The whole World had 289,936 covid cases this past week, and South Korea alone was responsible for 229,668 of them, or 79%.   The USA was #2 with 21,309, or 7%. Interestingly enough, of the 576 world deaths this past week, S. Korea had only 52 of them, or 9%.   Brazil had 171 covid deaths, or 30%, while the USA had 139 deaths, or 24%. There remains a range of questions and unknowns about our past pandemic.  One of them is, where did this all start?  Well, no doubt about the location being China, and almost surely Wuhan.  But where and how exactly?  The  New York Times  this week summarized the current state of knowledge: Was China initially hiding the truth?  Yes. The country was concerned, and ordered the original coronavirus samples be destroyed.  Maybe this was smart, but was "coverup" the reason? This Wuhan lab was known to purposefully create dangerous viruses to learn how to combat them before they emerged in the wild.  But was this, then, a phase of biological warfare?

Most tourists to Hawaii fly into Honolulu and spend most of the time in Waikiki, perhaps taking an around Oahu tour and a luau.  Some are more adventurous, flying to at least another island, which takes packing and moving about.  If you want to see all of Hawaii, the best way is to take Norwegian's Pride of America on a 7-day cruise that begins and ends on Saturday.  I've done this maybe half a dozen times, and enjoyed all of them, and have reservations to do this again on September 2.   That will be a grand nine-day period, for the Hawaii football team hosts Stanford on September 1 and women's volleyball welcomes the University of Southern California.  Then the following weekend, Hawaii plays Albany ( they have a football team?? ) at home, while the women's V-ball team has a tournament at The Stan with Liberty, UCLA and Pepperdine. About your coming adventure  (this article was written a year ago, so some ship facilities were closed...but not now ), first, you board an