Category: U.S. Politics
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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…
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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…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, October 6, 2020: Florida Weather,(Some) Good News, and Comments on a Certain Patient-in-Chief
Greetings, Dear Reader. It’s late morning (10:10 AM Eastern) as I start this installment of Musings & Thoughts on this Tuesday, October 6, 2020. Currently, in New Hometown, Florida[1], the temperature is 82˚F under mostly cloudy skies. With the wind blowing at 5 MPH (with maximum gusts at 9 MPH) and humidity at a sticky…
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Life in the Times of COVID-19: Law of Averages Catches Up to Its Biggest Fugitive as Trump, Melania Test Positive for Coronavirus
Hello there, Dear Reader. It’s almost noon on Friday, October 2, 2020 as I begin this post, and in my small corner of Florida it is almost noon on a somewhat mild autumn day. Currently, the temperature is 77˚F (25˚C) under partly sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the north-northeast at 6 MPH/10 KPH…
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More Musings, More Thoughts for the Last Day of September 2020
More Thoughts & Musings for Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Hi there – again – Dear Reader. Yes, I’m back. I wasn’t planning on writing a third post today, but my mind is so full of thoughts that it feels as though my head will explode if I don’t give them an outlet. Besides, I’m a…
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Thoughts & Musings for Wednesday, September 30, 2020: Autumn is Here…and the Presidential Campaign Heats Up
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s early morning here in my small corner of Florida, and outside it’s beginning to feel a lot like autumn. As I write this it’s not even 6 AM and the temperature is 64˚F (18˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. The wind is blowing from the north at 11 MPH/18 KPH and…
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Musings & Thoughts for September 24, 2020: If Time Travel Were Possible….
Thoughts & Musings for Thursday, September 24, 2020 Hello again, Dear Reader. In my neck of Florida it is mid-morning on a humid and hot day in the early fall of 2020. According to my phone’s AccuWeather app, the temperature outside is 75˚ F under partly cloudy skies, but with 86% humidity and an east-southeasterly…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Who is Responsible for 200,000-plus Dead Americans? I’ll Give You One Guess….
Thoughts & Musings for Wednesday, September 23, 2020 200,893. As expected, the United States of America – “the greatest nation on Earth” – has reached and surpassed the 200,000 COVID-19 deaths mark this week. Per the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, 200,893 men, women, and…
A Certain Point of View, Too 