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BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
I am sticking with posting on Thursdays this month…Where we go in August I don’t know, seriously!
For time-sensitive content that can not wait until next Thursday, I will add it here throughout the next week and add NEW in the front of it.
Size of now weekly posts is way larger than normal. There is a lot to unpack here. Enjoy learning and having fun with these curated links and eclectic commentary 🙂
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Let’s start off with The Best Photos of Comet Neowise to warm you up!
COVID-19
The best read on where we stand on Covid-19 vaccines with a word of caution to make sure we get it right! A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire? I really like the table at the end outlining all the different approaches/methods to get there. We will get there…and then we’ll have to convince the anti-vaxxers smh!
And we just got some news in the vaccine front: Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate appears to be safe and provide some immunity, new data from early trial shows. Something about this company just makes me very cautious about what they are announcing, I hope I am wrong! I feel much better about the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine though: Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition. To all: I have no idea about this stuff and as sure as hell I am no pandemic thought leader ok? 😉
Never in our scariest nightmares we would ever imagine we will be seeing record number of positive cases in many different states in the US in the middle of the summer! After all our sacrifices and the trillions that have been spent. It is maddening or, maybe, it is the consequence of our actions amid a total lack of any leadership that is so needed in a huge crisis like this. America Is Refusing to Learn How to Fight the Coronavirus. I mean, you know where I stand on this, it has been a repeated theme here. Putting America First? &%#$&!@!
A follow up interview with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant (what a brilliant last name!): Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19. This is a must read! The whole thing. But let me just excerpt just this:
This is a bigfuckingdeal. If I would not be excommunicated from the world of science, I would call this an evil virus, but I can’t do that because I can’t impugn motives to it. But if I could, I would call it that. It’s certainly pernicious. This is the worst pandemic in our lifetime. And it is the first time we have had a pandemic in the United States in which we have had such a total, abysmal failure of our federal government.
We have all seen this Richard Quest dude on TV. I am not a fan, I always thought he speaks so loud…or maybe it is my ear condition. Well, here we go: I got Covid-19 two months ago. I’m still discovering new areas of damage — Richard Quest.
We must open the schools, we all agree on that of course! But we must do so safely you know. This is a good article on how we can go about it: These 8 Basic Steps Will Let Us Reopen Schools. These are all excellent steps but…I am not seeing it and I hope I am wrong.
First, shield the most vulnerable
Second, reduce risk wherever possible
Third, keep the virus out
Fourth, wear a mask
Fifth, reduce mixing among students and staff
Sixth, reduce occupancy, especially indoors
Seventh, implement new health and safety protocols
Eighth, prepare for cases
I have become more mindful of what I eat by seeking out food from local farms, especially fruits and vegetables. But maybe it is time to start cutting down on the meat I buy on sale. A Warning From The Chickens of the World. How our reliance on mass-produced food increases the risk of pandemics.
Between 1961 and 2017, world poultry meat production increased from 9 million to 122 million tons and egg production shot up from 15 million to 87 million tons. Since most of us experience a sort of cognitive dissonance when we see chickens and tons in the same sentence, let me rephrase this. In 1961, there were just over 3 billion people and just under 4 billion chickens in the world. In 2020, as I write this, about 7.7 billion people are jostling and shouting for space here, along with more than 20 billion chickens—and perhaps as many as 50 billion if one considers the short slaughter-and-restock turnover of those populations. [These numbers are stunning, save the chickens like we saved the whales…ok, that does not make sense, no time to assign the imaginary intern to investigate this issue further, sorry dear readers!]
This is a hilarious piece on testing, pure satire. Hey, I am a firm believer that the best medicine is laughter: So You Want a Coronavirus Test?
This one hits home you guys. Saline is a town just outside Ann Arbor, I can bike and be there in less than 20 minutes. WTF is wrong with people and is Michigan becoming Florida? Large Saline-area house party causes coronavirus outbreak in Washtenaw County.
You know, we all thought we had seen it all but nope. How can you criticize the nation’s top public health expert who has worked for six Presidents? Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President.
Well, this is very relevant in this blog that happens to have the word “Travel” in its name. It is the latest by Wall Street Journal‘s The Middle Seat column by Scott McCartney: The Greatest Coronavirus Risks When You Fly. I feel a bit better about getting on a plane and breathing all that circulated air…but what happens when we get stuck on the tarmac for hours huh?
What a legacy!
MILES & POINTS
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This miles and points hobby has been fueled over the years by us getting travel rewards credit cards for the signup bonuses. Yeah, we used to practice credit card churning but those days are mostly gone with all the bank restrictions and of course devaluations. And of course I am the only blogger who has consistently tried to educate readers what a HUGE multi million dollar business it has become to keep selling these credit cards to readers by tricking them to “fly in luxury for free”. Anyway, let me not go on in this section about this, you know where I stand. But the virus has changed everything in this space. Check out this article and some horrific figures to THE multi million dollar The Points Guy Inc business: It’s harder to get a credit card: ‘Issuers have really tightened up’.
Newly opened credit cards fell by 65% from April 15 to May 15 this year versus the same period last year, marking the second consecutive month of significant declines…
“The declines are enormous,” said Matt Schulz, chief industry analyst at CompareCards. “They’re further proof that credit card issuers have really tightened up and really retreated into their shells quite a bit in the wake of the pandemic.”
Consumers have a better chance of getting what is considered a starter credit card with limits of a few hundred dollars, rather than a high-end card typically targeting consumers with an excellent credit score in those times… [the sales commissions on the started credit cards pale in comparison fyi]
Huge news in the airline space: American Becomes Instantly Relevant in New York With JetBlue Strategic Partnership. Whichever way you view this, we passengers will benefit. It covers just Boston and New York City by the way. And we will eventually get this too: American is expecting the benefit to be enough that it will bring back Rio service this next winter, add Athens service for next summer, and start Tel Aviv year-round. If you wanted to read the AA press release, click HERE!
Good info here: World of Hyatt Complete Guide. Hyatt recently added an online option to book suite awards with points finally!
If you are going to fly on United, check HERE to see if you are targeted to earn extra miles.
If you have a United MileagePlus Explorer card, check HERE to see if you are targeted for a spending bonus.
NEW: Click HERE to register for the latest IHG Rewards promotion, up to 4x bonus points.
Just in case you are a Wyndham Rewards member, register HERE for its new promo: Stay two nights by September 10, 2020 and earn 7,500 points.
Hilton trying to hang on to its members by doing things it would never even think about doing in normal times. What is the latest? It extends rollover nights!
We know your travel continues to be limited, and we’ve got you covered. All nights you earn this year from stays between January 1 through December 31, 2020, will automatically be carried over to the 2021 calendar year and count towards your 2021-2023 Tier Status. Note that this update will be reflected in your account by the end of this year. For more information on other rollover benefit terms, please visit our FAQs page.
Speaking of hotel companies trying to hang on, here goes Marriott Promotional Elite Qualifying Nights Have Posted, Check To See If You Now Have Choice Benefits To Select. And just like that son is just three nights away from Platinum…if only he could go back to his business travel days.
TRAVEL
Fun story: Meet the company that sells your lost airplane luggage. Amazing story how the company was started by a guy named Hugo who was bored selling insurance and was looking for a side gig. The company is now led by his son. Wonder if anyone visited the showroom in tiny Scottsboro, Alabama.
Every year, 4.3B bags are checked by airlines around the world. Around 25m of them (5.7 per 1k bags checked) end up lost or misdirected. The 0.03% of bags that are still not reunited with their owners after 90 days are sold by the airline.
Greece has handled the global pandemic really well, just 3,883 cases and 193 dead to date. IN TOTAL! If you ever told me a Greek government will do much better in anything about governance compared to the US government I would laugh at your face. And here we are, unbelievable! Why am I saying this? Because you would think that tourists would be rushing back to a beautiful country but…Air arrivals drop by up to 84%. It’s the virus stupid. And this was one sector of the economy that always bailed out Greece, so many citizens depend on tourism. It is very depressing indeed. Also, in the other side of the world, Quantas stopped selling international flight tickets until the end of, please sit down, March 2021, yikes!
Fun website: WindowSwap. “Open a new window somewhere in the world”.
Marlon Brando owned an island TETIAROA or BRANDO’S ISLAND. Excuse me, he was able to lease it for 99 years that is. Anyone stay at The Brando swanky resort? If you all get thousands of credit cards with my links I promise I will travel there and do a trip report for you for…free! 🙂 I just visited the resort website and learned that it reopened this week and the pictures are so lovely…and so far away, sigh.
This one from Florida, so adorable! This video of baby sea turtles emerging from their nests has officially saved summer.
Well, Erdogan again. Turkey reconverts Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. SAD!
Holy crap….literally! This is a story about Beirut’s awfully broken sewage system. YIKES! Waste Away.
PERSONAL FINANCE
Yeah, be careful out there! Who gets to be reckless on Wall Street? Regular investors are piling into the stock market for the rush. Wall Street titans say they’re making a grave mistake, but it’s not so simple. It is a crazy environment out there, it has been like that for a while…I think Robinhood is hurting lots of people and I am just going to leave it there and no I am not going to shove any affiliate links to you so I can make money. You can play speculate if you want but only play speculate with a very tiny part of your portfolio and be perfectly okay if you lose it all. Good luck, you’ll need it! 🙂
If you are not convinced yet, maybe this will do the trick: Day-trading in the age of coronavirus. If you are still not convinced, you are probably carrying balances in your credit cards too smh.
As I am about to make the first payment to the University of Michigan for our daughter starting college, this makes me shake my head too, yikes!
![r/dataisbeautiful - US College Tuition & Fees vs. Overall Inflation [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/xcdto6rnan951.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d4c61aa100a2060c9a2117bd58489df3f99ef507)
CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS
![r/dataisbeautiful - US College Tuition & Fees vs. Overall Inflation [OC]](https://i.redd.it/xcdto6rnan951.jpg)
I see my daughter’s graduating class and I have never seen a more diverse group. I think this has been happening for a long time in this country. And this guy is betting on white all the way, sad! Trump’s Bad Bet on White Christian America. He’s trying to assemble a winning coalition with a dwindling number of sympathetic white voters.
The nonpartisan States of Change project has forecast that non-college-educated white Americans will likely constitute 42 percent of voters in November, slightly more than half their share in 1968. States of Change anticipates that both college-educated white voters and voters of color will represent about 30 percent of voters in 2020. For the former group, that’s about twice their share in 1968; for the latter, that’s somewhere between a three- and fourfold increase.
White Christians comprised fully 85 percent of all American adults in 1968…they now represent only half as much of the population, 42 percent.
In 1968, nonwhite Christians represented only 8 percent of Americans; now that’s tripled to just more than 24 percent.
Only one-fourth of adults younger than 30 now identify as white Christians.
Remember that couple that defended their house with guns lat week? Well, they are just not very nice people. Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down. You will shake your head to oblivion reading about some of their deeds.
Well, we said goodbye to the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena outside Detroit, the home of the NBA Detroit Pistons. So many memories there and a great place to watch a concert too. It went BOOM! Ten memorable Pistons moments at The Palace.
ODDZ & ENDZ
What a great story about recently departed comedian Carl Reiner. It involves Beef Stroganoff and it is hilarious!
I love the BBC Lockdown Longreads. Here is another one: The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run. I had never heard of this, wow! Gets into spying, even North Korea joins in…love it!
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn. Then the drone continues. Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as “dinghy” or “farming specialist”. And that’s it. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz.
Fascinating how it all started. In 1952. How surgeons learned to operate on beating hearts.
I am sure you have come across people who believe in ridiculous conspiracy theories, it appears they are growing in numbers! The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy. You can forward them this article but we know it is not going to make a difference. At all. And how it all started is…so fitting!
Look at what you can buy! Dark Web Price Index 2020.
Are you really bored? Like…REALLY bored. Well, click HERE. In this site you can try drawing a circle and analyze how well you did. It can be a little addictive, you have been warned. My highest score is 189,675. If I devoted the time to instead doing some blog marketing/promotion…my pathetic conversion ratio would not be so, well, pathetic. I laugh, you laugh (I hope), we all laugh 🙂
Eye-opening: The Pioneers of the Misinformation. How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents. This is how these assholes got started…and it all makes sense now. STOP CLICKING ON THEIRSHIT! Oh man, can you imagine how much more commercially successful this blog would be if I stopped driving away a huge chunk of potential readers hey? 🙂 Nevertheless, reading about how this Drudge dude got started was very interesting indeed.
Best pictures of birds online period! The 2020 Audubon Photography Awards.
More amazing pictures I had not seen before from The Collapse of the Soviet Union. After all that…and they got stuck with Putin, sad!
BLOG BUZZ
We are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veterans of this fast imploding hobby and also a section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life because it helps me feel better about myself.
The Lazy Traveler dissects Iberia Plus: Awesomeness and Dysfunctions of Iberia Plus: How to Use the First and Skirt the Second | Iberia Peak Dates, Award Space and Prices, Fuel Surcharges and More!
Stefan of Rapid Travel Chai just continues to crank these out! Upcoming Video Interviews for the Week of July 12, 2020.
I see Mommy Points went to Disney World on assignment for The Points Guy. Is it just me but…reporting from the current Covid-19 epicenter of the global pandemic is a bit…much? I wonder if she was listening to Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” while checking out the Disney rides, sad lol!
And is The Points Guy pivoting to personal finance content now that it is so hard to sell travel rewards credit cards? Or is this pivot happening in the miles and points blogs in general? I had to leave a comment in this post at Frequent Miler that I would LOVE to expand on but I am really trying to limit my time spent on this TBB “venture” you guys 🙂 I think I am qualified as personal finance is what I do for a living. This miles and point stuff and now kickass content curation I do for you here is just a little…obsession of mine that I should probably quit it and move on after almost eight years, sigh! NEW: I have been asked to do a blog post to share my thoughts on the subject. Since I am so quality minded…I would spend way too much time on it, something I just do not have right now and with the complete sinking of credit card conversions it will make such use of my time completely idiotic so I am going to pass. Maybe one day…
The sad saga is over. Have bloggers who were pumping this shit ever apologized? The Plastic Merchant Bankruptcy Catastrophe Finally Ends. Be careful out there!
If you do not see the travel rewards credit card you want available with my links, maybe I can refer you to it? Please email me, thanks! Thanks to reader Sam who is #1…as in the only credit card conversion this month. Can you imagine the hunger at TPG and other blogs in this space?
This is amazing! Nirvana Performing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a Music Store a Week Before Its Release. Wow, must click!
You know, I am a big Panera Bread fan. I tried to quit them but I could not. And when they came out with a monthly subscription for unlimited coffee I signed up right away. Then the pandemic hit and they have given me coffee for free all summer long. There is one near my house and I like to get away in the morning (sitting outside) and drink my coffee while catching up on reading. And then I get a refill to go lol. Sometimes I come back later the same day…heck, I could come back and get me another cup of coffee every TWO hours. So, they sent me this promo that I can continue drinking coffee for free until the end of October if five more people sign up with my REFERRAL link. Check it out, my favorite flavor is Hazelnut. They also have Dark, Light and Decaf. It is NOT gourmet coffee by the way but Hazelnut works for me. I only pump stuff I use myself in my site. You would freak out what I turn down every day when other bloggers will sell their newborns for a $ click!
There was a major hack on Twitter earlier this week. Major verified by Twitter accounts (they get a blue check mark) were prevented from tweeting while Twitter engineers worked to resolve the situation. In my non TBB professional life I do have a Twitter verified account. I did not realize it is that big of a deal until one day years ago son told me he learned about it from his high school classmates. In a way like this: “Dude, your dad is verified on Twitter!”. I laughed!
Anybody keeping count how many writers at The Points Guy are leaving for greener pastures? Here is a small list:
Zach Wichter – Going from the aviation beat to mortgages at Bankrate smh
Alberto Riva – Going from aviation to personal finance at “sister” site smh
Samantha Rosen – Same as Alberto
This is what happens when you are not selling many travel rewards credit cards these days…But wait, they are all so excited about their new chapter! Of course, being an expert on what you will be writing about just comes…naturally? Some sites are born to sell…just not mine I guess! My agent is still waiting for that amazing offer to have a personal finance column…but I think I will be pissing off the major banks because I don’t go along for BS!
Any tips on the buzz on these blogs please let me know, thank you!
Last week: 22 miles running, 27 miles biking. Pounds lost: 0 – If I could only stop eating…
And a song recommendation. This song finally gets a video after all these years! Iggy Pop went to the same middle school as my kids by the way 🙂
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Good stuff George!
There’s a 2,100 sq-ft suite at the Rochester Hyatt Regency bookable for 16K pts per night. It even has a pool table. It says it sleeps a maximum of four. Lame!
Some interesting news on the coronavirus front. Excerpt: “This new work confirms that there are people who nonetheless have T cells that are reactive to protein antigens from the new virus…that would argue that there has been past zoonotic coronavirus transmission in humans, unknown viruses that apparently did not lead to serious disease, which have provided some people with a level of T-cell based protection to the current pandemic.”
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/new-data-on-t-cells-and-the-coronavirus
Hope all the other Hyatt suite award deals are not that lame.
Thanks for the link to that site. I like it.
Your content has become garbage. And mommy in the epicenter? Dude you have no idea about the quality life in Orlando. Calling this an epicenter: Im sorry about your downfall. This virus infected your brain. Try to run some more and main thing, breathe and breathe fully or go with WimHof and breathe even more. A book for you: How I found freedom in unfree world by Harry Browne. Please take no offense.
The epicenter of the epicenter was Miami, sorry. The staff responsible for this grave error will be immediately disciplined.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Management
Do we know for sure that Mommy Points went to Disney World on assignment or on her own? She is a major Disney addict. And I wonder how long it’ll be before *she* leaves TPG for a sister site.
I thought it was on a work assignment. Because…I never thought a sane person would go there and put their own and kids’ lives at risk…
I wonder what she will write about if she goes to sister site. Judging from experience, when an aviation writer can write about mortgages…she could write about trading options…or Bitcoin, yes yes Bitcoin 🙂
Being a bitcoin whale is so yesterday. Much cooler to hype penny stocks on Robinhood. Why spend hours looking at charts when I can trust my bro to do the picking for me. A reminder, only show cool profits on Twitter.
Got to remember the new Thursday regime!
Good morning.
Yeah, always used to see your comment first!
Not sure how long this Thursday regime will last…
Lots of stuff here and thank you as always, but what is this Thursday thing? This showed up at 5:02 AM on Friday morning in my mail. Pacific time, no less.
As you know, it is appreciated. Gonna take me a while to get through all the interesting parts!
Have a great weekend, George!
Oh, by the way…. Signed up for that Panera thing even though there is no Panera near where I live! Hope it helps out on the free coffee though.
Mailchimp is set up to send an email out with the new blog post at 8 am EST AFTER said blog post is published…
I don’t know how to change that, it was set up this way years ago and I am not going to change it 🙂 Because I know it works and if I try to change it I may break it 🙂
So that is how it works! I always wondered. Thanks for the explanation!
“ Why those most at risk of COVID-19 are least likely to respond to a vaccine”
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/07/why-those-most-risk-coronavirus-least-likely-respond-to-vaccine-cvd
The elderly population may need 4x the dose for some vaccines to work. It will be interesting to see if we’re going for “herd” immunity among 55 and younger first.
With that said, how will we (US not Greece or BRD) get +60% of the population immunized?
We will do it the same way we managed to supply all the medical personnel with adequate PPE!
#crying
I had no idea that Canada recently (well, 2017) opened its first public road to the Arctic Ocean:
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/canadian-road-trip-3-days-on-the-inuvik-tuktoyaktuk-highway
Added it to the long “to read” pile. Right next to one about a jaded traveler discovering Siberia!
After reading a few crazy stories, I looked for a place on a safe Caribbean island. Found a place and airline tickets. Noticed that they require a COVID test within the last 3 days. I go to check where I can get a test and notices that “We are backlogged. Please allow 6 to 10 days for results.”
There goes that plan!
“ FL Gov Ron DeSantis says he won’t close the state’s gyms because “If you are good shape you have a very, very low likelihood of ending up in significant condition as a result of the coronavirus.”
And
“ New York police union boss just appeared on Fox News with a Qanon mug”
Antigua and Barbuda will test on arrival. And USVI won’t even care. You’re still in America.
I think I am going to stick to trips on my two legs, my bike and, please sit down, excursions to grocery stores, Panera and farm markets for a while 🙂
“How I used points and miles to get a FREE coronavirus test!”
Great links George! Thanks
U are very welcome…I already have 12 links lined up for next Thursday and I am certain more are coming…
Regarding coming conversions….I doubt it though 🙂
1. I am educated, entertained, and inspired. Gracias amigo!
2. My non-resident tuition at the University of Hawai’i waaaaaay back when was $1365 per year.
3. Tried to do the Panera thing for you but it doesn’t like non-US based people. This is obviously discrimination and they should be canceled ASAP.
4. Brando isn’t THAT expensive considering it’s unique location. Fully all-inclusive rate (booze too) is about $430 per night. Isn’t there some shiny bit of plastic with 4th nite freeeeeee benefits? Great place to flee the COVID tyranny.
5. Speaking of fleeing, OCaaT quietly decamped to Turkey and made the mistake of publishing his trip. Much angst, travel shaming, panty twisting, etc, has ensued.
6. My aforementioned alma mater has predicted the economy of Hawai’i will not recover until 2029. Nearly a decade of MISERY for EVERY citizen of Hawai’i for a virus that has a survivability rate of 99.5+%.
#TBBon
When I first moved in NC in the early ’90s, in-state tuition at UNC-Chapel Hill was something like $700 per year.
Yeah…it is crazy what I paid vs my kids’ college education.
I don’ t think Panera has international expansion plans. Actually, ever since the founder sold out quality has taken a step back it appears…
Saw that Ben is doing that Turkey escapade. Needs content…but of all countries, Turkey???
I predict your alma matter is going to be wrong 🙂 Yeah, mortality rate is less than 1% it appears…right now. Probably between 0.4 to 0.8. But (you knew there was a but coming)…it is the transmission dynamics of this phucking virus. The pre-symptomatics and the asymptomatics are transmitting like crazy and well, as of right now…we have:
Total Infected Reported Cases: 14,627,388
Total Reported Deaths: 608,463
Of the numbers above, abt 25% is in the US and, how many months into this thing, our numbers are going UP again…
In addition, we do not know yet the long term effects and damage from it…
Economies can recover….but you can not recover if you are dead or get stuck with ongoing health complications.
The odds are with me I think but I still don’t want to play them because…in the process I may hurt others who appear more in danger than me…so I am taking it easy.
Yeah, it SUCKS big time, many people are suffering and hopefully we can get the government to help them (just added that here to mess with you) 🙂
If I could only keep my kids from not going out I would feel a lot safer!!!
When MLB All Stars can get like this…I really do not want to mess with it man:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29489929/braves-freddie-freeman-had-1045-degree-fever-prayed-life-covid-19-battle
“Total Infected Reported Cases: 14,627,388
Total Reported Deaths: 608,463”
So in other words:
7,579,372,612 NOT infected
7,593,391,464 still ALIVE
If the US gov’t is going to throw another trillion+ on the print queue, I hope it goes directly to people in need. Enough cronyism, Kennedy Center handouts, and shareholder socialism.
Anyone seen my unicorn?
So you’re ok with this many dead – got it. Maybe try a little less Id and a little more superego Napoleon.
By the time I am typing this the number not infected and still alive are down, sad lol.
We definitely agree on this:
>>>>>>>>If the US gov’t is going to throw another trillion+ on the print queue, I hope it goes directly to people in need.
Not how it was dished out…
It will be interesting what they come up with…Unbelievable August is almost here and we are having the worst numbers while every other country has gotten the pandemic under control…
Even Bahamas does not want us anymore…
Yep, been working on where Americans can go, and the Bahamas was reasonable with testing on arrival and daily monitoring and stuff. Only to wake up today to whoops, sorry, not anymore. Wondering how many whoopsies I’ll see by the time I finish this post (by tonight, hopefully).
“ In the first 12 days of July, passenger traffic at the Athens airport was down 75 percent from a year ago, and 84 percent at the country’s 14 regional airports.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/world/europe/tourism-virus-europe.html
Yeah…
For some reason…people are afraid!
I also would like to take this opportunity to thank readers for the $1.77 this blog earned on Amazon yesterday. I also received the $19.99 Mailchimp monthly invoice yesterday, sad lol!
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Greece: you seriously don’t believe that their numbers are so low, do you? I’m pretty certain they followed the DT doctrine of ‘don’t test, don’t tell’ in the early days. Most of the EU tourists rememember the Greek Eurostat scandal…. hence the 84%.
Richard Quest was on various illegal drugs for a long time. Covid19 is certainly not what damaged him in the first place.
Sad state of affairs that US kids either have to take on massive debt or demolish their parents savings to get a decent education. How the US (for all purposes the richest nation on earth since the 50s) went down that hole is beyond me.
Can’t read the Ken & Karen story, the STL guys are scared of EU GDPR laws and outright block access from the EU.
Interesting to read that TPM recruited at the FTU and Chicago do…
DT is the last hurrah of the male white demographic that used to ne the majority in the US. In 10-15 years todays ‘minorities’ will take over AOC is a first taste of what Latinos can do in politics. Sadly it might not be the liberal left leaning brand of politics… many minorities are staunchly conservative and equally racist. Hopefully all the golf playing old white men have outed themselves by now and hopefully every one remembers what they said & did when DT came to power.
The Greek Eurostat is an era gone forever…I hope. Look, I believe ALL numbers are low, across all countries. I mean, look at Russia and Iran. Brazil too…The list is endless. Greece is nowhere near the top of the list. I automatically assume a standard 10% MINIMUM under reporting and…go from there 🙂
Lol on Richard Quest and drugs.
Yeah on the college front. It is what it is…kids whose parents end up paying a lot…often get it back X times 😉
Yeah, still waiting for the apologies from the bloggers for hanging so many folks with fraudster TPM. But I am sure conversions went up…
I am starting to think the Chris Wallace Fox interview of DT…may be finally the time that old white men are seeing the light and maybe, just maybe, are now starting to scramble to avoid the fate of Titanic…We shall see.
Hey, still have not banned Stucky720…come on man!
Smallpox, polio, measles, before and after vaccines.
https://twitter.com/antonioregalado/status/1285250175884316673?s=21
That is an account handled by the Soros team. Don’t fall for that ABC, wake up…
Just kidding, I did not turn to one of them bozos 🙂
Great visual, let’s all hope the next vaccine is as successful!
Sam is still #1 (in conversions) this month.
And the only one.
Wow…
Glad I went to once a week.
Thursday post is coming along fine…
Maybe I get to 8 years and then I’ll MileNerd it and we can all move on #currentthinking
Stick a fork!
Somebody returned an item to Amazon, lost $9.17 yesterday…
#theendisnear
I guess this shit has more views:
Passengers Fight On A Plane, Then Take It Up A Notch Back Inside The Terminal – View From The Wing
Shaking my head…
Phuck it, going to the dentist…wish me luck!
Have a referral for this one George?
https://imgur.com/a/YDGNSdW
I bet several bloggers look into affiliate opportunities with it…
Not this one…maybe I was born conversion averse or something 🙂
Epic post coming today Thursday at 6.30 pm.