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Last week or so, I read about some kind of protest in either Oregon or Washington about people’s freedom to do what they want (not the Black Lives Matter protest). This was a protest about having the right to not wear masks and control over their body (I don’t think they were talking about abortion)….
Q Anon has popped back up into my view. One story is the Oregon insurance agent who won the primary for position of Senator in Congress, in hopes of ousting Jeff Merkley. She believes in the Q Anon and her campaign had to disavow her position. Is this crazy or what? My other question is:…
Everything just feels dire so I imagine that these crazy times are impacting productivity. Right now, it seems like we have a combination of a 1918-style pandemic and a great depression coming on. The economic numbers have been described as “off the charts”. Not very encouraging or uplifting. And let’s not forget, we still have…
There is really no easy answer as to whether we should continue the “stay at home” order or to start opening up businesses. It’s either die from the coronavirus or die from starvation. At some point with businesses closures, you run into people having no money for food; you can only have businesses closed for…
In my post on the Black Swan event, I forgot to tell about its potential impact on technology. Since we have to practice social distancing, it behooves that most of us work from home. Only those that keeps the society going, such as medical personnel, food suppliers, etc., can go in to work but those…
Do you remember when last summer, our President held up a “doctored” map of Hurricane Dorian with a Sharpie marker circling a tiny portion of Alabama projected to be impacted by the hurricane? He held a press conference showing that map a few days after he had tweeted that Alabama was going to be impacted,…