Looking back in time, my  posting on 28February2020  summarized my return from Thailand: The fearsome factor was that Thailand had the second-most cases of   covid-19   when I left Honolulu on February 12.  Today, it is #9.  No new cases appeared after I arrived in that country.  No one is known to have died. (Interestingly enough, today  Thailand  is #33 in total cases and #143 in cases/million population.) But on  11 March2020 the World Health Organizaton declared the coronavirus to be a global pandemic .   This was the first time that a pandemic was caused by a coronavirus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1200 points, the worst since 2008.  The eleven year bull market came to an end. China and Italy were locked down. Tom Hanks posted on Instagram that he and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted this virus.  They were in Australia. Two Utah Jazz players tested positive and the NBA canceled the rest of the season. While thousands of schools would shut down by the end of week,

Let me start by answering the posed question.  YES.  Should I be worried?  Not really.  For one, I'm old, and Hawaii is far away from him.  Also, while all recent polls see him ahead of Joe Biden for our next president, there are 244 days left, and Donald Trump shows all the signs of self-destruction, combined with a plethora of court appearances to come.  In short, the margin of difference--the Never-Trumpers--titillated by Nikki Haley, could well still grow and become the crucial factor on November 5. You know by now that  Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary  and it will now be Donald Trump vs Joe Biden, again, on November 5.   Time  magazine today reported: Trump’s triumph gets him another step closer to reclaiming the presidency and pursuing   a draconian policy agenda unlike any the nation has ever seen. He has   vowed   to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants; reimpose his travel ban on Muslim-majority countries; purge the federal bureaucracy

BREAKING NEWS!!!  Nine months ago, after a court case, Donald Trump, 77, paid $5 million to E. Jean Carroll, 80, who accused him in 2019 of sexually abusing her in 1996.  He continued to defame her, so she sued again, but for only $24 million more.  However, in a judgement just announced, the jury of 9  penalized Trump another $83.3 million  for his big mouth, fat fingers and deplorable actions.   One beginning editorial:  I can't understand why Trump only strengthens the link with his MAGA group, while alienating the margin of difference (those Republicans and Independents who are solid American citizens) the group that will make the difference in determining the next U.S. president.  Surely he understands, and his close supporters too, that blasting out as he does like an uncontrolled loudmouth on autocracy, misogyny and other hot topics, is no way to swing those key voters to support him.  My only presumption is that he is  mentally unstable. A couple of days ago I posted on: