New Year
{unpublished draft from Jan 3, 2022}
No platitudes, no reflections; empty head, plain thoughts. Other people write pithy statements concisely better than I do, go read The Cut or Harpers or The Drift or something.
I had the fun intuition of logging1 the number of COVID related deaths2, then thought no that’s too morbid, then thought to hell with it, and away we go. 825,000 and counting, with 55 million, that’s 55,000,000+ cases or about 1/6. Which is convenient considering we’re running up on the failed Reichstag moment in American history’s infamous anniversary.
I don’t know what to type other than I’m pretty happy I’m still alive and pretty surprised that more people are too.
Think space/Mars journey journal entry logs. “March 15, 30348 ADE; still light years out from the next solar system where Chryon-15ACE is located.”
As we all know official counts be cheating, plus Florida nnem don’t often report their true/latest numbers. So factor of safety, 1.3x. Or 80% of the excess deaths counts. Whichever is greater.