Before I get into the very dangerous Hurricane Ida approaching New Orleans, a few other news items of the day: The USA suffered yesterday with 190,370 new cases and 1304 new deaths. #2 Mexico had 835 new deaths with "only" 20,633 new cases. #2 India with 46,805 new cases had 514 new deaths. Hawaii had our worst day ever, 1035 new cases and 9 new deaths.  Interestingly enough, Florida had the highest number of new cases with 27,584, but only 8 new deaths.  Hmmm... The U.S. has now passed  100,000 evacuations  from Kabul Airport, which will come to halt on Tuesday.  Lots of fears, but no particularly serious after-attacks. The NCAA women's volleyball season began yesterday with Hawaii beating Fairfield, and will play Marquette tonight, with Texas A&M tomorrow.  Two stars were first year freshmen. The NCAA football season began today, with Hawaii at UCLA in the Rose Bowl on ESPN. So on to  Hurricane Ida , at this writing only a Category 1.  However, all projections sho

                   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           25       2414    10578        1582        119      144 Mar     2        1989      9490       1726       110      194           31       1115      12301        3950       458       58 April   6         906     11787         4211        631       37 May    4         853     13667     

On this Friday, I'll just provide the latest of what is happening to Humanity this weekend.  First, that booster shot decision is beginning to get crystal clear as to why the sudden concern.  Those to get fully vaccinated early, like me with two Modernas, have now exceeded six months since completion.  From all reports, I was once 95% protected, but am now less than 50% safe, and probably lower.  Three vaccinated senators joined Lindsey Graham.    You can read that article .  I'll probably be among the first to get that booster, but that won't be until October, then it will take a few weeks for full effectiveness.  I'll need to be very careful for the next three months. That chaos around the Kabul Airport is only getting worse.  See those people standing around in the hot sun?  The temperature on Saturday will go up to 89 F, with the heat increasing to 92 F on Tuesday.  August experiences an average low of 63 F and high of 90 F.  These Afghans have been sent to Qatar, w

 By now surely you've seen this photo of  640  or so Afghans in Kabul  yesterday? That is not the Kabul Airport lobby.  This is inside of the U.S. military plane that took them to Qatar.  Did you notice how many were on the outside of some jets, and the unfortunate that fell from the sky while trying to cling on to the above departing flight? Supposedly, we have already flown out 2000 high priority Afghans who were interpreters.  How many more need to be saved?  Including family, more than 100,000.   400,000 have already left , but those were the usual war emigrants.  Who wants to go to  Tajikistan , but an offer has been made to take in 100,000 refugees from its neighboring Afghanistan.   Canada  has promised to accept 20,000.  The European Union has been chary. How can the U.S. fly out more than 100,000 in a few days?  You say they could have started weeks ago.  But who knew the Taliban was going to take over the country in just a few days?  Apparently not our intelligence commun