TRUMP'S Semi-"HUGE" RALLY IN TULSA

From Worldometer,  COVID-19 new deaths:

           DAY USA   WORLD   Brazil   India   South Africa

May     27    1535     5283         1148     190         28

            28    1223     4612         1067     177         25
            29    1212     4873         1180     269         34
            30    1015     4084           890     205         32
June      1      638     3189          480      223         40
              2      730     3053          732      200         22
              3    1134    4669         1232      221         50
             4     1083    4928         1269      259         37
             5     1031    5511         1492      275         56
             6       975    4906         1008      286         60
             7       706    4253           910      297         44
             8       586    3157           813      266         82
             9     1093    4732         1185      246         82
           10       982    5163         1300      388         48
           11       904    4951         1261      394         74
           12       791    4603           843      389         70
           13       702    4229           890      309         69
           14       331    3263           598      321         57
           15       425    3415           729      395         88
           16       849    6592         1338    2006?       57
           17       809    5264         1209      341         49
           18       747    5123         1204      342         63
           19       719    5066         1221      366         94
           20       573    4428           968      307         46

Summary:  a good day for Humanity, even though Tulsa, Oklahoma, of all the places, reached an all-time high for new COVID-19 cases yesterday.

Compound that with a bit about Donald Trump's "huge" rally in Tulsa:

• Where he said:

Amid surging coronavirus infections nationwide, President Trump said at his campaign rally in Tulsa Saturday night that he told officials to administer fewer coronavirus tests to keep case numbers down.

• The crowd was almost embarrassingly short of capacity.  There was no overflow, so the outside talks were scuttled.
• Trump blamed intimidation by the protesters outside.
• Then the reason seemed to waver towards his supporters being scared off by possible crowds jeering them, that they chose not to come.
• Plus, too, people in Tulsa are not totally stupid.  They were worried about contracting this dreaded new coronavirus.
• Then the truth surfaced.  TikTok fans, mostly the younger generation, reserved a lot of seats with no intention of attending.  So Trump was right, but responsible were nefarious teens.  The American public is now using Trump's tactics to derail him:

Brad Parscale is Trump's campaign manager.  What is TikTok?  A type of social network.  

This is Sunday, and there are innumerable passages regarding Father's Day.  Here is just one:

Of course you know what happened this year, but for the forgetful, the Year 2020:

• Hong Kong protest march of one million.
• At least 500 million animals killed in Australian bushfires.
• Trump peace plan announced for Israel and their neighbors.  Mostly engendered laughs.

• WHO names the outbreak COVID-19 on February 11, but chooses not to yet call it a pandemic.
• UK and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union.
• U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump on articles of impeachment.

• U.S. stock market crashes, several times, to as much as 2300 points in one day, but to some degree, recovers.  Now at 25,871, whereas the Dow Jones was 29,551 on February 12.

• Luxembourg become first country to make all public transport (trams, buses, trains) free.
• One quarter of Italian population quarantined.

• March 11, WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
• March 16, the Dow Jones falls 2,997 points, most ever.
• March 17, pro sports leagues begin to close down.
• March 20, worldwide COVID-19 quarter million cases and 10,000 deaths.  Today, 9 million cases and approaching half a million deaths.

• March 26, Japan delays Summer Olympics to summer of 2021 and U.S. surpasses China and Italy in known COVID-19 cases.
• March 30, Saudi-Russian oil price war begins.
• April 1, China warns world about asymptomatic cases.
• April 2, world cases pass one million.
• April 5, first confirmed animal case.

• April 14, Trump suspends funding of WHO.
• April 15, world cases pass 2 million.
• April 20, Oil prices fall to below zero, if you can imagine that, but recovers to around $40/barrel today.  Also, Kim Jong-Un of North Korea undergoes a heart procedure.
• April 27, world cases pass 3 million, the U.S. at 1 million.

• May 5, first black hole located in a star system visible to the naked eye.
• May 10, world cases pass 4 million.
• World's oldest known land animal announced:  a millipede from 425 million years ago.

• May 16:  Bundesliga becomes first major sports league to resume season.
• May 21, world cases pass 5 million, with 106,000 new cases, the highest single-day figure so far.
• May 23, China reports no new cases for first time since the pandemic began.

• May 26,  protests begin over killing of George Floyd.
• May 27, first crewed flight of the Dragon 2 to the International Space Station.
• June 1, renewed outbreak of Ebola in the Congo.

• June 2, U.S. government files $5 billion suit against Alphabet/Google.
• June 8, world cases pass 7 million.

• June 9, Harvard study suggests that COVID-19 began spreading in China as far back as August of 2019.
• June 16, world cases pass 8 million.
• June 21, world cases pass 9 million.

I passed on reporting my doings in 2019, but I'll bring you up to date today:

• Kakaako, where I grew up, has become the gathering place.
• I'm off for Paris, with a travel companion.
• La Tour d'Argent and The Louvre.  Our view was of the Notre Dame, which in April, burned down.

• Tattinger Champagne. 
• Chateau Lafite Rothschild.
• Louis XIII Cognac.
• Sushi at Vintage Cave.
• Euphoria.  Turns out this all started in October of 2018.
• Another fabulous trip to the Orient.

• Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms.
• And more cherry blossoms.
• I go to Bangkok for tailored vests.
• Simple shopping in Seoul.
• Why was this about my most popular posting ever?  BTS?

• My best day in Seoul, ever.
• Day and Night in Tokyo.
• Sapporo.
• Wagyu in Sendai.
• Imperial Palace and Robuchon.
• This was the first day of my current continuous state of euphoria.

• Another Waikiki staycation.
• Interesting view of Mount Fuji.
• My favorite hotel in Japan, and, maybe World.
• Hiroshima.
• The Diamond Princess.
• The Whale Sharks of Churaumi Aquarium.
• So how was the Diamond Princess?  Great, and missed epicenter and spread of the coronavirus by only a month.

• Fall in Yokohama.
• Back to Seoul.
• Photo summary of Fall Fling.
• Wait a minute, in the middle of February, I'm flying to Bangkok when Thailand is the country with the second-most number of COVID-19 cases?
• The Grand Palace.
• Phuket.
• Chiang Mai.

2020 was the year I most wanted to see.  Way back just about half a century ago I was involved with a NASA project entitled, Earth 2020:  Visions for Our Children's Children.  Just to have survived those years and reaching 2020 was a life accomplishment.  No wonder I'm euphoric.

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