On Thursday, a friend mentioned that the following list should have indicated cases, not deaths.  Thus, again: From  WHO , most covid (not deaths) cases: #1      USA  103,436,829 #2      China  99,238,850 #3      India  44,997,710 #4      France  38,997,490 #5      Germany  38,437,756 #6      Brazil  37,717,062 #7      S. Korea  34,571,873 #8      Japan  33,803,572 #9      Italy  25,977,012 #10    UK  24,704,113 Then I took a closer look at the data, and said to myself, there is no way that the USA had more covid cases than China.  For example, at the end of December 2022  CNN  reported 250 million in infections, just that month , which would be double the total of the U.S. for the entirety of the pandemic.  More so,  The Guardian  reported in January of t...

There are  very few places in the world where you can breathe air clean enough to meet WHO standards . The focus is on a type of air pollution called PM2.5, which is smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, and mostly comes from auto emission and burning of biomass and fossil fuels.  This fine particulate matter is associated with a wide range of heart and lung disorders, plus cancers. In the  study,  scientists examined pollution data from monitoring stations in 6,475 cities in 117 countries and territories.   Only 3.4% got an acceptable grade. 93 cities had PM2.5 concentrations  10 times higher  than WHO standards. Central and South Asia had 46 of the world's most polluted cities. In Africa only one of 65 cities examined met WHO air quality standards. Asia?  Only 4 of 1887 cities. Europe should be okay, right?  Nope.  Only 55 of 1588 cities achieve this. What about the USA? This report  said:  not a pretty picture. 2408...

                                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    ...

For a very long time I have been lobbying the world to create an electronic universal passport for travel showing that you completed a COVID-19 vaccination series.  Alas, it is more and more appearing that we might well experience the mayhem of a different pass for just about every location on Planet Earth.  Wouldn't be surprised if a million types of systems appear over the next decade to confuse everyone and waste a lot of time and money. Of course there are concerns about sharing of personal and health data, but that is for something delicate and embarrassing.  Proof of COVID-19 security is something strategically necessary.  Sometimes Big Brother can be a helpful sibling. This nonsense of protecting individual freedom makes no sense.  Show of proof for travel is not new.  First, you need a passport anyway.  Then for some countries you must have a certificate indicating you have been vaccinated to prevent the spread of yellow fever.   To b...

The World Health Organization on 11 February 2020 finally gave the virus from China a name, COVID-19, and a month later,  announced that this was a pandemic.  Six months henceforth, the World reached one million COVID-19 deaths on 20 September 2020.  Less than four months later, 2 million on 15 January 2021, then three million in another three months.  This trend is worrisome, but vaccinations will be the cure.  At this writing, we are at 3.030 million deaths, a little more than 13 months after becoming a pandemic. From the New York Times , the location of these coronavirus deaths is shifting to South America, although Europe and the Middle East are similarly affected, and recent reports worry a lot about India: You might argue that every COVID-19 death brings human suffering, but that is the case of any death, and while there is immense joy at most births, population growth could well be Humanity's biggest problem.  Annually: 140 million babies are born....