Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Maybe ... but we'll see how the Postal Service is doing in 2030. My bet is they're delivering mail only 3 or 4 days a week by then.

 

Many newspapers (including the chain I work for) already use them for a vast majority of home delivery. I believe 85% of our home delivery is through mail.

 

When I worked for a six-day paper (Mon-Sat) in Northern Michigan 20 years ago, it was delivered by mail. Not having to worry about carriers was a plus, but the "timeliness" factor came into play; you didn't have a newspaper to read with breakfast, or even with lunch if your mail came in the afternoon.

Probably not much of a factor anymore for print readers. If your main concern is timeliness, you're not reading print.

 

Quickly, they understand where their freedoms end.

 

Millions Appear to Be Skipping Second COVID-19 Vaccine Shot in the U.S.

 

At least the people skipping the second shot opened up more product for someone else to get their first. Two with 80% protection are better than one with 95% and another with 0%.

 

The number of people not wearing masks where I am is disturbing. With the understanding that one is too many, there were a bunch.

Not sure where these folks really think we are. This thing is far from over, and attitudes like this will only prolong the issue.

 

Perhaps they are vaccinated.

 

If they paid attention to the rest of the world, maybe they’d worry more.

As hospitals in Delhi and many other cities run out of beds, people have been forced to find ways to get treatment for sick patients at home. Many have turned to the black market, where prices of essential medicines, oxygen cylinders and concentrators have skyrocketed and questionable drugs are now proliferating.

On Monday, India recorded a new global high for daily coronavirus cases for a fifth straight day at 352, 991.

Anshu Priya could not get a hospital bed in Delhi or its suburb of Noida for her father-in-law and as his condition continued to deteriorate. She spent most of Sunday looking for an oxygen cylinder but her search was futile.

So she finally turned to the black market. She paid a hefty amount - 50,000 rupees ($670; £480) - to procure a cylinder that normally costs 6,000 rupees. With her mother-in-law also struggling to breathe, Anshu knew she may not be able to find or afford another cylinder on the black market.

This is a familiar story not just in Delhi but also in Noida, Lucknow, Allahabad, Indore and so many other cities where families are desperately cobbling together makeshift arrangements at home.

But most of India's population cannot afford to do this. There are already several reports of people dying at the doorsteps of hospitals because they couldn't afford to buy essential drugs and oxygen on the black market.​

Covid-19 in India: Patients struggle at home as hospitals choke — BBC News