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COVID

 Hello again. This is a tough one for me. Given that we are still very much in the midst of COVID, and really at it's peak if you look at the numbers (21.1 million cases in the US with 357,000 deaths and 86.6 million world-wide with 1.87 MILLION deaths), taking an optimistic look feels like I am lessening the horror of the situation. Especially here in the US, where I look out the window at packed bars with no masks while a few blocks down the road people are dying in the hospital. But, nonetheless, here is my attempt at an optimistic view. Clearly, the best part of the pandemic   is its end. And  we now have light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to the vaccines produced by the various pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Moderna and others). While we still have challenging months ahead, we will eventually have the ability to immunize the majority of the population, or at least give them the choice to get a vaccine. But it's even better than that. I am certainly not an immu...
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The Election

**DISCLAIMER: I HATE TRUMP. It has nothing to do with conservative versus liberal, or Republican vs Democrat (and yes, I think there is a huge difference between those two categorizations). My personal political beliefs are probably somewhere in the middle depending on the issues. You can be left or right or central or Republican or Democrat. That's fine. We need healthy political discourse and unique viewpoints so we can come to the best solutions and decisions possible. No, it's not his political views. I despise Trump as a person, as an individual, as a human being. I think he's  really bad person. He encourages and inflames hate. He feeds of it and builds his support with it. He is disrespectful to women, to minorities and to those who are differently-abled and to so many other groups. I'm sure the mere fact that I used the word differently-abled and not handicapped or retarded would cause him to make fun of me. And that's exactly the problem. I remember when he...
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What is this blog? Who am I? Why am I doing this?

 For most of my life, I have been a realist. Some would probably call me a pessimist. I generally expect the worst from people, organizations and events. It's not that I think everything is terrible or that the world is in chaos, it's just that I find that expecting the worst means no bad surprises, and if something good happens, well great! I'm sure there is some deep psychological explanation, like the fact that I work in risk management and am trained to look for risks and issues, or that something happened when I grew up that made me think this way. Who cares? The point is, that is how I think and view the world.  Or it was. I recently turned 34. Amid COVID, an unstable and bifurcated political system and society and a world facing serious ecological and environmental issues. I recently even started a program in Artificial Intelligence  because I am honestly worried about the state of the world and think it's one of few things that can get us out of the mess we have...
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