Earlier this month I posted on  THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FRACTURING .  Some of my articles draw a lot of attention, and this is one of them that did.  Last week I noticed that Rinaldo Brutoco of the World Business Academy wrote on  A Reason for Hope:  On Conscience and Integrity .  To quote his first paragraph: In the political swamp that has  ensnared our democratic republic a glimmer of something we haven’t seen  for almost six years is on the horizon: the emergence of a fissure in the Republican party, which has lately been in the grips of  Mr. Trump’s  remarkably single-handed control as it morphed into the Cult of Trump.  Finally, over 160 present and former leaders of the Republican party have said “Enough!”  Brutoco never went into detail on who the 160 were.  However, more and  more Republicans are shifting away from Donald Trump . Today is Wednesday, and I usually focus on a scientific/technological topic.  I was one of the reservoir engineers for the  Hawaii Geothermal Projec

   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           10       3432    14043      1357         119     276           16        1787      9799      1088        109     219 Summary:  Not yet ready to say that the pandemic is over, but much of the world is showing declines in new cases and new deaths. LIFE IS A GIFT--EVEN WITH ALZHEIMER'S. That was a tweet