JUST SOME POSTS

The irresponsible reporting of the Covid-19 pandemic is getting ridiculous. If there are any of you out there that don't believe the reporting is no more than a way to generate panic and sow distrust of the government's handling of the crisis- here are some charts for you from the CDC. (taken from screenshots of the site today 7/24/20) First, the figures that all the reports are fixated on: (the growth in cases) You can see that the number of cases is growing quite a bit of late! The reporting on that number is correct. Now the one that matters: (deaths) I do my best not to participate in hyperbole, so I will mention that the deaths are not immediately reported and/or recorded. So, the figures after 7/4 on the chart will go up some for sure over the next weeks as these numbers come in. However, you can see the deaths are dropping almost exactly inversely to the cases! Even if the death rate was remaining the same, the overall number would be rising! (a percentage of a large num...

With most of us spending much more time at home and school kids among them, I thought I would do a post with suggestions on how to make your time at home "better" - or at least more livable and maybe more productive. I cannot take credit for the origination of any of these ideas, but I think I might present them in a different format and context. People need and crave order and schedules, at least to a point. I know we all crave and enjoy a day or so where we can just crash and not worry about the clock or things we have to do. Unfortunately, we all DO have thing we have to do - even when home. We also have to maintain our sanity and our peace of mind.  So, if you are home from work and "working from home", set up a schedule. It is important that you get up at a reasonable time and go through a "normal" routine of preparing for the workday (or school day - but I will get more specific on that aspect in a bit). Now, if you have to get up at 5 am ...