This chart, from The Johns Hopkins University, suggests that whether or not we’re making America great again very much depends upon exactly what we mean by “great.” Please note that the chart extends only through 28 June 2020. As is apparent at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/, the coronavirus situation in the United States has most emphatically not improved since then — except, of course, from the perspective of the coronavirus.
The latest installment of my bi-weekly Deseret News column appeared earlier today:
I have to say that I am not at all happy about President Erdoğan’s decision. But then, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan doesn’t seem to be overly concerned about pleasing me. Perhaps he senses that I’m not a fan?
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I’m now going to change focus rather dramatically.
I’m fond of my adopted home state and partial to my Utah Valley community, but I find this story very discouraging — and, since it has made the national news, I also find it deeply embarrassing:
It’s possible, however (and let us pray that it may be so!), that a vaccine will be available later this year. Of course, I’m guessing — it’s just a hunch — that more than a few of the people who were there in that meeting will refuse to be vaccinated.
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