Notes From All Over -- Very Early Morning Edition --Top Story Of The Year: The Eradication Of "Seasonal Flu" In The US -- December 30, 2020

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December 30, 2020: something that is not being widely reported and something for which President Trump is getting no credit -- the eradication of "seasonal flu" in the US.

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Now, this, today:

No way is Japan going to allow thousands of athletes and tens of thousands of fans to enter their country for the 2020ne Olympics unless global vaccination is incredibly successful. 

And Japan and Taiwan were recently doing so well. 

Coronavirus: statistics. By country. By state.

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Some Common Sense

Were animals responsible for spreading Covid-19? If link breaks, search: mink, Covid, Denmark.

Whatever.

US government says airlines can ban emotional support animals from flights. Multiple links. Forbes was reporting on this as early as January, 2020. It appears Alaska Airlines will be the first major airline to change its policy: no more comfort animals on flights: only authorized, validated service animals.

I don't know if I mentioned this on the blog; I mentioned it to a reader in an e-mail. On my recent return trip from Portland, OR, to Grapevine, TX, on Alaska Airlines, my row, six seats, middle seats unoccupied, four passengers and two huge dogs. Both very well behaved. I had no problem with them. But it was obvious these were not support animals. Their owners were simply bringing them along as non-paying "passengers."

Thank goodness for that empty middle seat. My hunch is that Alaska Airlines realizes that when flight operations get back to normal and that middle seat is occupied, there's no way large dogs can be accommodated. In my case, fifty percent of my row had passengers with large dogs.