Covid-19 Diary : Saturday 9 May, 2020
May I remind you – if you’ve not already done so, please share your opinion on when things will return to normal, by casting your vote in the reader survey near the top of …
May I remind you – if you’ve not already done so, please share your opinion on when things will return to normal, by casting your vote in the reader survey near the top of …
A couple of “public service announcements” to start things off today. Both are ICYMI items (In Case You Missed It); they were in the regular weekly newsletter this morning as well. I’ve added a …
The announcement by Frontier Airlines that it would offer to keep a middle seat clear for a $39 fee brought a firestorm of criticism from people believing that valuable things should be given away …
I regularly point out that there are only three possible outcomes from this virus, and sometimes jokingly mention a fourth. The three possible (positive) outcomes are we develop a cure, we develop a vaccine, …
One of the things perplexing me greatly is the huge difference in impact the virus is having on different countries. Why are some countries almost untouched by the virus, and why are others almost …
News came out today that the Administration has projections suggesting there may be a near doubling of the daily death toll by the start of June. This is a big surprise – if anything, …
A nice slow Sunday, even the day’s statistics aren’t as bad as sometimes, but that often seems to be the case on a Sunday. The big opinion piece for the day is down in …
Here’s an amusing explanation of a serious problem – why there’s a shortage of virus tests at present. In short, the answer is colossal and unnecessary regulation. I keep reading about “a second wave” …
I started off an email to a friend, earlier today, with these comments. They express a new fundamental truth, and are worth repeating and amplifying. Trying to keep ahead of all the developments on …
Here we all are, a day away from May, but no tangibly closer to the end of this virus curse than we were a month ago. The last month has seen 922,000 new cases …
I’ve decided maybe I don’t need to fix/replace my freezer after all. President Trump is ordering the meat processing plants to re-open under the Defense Production Act. Okay, so the preceding paragraph was sarcastic, …
Alas, while my freezer has been making a happy sounding noise ever since reactivating it yesterday, I discovered this morning that the motor had run pretty much nonstop, but the temperature inside the freezer …