Ten Observations

1.  If you take a map of the 'big' hits on the Coronavirus around the US, marking only the top ten areas....they are major urbanized 'zones' (NY for example.....New Orleans for example).  Here's the odd thing....the ten are what you'd call sanctuary cities.  I sat there this morning for ten minutes....trying to get over this fact, and kinda wonder why 'A' and 'B' match up like this.

2.  If you played the 'shot-glass' game with the nightly 30-minute newscast from ABC....with 'Corona' as the magic word.....you would be requiring 1.5 bottles of booze. 

3.  One of those odd ID facts popped up in my readings this morning.  You know....if you went down to donate blood....those folks expect you to produce an ID before they accept your blood?  It's a good thing we don't require blood collection on polling days. 

4.  If you happen to pass away with nine of the typical Corona symptoms, and they don't test you....then you don't get listed under the Corona-victim column.

5.  So far, no politician has stood up to suggest a national memorial someplace....with all the names listed of folks who died from the virus. 

6.  It's not page one or even page six news....but in Iceland.....they kinda refused to do all the intensive stuff you see in Germany, the US or South Korea.  Business operations are running....cafes are serving coffee, and life continues on.  Why?  Well, they have a historical trend of just observing social distances when required, quarantining only the sick, and aggressive testing.  Infection rate?  Roughly one-percent of the Island's population (figure 370k).  Death-rate?  About one-percent of the infected. 

7.  Have you ever sat in a social situation and simply counted the number of times that your associate touches their face in some way?  I sat and watched some live chat forum this week where a German guy was all chatty for three consecutive minutes, and he must have touched his face in some fashion at least twenty times in that 180-second period.  Then you start to wonder.....are these type of people just begging to get the virus.

8.  I'm beginning to wonder.....how much profit is built into a $50,000 ventilator.  It's painfully obvious now that a 18-year old high school kid, with parts from Lowes and Radio Shack....can build a $300 ventilator.  Now, the question is....would I trust the kid's $300 ventilator as much as the $50k ventilator?

9.  Odd how Hunter Biden has almost disappeared from most all news sources over the past month.

10.  Most Alabamians are contemplating the Governor's 'stay-at-home' order  So the three major questions are: (1) Does she mean within 8 miles of home? (2) Will this mean farmers have fewer idiots stopping by the house to gossip for four hours out of the day and ruin the general work schedule? (3) Is there a chance that this will ruin NCAA football, and halt the chances of Coach Saban winning another national championship?