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Today's Tids Issue 4.623

Days always come:

Coronavirus has made weather reports as irrelevant as presidential candidates.

I love the way the Earth rotates. It literally makes my day.

The good news is that since the beginning of this rampaging deadly virus, 202,541 people have recovered and are back to normal But, that is out of about 951,171 confirmed cases in 177 countries. Without question, the cured number (Generally underreported) will increase dramatically, with the hope by all that the growth of the new case numbers will decline steadily. While the US has the most cases, the Italy situation is the grimmest with recoveries there (16,847) almost matching deaths (13,155) out of 110,574 total cases. I like seeing the recovery numbers in reported statistics, don’t you?

I have been analyzing the spread of this ravaging disease in Europe and I have come to the conclusion that it is basically cultural. These are the inbred habits hardest to break. The British always meet a 4:00 PM for tea. The Italians love to hug and the French love to Kiss. In Germany, no reasonable citizen would ever miss an engineering seminar. Bulls always keep the Spanish coming. The Dutch like to stand in groups looking at tulips. In Russia they just have too many people in too small government issued apartments. In the US it is more likely the result of the entitlement syndrome. We feel we are entitled to immunity. Have a party!

If The Tids seem clearer today, it may be because I washed my glasses, and I can see my fingers hitting the keys.

The Question:

Which popular news publication was founded by Alexander Hamilton: the NY Times The Washington Post, The New York Post The Wall Street J0urnal? Bonus: From what language do you think te sord shampoo comes from?

The Headlines:

--Stock Markets Rebounding; Macy’s To Be Removed From S&P; New Jobless Claims Over 6 Million; Stay In Place Orders Push Jobs’ Slide.

--Russian Plane With CV Medical Equipment Lands At NY’s Kennedy.

--Florida Makes A Deal With CV Stricken Holland America Lines Cruise Ship.

--LA Mayor Pushing For Masks For All.

--Luckin Coffee Shares Plunge After COO Is Charged With Fraud.

--Falwell’s Liberty U To Reopen: Half Of Students Say, “Ungodly”.

-- Biden Suggests He And Trump And Obama Sit Down Together To Discus Covid Problem.

--26 U Of Texas Students Return From Cabo With CV.

Cause and effect, Department:

High earning bartenders are on the sideline looking for whatever job they can find. But. liquor stores are crazy places, with sales up between 20 and 30%. The only booze segment not doing well is Craft breweries, where they rely heaviest on bar sales. The demand for basics will not change that much during the CV era, it’s just where you get them that ‘s changing.

By the way, a British man in Wuhan said that he caught Coronavirus and that whiskey cured it. Just in case you are interested. But, you have to drink alone.

Add University of Texas students returning home from Cabo with CV to our list of April Fools.

Did the European virus spread originate at a ski area in the alps? That’s what health authorities from Iceland to Denmark to Austria have finally realized. The ski area was “Iscgl” a resort now known as the “Ibiza of the Alps”. It is a huge anyway and any everything party resort that gathers young adults, and probably older hedonists too, from all over the continent. It is as well known for extra curricula activities as it is for skiing. And it appears it was known that Coronaviruses was present and town officials failed to shut it down. And infection investigators even narrowed it down to “Saliva exchange” at notorious beer pong games.”

(Note: “Ibiza” is old Spanish for “party til you drop”, and it is also the name of a small party island off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean.)

The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is a seasoned veteran.

It should be business as usual for most pizza shops, Most have always made their dough from takeout and delivery anyhow.

You may have read about the Covid problem on the 5,000-man USS Roosevelt giant aircraft carrier. A reader wonders how you maintain the six-foot social distancing on a ship even that large?

Spell-Check must be in isolation. It still doesn’t recognize the spelling of Covid.

While the national news media tells us nightly that the USA has the most coronavirus cases, we are far down the list in per capita cases. In the latest full chart I saw (Late March) Switzerland was #1 with 1,340 per million followed by Spain, Italy, Austria and Belgium. The US per capita Number at that time (The US had most cases at 83K.)  was 210/million. I found some updated as of the moment case info from Johns-Hopkins and made few calculations. Switzerland now stands at 2,126/ million and the USA is now at 657/million. The pattern seems to follow for most all countries. I figured Spain at 2,391/M and Italy at 1,772. Italy’s rate is slowing. Germany was at 480/M and is now at 956/M. So, the US now has 216,405 of the 952,171 world cases, but our rate per person number is lower.  There have been 48,320 deaths and 202,541 reported recoveries worldwide. The US has 5,136 deaths and 8,870 reported recoveries. But, regardless of numbers an how your manipulate them it is very bad.

So, did you hear about the Tids reader who was so bored he went outside and then knocked on his own door. Then he came back in and said,” Who is it?”

Better than watching the stock market.

The Answer:

Alexander Hamilton started the New York Post. That was in 1801. It cost $10,000, and the backers were Federalist Party members dismayed at the election of Thomas Jefferson. NYP says it is te Oldest continuous Daily Newspaper, but several other papers use technicalities stake that claim. The Providence Journal 1829 (No Interruptions like Post had had for strikes) Two others, The Hartford Courant and the New Hampshire Gazette were started in 1764 and 1754 respectively. But, The HC was a weekly until 1836 and the NHG is still a weekly. Bonus: Shampoo sounds French to me, but is actually Hindu. It comes from the Hindi word Champo which means to press, knead, soothe. It arose in Colonial India around 1762.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.