Covid 19 Crisis

Anxious And Scary Times — I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer at the beginning of the Covid pandemic. To say it was a difficult time is putting it mildly. I wasn’t supposed to have cancer. My oncologist and the tumor board were confident that I only had a 5% chance of having ovarian…

How to live with Covid lurking around the corner. Covid is alive and well in many countries including the United States. Many at risk are the elderly and immunocompromised Americans. During the first five months of 2023, Covid caused more than 37,000 deaths in the United States. China is also…

Why am I writing about these movies now? Well, I’m moving my back catalogue of movie (and occasionally TV) reviews from another site to Medium — covering many of the best-known releases of the last decade, as well as more obscure fare. …

Does unemployment suck as bad as we’re told, too? I took a look at crime in the central Indiana area, and it turned out that, despite what a pack of yowling professional shrews might hoot-pant, it’s actually been decreasing steadily. Okay, so what else is commonly bleated to be horribly deteriorating and in need of immediate and drastic measures…

I’m publishing this series of articles to share and discuss my ruminations on coping with a troubled and messy world. You can “follow” me to never miss an article. In the May 26th edition of The Week, the column Talking Points features a discussion on “What we did right —…

As a business owner, it’s important to take advantage of all available tax credits and incentives to help your company thrive. One such credit is the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), which was implemented as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in 2020. …

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Independent, ²The Telegraph and ³Daily Mail. According to a study published by Johns Hopkins and Lund Universities, the benefits of the UK’s first round of COVID lockdowns were ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral…

In today’s dynamic job market, it is crucial for employers to acknowledge and address the unique challenges faced by hourly workers, particularly those who have been significantly impacted by the disruptions caused by COVID-19. Among these individuals are young workers who may have missed crucial years of their education. It…

ACM Interactions — Is that how we lived then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. — Margaret…