Both candidates, age-wise, are perfect victims for this virus.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Have Fallen in Love Again
I’ve fallen in love again, but this time not with a person, but with sweet bell peppers. Love the taste both cooked and raw. Use them in virtually everything now.
Jumping Into A Puddle
If people don’t start to go back to work soon, despite the obvious risk, we are going to be looking at a depression with a capital “D”. Damned if you do; damned if you don’t. Sometimes in life there are no good choices but you still have to decide, like that famous photograph by Cartier-Bresson of a man jumping into a puddle.
Green Peas
Green peas have a super wide range of the micronutrients and all the essential amino acids. They are high in three nutrients which pose a problem for vegans: lysine, leucine, and choline. If you are vegan, you would do well to add them to your daily diet.
Death Rates Compared
The flu pandemic in 1918/1919 (it came back a second year) infected about 1/3 of the entire world, i.e., it was highly infectious with a huge number of people infected. But it wasn’t a death sentence as the death rate was only 2.5%. Yet millions died because so many were infected. The death rate for the current pandemic is a little over 2%, much greater than the standard flu death rate of just .1%, but, so far, it has infected far fewer people than the 1918/19 pandemic.
A nasty aspect of the Spanish Flu is that it could kill very quickly. Often those people who were infected died that same day or shortly afterward. A respiratory killer — you suffocated from lack of oxygen.
Employment
All the employment gains since 2008 have been erased totally, in just a month and a half. Yet the market keeps going higher. Won’t last. Hard times are coming. There’s a wrecking ball going through state and local government budgets. The virus was just the pin that popped the bubble — the bubble was there all along, fed by easy money from the Federal Reserve. An unproductive, debt-ridden economy with market prices inflated to the hilt. When this thing collapses, it is going to be epic.
Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey
Thoughtless
Count the number of thoughtless things you do during one day. You’ll be surprised.
Side Dish
Sliced Bella Mushrooms and diced yellow onion cooked in a healthy dose of Cabernet Sauvignon. Add sliced Red Bell Pepper and a touch more wine. Put the lid on and let it cook for bit. Take lid off and stir now and then. Cook until all the wine has evaporated, careful not to let anything stick to the bottom of the pan.
The Press
Kavanaugh gets raked over the coals by the press on trumped up charges, but Biden gets a pass and silence when the charge is more credible. So much for the press — no one takes them seriously anymore.
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