I've watched a lot of films this past month.  Went through two franchises: Jaws . Began with  Jaws  in 1975, based on the novel by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring that  theme song of John Williams , just an alternating pattern of E and F notes, which won an Oscar, and now is the standard sound of sharks. There were three sequels, earning $800 million for the entire franchise. Only the original  Jaws  movie did well by  Rotten Tomatoes , given a 97/90 scores by reviewers. However, the best shark film of all time was a Canadian documentary,  Sharkwater Extinction , which got a 100 score.  All about the illegal trade in shark fins. The  other Jaws films  got 62% ( #12 of all shark production s), 11% and 0% ( Jaws the Revenge  in 1987 got this rating, and ranks #39, the lowest of all shark flicks ).  In other words, don't bother to watch these sequels.  On the other hand, I did stay for the  Revenge , starring Lorraine Gracy, Mario van Peebles and Micha

Here is something I did not expect, from  NBC News : A majority of people in the U.S have had Covid-19 at least once — likely more than 70% of the country , White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said on Thursday, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many have been infected multiple times.   Let me do some math.  So far, the U.S. has had a little more than  92 million COVID-19 cases.   Our population is 335 million, so I calculated 28%, which is far lower than the 70% cited by Dr. Jha. But the  World Health Organization  reported in April that up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2.  If this is true, the continent had 97 times more cases than reported!!! Further, the global average should be 16 times higher! There is no mention of how asymptomaticity factored into the above. So if you multiply the actual covid cases by 16, that would mean that the average person in the USA actually was infected more than  four times each .   Tha

      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 Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194 April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37 May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59   June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95  July    7         251      8440        1595        817      41