Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19, or: Death Toll Rises as 2020 Comes to an End
Hi, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Thursday, December 31, 2020. Currently, the temperature is 70˚F (21˚C) under partly sunny skies; with the wind blowing from the east southeast at 8 MPH (13 KM/H) and humidity at 88%, the feels-like temperature is 70˚F (21˚C). The forecast for today calls for…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: Why Are People Still Saying Coronavirus is ‘No Worse Than the Flu’?
Hello, there. It’s early afternoon here on Sunday, November 22, 2020, and it looks like the rest of the day is going to be gray and somewhat cool. Here in New Hometown, Florida the temperature is 74˚F (24˚C) under cloudy skies. With humidity at 83% and the wind blowing from the northeast at 6 MPH…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: How One Man’s Indifference (Trump’s) Has Shaped America’s Response to the Global Pandemic
Hello, there, Dear Reader. As I start this post, it’s 1:32 PM Eastern on Friday, November 13, 2020. Outside, the temperature is 82˚F (28˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 70% and the wind blowing at 4 MPH (7 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 87˚F (31˚C). Today’s forecast calls for partly sunny skies –…
-
Election 2020: Why I Voted for Joe Biden
In the first week of October, knowing that Postmaster Louis DeJoy, a wealthy Republican and Trump supporter, was doing everything he could – including cutting U.S. Post Office employees’ work hours, removing mailboxes for “replacement,” and dismantling sorting machines and other equipment – to hinder voting by mail efforts made necessary by the global COVID-19…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Pandemic Keeps Claiming Lives, But Trump Scoffs at Scientists & Biden’s Reliance on Facts
Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Never-Ending Spread Goes On…and On This is how things look on the planet Earth on the morning of October 19, 2020 vis a vis the COVID-19 pandemic. 40,118,314 officially confirmed cases worldwide. 1,114,765 officially confirmed deaths worldwide. In the United States of America, the nation that prides itself…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: Dispatches from the Edge of Insanity
It is mid-afternoon on Thursday, October 15, 2020. According to the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the latest global pandemic statistics (active cases and deaths)look like this. As of 3:24 PM Eastern Time, there were 38,744,784 cases of known COVID-19 infections and 1,094,979 deaths…
-
Election 2020: Fear, Divisiveness, and Unlogic in the Time of COVID-19
Hello, there, Dear Reader. Greetings from New Hometown, Florida, where – for the moment, anyway – it’s beginning to look like autumn. Or for what passes as “autumn” in the subtropics. Currently, the temperature outside is 70˚F (21˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 94% and a becalmed wind of 0 MPH (2 KM/H),…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: Fall, Winter Outlook is Bleak, No Matter How Much Trump Pretends Otherwise
It is Tuesday, October 13, 2020, and as the tenth month of the year nears its halfway point, here’s where we are vis a vis the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. As of 9:24 AM Eastern, the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: Musings & Thoughts on the Pandemic
Today is Saturday, October 10, 2020, the first day of the three-days-long Columbus Day Weekend. It’s also the 255th day since the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV (or COVID-19) in the United States was recorded at an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington. Since then, 7,670, 419 men, women, and children…
-
Life in the Time of COVID-19: Trump Says He ‘Had To’ Get Infected by Virus In Order to Lead
Well, here we are, eight months into the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, and this is where we stand as of 6:33 AM (Eastern Time Zone): Number of Cases (Global): 35,849,421 Number of Deaths (Global): 1,050,507 Number of Cases (U.S.): 7,501,847 Number of Deaths (U.S,): 210,918 According to the data…
A Certain Point of View, Too 