Yesterday I talked about Powerball.    Last night a ticket sold in Altadena, California won $2.04 billion .  The winning numbers were 10, 33, 41, and 56 for the white balls, and 10 for the red Powerball.  The previous record was $1.586 billion won by three ticketholders.  The announcement was 10 hours late because of a problem with processing sales.  How's this for luck:  the odds of winning were 1 in 292.2 million. Apparently, if you got infected with the COVID-19 virus, and took  Paxlovid , doing so reduced your risk of long COVID.  There is no data on how well this treatment works if you haven't had this disease. and later get infected. Would be worth a study.  Learn more about Paxlovid by clicking  here  and  here .  There is that matter of rebound that has occurred to some. Yesterday my posting seemed to be the only source of optimism for Democrats.  But who am I, plus I've never done this before.  Much will depend how much the Trump-effect affects those marginal 10% R