by Doug Thompson | Jan 1, 2021 | COVID-19, Entertainment, Musings
Welcome back our friends to the show that never ends,We’re so glad you could attend,Stay inside, stay inside!–Karn Evil 9 by Emerson Lake & Palmer (edited to recognize COVID-19) We did stay up Thursday night to welcome 2021, quietly, at home with soda,...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Musings
Depressed in these pandemic times? Welcome to the club. Those who lose family or friends or both are fighting depression. First responders and health care workers see too many infections and deaths face increasing stress, depression and mental issues. Too often, that...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, News
As expected, new cases of COVID-19 have cause rapid increases in Floyd County, Southwestern Virginia, and throughout the Old Dominion because of those who ignored warnings about traveling on Thanksgiving to visit friends, relatives, and loved ones. Virginia’s...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 7, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, FUBAR
Dr. Anthony Fauci, considered America’s leading medical expert on the COVID-19 coronavirus says the upcoming Christmas holiday period will be even more of a challenge to containing the pandemic than the Thanksgiving period that now has infections,...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 5, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, News
Virginia’s increase in COVID-19 cases rose by 3,793 in Saturday’s report from the Virginia Department of Health, which included a notation that some of the cases were a “backlog” that had been reported earlier but the numbers follow a pattern...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 3, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, FUBAR, Sports
We hear a lot of excuses — good and bad — from those who say athletics could and should resume at high school, college, and professional levels in our pandemic-ridden society. Are we fooling ourselves to think — even for an instant — that...
