First thing that hits my eye this hot and humid morning, is a typo in yesterday's post. I meant to say that Arizona has a lower population than Michigan not a higher one. I reread these things, but stuff gets by me.
Speaking of hot and humid whatever became of heat domes? Used to be that when you had a lot of sweaty days in a row the weather experts would explain that we were under a heat dome. Easy to picture in the mind, like one of those domes we were going to live under when we inhabited the moon. Didn't make it any better, made in worse in fact because you had this mental image of this big heavy thing you were laboring under just to get to the Walgreens and buy a sixpack, but it made it more exciting, like polar vortexes in the winter.
Not surprisingly the pandemic is having a good effect on global warming, not as many emissions etc. Just a temporary thing because we will eventually weather through this whole thing and get back to our old bad habits just like we did a hundred years ago. I think that pandemic hit all nations equally, but this one clearly is hitting the US and the third world hardest. The US and the third world, get used to that phrase.
Just think, just five months ago, if just twenty republican senators had voted to remove the boil we would have had president Pence. I don't like the guy at all, BUT he is not nuts. He would have seen that this pandemic was going to hurt not only the people but his own presidency and would have taken the advice of the experts. which by the way, was not all that hard, and we would have not even be having a debate about opening the schools. Our restaurants and bars would be open and staying open. We would be like Europe, tsk tsking at all those third world countries that were wallowing in misery because they were saddled with terrible leaders.
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