A day off. Easy to do just nothing. But I did my exercise and I am rather tired now. I have my watch that keeps track of me. I do not know if it shows correct information, but anyway, it is good company. And also, a little diary so I remember my training. Of course I miss sweetie and cutie. Normally, when I run, I go for walks afterwards with them, and they just love that. They just hate to wait for me.

I do some spinning now, and now when I have moved, I am a closer to work. I have no excuse of not going by bicycle. It is very nice to listen to music when doing exercise, and music motivates. Keeps my heart beat. Today I decided that I need to measure my maximum heart rate. Will find somebody who will help me with that. So I can go for more accurate pulse rate zones.

Yes, good music motivates. Sharing some this Friday. Little scary movie, but the music is good.

I had to see some news this evening, and there was a program about the poisoning of Navalny. He has said “I am more dangerous dead than alive” in previous interviews. It really is a true crime story to follow. A live Agatha Christie. She used poison as a cause of death for more than 30 of her characters. Cyanide, arsenic, strychnine and digitalis were some of her poisons. Navalny is alive, and he sent a photo on Instagram with his family.

I do not know why, maybe it is because of Navalny. I remembered a photo of Fanny that I have kept for years in my bag that I carry every day. This is very private and personal. But I share with you. Dear readers. I forget it for years, and then I suddenly remember this photo and I have a look. I have no answer to why I have kept it. It is from when I studied in Uppsala. I had time off and I went to the countryside to study and also to spend some time with puppies. This is Fanny on the photo. She was a hunting dog that I have trained. Beautiful black and white. I love dogs.

I have been rather bad at doing stretching after exercise. Especially now during Corona. This evening I went for an hour with just focus on core and stretch. Sometimes that is good. To know that you don’t have to achieve anything particular. Only be there. No demands like having the pulse for more than 160 beats per minutes. Yoga, pilates, core. It is rewarding and relaxing. By the way, the Guardian now says that Alexei Navalny can breathe independently.

Ending this evening by sharing a beautiful song. In my diary.

My life is very much day by day. No plans. I did a few hours of training this weekend and that keeps me at a good energy level. Of course I feel sad that I cannot travel, but there will be a time for that. The Corona battle is here and now. And I fight every day. I wash my hands. I keep distance. And I watch movies in the evenings in quarantine. Surprisingly, I have some brownies left. I am preparing for autumn. Still do not want to change clothes for autumn, but soon I have to. Sharing Bridget Jones’s view of life. Might cheer you up a bit!

I feel concerned about vaccine agreements made by the Swedish government. Politicians are under pressure and need to show that they are able to make executive decisions. Otherwise they will lose voters. I do not understand why they are making agreements now. Politicians do not have any medical background so they have to rely on other professions. People with various industrial connections.  The development of a vaccin is complex, and new approaches of developing vaccins are being found. Vectors, RNA and classic adjuvants are examples of important keywords.

Recently a clinical trial was stopped. A clinical phase III study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. It is very good that they made a paus, because they understand the possible development of serious side effects. I believe that people in general understand that medicins can give side effects, and therefore, it is worth waiting a little longer to stay on the safe side. The industry must demonstrate that they are not premature.

Why not learn from this pandemic and introduce new habits? We know for sure that hand washing and distancing are important tools in reducing the spreading of a lot of diseases. Not only the Corona virus. This virus probably jumped from an animal reservoir to a human during the first week of November 2019. This will happen again, and we need to learn more. My opinion is that we should “sit still in the boat” and wait for the scientific development. Not only the political development. These developed vaccines will be scientifically different. We are on the frontiers of vaccin development and we need to understand what we don’t understand.

This regards with no doubt also politics. When I was at the university in Uppsala I was actually elected for “Landstinget”. I was in the top, but when I realised that I was going to be elected I had to think. My conclusion was at that time that I did not know much about life. I had no life experience and I thought I needed to learn more about life before getting involved in politics. Today, I try to contribute with my life experience which is scientifically based. I am a bridge between medicin and politics.

In my diary.