We have discussed the origins of the various waves of COVID. Why then did it enjoy such a nasty success? The highest kill rate per capita was in just about any country without a socialized medical system or a system that had simply crumbled over the years. Africa, South America, India and Pakistan are primeContinue reading ““Virus # 26: Director’s Cut: Chapter 6 “Why COVID’s Nasty Success’”
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“Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2000: Samos, Greece; Finally Destination Reached! Good-Bye to Lost Luggage Hotel
Jet lag and stress is never an ideal combination. After 4 hours of sleep at the Lost Luggage Hotel in Glyfada up at 4 a.m. hungry as a lion. Read a bit and watched a couple of hours of Greek music videos until the restaurant opened at 06:30 where there were many lost luggage victimsContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2000: Samos, Greece; Finally Destination Reached! Good-Bye to Lost Luggage Hotel”
“Travels to a Different Time” : 24July2000: Toronto, London and Athens: Welcome to Olympic Airline’s Lost Luggage Motel! Captain Little Bird Flying Big Plane
Up up and away on an ageing Air Canada 747. Rather cheap French wine to start and the usual Air Canada shenanigans with chicken or pasta but we are out of the chicken. Cannelloni was undercooked pig slop. Nodded off and up at 4 a.m. to daylight. Breakfast, if you can call it that, wasContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 24July2000: Toronto, London and Athens: Welcome to Olympic Airline’s Lost Luggage Motel! Captain Little Bird Flying Big Plane”
Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus”
COVID-19 Plus appeared in 2025. It was thought to have originated near a pork processing plant in the state of Virginia so it can be honestly said to be an American virus. It was not in the slaughterhouse that it was born but rather in a pork feces holding tank adjacent to a huge porkContinue reading “Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus””
RKS Passage of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”: The Discarded Wife
“It happens. It happens a lot. It’s essential the discarded wife remain dignified. She must not wail and weep, except in the shower when the kids are in pre-school and she’s alone in the suburbs with all the other weeping, wailing wives. The discarded wife must not be bitchy or unkind about the new improvedContinue reading “RKS Passage of the Day: “Nine Perfect Strangers”: The Discarded Wife”
“Travels to a Different Time ” : 23July2000: Good Old Air Canada: Off to Athens
Boarded an Air Canada flight to London at Toronto’s Pearson Airport to make a connecting flight to Athens. As a flight to Rio was boarding at the same time as my flight to Athens a big commotion and two huge streams of passengers were all mixed. There were also a large group of children withContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time ” : 23July2000: Good Old Air Canada: Off to Athens”
Virus # 26”: Chapter 4 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 4 “Some of the Path of Destruction of COVID-19” So you now know it originated from Wuhan, China with the co-operation either knowingly or innocently with the American presidential administration. We know that it gave China a relatively tame go but ravaged Italy and Spain initially and gradually took a severe death toll ofContinue reading “Virus # 26”: Chapter 4 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
“Travels to a Different Time” New York City: March 18, 2000: Dynamite Cuban Food! Times Square Hustlers
Up at 7:45 for a shave and shower in a huge marble bathroom. Continental breakfast buffet in the lobby restaurant “Coach House”. My goodness coffee in New York City so far has been mediocre. Fruit juices and bagels. Out on the streets at 10:45. Off on the subway to Times Square. Full of small-town touristsContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” New York City: March 18, 2000: Dynamite Cuban Food! Times Square Hustlers”
Virus # 26”: Chapter 3 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 3 “Where Did COVID-19 Originate?” The “Big Daddy” as we now call COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China. Well sort of. There was some manner of fallacy when the late President of the United States Donald J. Trump called COVID-19 the “Wuhan Virus” or the “Chinese Virus”. Time has since renamed him the “Lysol President”Continue reading “Virus # 26”: Chapter 3 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
RKS Passage of the Day: “chasing harry winston”: Trash Talking Ex-Boyfriends
“The girls all laughed, each accustomed to this oldest of female bonding traditions. When your life was in the gutter because your ex-boyfriend surfaced on the weddingcahnnel.com, nothing offered comfort like trashing the new girlfriend. It was actually how they had become friends in the first place.” “chasing harry winston” Lauren Weisberger, Simon and SchusterContinue reading “RKS Passage of the Day: “chasing harry winston”: Trash Talking Ex-Boyfriends”
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