As a societal change in the world demands we wear masks … I thought this little bit of history from the past few years makes for an interesting read - not to mention some problems coming over the horizon.

What do you think?


NINETEEN

 

Nineteen spirals

 

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Dow briefly wipes out gains under Trump’s presidency.

”Trump tweeted on Dec. 23 that the Dow was up 55% since his election and promised — less than three months before the market entered a bear market — that “the best is yet to come.”

Halcyon Days.


People First!

People First!

Why would it be any different?

Why People First? It’s a question that I am often asked. Why not? If not people, then what should be first?

🔗 Read The Whole Article.

The questions being asked by mainstream media are primarily about how markets and business will recover - few ask how people will recover.

💬 John Philpin



This past week, I have been reminded … over and over again … that ‘People First’ might seem logical - but it is not how this world is, or gets reported.

This week’s newsletter from People First


McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit.

The courts politicized?

No no no … we simply want to ensure they have a restful retirement.


EIGHTEEN

 

Eighteen barrels - full and fermenting

 

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Messages from Italy … it’s on Instagram, but that’s no excuse to ignore it.


Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’.

Drops Mic.

Stands back.

Killed by the avalanche of denials, calls of fake news and chastisement of nasty Democrats.




McConnell calls on McGrath to stop ads during COVID-19.

If they are deceitful … then shouldn’t they be stopped anyway?

If they are not (which I suspect is nearer the truth) - then ‘HELL NO’.

‘#MadMitch needs to go.


Coronavirus Fear Is Leading to Panic Buying of Guns.

They do know that they can’t actually shoot the virus?

Don’t they?


Vice-president Stacey Abrams would make the US a real democracy for the first time.

Not the first time I’ve seen her name associated with the ‘potential candidate’ list … but hard to think of anyone else as well positioned.

What do you think?


The big question over coronavirus – can a person get it twice?

”Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, and Prof Chris Whitty, Boris Johnson’s chief medical adviser

… said ‘unlikely’

So far, the UK track record on advice is not exactly accurate.


Trump says coronavirus upheaval could last beyond August.

Subdued into realism, Donald Trump has …..

Hell just froze over.



Blind Date was a game show back in the 80s .. extend it to interminable lengths 40 years later and you have a broadcast sensation … no I’m not watching Love Is Blind - apparently created by ‘Chris Coelen’ … wonder what Cilla thinks of that?


SEVENTEEN

 

Seventeen bricks around a pizza oven

 

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