<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello Empyreans,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hoping (as always, especially under the c-19</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">circumstances) all are well. Reading Melinda's</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">text brings home again the history of so many</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">missed opportunities to improve the way we</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">use our resources, the bungled forestry care,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">raging capitalism that causes even more po-</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">verty and war. In Spain where I live there have</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">been many mistakes made in dealing with the</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">pandemic. Lockdown came much later than</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">was advisable, equipment was lacking, leading</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">to loss of life among medical personnel. As</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Melissa indicates the total no. of cases here</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">stands close to 120,000. Something like 11.2</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thousand deaths, so many of which could have</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">been avoided. And this is not over by any means,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">globally (and we have to speak globally). Some <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">tighter figures than what I've indicated are in</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">the link below. With best wishes, William</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>