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THE MAXEY CHRONICLES' 2020 PERSON OF THE YEAR- DEATH

In 1934, there was a film titled DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, a fluffy look at the extension of life   because   Death goes on vacation.   In 2020, Death is back, and working overtime, working three shifts a day, and on weekends. Death should get a bonus from the Gods for the quantity of work he has done this year. Death was not only employee of the month but the EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR; he took Deming/Juran quality improvements to new heights(COVID-19). His quality control was outstanding; no one came back alive.   Death has not been this busy since the 1919 pandemic, or the Black Death. He is killing everyone he glances at.   As this Blog is being written one person is dying every ten minutes in Los Angeles County from COVID; as this Blog was being written, actress Dawn Wells, from the television show, GILLIGAN’S ISLAND died from COVID-19.   Seven Baseball Hall of Famers died in 2020, the most lost in one year- Phil Nierko, Lou Brock, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Whitey Ford and Joe Mor

COVID-19's Unprecedented Rate of Mutations: Natural? or Man-Made?

This Blogger has been accused of being a bizarre paranoid; however in 2020, that may not be such a bad thing.    In that light, this Blog will discuss the Coronavirus mutations.   As Mankind rolls out vaccines to curtail and contain COVID-19, the virus has responded with a flurry of mutations. There are three significant mutations; all in the spike portion of the virus. One is in England, which is more contagious than the original virus; one is in minks on mink farms in Denmark, and one is in South Africa.   On May 6, 2020, this Blogger referenced this update: “As the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 makes its way around the world, there’s been an uptick in predictions that the virus will mutate into something deadlier and become an even scarier threat to humanity…..the new coronavirus is an RNA virus: a collection of genetic material packed inside a protein shell.Once an RNA virus makes contact with a host, it starts to make new copies of itself that can go on to infect other cells.     RNA