As written by Alan Smith, from  biglaps :   COVID Is Likely Back with Current High Levels in These States: Check If One of Them Is Yours The Centers for Disease Control can determine if any viruses are circulating and spreading various locations by testing sewage water.  Thirteen states in particular show very high COVID activity. The five highest levels of COVID is now  Ohio, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Nebraska . The next 8 are  Montana, Maine, Arkansas, West Virginia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Kansas and Indiana. Whew, Hawaii is not included.  In March, we  begin another adventure through Las Vegas, Denver, Memphi, so that we can catch an American Cruise Line ship to New Orleans, then New York City, where we will board a Viking ship to Toronto, rail to Vancouver, and get back home to Honolulu.  Don't see any state on the above two lists.  Whew.  However, COVID has a way of suddenly appearing, so we'll need t...

To quote a 2020 book by Tedd Levy:   Donald Trump is the Worst Person in the World .  He has discombobulated the world on just about everything.  Have you looked closely, for example, on how your personal health will be affected? First, Trump selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become your Secretary of Health and Human Services.  Through intense pressure from the White House, the Senate begrudgingly confirmed him. Trump likes non-threatening types who once opposed him, but now worship him.  RFK Jr qualifies for that alone, certainly not his sterling background in this field.  Further, Trump enjoys the company of successful people.  RFK Jr is the the son of Robert F. Kennedy, and nephew of JFK, POTUS 35. RFK Jr has a law degree, but no medical or public health training and experience. Furthermore, he is a vaccine disbeliever and promoter of medical misinformation, as for example,  Wi-Fi causes cancer, childhood vaccines makes them autistic and c...

We all have been in the dumps.  When things go bad, other negatives seem to pile up too.  Take President Joe Biden as a good example.  He is now given little chance to beat Donald Trump on November 5.  Then,   he yesterday found out he has contracted COVID-19 .  Also,   two-thirds of Democrats said President Biden should step aside and allow the party to select a different nominee . There seems to be a sense that Biden will soon decide not to run.  The likely candidate will then be Kamala Harris.  I have long thought that the best Democratic presidential option was Michelle Obama.   Polls also seem to point in this direction.   Michelle, however, seems disinterested in this prospect.  Now that Republicans are confident that they will sweep the White House and both houses of Congress, with Democracy truly threatened, perhaps Michelle can be convinced.  Biden's greatest contribution to the future of the USA would be to ...

In May of 2021:  The CDC said fully vaccinated individuals can, in most cases,   drop protective face wear   and no longer need to stay six feet apart. Unvaccinated people still need to follow stricter guidelines, as they remain at risk . Then a few months ago,  mask mandates began returning .  The new subvariants seemed to infect those who already had suffered from this virus, or even if you were vaccinated, so the vulnerable, like 80-year old Joe Biden, were advised to wear masks. There are those who don't fear much getting respiratory infections, and there are those who do.  The latter wear a face mask just about anywhere.  The former, just the opposite.   As of September of this year , only 12% of Americans said they wore a mask outside their home always or most of the time over the past seven days.  That's down from 27% in January of this year and 60% in January 2022. So this posting is for those who don't know whether to wear a mas...