#RandomThoughts As August Dawns….

Mike Pouraryan
8 min readAug 2, 2021

July 30, 2021

A new month is at hand. I achieved a major personal milestone — although I still have about a month or so of administrative backends to address — and this major achievement won’t hit me until I get the actual degree within the next number of weeks:

It was also a week that saw mask mandates return as the Delta Variant began to wreak havoc yet again due to the pandemic of the unvaccinated — one of the key must-reads is this by Marc Cooper which I have the pleasure to support:

Our two pandemics — COVID 19 and the massive Trumplican mis/disinformation campaign — have now merged into one deadly plague that is ripping through the land.

Some 90 million eligible Americans are still avoiding vaccination a full six months after the jabs have become available, leading to a quintupling of infections over the last three weeks, a resurgent death toll and new rounds of mask impositions, partial shutdowns and a clamor for mandates to be instituted.

Look at one of the myriad infection cluster maps now and find that ALL of the concentrated outbreaks, some of horrific proportions (see Missouri), track absolutely perfectly

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Mike Pouraryan

Teacher, Writer/Blogger, Consultant, Community Activist, Dad