The Regent Seven Seas Explorer docked in Malé, Maldives overnight.  I have not felt 100% since I boarded this ship.  It has been two weeks, and last night for the first time we remained in the same port.  I feel much better today because, I think, the ship is not moving.  It is probable that I will again revert to mild discomfort after we leave this afternoon, until December 12 when we arrive in Singapore, for we will never again stay in port overnight. Mind you, I'm functional, just not my usual euphoric self.  I worry about that 53-day Seabourn cruise coming up this spring because it will never stop in any port overnight.  Maybe I'll need to find some medical preventative when I'm back home after this trip, but I hate to take pills or bother with patches.   The usual advice flails.  From Carnival.  What does go natural mean? How to Avoid Getting Seasick on a Cruise Pack Your Medicine Get a Good Night’s Sleep Remember to Eat Get Some ...

        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      ...

I yesterday expounded on social welfare.  Let me add a final editorial, the matter of the   child tax credit , which will be excised when Biden and Manchin next year agree on the  Build Back Better Act that will end up being close to $1.8 trillion .  I don't want to go into the details of that child tax credit, which you can read here.   But is basically a transfer of money from the rich to the masses.  I think we need to adjust our charitable and social welfare programs to consider family well-being.  With aid to parents should be some compelling motivational incentive.  The whole matter of  entitlements  is at the foundation of what has to be re-thought out. Finally, unmentioned is that this type of government aid only further exacerbates  population growth , which will more and more strain the resource limits available in the world. Compound this factor with the contribution to poverty for families who can't afford children....