Covid 19 coronavirus: This 105-year-old beat Covid. She credits gin-soaked raisins
23 Feb, 2021 08:09 PM
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Lucia DeClerck s extended family travelled from several states to celebrate her 104th birthday last January, before the onset of the pandemic. Photo / Shawn V. Laws O Neil via The New York Times
New York Times
By: Tracey Tully
Lucia DeClerck, the oldest resident of her New Jersey nursing home, tested positive for the virus on her 105th birthday, one day after her second vaccine shot. Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer. Prayer. Prayer. Prayer, she offers. One step at a time. No junk food.
Reading my
New York Post, I caught this little news item from the nearby metropolis: A 72-year-old guy just getting off a subway train in Midtown was knocked to the ground by an assailant unknown to him:
The suspect, described as a man in his 20s and about 5-foot-10 inches tall, was wearing a green jacket with the words Anti Social written on it.
NY Post, February 11, 2021
The perp was of course black. As you have heard said several hundred times over the past thirty years, including a couple of times from me: If it was a white guy they would have told us.
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