War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
COVID surge continues as Californbia starts a nearly statewide ‘stay-at-home’ mandate as ICU beds become sparse while the numbers tick upward: Here in the Central Valley (the San Joaquin Valley portion of the state), we are scheduled to begin our ‘lockdown’ this evening, and will reportedly last for three weeks, if the numbers can be…
Insanity blemished by sanity: Yesterday, the CDC called for wearing masks everywhere outside, death stalks if not — via the Guardian: The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new coronavirus guidelines, including requesting “universal face mask use,” after the US again set a record for the highest daily number of coronavirus deaths.…
Although it didn’t really need a scientific study to reveal this, but it does help — certain media consumption habits predict some Americans’ level of knowledge about COVID-19 and how to handle the pandemic. Not anything new, though — via PsyPost yesterday: Relying on web news sources, in contrast, was associated with a reduced tendency…
Virus as plague: Here in California, as in way-too many other places, COVID-19 is overwhelming medical systems. We reported 18,591 new cases in just the last 24 hours, a daily average of 15,121. One month ago, the state reported just 14 Covid-related deaths, yesterday 113. Since this shit started, California has reported more than 1.2-million…
In a time of a way-divided country, there’s one issue a bulk of Americans are together in agreement — lighten-up on marijuana. Right now, pot is medically legal in 33 states, recreationally legal in 12 states, as well Washington, D.C, and two-thirds of Americans want marijuana to be legalized: ‘The share of U.S. adults who…
Surge really isn’t the absolute-right description right now for the spread of COVID-19, it’s more like a tsunami without precedent, a whiplash of horror. Last month was the shits (CBS News yesterday afternoon): The United States reported more than 4 million coronavirus cases in November, which is higher than the total number of cases seen all year…
Ending of the Thanksgiving four-day spread this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, first of two precarious holiday functions to finish out one shitty year, Christmas/New Year now approaching in sight. Outside just now doing a BM (Black&Mild, Wine), the small backyard of my daughter’s apartment was quiet and near-serene, though, Merced city traffic…
As the T-Rump readies himself to pardon the annual turkey this near-midday Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, the real story of the holiday season is rolling hard — ‘US Covid-19 cases could reach 20 million by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to a new modeling forecast from Washington University in St. Louis.‘ Meanwhile, from John Hopkins…
As surging COVID-19 explodes across the US tallying-up record numbers with no immediate end in sight, the T-Rump, supposed leader of any national response to this catastrophic crisis, instead blows off an international summit on pandemic preparation, and hit the links: The two-day G20 summit started today, and due to the coronavirus was connected by…
As COVID-19 surges, the very assholes who claim it’s all a hoax and let the people die are testing positive for the disease. This morning Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida announced he’d tested positive — the seventh GOP senator infected by the deadly shit since it started, and a mass of them the last…
