My Musings

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    The Numbers Jumped

    The numbers are trending flat now rather than declining. We seemed to have hit the lower floor of around 20,000 to 30,000 cases per day with an occasional strange jump in the numbers. Are those jumps previously missed counts or corrections or the start of a new upward trend? Here’s a series for the date…

  • Hardening Emotions

    The horrifying images out of Ukraine keeps coming, but this time they are joined by images from drones that show the actual killings by the Russians; thus, refuting the Russians’ claims that the images are fake. Audios of military commanders ordering the slaughter of civilians also came out, providing further proof that the Russians are…

  • Character

    Data point one: I once read a book about the last days of World War II in 1945 in Berlin, days leading up to the suicide of Hitler and the days afterward. After Hitler committed suicide and the Germans were negotiating with the US and British the terms for ending the war, the Germans were…

  • Tone Deaf

    The “military operation” is still going on and it is dreadful to watch with its indiscriminate killing of civilians. I do try to not doom scroll, but the news is there and I do get tired and anxious. It takes a lot of energy to try to get stuff done – and I do have…