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  • Words of the year – 2020

    Words of the year – 2020

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    Not “word” of the year this year, but “words.” This list was posted in the 2020-12-25/28 issue of Time. My favorite was Blursday which pretty much sums up 2020 for me and I first heard it on CBS Sunday Morning on the 2020-12-27 episode, just before I picked up the paper copy of Time.. Antiracist, adjective:…

  • Who knew???

    Who knew???

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    Coronavirus crisis may bet “worse and worse and worse,” WHO chief warns…

  • Cottage Industry

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    The $400 clue in the category, “The Second Millennium” on Jeopardy! yesterday, 2020-12-03, was: “Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what’s called this kind of house industry.” The COVID-19 pandemic is really making WFH (Work from Home) the predominant cottage industry of the 21st Century.

  • Forever

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    Jill and I realized last night that being married forever isn’t as long now as it used to be. We both found this quite amusing.

  • 200,000 deaths from SARSCoV-2 virus

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    I worry we’re at the calm before the storm. Justin Lessler, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Star-Tribune 2020-09-20

  • Mediæval Time

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    The monasterial rule (which before the general introduction of clocks was commonly followed by the mediæval public in the computation of time) divided the twenty-four hours of the day and night into seven parts (six of three hours each and one of six), the inception of which was denoted by the sound of the bells…

  • Taxonomy of a pandemic

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    The virus: SARS-CoV-2 Possible patient 0: 2019-12-20, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China, presented to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital with a fever and a strong cough. The resulting disease: COVID-19 The prognosis 2020-07-14: World Health Organization warns that the pandemic may get “worse and worse and worse.”