The final Tokyo Olympics medals standings showed the following:                               GOLD     Total   Medals/million population USA                39          113          0.35 China              38           88         0.06 Japan              27            58         0.98 Russa             20            71           0.49 Australia                        36           2.1 New Zealand                 20           4.1 Jamaica                          9            3.1 San Marino                    3         88.6 Entering Sunday, the U.S. had two fewer golds than China.  However, women made the difference: The USA women did well. Won the gold for basketball. Won the gold for volleyball. Plus, Great Britains's Lauren Price beat China's Li Qian in women's middleweight boxing. Among the downers, though: For the first time since 1980 when the USA boycotted the Moscow Olympics, the U.S. men's track team failed to win even one individual gold medal. We failed to beat t

Well, the Tokyo Olympics will end today   (already Sunday Tokyo time ).  The Final Ceremonies air at 7AM EDT ( 1AM Hawaii time tonight ) tomorrow.   Left are the men's marathon in Sapporo and Japan vs USA in women's basketball.  Sure we won in men's basketball, and women's golf and water polo, but we lost to Japan in both the softball and baseball championship games.  Japan was strong, winning thirteen gold medals in judo and wrestling, the women especially, for they dominated in four of the six wrestling events.   So who won the most medals?  If it's only gold, then China.  Total?  USA.  On the other hand, using medals per million people, the leaders are: #1  San Marino:  88.4 #2  Bermuda:  16 #3  Grenada:  8.9 What about medals/million for the larger countries? New Zealand:  3.9 Australia:  1.7 Great Britain:  0.9 USA:  0.3 China:  0.06 Wasn't that surprising? What was the most heartwarming moment?  Maybe Simone Biles winning a bronze medal.  Or perhaps  Laura

  I'll start with a lot of grief.  Did you notice that the World has passed   200 million COVID-19 cases ?   That's 2.6% of the global population.   Note that our current pandemic shows a current total deaths of  4.3 million , significant, but only 0.06% of people on Planet earth.   Smallpox killed 500 million . The odds for you being here so far because of this novel coronavirus are  1767 to 1.    Not only don't I personally know anyone who died from this pandemic, I don't know anyone who even was infected.   And I live in a building holding 200 seniors. Only 2% of humans around the world live in elder-care facilities.  THIS GROUP WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR  MORE THAN A THIRD  OF ALL COVID-19 DEATHS. A century ago, the  H1N1 Pandemic , also known as the Spanish Flu, killed  50 million  when the world population was 1.8 billion. That's almost 3% of the world population. It is said that the average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 12 years. However, there are estimate