tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post1965128302632548059..comments2024-03-28T11:56:48.304-04:00Comments on The Retrogrouch: Hindsight is 2020Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110998345857993287noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-54735333333597490922021-05-14T08:51:18.184-04:002021-05-14T08:51:18.184-04:00Here in April, I hope things are improving for eve...Here in April, I hope things are improving for everyone your side of the pond. We are tentatively coming out of it in the UK, but the fresh new threat of the India Variant is rising slowly. We are not there yet. Frightening times. I love your blog, found it when I was trying to find the name of the leaflet Yehuda Moon reads in the comic (love that, too) I can also testify to the increase in bike use here. All of our major bike sellers sold out nationally...Nationally! You couldn't get parts, you couldn't get inner tubes - imagine that? We still have lots of cyclists out, I'm hoping they keep going. Suenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-67048340393587527022021-01-11T12:52:50.124-05:002021-01-11T12:52:50.124-05:00A well stated blog post, here's hoping that 20...A well stated blog post, here's hoping that 2021 will start heading the other way before it's over, we've shown the best and much more the worse side of us but once we heal physically hopefully we can heal as a Nation. Take care, Ride Safe and try to have a bit of FUN! :) B.J. and JoLynn Ondohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705559333741947530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-64436260819005913392021-01-04T10:25:22.937-05:002021-01-04T10:25:22.937-05:00The title made me smile in spite of the sobering c...The title made me smile in spite of the sobering content.Francisco de Almeidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14147944912098034703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-12345770679223691362020-12-30T01:02:07.935-05:002020-12-30T01:02:07.935-05:00I live two blocks from a major NYC hospital. A fr...I live two blocks from a major NYC hospital. A friend of mine is a nurse there. Not surprisingly, she disappeared in March. I feared the worst; when I saw her again, in October, she looked about ten years older than she did at the beginning of the year. "COVID's no joke," she said. She should know: She was the last person a few people saw before their bodies ended up in those refrigerated trucks most of people saw in news reports, but I passed by almost daily.<br /><br />The folks who still don't believe that this pandemic is real remind me of the ones who insisted (and, I'm sure, still insist) that 9/11 didn't happen. Actually, I'd bet that many of them are the same people. <br /><br />Thank you for making this year a little more tolerable--and for your help during my own mini-catastrophe!Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.com