A Winter Surge is looming in COVID-19 cases, notes Grumpy Editor.
Triggering increased cases are the cold months when people are spending more time indoors (often with family gatherings), closing their windows and breathing stagnant air.
The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in some areas.
“We’re going to see a lot of outbreaks in unvaccinated people that will result in serious illness, and it will be tragic,” Dr. Donald Milton, University of Maryland School of Public Health, tells Associate Press.
Grumpy Editor observes many photos of people watching crowded events without masks --- not exactly the way to reduce the virus.
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AMERICANS SET RECORD IN QUITTING JOBS. September breaks August's record for the most Americans quitting their jobs in a month. About 8.7 million people--- about six percent of the work force --- bid farewell to their jobs in August and September. The Labor Department says almost four and a half million workers left jobs in September, a record for a single month.
NAVY LAUNCHES ANOTHER USS NEW JERSEY. The Navy on Saturday christened the USS New Jersey, a fast-attack submarine, at Newport News, Virginia. It's the third naval vessel to carry the name of the Garden State.
ENGINEER SUES RAILWAY COMPANY IN JAPAN. A train engineer in Japan is suing his employer, West Japan Railway Co., after it clipped his wages following a one-minute delay that he claims wasn't his fault.
KANGAROO MAKES IT TO ROOF OF HOME. Australia's Queensland Fire and Emergency Services firefighters say a kangaroo that appeared to be trapped on the roof of a home ended up rescuing itself. How it got onto the house remains a mystery.
CAT ROAMS 200 MILES. New York's Montgomery County SPCA animal shelter says a cat brought in as a stray was scanned for a microchip and found to have been missing three months earlier from a Pennsylvania home 200 miles away. A Fort Plain resident spotted the feline wandering through the neighborhood for multiple days.
VAN GOGH WATERCOLOR PAINTING BRINGS ALMOST $36 MILLION. Seized by Nazis, a Watercolor Painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh sells at auction for $35.86 million, setting a new record, reports Christie's auction house. The painting, Meules de blé (Wheat Stacks), was completed in Arles, France, in 1888, two years before the famed post-impressionist painter's death.
GENERAL MILLS PONDERS SELLING NAME BRANDS. Food giant General Mills Inc. is considering selling a portfolio of brands including Progresso soup and Helper, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company is aiming to raise around $3 billion from the sale, they say.
