Happy July everyone. Seems like only yesterday that we all embarked on this voyage of discovery that is "Global Pandemic". Experiences have been mixed but at half a million deaths worldwide, I think we can now safely put behind us the delusion that many had (and some still have) that this is "just the flu".
I'm particularly concerned about the Americas at the moment, the combination of poor leadership, irrational stubbornness, ignorance and a seemingly suicidal impulse to prioritize money over health is leading that continent down a path that can only end in economic misery and death for many at the bottom of the societal heap there. The worst of both worlds. What with China strutting it's newfound confidence by politically "locking-down" Hong Kong and essentially dishing out life-sentences for waving the wrong flag, and Russia seemingly secretly pulling the election strings in the largest democracies, the world is a very much more uncertain place than it apparently was 10 years ago. The security and happiness trends are most definitely going the wrong way at the moment for many.
For the geeks among us the picture above sums things up nicely, if the star trek crew represent continents we wonder who the red-shirted character is, for everyone's sake let's hope it doesn't turn out to be the Americas.
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