Views from the Outside

 I was going to write another post about the rona, to close the whole thing out, and focus on the Press and their role in stoking panic (the title of the post was going to be "The Devils"), but I just can't bring myself to do it.  It's probably not good for my soul to focus so much energy detailing to evil done throughout 2020 and 2021 (and to a large extent even now in 2023 though the populace seems to have lost interest).  They worship different a different god than I do. Instead I thought I'd start on a few thoughts about my recent battle with Bladder Cancer.  I capitalized that because Cancer dominates your life in a way that I hadn't thought it would.   In the early 2000s, probably 2000 or 2001, I saw a panel discussion on CNBC moderated by Maria Bartiromo (now with Fox Business) with a couple cancer researchers and a director of some large Cancer treatment center (like Memorial Sloan Kettering or MD Anderson).  Early on in the discussion, Ms Bartiromo as