These posts are directed toward providing knowledge and solutions for the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic all of us face.
At the time of this first writing, March 24, 2020, the virus was nearing 400,000 detectable cases worldwide and nearly 20,000 deaths. Nearly two years later, on January 1, 2022, there are 650 times as many cases and the infection rates continue to ebb and flow.
With all the mitigation efforts of masking and social distancing, and the onslaught of testing and vaccines nothing has really changed. I have much disappointment in the decision makers that have brought us to this place, a place I believe we will be in for quite some time.
The pandemic of 1918 infected one-third of the world’s population. It would take over two years to burn through hosts, simmer out and morph into what we know today as the flu.
Our population today is nearly 5 times that of the population in 1918. In my opinion, if we continue down the path we have decided to go, the ebb and flow will continue through this decade before letting up.
March 11, 2020
World Health Organization declares the spread of SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic.
{ Percent Recovered | Total Cases | Total Deaths | Percent Died }
August 1, 2020
{ 96.2% | 18,000,000 | 700,000 | 3.8% }
October 25, 2020
{ 97.7%| 43,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 2.3% }
November 14, 2020
{ 97.6% | 54,000,000 | 1,300,000 | 2.4% }
Decmber 9, 2020
{ 97.7% | 69,000,000 | 1,600,000 | 2.3% }
April 12, 2021
{ 97.0% | 136,742,411 | 2,951,428 | 3.0% }
January 1, 2022
{ 98.0% | 259,905,044 | 5,459,583 | 2.0% }
May all of us find way through this time and work together as one people on one earth to survive. ❤
Do It All
“What we need right now, globally is laser focus on driving transmission down.” Dr. Kerkhove
What Vaccine …
The coronavirus pandemic continues to plague the global community. As one story goes, it originated in a wet market in China. Another story claims that it was created in a lab. We don’t really know how this all started, but there is ample evidence that it did start and it has traveled the globe. We…
For the Love of Cows
As vaccines are developed, my scientific mind attempts to review the real story amid theoretical claims and the probability of success.
Rhode Island Reds
There is no safety net and we just need to step off the rope, ground ourselves and wait.
No End … Unless
Our population is not willing to make the effort, proving over and over again, that short-term desires undermine long-term necessities
It’s up to us …
At the end of the day, the answer is in our hands and in our ability to just stop, pause and be still.
Beyond the Fence
The sharing of knowledge, practice of prevention, patience, science and kindness is what will get us through this time.
Sniff Stuff
Just give me a sandwich, a large oak tree planted on a small grassy knoll to sit under …
Chicken Soup
With the Coronavirus starting during the past winter and now continuing into spring, and looking at the past pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic will most likely continue into the summer, fall and winter.
5 Weeks Till Sunrise
The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic and also entirely predictable.
Our Only Defense
Until we can limit the number of cases and start to establish natural defenses within ourselves to battle Coronavirus, the pandemic will continue until everyone is infected.
Social Distancing
I’ve summarized some COVID-19 information which I have found to be useful to help us all see the light at the end of this global pandemic.
In All Our Years ™ 