In America, I would answer by saying we are still in the first inning, of 9, but since you are in Scotland, I will simply offer that we are in the fifteenth minute or so of 90. The Trump Coalition's pressure to deny science has resulted in most states opening up before any infectious disease expert of any skill level would ever approve of. So, we are headed for a disastrous late fall and winter of far, far more deaths due to COVID here. In the long run, this typical short-term thinking will harm the US and therefore, world, economies much more severely than had we simply done the sceintifically advised thing in the first place. And before you complain that I am a typical blue-stater, I am, in fact, a lifelong Republican from extremely rural Texas. There is no redder place on the planet.

Do you like Winnie The Pooh and if so, which character is your favorite?