WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY FOR TOMORROW

     From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9    1093     4732       1185        246       82

July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572

Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130

Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82

Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85

Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118

Dec    30     3880    14748       1224       299     465

Jan     14       4142    15512        1151        189      712              

Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107     398

          17         2537   11383        1195         89      165 

          23        2404   10293       1370       100     263

          24        2525   10814        1433       144      110

          25        2414    10578        1582       119      144

Mar     2        1989     9490        1726       110      194

Summary:   

• Yes, new deaths definitely declining...except for Brazil, which for the first time exceeded the USA in new cases, 58,237 vs 56,890.
• Europe, Latin/South America and the Middle East are still suffering.
• What about the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a part?
• 396,771 total cases at 39,797/million, compared to U.S. at 88,386
• 126 deaths/million, vs U.S. at 1593/million
• 31,066,043 tests/million, vs U.S. at 361,948/812/million
• China has had 89,923 total cases, 3 deaths/million and 111,163 tests/million
• Hawaii has had 27,623 total cases, 310 deaths/million and 791,498 tests/million
• thus, per capita, relative to the nation, Hawaii has had 
• one-fifth the deaths/million
• twice the number of tests/million
• about the world adventure and stop in Dubai for their World's Fair, it is much safer there than here

By the way, did you know that Donald Trump will again become PUS (President of the United States) tomorrow?

Capitol Police are beefing up security this week at the Capitol as a precaution against potential extremist activity amid a far-right conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump will rise to power on March 4, the original inauguration day for presidents before 1933.

From the New York Times this morning:

The pandemic is a long way from over. The number of confirmed new cases has stopped falling in the past two weeks, both in the U.S. and worldwide, perhaps because of the spread of highly contagious new virus variants. In the U.S., the average daily number of cases is higher than at almost any point last summer.

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  President Biden said the U.S. would have enough vaccine doses by the end of May to cover every American adult, two months earlier than he previously estimated.

• The Biden administration announced sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.  (Have you noticed that the U.S. today likes to sanction evil deeds, but not Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi? )
• Global warming appears to be weakening part of the Gulf Stream, some scientists fear. The changes could bring stronger hurricanes to the U.S. and reduce rainfall across Africa.
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  A 37-year-old song has helped drive a comeback for a genre of music from Japan called city pop.  YouTube video of the track, “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi, has garnered more than 56 million views since 2017. For many young fans, it served as an entry point to city pop, as Cat Zhang explains in Pitchfork.

It was 44 years ago that Fleetwood Mac reached #1 with Rumours.  Have you ever watched Lanie Gardner sing?  Here she does Dreams.  Next Rhiannon.  Probably not because she releases her covers through Tik Tok and You Tube.  However, Mick Fleetwood declared he was "absolutely blown away by this," and she was signed by Kevin Jonas Sr, father of the Jonas Brothers.  She is 21 and from Nashville.  After the pandemic she will tour.

Just two days ago I alerted you to Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo.  #1 now on Billboard for the past month and a half.  Certainly sounds like City Pop to me.

If I end my blog at this point, that would probably be good enough for the day.  So I will. I was planning to on this science day focus on the Blue Revolution.  I will do that next Wednesday.

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