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 A former boss of mine (he knows who he is) gave me the great gift of a timeless phrase that I have used over the years far more times than most of my friends, family and co-workers wished: "It ain't that hard."  So allow me to vent a bit here and answer the question "Why won't Joe Biden freeze the $6 billion ransom payment to the Iranians?" Well, friends, IT AIN'T THAT HARD if you have paid any attention whatsoever to the nature of the person (Joseph Biden) we are talking about here. Here's the deal: An un-indicted criminal who is guilty of treason, bribery, money-laundering and God only knows (literally) what else—someone who has enriched himself and his family by selling influence, appointing foreign agents to government posts, abusing and using his own son, lying to the public virtually every time he opens his mouth, and by all accounts is a scantily-closeted sexual pervert—simply does not just make bad and baffling policy decisions regarding eve...

  I watched the entire 5 hours once, plan to watch it again and take notes. It's that important. Watch the entire session by clicking on the first link. Or  Start at the 40-minute mark  

Here is a link to an article from a study by the New York Department of Health, published in the the Bulletin of the American Statistical Association in 1922. The entire article, which deals with the "epochs" of influenza pandemics over a five hundred year period, is informative and instructive in light of the current Covid-19 pandemic.  Here is the most pertinent, Covid-related take-away:  "The fifth epoch (Spanish Flu) began in 1915 and is still in progress. The first pandemic invasion was the great wave of 1918, which has been followed by several revivals in various countries, some of serious proportions as to mortality. This, doubtless, was the most fatal of all influenza pandemics and was perhaps the greatest single catastrophe of modern times,not excepting wars. Therefore the duration of the first four epochs being roughly 24, 15, 28, and 12 years respectively, or an average of 19.8 years, it is clear that the epoch beginning in 1915 will very probably contain on...