Author Archives: Steven Damron

After I read about Hemingway’s Spanish travels, I asked Mom whether her parents ever mentioned the Spanish Flu to her. Hemingway first visited Spain five years after the Spanish Flue pandemic. My grandparents were about the same age as Hemingway, my grandmother a teenage girl and my grandfather a Navy sailor during the Spanish flu.Continue reading “29 May 2020 – Friday – #75”

Every pandemic creates a new normal. Here’s what a pandemic looks like when most of the victims are gay, people of color, drug addicts or sex workers. Here’s what a pandemic looks like when it threatens the economy. While Covid-19 is disproportionately killing low-wage workers and minorities in the US, the reason that Covid-19 getsContinue reading “28 May 2020 – Thursday – #74”

I want to talk about Covid-19 misinformation. But fist, here’s some information that’s hot off the press. Spain released an updated excess deaths curve today. The official Covid-19 death toll today in Spain is 27,117. Given the revised “excess” deaths curve, that works out to about 16,000 “excess” deaths that weren’t categorized as Covid-19. TheseContinue reading “27 May 2020 – Wednesday – #73”