Journal

Up at 3 am. Star, my oldest dog whined until I got up. I gave her food and a pill.  I hope you goes  back to sleep. So I can go back to sleep too. 

Today I will practice keyboard, and do an art project.  I am also going to wire wrap some stones.  I will also do my writing project.  

My main goal was to check hotspot function and data use.  This quick visit to the internet only used 34MB.

Wasted D

Wasted this morning on playing with my computer. I am trying to figure out how long I can stay on each day and what the cost of doing that will be in the way of data used.  

Today will begin the August to September cycle so I will most likely 

The rest of the day will be spent in a more productive fashion. I will read, write, draw and play my keyboard. Right now it is a little hard to keep my eyes on.  I will put off my daily nap. 

Thoughts

 I kind of agree with the author of the article. I am bothered by points being made based on 'the numbers.' I always wonder how the calculated outcomes could possibly be accurate. How has compensation been made for the differences in sample size. For example if 85% of a group is red and 15% is blue naturally there will be always be fewer examples from the blue group. 

Another problem in dealing with USA's or any other countries issues numericaly is in holding the concept of the country being one 'place' or united to the extent that  rules applying to one in a  population should apply equality to all members. One size fits all. Maybe it would be easier to understand the reality if this country were renamed the United Peoples Living in the Area Located Between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. In reality the only overall  unifying factor is the federal government. Who are a large money hungry group of people with a lot of individual agendas. Who only control the individual states with purse strings and by pitting one group of citizens against another, and fear and now covid.

Something else to consider is the makeup of each of these different areas between the oceans. Some places have populations in which the larger number of citizens are asian american. Naturally most jobs will be held by asians. Other areas might have a larger population of individuals of white european descent and in those cases I would assume most employers would hire white Americians instead of Hispanic Americians, why? Because there are more of them. For any one group to hold themselves up as worthy of special attention because of their overall smaller population size or the individual history of that small group in a country, makes no sense to me. 

In fact generalization, strero typing is part of the  definition of racism. It certainly does not fit into the definition of democracy which is majority rule. Does democracy mean majority rule? How does "we accept your decision because you have the smaller or less prosperous, less healthy population" fit into the idea of democracy?

Off topic, but a there is concern about the fall of America. I don't see failure in my great grand childrens future but I do see an amercan style Brexit or a USSR dissolution. Sooner or later people will realize this countries population has gotten too large to be ruled by a seperate (federal) government.

Narrative essay

Narrative essay

 

The old rooster walked through the yard crowing occasionally.  There are only a couple of competitors in his domain, but so far he has not  been seriously challenged so there have been no bloody fights or worse yet deaths. A situation not uncommon among roosters.  One other rooster in the yard, in particular is so passive a hens chastises him soundly if he attempts to dominate  her and I noticed he  is cautious around the other hens and stays clear of the old rooster. 

 

Suddenly out of nowhere a large shadow  covers the ground.  There  is a noisy  chorus of cackling and screeching as the other chickens see the threat and they sound the alarm. A large hawk swooped down   grabbing the  old rooster, capturing him with its long sharp talons.  The pair disappear above the trees and into the clouds.

 

The old rooster may have been cock of the walk in the realm of his peers , but in nature there was another superior to him, a predator that in a flash  put him at the bottom of the pecking order .  A creature Superior to the extent that the old rooster became lunch for the other bird.

Covid project 1000 words a day

Text book @ 2010. Jones Bartlett Publications. Author, Crowley, "Introduction to Human Disease."

 Its my understanding the most deadly covid 19 complication is caused by  SARS, aka severe acute respiratory syndrome, which is caused by coronavirus pneumonia.

 I found the following entry written in the year 2002 in the referenced book at the beginning of this comment.

"SARS is highly communicable caused by an unusual Coronaovirus. It has spread rapidly through several countries since  it was first identified in 2002. There are no effective antiviral drugs that can influence the course of this disease. The SARS associated virus is unique and not closely related to other known Coronaviruses and is the first one to cause severe disease in people. Symptoms: chills, fever, mild respiratory symptoms and occasionally diarrhea. After 3 to 7 days lower respiratory tract infection symptoms appear. Cough, SOB, pneumonia- positive xrays. Severity of disease is quite variable. The lungs of affected patients show the characteristic features of the adult respiratory distress syndrome, and they require mechanical ventilation as well as other measures to improve pulmonary function."

What's my point? Sars-Covid was first identified 2002. So what happened to control Sars covid- coronavirus in the years since? Anything? Has it been around since 2002 and now in 2020 the public health system has just gotten around to dealing with it. Has it taken 20yrs not one year for the whole globe to be reporting cases? It was just as contagious and deadly in 2002 as it is in 2020.

Could the pandemic be what happens when medicine is run for profit and by insurance companies. Companies who control the politicians and have controlled them for decades.

Is it the same disease?  Why are children less likely to get severe cases. Is it because it is the adults who get severe respiratory distress syndrome?

What happened between 2002 and 2020. What makes Sars-covid different now from then?

Desegregation. As remembered by a 72 year old in 2019

What do I remember
about desegregation? I recall Macon being very peaceful before the civil rights movements and during the desegregation years of the 50's and 60's.  When that era was ending the news showed the rest of the country rioting but not in Macon, Georgia. I caught an old beat up red bus to ride to and from work. It was me and one or two other white people that would ride the bus; the rest of the passengers were black.  No one moved nor was anyone assigned to the back seats.  I did not feel I was in any danger and I got no sense the black passengers feared or hated me. During and before that era it seemed black people, or negros as they were called back then, were always very quiet, respectful and presented a humble attitude towards other people as were most white people.  It was a time that a white persons first impulse was to trust and confide in a black person. I have a lot of pleasant memories of talking with the  woman who was the janitor at furniture store I worked at. I never realized she could hate me because of years of black oppression. Maybe black and white people, in day to day life, had to be taught those facts by someone else. I think a lot of whites got their feelings hurt when they found out of the perceived reality of  white and black relationships. Or could it be that the "reality" was manufactured by the sponsors of the civil rights movement? It was and still is in some cases individuals from far away places coming into communities and stirring up things, protesting and starting riots. People with agendas that favor neither blacks or whites.
.A group of blacks came into the furniture store in which I worked and harassed an old salesman till he said "make up your damn minds". They went to the court house and swore out a warrant because he said damn. The salesman got arrested. Our boss fired him. I think too many negative things were done to whites during that time. Injustices in the name of past injustice does not work out too well. Especially if it is based on propaganda.I got sick of the situation where I worked with a black individual, I would complain they were not doing their job and their response would be that they believed I was picking on them because they were black. Now days, in my opinion, kids are getting killed because on that basis.  They challenge cops and actually have the misconception they are entitled to threaten and there will not be consequences.

Then there is the time when, during prom week, a group of Afro American high students came to a restaurant I worked in and filled it every seat. They made no reservation; I was the only waitress and I worked as hard as I could to give them good service. I remember they were very quiet and respectful. But when I went back to pick up my tips each plate had a penny beside it. 

During that time if a black party entered a restaurant the white customers would get up and walk out. But could that kind of thing been caused by the publicity about the civil rights movement? I wonder. I know when I got on the bus the black people kept their seats. White customers did not leave the furniture store if a black person came in to shop.

The injustices and inequality that effected American Southerners did exist I am not denying that. Our country was very gradually dealing with it. I suspect they may have died a natural death.   A lot of Jim Crow  law was a response to post civil war events. The reconstruction was poorly handled by the union after the civil war.  Power to govern, people's property, were taken from white southerners and given to blacks and Yankees. After many years pasted  whites regained control of their possessions and regained control of ruling the governments in portions of the south. 

To understand all the issues you have to go back and study the time before and after the civil war. You also need to know what the real issues were. Was it money, power, human rights?  

In closing I will say as an eye witness; to the events of that time that if I can think of anything else I can remember about desegregation and my point of view on the matter, I will write it down. These entries can be my personal contribution to the history of the south as I saw it and understand it.

Review. What is a paragraph?

A paragraph is made up of several sentences and is set off from the preceding paragraph by its first line. It serves as a physical division on a page and contains a unit of the writers thoughts. It is a method to show which sentences are closely related.

A good paragraph develops only one topic. It helps your readers follow your train of thought.  

The main idea is stated in its first sentence. The following sentences clarify and support the main idea and lead into the topic you hope to explore in the following paragraph.

The first paragraph of the essay has a thesis statement which tells what the whole paper is about.  The final paragraph of an essay restates the thesis and sums up the body of the essay, and leaves the reader with a final impression.