About the Israel-Iran War and U.S. involvement, here are the latest developments. President Donald Trump demanded Iran unconditionally surrender, and that he could order killing the Ayatollah .  As you know, the  Supreme Leader ordered an operative last year to assassinate Trump before the election . Of course,  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  rejected Trump's threat. So the U.S. is now  moving its third, and newest, super carrier force, headed by the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Mediterranean .  This will take a little time to get there, perhaps hinting of when action might be taken about the entry of America into that war.  Not boots on the ground, but B-2s with bunker bombs to target Iran nuclear facilities. American personnel in Israel are being removed.  Other embassies will soon follow. What could Iran do if the U.S. actually joins Israel in these air strikes? So far, Iran has launched more than 370 missiles and hundreds of dron...

The   New York Times   this morning showed a graphic that, surely, got to influence anti-vaxxers to get vaxxed. Also:   Once you get a booster, your risk of getting severely ill from Covid is tiny. It is quite small even if you are  older or have health problems . Further: The average weekly chance that a boosted person died of Covid was about one in a million during October and November (the most recent available C.D.C. data). Since then, the chances have no doubt been higher, because of the Omicron surge. But they will probably be even lower in coming weeks, because the surge is receding and Omicron is milder than earlier versions of the virus. For now, one in a million per week seems like a reasonable estimate . Plus: That risk is not zero, but it is not far from it. The chance that an average American will die in a  car crash this week is significantly higher — about 2.4 per million . So is the average weekly death rate  from influenza and pneumoni...