pandemic

This Year Last Year- A tale for the future

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Football, Growing America–

This Year Last year will be something to talk about ten years from now, provided that situations don’t escalate. Go back to last year, when the shocking news that we lost Kobe Bryant on a very overcast Sunday in late January. This was a shock to the world. This bothersome event lingered on throughout the Sports World and beyond. Early talks of the pandemic was just starting to get traction, and then March hit, where NBA games were canceled and then league play would be suspended until the summer. Baseball, Football camps were delayed. The …READ MORE

Christmas Holiday with the Pandemic in Mind

Lester–Basketball, Football, Growing America–

Christmas Holiday this year has brought on a strange and ominus feeeling! You can remember the times after the Thanksgiving Holidays, where folks were standing outside all night to get to the deals of the year and getting ready for Christmas. That chore turned out to be a ugly and dangerous practice this year.Customers honing masks and stores metering people into their buildings, as state laws and business responsibilities took hold. Yes you can’t crowd up folks like you use to in areas, as the pandemic has controlled the idea of togetherness and threw that …READ MORE

Voting is Fundamental–Participation is Key

Lester–Growing America–

  Voting is Fundamental: Voting is a right that often some people take for granted. Now is the time for folks to see our democracy at work. Despite the many efforts that have been employed to discourage voting, it appears as though this year people are getting out to vote. During the last presidential election, only 61.4% of Americans voted. Now considering that there a lot was a lot of gerrymandering of certain voting districts, lack of voting facilities, downright intimidation of voters, it makes you wonder where would the country be if we were …READ MORE

Orange County-2nd-worst COVID19 outbreak-California

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Golf, Growing America, Uncategorized, WNBA–

Orange County now has the second-most coronavirus infections in California, as the region and state continue to grapple with sharp spikes in the number of confirmed cases. The cumulative COVID-19 case count in Orange Count was 29,986 Tuesday, just ahead of Riverside County’s 29,983. Only Los Angeles County is higher, with nearly 160,000 cases. Over the last 14 days, Orange County has reported 12,104 additional COVID-19 cases, a figure that trails only that of Los Angeles, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. During that same time, Riverside County has confirmed 9,428; San Bernardino County, 8,754; …READ MORE

Wear the Mask- Some Folks Don’t Get It

Lester–Growing America–

Wear the Mask has been an ugly thing for most of us during the pandemic crisis. Let’s go back to March when things where shutting down. Hospitals were started to get bogged down, they had to send two floating army hospitals out to L.A. and New York. The deaths in New York were so bad, they had refer unit trailers to keep up the make shift morgues. Now of course the hospitals were probably not ready for this at the time, as they were caught short on equipment, supplies, ppe, ventilators; you know the stuff …READ MORE