Exploratory

Or maybe it’s Socrata… This week has been disappointing, not just the CDC. First, on a minor note, a recipe that I pulled from a blog, which sounded so enticing, turned out to be disappointing. Either I did something wrong or the recipe is just not to my taste. But the recipe really sounded like…

(This is NOT a celebration! It’s just a notice of the passing of time.) Well, I didn’t realize one year has passed. I thought the lockdowns began sometime around March 17th which would be sometime next week but the actual pronouncement by the WHO organization that the coronavirus had achieved pandemic status apparently happened on…

As I change over my data sources from the Covid Tracking Project to another source, mainly the CDC, I feel like I’m flying blind. That’s a weird feeling, but it appears that I will be in this weird feeling mode as I wrestle with the new sites. Meanwhile, sometime last week this article from the…

Texas and Mississippi governors announced yesterday that the mask mandates were going to end: Mississippi today and Texas March 10. Texas is also going to open business up 100%. In regards to the masks, I don’t think that is a good idea and in regards to businesses, it’s a damn if you do and damn…

Well, that was cold last week. If I remember correctly, three quarters of the US was impacted by this storm. One map looked like the entire US except for the southern corner of California and Florida. One wouldn’t normally think that global warming would have anything to do with this extreme winter weather, but myself,…