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Belarc Advisor is excellent, A good detailed report about my computers. I highly recommend it and this is for the free version.

Some interesting and disturbing things are being revealed by the onset of COVID-19. One, three in ten Americans believe that this virus was created in a lab.
Nearly three-in-ten Americans believe COVID-19 was made in a lab | Pew Research Center

Besides the gluttonous toilet paper purchases, a whole lot of misinformation is coming not only from social media, but from the corporate media, about this pandemic. As fear comes down like mighty waters, any little fake factoid about "cures" and "remedies" come from everywhere. Or so it seems.

Another unfortunate result of this COVID-19 is the fact that more African-Americans are falling victim to this disease. I am not really surprised by this. 
If COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate, Then Why Are Black People Dying at Higher Rates?

There will have to be many issues addressed after the "cure," meaning vaccine for this disease, and things get back to "normal." Not any more hand wringing, and pretending that this won't happen again because it will--and it will be much worse. I am not speaking doomsday. although the clock has moved closer to midnight.
How Will the Coronavirus End? - The Atlantic

I hear on the big media machine that we are all one in this "war" against COVID-19. Sounds faintly like post September 11th words, almost 19 years ago. And look what happened since then. Standing together--can that be said of the poor, homeless, those in jails and prisons, the children in cages at the Mexican border, and other unfortunate folk. Am I being controversial for saying what I see, and not living in some Peter Cottontail fantasy world?

How do I feel--calm on one minute, watchful on the next, wondering what situation will happen next.


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However this goes, it is important that we continue our vigilance and try to find some pleasure in our daily lives. Inconveniences are everywhere.

I'm not necessarily a praying religious person but some spiritual guidance might help. Take care of tasks that have been ignored. And use the internet. After all, we are One under the Internet sun. Scientists, researchers and many others are working like heck for a vaccine that will end this nightmare, worldwide.





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I still use Windows 7, have strengthened my security on my computers, and am thinking of trying Linux. I've read many excellent reviews of Linux and may do a test first  and then, if I install it, I'll keep Windows 7 and do a dual boot where I can choose which operating system to use. Seems interesting enough.

]https://www.lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-switch-from-windows-7-to-linux-1840977860]
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/best-linux-distros-windows-users

Happy New Year, New Decade, Clear vision--2020.

Yeah, good ol' Freedomlist. I missed those sometimes spirited posts I had back and forth which, fortunately, didn't go too far. All in all, for its time, it was a rather enlightening experience being at FL. RIP Freedomlist.

The new version of Malwarebytes free doesn't give as many options for scanning as the previous 3.8.3 version. There used to be three choices, now there is just this one and it tales much longer for it to scan my computer. They really changed their look with the version 4.

 Like Windows 7,  I think I will stick with the version 3--as long as I keep getting updates.  Windows 10 may be good in the long term but Micros$ft removed a lot of features that I like in Windows 7--like their media player. I'll just get more security  for more possible security vulnerabilities. Besides, I understand that there are still Windows XP users out there. I wonder how they're able to keep using software updates, etc. with that operating system.