August 15, 2023 News and Notes

• Looks like early deaths are going to get the Died Suddenly crowd up in arms from the sports world:
• Former Seattle running back Alex Collins, gone at 28.
• Now it appears the reports indicate:  Motorcycle crash.
• Former first-round draft pick in the NHL Rodion Amirov, brain tumor diagnosed in 2021 (so people will think he got THAT from the vaccines too).  He was only 21.
• Look, people...  We are going to get to the point, probably fairly near in the future, that athletic competition may become quite the impossibility due to the long-term effects of COVID and the Right's complete and deliberate ignorance of same...
• ... and it's not just COVID/Long COVID...  Malaria and leprosy have reemerged in Florida?  Add dengue fever to what the mosquitos are carrying down there, with the malaria...
• And people are getting stupid again, part...  Dateline:  Ireland.  Queues of people around Bank of Ireland branches as the ATMs seem to have forgotten the limit on withdrawals also applies to the amount of money people have in the bank!