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Immunizations can save your life.

Finally today, the last day they could file the papers, Ella and Joseph were able to visit the IRS office. Luckily, I took my large book with me, “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day” edited by Robert Ellsberg. I was able to find a nice quiet corner with a soft chair in the hallway outside of the IRS office where Ella and Joseph had to wait over two hours for a short conversation with an IRS officer and to sign some routine papers. I am always complaining that I do not take enough time to read, so today God make me take the time since, as the driver, I needed to wait for my friends. I found a good quote from Dorothy Day in the diary that, if I can find it again, will add to my quote page tomorrow.

Our next stop was at the health clinic so Joseph could get his flu shot, a preventive health measure. It turns out he goes to the same clinic where my Doctor is. This was a very short visit and I barely had time to talk to one of the receptionists to confirm that health insurance does not cover the shots I need for my pilgrimage to India. I guess visits to other countries are optional and thus preventive health things like immunizations to diseases are not covered. Of course, if I do not take the proper shots and get seriously sick the treatment for the illness would be covered, even though it is much more costly than the preventive shots.

I already knew that low income persons need to wait a lot, like we did today in the IRS office, but I did not know that low-cost preventive medicine like these shots were not covered by insurance even though the costs of not taking the immunization, major diseases and illnesses, are covered.

These two lessons have parallels in nature. Poor soil makes the wait for plants to grow longer. Also not taking preventive measures in the garden, like protecting form insects, can be very costly. However, on the other hand, waiting in the garden, unlike waiting in a government office, can be shortened by work. Also in the garden, especially organic gardens, preventive means can be taken at no or low cost and are encouraged, not discouraged, by financial concerns. So once again we human beings take the ways of nature, turn them upside down, and make them a paradox.

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