Shana Tovah

I am looking forward to the new year 2021.

I looked up Germany's stats. They also have fewer than 10k deaths. We have 4 times the population, so if we were led by someone who respected expertise and science we should have 40,000 deaths. 

We have many people who genuinely believe that our numbers are fake and that this is not serious. 

Our experience of 2020 is the natural, logical consequence of so many mistakes and wrongs.

My poor niece believes that everyone else is dealing with this well and she isn't. We are in insane circumstances, sanity is not a normal response. 

I am so very glad this didn't happen while I was in college. I am so very glad this didn't happen during a period of unemployment. I'm so very glad this didn't happen while I was undergoing treatment for anything. I am so extremely grateful for all my good fortune. 

That said, there was a carjacking in my town last night with armed men chased by the police. The night before there was a report, possibly false, of a stabbing in the apartment complex up the street. The night before that on my street someone in a car hit someone not in a car and both parties ran off - and every imaginable explanation for that is unfortunate. Finally, my dog is throwing up on the carpet. 

WHY????? I have been abundantly clear that throwing up on hard floors is preferable. He is a smart dog. I can't believe that he hasn't realized that throwing up on hard floors is better, if only from the times I've dragged him into the kitchen when he was getting ready! 

Enough of this. I'm leaving. I'm going to Venus. I will check out the life there. There will be no carpet on my spaceship. 

(I'm sure he's fine, I'm sure he just has an unhappy internal system.)

(Pop up card of spaceship with galaxy background.)