Since The Current Admin is Feckless

Since our current administration is packed chock-o-block full of fools and sycophants, the internet is filling the void of logic and information.

This is a good read on where we're all headed: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

And for a high impact visual on how concerned and serious we should be, here is a snapshot from that article:

That 4.7% "Critical" knocked me back in my chair.
Stay safe out there and if you can - stay home.

Fake it Till you Make it

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do" --- Epictetus

If History Repeats Itself

With the COVID-19 ramping up here in the good ole US of A I thought it'd be fun to visit a corner of the internets that gives a little historical perspective for pandemics thru the ages.

Visualizing the History of Pandemics

Note: Many of the death toll numbers listed above are best estimates based on available research. Some, such as the Plague of Justinian, are subject to debate based on new evidence.

Name	Time period	Type / Pre-human host	Death toll
Antonine Plague	165-180	Believed to be either smallpox or measles	5M
Japanese smallpox epidemic	735-737	Variola major virus	1M
Plague of Justinian	541-542	Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas	30-50M
Black Death	1347-1351	Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas	200M
New World Smallpox Outbreak	1520 – onwards	Variola major virus	56M
Great Plague of London	1665	Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas	100,000
Italian plague	1629-1631	Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas	1M
Cholera Pandemics 1-6	1817-1923	V. cholerae bacteria	1M+
Third Plague	1885	Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas	12M (China and India)
Yellow Fever	Late 1800s	Virus / Mosquitoes	100,000-150,000 (U.S.)
Russian Flu	1889-1890	Believed to be H2N2 (avian origin)	1M
Spanish Flu	1918-1919	H1N1 virus / Pigs	40-50M
Asian Flu	1957-1958	H2N2 virus	1.1M
Hong Kong Flu	1968-1970	H3N2 virus	1M
HIV/AIDS	1981-present	Virus / Chimpanzees	25-35M
Swine Flu	2009-2010	H1N1 virus / Pigs	200,000
SARS	2002-2003	Coronavirus / Bats, Civets	770
Ebola	2014-2016	Ebolavirus / Wild animals	11,000
MERS	2015-Present	Coronavirus / Bats, camels	850
COVID-19	2019-Present	Coronavirus – Unknown (possibly pangolins)	4,700 (as of Mar 12, 2020)

From the article at:

‘I Inherited Millions and I’m Hiding It From Everyone’

"I think the biggest thing I’ve learned from this experience, and working for over ten years now, is that your job doesn’t have as much of a relationship to your net worth as many people think. Maybe you go through a divorce and your net worth gets cut in half. Or your parents help you buy a place — that’s like getting an invisible $100,000 raise, but nobody’s going to publicly announce that the way they would a promotion."

Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo

I get butterflies in my stomach watching this. What a thrilling adventure to return to the moon.

All the Glamour

1975
David Bowie
Singing "Fame"
On the Cher Show.

This is all the glamour in the world in one place.

Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow

Goop