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
25 2414 10578 1582 119 144
Mar 2 1989 9490 1726 110 194
31 1115 12301 3950 458 58
April 6 906 11787 4211 631 37
May 4 853 13667 3025 3786 59
26 607 12348 2399 3842 101
June 1 287 10637 2346 3205 95
2 514 10984 2394 2899 110
9 401 10240 2693 2213 120
10 452 14097 2484 6138 127
15 353 9248 2760 1470 208
16 434 9497 2673 1411 136
A point of concern is that South Africa is now up to #7 in new COVID-19 cases with 13,246. This means that two weeks from today, the deaths/day will jump to 435. If this is symptomatic of Africa (which is suspected of not adequately reporting cases and deaths anyway), there should be serious worry about the 1.2 billion living on that continent.
This is one of those days when nothing much is happening and I don't know what to blog about. The past three days were so esoterically scientific that I'll just dabble today. Let me start with the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare, for they dismissed by a 7-2 vote a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, leaving intact health care coverage for a lot of Americans. Republican states and Donald Trump had urged the justices to end the program
As you know, Biden met Putin in Geneva yesterday. Putin is 5'7" tall and Joe Biden is 6'. Terms like cordial, stubborn optimism, tonal toughness and exercise in global pragmatism were used. No progress over cyberattacks and other issues, but they did agree to return ambassadors to work again. Biden could not lose, for Senator John McCain branded Donald Trump's meeting with Putin as disgraceful.
If you have nothing better to do today, watch Danny MacAskill riding a bike through the Scottish Highlands near Edinburgh. You can only wonder how he and his bike survived, and need to stay through to the end to watch the near disasters.
Last week I mentioned that my brother climbed those two tall towers on the right at Lualualei (higher than the Empire State Building) on perhaps a secret Naval project. Maybe it was just to change a light bulb.
Did you know that there has been minimal inflation for more than 12 years...until now? From the New York Times this morning.
If you can remember back that far, in 2008 the stock market crashed when inflation rose past 5%, and this is when I leaped into the stock market and did well. I only invest when this happens.
Further, you would have thought that the Pandemic should have depleted bank savings. Just the opposite happened.
Economists appear not particularly concerned about serious inflation. They say that when spending for the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill signed by Biden in March soon comes to an end, inflation will drop.
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Tahiti & South Pacific
Bahamas
Bermuda
Caribbean
Europe
Galapagos
Mexico & Central America
Northern Europe
Tahiti & South Pacific
As you decide which cruise line to take, here is a comprehensive review of the ten worst ships.
As far as I know, our 111-day around the world cruise will still leave San Pedro on January 11, and the Island Princess is not on that list.
When I taught Technology and Society at the University of Hawaii, I many times had a final essay question that asked the students to relate three topics into a cohesive story...and spend no more than 5 minutes doing this. I picked three that I could not imagine any possible connection. Almost every student in all those years brilliantly created a story that not only made sense, but were amazing. Watch this video about another professor attempting a similar experiment. Both tests teach you a different lesson. Mine that we all show potential for creativity, while this other one indicating how unfortunately focused we are.
For those wondering, SALMAGUNDI is a word derived from the French salmigondis, meaning a disparate array of things, but forming an incoherent whole. A salmagundi, sometimes shortened to salmi, is also a dish made of a mashup of ingredients. Your new word of the day.
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