Still Alive

So, in East Africa, they've got locusts and terrorists. West and Central Africa, the Congo especially, now has Ebola and, strangely enough, measles. Everyone's getting Chinese Doom on top of all that.

The UN wants to establish a huge slush fund to "fight coronavirus". No word at all what happened to all that money they were given to vaccinate against measles.

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Pretty much everything cancelled or at least postponed. Kentucky Derby is going to be in September, as is Le Mans. Monte Carlo is "later". Indianapolis sent out a newsletter in which they seemed to contemplate running the race with no audience (they spoke of the date being important), but then seemed to back off of that. I feel sorry for Roger Penske, but I suppose that he can afford it.

The Olympics seem to be finally bowing to reality. I'd love to see them just have a two-year gap, and get the summer games back on the same year as the winter games, but I doubt that'll happen.

Life goes on

Life here is rather like some boring holiday, with most places closed. Gasoline was $1.62 a gallon yesterday. I didn't check today.

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India's poor are basically left in the lurch. That seems kind of standard for India.

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Bolivian whores are being asked to take one for the team. They're not happy about it.

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Katanga, the southwestern province of the Congo, are shutting down their mines for TWO ENTIRE DAYS!! Wow. Best use that time to write their wills, I suspect.

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Birds are going along just like always. Cardinals are building a nest in the front-yard shrubbery. Sparrows have (I think) settled who gets which box. There's a chipmunk investigating a hole about ten feet up the large maple tree. I think she's probably going to move there from the back steps. She's been in and out for the last two days.