by Bob | Dec 17, 2021 | Survival
Disaster Movie Killer tornadoes. Killer Heat Dome. Unprecedented Drought. Texas Freeze. Killer hurricanes. Floods. Record heat waves. The poles melting. And, oh yeah, two years into a pandemic which shows no sign of abating. Roll the credits. And the producer and...
by Bob | Mar 12, 2021 | 2020 Pandemic
COVID deaths A lot and not enough. We knew a pandemic was inevitable, yet were unprepared. We know many things are inevitable yet prefer to ignore them. We are now over 530,000 official deaths and the real toll, of course, is much higher. Many have died of COVID but...
by Bob | Jan 29, 2021 | 2020 Pandemic
Reported Cases I haven’t written about the pandemic in a while; perhaps I’ve been numbed out like many of us. But first, note its day 324 since I started writing about it. What hasn’t happened? We still can’t get an N-95 mask. That seems simple, doesn’t it? Why not?...
by Bob | Jan 9, 2021 | 2020 Pandemic
300,000 I wrote this post before the recent coup attempt in Washington, but it’s all still true. Even more so. Time to be blunt. The official number of COVID-19 deaths today is over 336,000. 3,725 Americans died yesterday. This in a country that tore the world apart...
by Bob | Dec 17, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
Tennessee is #1. Yay! 1 out of every 100 people are infected with active COVID. Here in Knoxville, where we live, we have a bunch of hospitals, including UT’s large medical center. There are zero ICU beds available. So don’t even think about having a heart attack, or...
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