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Every leap year has a presidential election but not every presidential election is in a leap year. Years marking the end of a century are only leap years if divisible by 400. 1800 and 1900 were not.
John Emmons Meet and Greet — John Emmons, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run in Pennsylvania’s 6th District congressional race, will hold a meet and greet, 4-7 p.m., today, Feb. 29 at 836 Concord Road #2, Glen Mills, Pa. 19342.
The incumbent is Democrat Chrissy Houlahan.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
What is the largest manmade object? Let’s argue about it. By weight it would be China’ Three Gorges Dam coming in at 75 billion pounds. By length it would be submarine communications cable stretching from San Francisco to New Zealand coming at 6,700 miles.
Diamond Princess Coronavirus Benchmark — Stocks have fallen more than 4,000 points in eight days as of 11 a.m., Feb. 28 on Coronavirus COVID-19 fears. Is the sell-off rational? Frankly, if this thing is going to be an apocalyptic disaster, we’d be less worried about our investments and more interested in stocking up on alcohol wipes and food supplies.
OK, and alcohol without the wipes.
What good is money going to be at the end of the world?
And if this in not going to be the apocalypse, the market is going to be totally cooking when certainty returns in a few months.
So is it the apocalypse? The Diamond Princess seems a good indicator. The British-registered vessel operated by Princess Cruises packs 3,700 passengers and crew in a space about three football-fields long and and height of a mid-sized skyscraper. It’s more densely populated than any city in the world.
The virus is believed to have crept onto the ship on Jan. 20. It was discovered 16 days later. As of yesterday — 38 days after the virus arrived — 705 cases have been confirmed which is about 19 percent of the population with five deaths, the latest being a British man. That’s a .07 percent fatality rate so far.
Johns Hopkins is providing good data regarding the spread of the disease and that can be found here.
Concern is required but panic is not. The stock market will come back, and food and alcohol will not go to waste.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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There is no objective scale to determine the sourest food. Youtubers Good Mythical Morning gave it a subjective taste test and gave the crown to umeboshi, a Japanese pickled plum-like fruit with second place going to Toxic Waste candy.
Taste of Home says tops is Warheads candy followed by kimchi. They put umeboshi in sixth place.
Frisco Homeless COVID-19 — Here’s your happy thought for the day with a big black lining: What happens when it dawns on Nancy Pelosi that those homeless defecating in the streets of her neighborhood are going to be major spreaders of COVID-19 if (when?) the disease should break out here?
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Twelve good horses and silver candlesticks won’t stop the snow from falling in Bialystock.
Remember glass soda bottles? In 1976, when swine flu was the disease of the day, about 58 percent of soda sold in the U.S. came in such containers. Today it is but 1 percent.