Observations

 1.  It's nothing to laugh about, but in the last day or two....DC security folks announced that 43 National Guards people sent for security over the inauguration business....have Covid-19 and are on quarantine.  

Of the 7,000 on duty.....you can figure by Wednesday....at least another forty will show positive, and probably a hundred will be performing duty with symptoms (to show positive by Friday).  Passing it along to the couple hundred-thousand there for the inauguration?  Oh, one could probably estimate that a couple thousand visitors will get it....then pass it along to folks at home by Saturday and Sunday of next week.  

By the time the Nat'l Guard gets dismissed?  You can figure that three-hundred will be Covid-19 positive, and as they act as guards in the capital building....they will sneeze and pass it along to hundreds of capital building residents (Senators and Congressmen).

2.  There is a discussion going on in NY City....to have a $3 'tax' on delivered goods.  If you ordered $5 of screws and bolts via some on-line deal....you'd pay the sales tax, then some delivery tax.  

As you can imagine....it's not going over well.

3.  Lets say you had some big event (like a Super Bowl or inauguration), with 100,000 people arriving in some city....in the middle of a epidemic.  Folks stay around at hotels and restaurants for three days, and pass Covid-19 around themselves.  Two weeks later....they've been able to spread the virus among 250,000 (while on the road, traveling via airports, staying at other hotels going/returning, and sipping beers at various pubs along the way).  

Do you feel guilty of anything?

4.  Some people suggest that 20-percent of people who'd typically vote for Republican candidates....won't do so in 2022's mid-term.  

I would go to suggest that in a minimum of twenty states....the number is actually closer to 75-percent who won't vote for Republican candidates.  If the trend were to continue through 2024?  The party is mostly finished.

5.  On making incitement a crime?  Well....just suggesting via some Baptist idiot that you might be going to hell for your behavior....might be enough to identify that as incitement.  

Professional wrestling?  Pure incitement.  

Announcing cancellation to a flight after waiting six hours....pure incitement.

Having police to arrive on a raid?  Pure incitement.

6.  Growing number of studies over Covid-19 suggest that memory loss and cognitive decline are part of the effects.  A guy or gal getting it two or three times in the next decade (in their twenties)?  They probably aren't going to be producing much of anything in their forties.

7.  Anything that is 'free'.....probably on the scale of actual value and dependability....is less than zero.  (Facebook, Twitter, email services, etc).