No really. One of my first stories on Donald Trump was in October, 2015, 13 months before he was elected. It was about his roots. I liked his grandfather, Frederick Drumpf, best, for he’d made his start-up money, first in…
Author: vassarbushmills
Citizen With Bark On
Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve
When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
About Bathing
Why is it that in all the countries of the world, as well as the homeless camps in LA and SF, where people don’t wash their hands and bathe regularly (contrary to med protocols) are also where the fewest cases…
Short Note on the CDC and Modeling, Flu Seasons 2017-2018 and 2018-2019
From reports at the time: Jun 20, 2019 · In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died. That’s fairly on par with a typical…
What’s Different about Wuhan Flu?
The only thing we seem to be doing differently for this COVID-19 flu from China that we didn’t do for automobile casualties, or crime deaths, or for that matter regular seasonal flu, which has killed over 10,000 this season which…
Social Distancing, “If I was any Closer to You, I’d be Behind You”
In Virginia it’s not even been two weeks (3/23) since our governor shut down most of the businesses (restaurants, etc) and shut down our schools for the rest of the school year. Seems more like a year. And local media,…
What the English Are Feeling About “the Virus”
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent virus threat and have therefore raised their threat level from “Miffed” to “Peeved”. Soon though, that level may be elevated to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English haven’t…
The European Union and the US, Apples to Apples on Wuhan Virus
The EU has a total population of 513 million vs America’s 327 million, so apples to apples, they should have 57% more coronavirus cases than the America. As of today (3/27) America has 83.5 K cases and the total EU…