreseeable future. As suggested in the
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speed with video-calling in general and Zoom specifi-
cally, please set aside some time to do so. We would
love to “see” you at our 2021 monthly meetings.
(And please invite friends and family members to join
in as well. They can see what we are about and per-
haps pick up some useful information from the com-
fort of their own homes!)
As a reminder, our January Zoom meeting will be on
Saturday, January 9 , at 1:00 pm. I’ll send out a
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group email on 1/1 with a link to our meeting, with a
reminder email to follow on 1/8. Please join us for
our annual “Show ‘n Tell” event; all members are en-
couraged to describe and/or demonstrate their new
tech gear – received as a gift from someone else (or
from themselves).
On a different subject, I posted a tech question to the
world via my browser not long ago – and found the
answer on the “askleo.com” website. This turns out
to be the Confident Computing creation of Leo
Notenboom:
Leo publishes a free online newsletter from time to
time and welcomes questions from subscribers –
which he answers in his newsletter. If you would like
to learn more, ask a question, and/or sign up for his
newsletter, check out his askleo.com website.
Hope to see you all at our January Zoom meeting!
Phil