Looking back in time, my  posting on 28February2020  summarized my return from Thailand: The fearsome factor was that Thailand had the second-most cases of   covid-19   when I left Honolulu on February 12.  Today, it is #9.  No new cases appeared after I arrived in that country.  No one is known to have died. (Interestingly enough, today  Thailand  is #33 in total cases and #143 in cases/million population.) But on  11 March2020 the World Health Organizaton declared the coronavirus to be a global pandemic .   This was the first time that a pandemic was caused by a coronavirus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1200 points, the worst since 2008.  The eleven year bull market came to an end. China and Italy were locked down. Tom Hanks posted on Instagram that he and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted this virus.  They were in Australia. Two Utah Jazz players tested positive and the NBA canceled the rest of the se...

I yesterday posted on the Trials and Tribulations of Donald Trump.  Inserted was the following: Four years ago,  Donald Trump was up to 18 women who have accused him of varying inappropriate sexual behavior .  EIGHTEEN!!!  Click on that link to read the details and see their photo.  E. Jean has been coy about what she will do with the $88.3 million she will eventually get.  She is now 80 years old.  Not much time to do much with those funds when they become available.  One sure way to seriously bedevil Trump would be to someday soon announce that most this money will be provided to those women who need legal assistance to similarly go after Trump and his billions. Oh, an update, I found a  2023 article indicating that this number was not 18, but 26.   One of them was Ivana Trump, mother of Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka. I thought the repercussions from his failed attempted coup on 6January2021 would be his ultimate downfall.  Could well ...