Second posting on this subject: HOW TO USE THIS BLOG SITE

I WILL HAVE TWO POSTINGS TODAY. The one below is a repeat of HOW TO USE THIS BLOG SITE because all of a sudden, readership recently jumped up, so most of you reading this blog are new. For the first few months very few (less than 10/day) bothered to come here. For example, last month only had 368 total readers. Today, the number for this one day is already at 605, and will probably double that of last month when the day is done.

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The first posting (with rainbow over Diamond Head at the top)of the original was way back on 29 April 2008, more than 13 years ago. How long ago was that? Imagine beginning kindergarten, then growing up so that you are now a freshman in college. I've been doing this daily that long.

The reason I had to start a new blog series is that the original exceeded the limit of something called "labels." That blog continues, but absent potential links to people just searching the web world.

This new version is not as accessible. Sometimes the right column is there, and sometimes not. I thus had a special posting on 1 November 2020:

HOW TO USE THIS BLOG SITE

You can click on that link, but here it is again anyway:

Several people who came from the original Planet Earth and Humanity blog site wandered why I did not include some of the useful items that were provided in the right column in this new version of Planet Earth and Humanity. Actually, they're there, and sometimes they show up, but if you don't see it, CLICK on those three parallel lines in the right-hand corner at the top.

When you do, you will be better able to search this site, or, if necessary, translate it to your language. Also, and this is important, you should note that the time is that of Honolulu. If you are from any U.S. state, except Arizona and Hawaii, make sure if you're from the East Coast that your time should be only five hours ahead instead of six because daylight savings time ended last night. For the West Coast, the difference should be two hours, not three.

Then there is something about most popular postings, followed by visitors to this site. If you click on that map, you can see that 221 countries have registered. So you say, if the United Nations has only 193 members, why is the number so high? That's because locations like Antarctica are domain sites. I never corrected this, but the other graphs are not correct. I quit paying Google $30/year, and the number of visitors dropped by a factor of ten because they stopped counting most of them.

Followed by a blurb on global warming, plus:

The Price of Oil
How to Calculate the Current Value of Money
Consumer Price Index and Inflation Rate
All-time numbers

petroleum
gold
30-year mortgage rate

Odds Calculator
How to Calculate Your Body-Mass Index
About Me

To return to the blog site, click on that arrow at the top right. Of course there will be no arrow when the right column shows.

Note that when you sometimes get to this site, you will see that older postings are placed below the most recent. They are not listed chronologically, but are the most popular recent ones.

Later on today I will have a posting entitled ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING. You can click on it here to read it.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicious and troublesome. This strain has also been spreading in

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for several months. This is caused by stress more than anythi

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These are held every five years, and there have only been

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