THIS WILL BE A BIG WEEK...for me, and maybe for the rest of humanity, too.  Why? To begin, the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies for the baseball World Series Championship.  For them, this was redemption, for their  previous triumph in 2017 turned out to be scandalous .   Astros manager Dusty Baker woke up yesterday morning as the one who had coached the most games, never having won a world series.  He did it yesterday at the age of 73.   I also did well in fantasy baseball this year. The  New York Marathon  this morning was won by two Kenyans, Sharon Lokedi and Evans Chebet.   There were around 50,000 runners.   This was 28-year old Lokedi's first marathon in her life.   Chebet earlier this year won the Boston Marathon.  Kenyan men have won all six major city marathons this year:  also Eliud Kipchoge in Tokyo and Berlin, Amos Kipruto in London and Benson Kipruto in Chicago. Chebet's time was 2 hours, 8 minutes and 41 seconds, but Swiss Marcel Hug won the wheelchai

                                    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 Mar     2        1989      9490        1726       110      194 April   6          906     11787         4211       631       37 May    4         853     13667         3025     3786      59   June   1         287    10637         2346      3205       95  July   7          251 

This is a brutal  point of view on COVID-19 from the UK  presented by Dr. John Campbell on You Tube, and some text from   The Guardian : Herd immunity will not be reached. Like the flu and colds, everyone will eventually contract COVID-19. If  you're unvaccinated, you could get very sick. If you're vaccinated, you will have a 90+% chance of only having mild symptoms. Testing is a waste of time, and some countries like Germany will soon only test when you get infected and enter a clinic or hospital.  It seems unnecessary to vaccinate children, for they generally don't get very ill.  Yes, they can transmit this disease, but, then, if doesn't matter, for you will get it anyway some day. My apartment is cleaned weekly on Fridays, and I usually wait at a table by the elevators during this 45-minute period and do some reading.  Recently, I saw on the table  INTRODUCTION TO OKINAWAN CULTURE , co-authored by Kyoko Hijirida and Tomoko Oshiro.  I thought, this should make for a b