Blog Posts

  • How about some good news on the Covid-19 coronavirus front?

    The last time I teased this there was actually no good news, but this time there really is just a small glimmer of hope for the near future, as well as a couple of benefits to our current, abysmal state of affairs. Let’s start with a couple of the beneficial results of this forced lockdown.…

  • A look at the current status of air travel

    With all of the stay-at-home and quarantine orders around the world, I thought it would be fun to take a look at Flightaware.com and see what the sky looks like from a worldwide air traffic control standpoint. Here’s what Los Angeles International airport looks like right now. The GREEN planes are all the flights that…

  • What are Germany and Switzerland doing right in the fight against the coronavirus?

    I want to get right into this one and take a look at some of the numbers behind both Switzerland and Germany’s apparent success in controlling coronavirus fatalities. This has been all over the news lately, with a lot of people trying to figure out what it is that those countries are doing right. Let’s…

  • Will President Trump actually decide to reopen the United States on Easter Sunday?

    Setting aside the semantical difficulties of declaring a grand re-opening of a country that isn’t actually closed, the real question is, will President Trump make the decision that American lives are worth less than the economy? And, it’s actually a legitimate question. If you’re one of those people who says, “You can’t put a price…

  • What the F**k is going on with Italy’s coronavirus nightmare?

    Although the Covid-19 coronavirus started in Wuhan, China, and ran rampant through the entire Hubei province, it is quickly becoming obvious that Italy has overtaken China as the current viral hotspot of this outbreak. Why is this? What happened in Italy that caused this historical tourist destination full of vibrancy and joie de vivre to…