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A Funeral, a Mourner, and a Murder Trial Equal a COVID-19 Outbreak

20/04/03 at 5.31pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Down in tiny Albany, Doughtery County, Georgia, 837 people have tested positive for Coronavirus, 32 of whom died after contracting the virus as of 1:05 pm on Friday, April 3, 2020 (See https://www.phoebehealth.com/patients-and-visitors/coronavirus/coronavirus-update). Of the 176 Georgians who have died from this respiratory disease, Albany’s 32 deaths are more than Atlanta’s 23 as of Thursday evening, April 2, 2020 (See https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-coronavirus-cases-top-georgia-163-deaths-reported/3jRQEx8o1JUecocEVUz9KO/). The number of deaths is surprising because Albany has less than 100,000 residents, while Atlanta has 486,000 as of 2017 census report. Albany began incubating the virus three weeks ago when a visitor from Atlanta drove down to Albany

Writing for Medium in a Time of Crisis

20/04/02 at 6.24pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Times are unusual. The current worldwide crisis has affected every profession that employs workers. From bartenders, stockbrokers, lawyers, women working the oldest trade, and writers sitting in their offices or homes churning out stories that entertain and enlighten us, all have to rethink how they do what they do. With the difficulties encountered by writers in mind, Medium hosted a webinar on April 2, 2020, to explore “Writing in a Time of Crisis: Insights from Medium’s Platform Editors. Kawandeep Virdee, a writer’s advocate at Medium who edits Medium’s monthly newsletter, moderated a panel that included platform editors Michelle Woo, Megan

Bob Kendrick: The Duke of 18th & Vine

20/03/30 at 4.39pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by Harold Michael Harvey, author of the bestselling book, Freaknik Lawyer. The title of the new tome is The Duke of 18th & Vine: Bob Kendrick Talking Negro League Baseball written in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro Baseball Leagues (United States Baseball League) in 1920 will be released on May 15, 2020, by Cascade Publishing House. For further details contact the publisher at hmharvey@haroldmichaelharvey.com Bob Kendrick, at 57 years old, has the world on a string at 18th and Vine in Kansas

Pandemic Note #17: Exponential Monthly Growth

20/03/29 at 10.54am / by Michael / 0 Comment

While the leader of the free world makes plans to open parts of the country, if not all of the country, up for Easter Sunday church service, the US is number one in the world in Covid-19 cases. The country is experiencing exponential growth in the number of deaths caused by the Coronavirus. In one month, the number of deaths went from 1to1000. In the last 48 hours, the total number of deaths double from 1000 to 2000. Meanwhile, leadership amid this crisis is coming from the nation’s governors. Harold Michael Harvey is the author of Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir

Saying Goodbye to a Warrior Priest in a Pandemic

20/03/28 at 2.12pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

It’s written that it is “hard to say goodbye to yesterday.” But yesterday, Rev. Dr. Joesph Echols Lowery, in a death not related to Covid-19, moved from here to eternity. Until yesterday, he was one of the few remaining architects of the civil rights movement that challenged and forced the cessation of the unequal treatment of Black people in the United States. This movement vicariously brought about equality to all minority groups in the country, including white women, or at least with more justice than had existed at the dawn of the 20th century. He was a man of the

Pandemic Note #16: “Don’t Be A Cutie-Pie, Okay?”

20/03/28 at 5.46am / by Michael / 0 Comment

“Look,” the leader said to White House Correspondent Jon Karl, “don’t be a cutie-pie, okay?” During the leader’s daily press briefing/campaign rally on March 27, 2020, Karl pressed the leader, “Look, can everyone who needs a ventilator get one?” Karl asked a fair question, given the nature of the administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The leader dodged the question cutely. “Everyone who needs one- nobody’s ever done what we’ve done. Nobody’s done anything like we’ve been able to do. Everything I took over was a mess. It was a broken country.” These are just the reassuring words a nervous

Short Pandemic Note #15: “How Is Mike?”

20/03/27 at 4.30am / by Michael / 0 Comment

On March 26, 2020, the great leader came before his subjects to report on the excellent job he is doing managing the life or death fight Americans face against Covid-19. An enterprising reporter for Bloomberg received permission to ask him a question. Before the young African American could get his question out of his mouth, the leader inquired where did he work. “Bloomberg,” the young scribe answered. Then proceeded to ask his question of interest to Bloomberg’s readers on the status of the Coronavirus pandemic. He was interrupted again by the leader who inquired with a smirk on his face:

Short Pandemic Note #14: “Debt Before the Dead”

20/03/26 at 2.27am / by Michael / 0 Comment

On the eighth day of the President’s 14-day national social distancing scheme to combat the spread of Covid-19, Carmen Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, blasted Trump for his handling of the deadly outbreak of the Coronavirus. “He puts the debt before the dead,” Cruz told The Hill, referring to Trump’s handling of hurricanes Irma and Maria, which swept through the island in 2017. It is a reframe that Cruz frequently repeated in 2017, provoking the ire and nasty words from the President. The mainland took little note of Cruz’s claim that over 3,000 Puerto Ricans lost their

A Short Note on the Pandemic #13

20/03/25 at 8.59am / by Michael / 0 Comment

“My mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life,” twitted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. In an apparent reference to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s statement that grandparents will gladly sacrifice themselves for the sack of leaving a robust economy to their grandchildren. For the love of God, is this what the United States of America has come too? Why can’t we simply cure the damn disease and save the young, the old, and the economy? It seems a no brainer to me, but not to the conservative leadership running the country. To them,

A Short Note on the Pandemic #12

20/03/24 at 5.03am / by Michael / 0 Comment

“The cost of the cure should not be more than the cost of the disease,” the confident leader of the western world said in his daily Coronavirus update on day 6 of the government’s recommendation to stay home for the next 14 days. In western medicine, the cost of the cure has always been higher than the price of the disease. Doctors view the objective is to keep the patient alive at all cost, especially when the patient has proper insurance. The leader seems to suggest that the health of the country is not worth the lost business opportunities of