By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com We have reached the year 2020, for better or worse, a fifth of the way into the 21st century. Historians generally say that at least a generation, about 20-25 years, is needed before one can put important events into historical perspective and gauge their relative significance in the longer timeline …
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By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com Wednesday evening, I sat down and looked up some numbers on the coronavirus, then looked up some pandemics from the past trying to get a comparison. What I learned is scary. As of Wednesday night, the United States had 641,919 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 virus, of which 28,399 …
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By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com So, I turned 65 today. In quarantine. Of all the many things I expected to be doing the day I turned 65, sitting at home unable to go anywhere or do anything – outside of a few limited options – would not have been something I expected. But we …
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