Lahaina on Maui is now no more.   You can follow the devastation from where you are.  I will provide special details tomorrow.  For now, read my posting of 29April2023 about Lahaina , the one best day of our entire 53-day Seabourn Odyssey cruise.  What we saw are now all gone. I prepared the following yesterday for posting today. Some USA Covid stats? 32% have been infected, and the percentage is probably lower/person because many have caught it twice, and some more. 2% died from Covid. 1% of those who caught Covid died. Should you contract Covid today, there is now a 0.5% chance of dying. In South Korea, those who contract Covid today have only a 0.03% chance of dying. Why this significant difference?  I don't know. The mortality rate of the seasonal flu is between 0.03% and 0.07%, depending on the year. Asymptomatic Covid victims have always been the most dangerous to spread this disease. Three years ago, the CDC thought that 35%  of  Covid cases were asymptomatic.    Tony Fauci

First, a refresher on what you should absolutely avoid if you have not been vaccinated and boosted.  But for those who got all those recommend dosages, even if you catch COVID-19, the odds are very, very high that your symptoms will only fall between a weak flu and a cold.   Or, you could be one of the 40% or so who will show no symptoms.   As of late last year, it looked like the  asymptomatic rate of this virus was 40.5% .   This rate for the seasonal flu is said to be around  33% . One study showed the asymptomatic rate of the common cold was  60% You need to be careful with venereal diseases, for the asymptomatic rate is around  66% . So to continue,  here are where you are most likely to become a statistic of this pandemic : Crowded and poorly ventilated sport or entertainment theater: If no one is wearing a mask and are talking = 54%. Everyone is wearing a mask and there is some talking = 24% If everyone is wearing a mask and there is no talking = 5%. Speaking loudly  can increas

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. 56 million  people die.

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                       19       2804    14760      1183        161     839               20      4385    17350      1382        152     566           21       4363    16578      1335        161     647           26       4045   15879      1206        127     680           27       3916    16873      1319        134     753 Summary:  According to The New York Times this morning: New cases in