Day 533

• Administrative leave extended again for Trevor Bauer -- another week.
• The DA, apparently, has gotten at least one of his cases now.
• The Astros and the Nationals are reported as the first two teams to require the vaccine for non-playing employees.
• A poll reported in Newsweek has good news for Gavin Newsom - the California governor is up 15 points in that poll.  Good grief, the span of polls, it seems.  One has him 15 up, another 11 down.   
• Kid Rock has had to cancel all of his shows this weekend and probably for the foreseeable.  Half his band has COVID -- and the cases do appear to be breakthrough.
• The state of California has fewer ICU beds now than it did in the winter lockdowns.  LOCK IT BACK DOWN NOW!!!
• The continuing investigation into the debacle which is the Louisville men's basketball program has cost head coach Chris Mack six games for his role in not doing enough to stop it.  The latest round appears to be a conviction of an assistant coach for wanting to use the exposition of further Louisville violations as a means to extort money from the program.  Why are we allowing the University of Louisville to HAVE a men's basketball program at all at this point?   
• Hurricane Ida has canceled the final preseason game for the Saints and Cardinals.
• Manchester United has gotten Cristiano Ronaldo back.
• Two studies do not bode well for our future.  The first is that the estimate, as of the end of last year, is that over 110,000,000 of us -- one in three! -- actually had COVID last year.
• And a second that states that at least half of COVID survivors still have major problems afterward.