What to do about the elderly is an age-old question, yes, a pun.  However, when Yale assistant professor,  Yusuke Narita , remarked that elderly Japanese residents should essentially commit seppuku ( the honorable method for dishonored samurai to commit suicide-- I had a dream  about this a long time ago which became a  Huffington Post  article ), he outraged the world. He is 37 years old with an economics PhD from MIT, previously taught at Stanford, and is obviously of Japanese ethnicity, so the issue has relevance and ire.  This euthanasia discussion actually had first occurred with a group of students two years ago about a scene from the Swedish film,  Midsommar , in which a cult sent out one of its oldest members to jump off a cliff.  He then said: Whether that's a good thing or not, that's a more difficult question to answer.  So if you think that's good, then maybe you can work hard creating a society like that. Narita in the past also suggested that the public might

With all the precautions we are taking, plus the natural barrier of the Pacific Ocean,   Hawaii   has nevertheless been recently clobbered by COVID-19.  As of two days ago, it was speculated that maybe half of new cases were from the Omicron variant.  The infection rate could well continue to increase as this strain gains prominence.  Our football team pulled out of Hawaii Bowl on Friday and basketball team out of the Rainbow Classic yesterday because of pandemic protocols. Hawaii status: Our total case count surged past 100,000 yesterday, which means that 7% of people living here have contracted COVID-19. However, the USA percentage is 15.9%, more than double that of Hawaii. The World average is 3.6%.  Or, Hawaii has double the infection rate of the globe. We had 1828 new cases two days ago, our worst ever. 73.9% of people here have been fully vaccinated.  Not sure about what percent has been boosted. While immunity is not guaranteed about catching this virus, vaccinations well protec