As written by Alan Smith, from  biglaps :   COVID Is Likely Back with Current High Levels in These States: Check If One of Them Is Yours The Centers for Disease Control can determine if any viruses are circulating and spreading various locations by testing sewage water.  Thirteen states in particular show very high COVID activity. The five highest levels of COVID is now  Ohio, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Nebraska . The next 8 are  Montana, Maine, Arkansas, West Virginia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Kansas and Indiana. Whew, Hawaii is not included.  In March, we  begin another adventure through Las Vegas, Denver, Memphi, so that we can catch an American Cruise Line ship to New Orleans, then New York City, where we will board a Viking ship to Toronto, rail to Vancouver, and get back home to Honolulu.  Don't see any state on the above two lists.  Whew.  However, COVID has a way of suddenly appearing, so we'll need t...

We all have been in the dumps.  When things go bad, other negatives seem to pile up too.  Take President Joe Biden as a good example.  He is now given little chance to beat Donald Trump on November 5.  Then,   he yesterday found out he has contracted COVID-19 .  Also,   two-thirds of Democrats said President Biden should step aside and allow the party to select a different nominee . There seems to be a sense that Biden will soon decide not to run.  The likely candidate will then be Kamala Harris.  I have long thought that the best Democratic presidential option was Michelle Obama.   Polls also seem to point in this direction.   Michelle, however, seems disinterested in this prospect.  Now that Republicans are confident that they will sweep the White House and both houses of Congress, with Democracy truly threatened, perhaps Michelle can be convinced.  Biden's greatest contribution to the future of the USA would be to ...

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        7...

  From the Miami Herald:    Where are you most likely to catch COVID? Poorly ventilated movie theater with mostly unmasked audience:  14%. But jumps to 54% if you're unmasked and people are talking a lot. If the crowd is masked, the risk of infection drops to 5.3% with no talking and 24% with talking. DON'T GO TO A MOVIE THEATER YET! Heavy exercise in a poorly ventilated placed packed with maskless people:   99% .  Yikes. Just working out for a short amount of time in a well-ventilated gym with no one wearing masks:  17%. Poorly ventilated:  67%. From the  New York Times  this morning: More than three-quarters of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths have occurred among people 65 and older. Yet, seniors seem not be particularly concerned: The plausible explanation provided is that seniors tend to lean to the right ( Republican ), while younger generations to the left ( Democrat ). Of course you know this: Millions of Republican voters have decid...