Dismiss the threat of COVID-19 at your own risk

A Virginia preacher believed ‘God can heal anything.’ Then he caught coronavirus.  (Washington Post, 4/27/2020)

UPDATE:  
1,301 COVID-19 cases in U.S. on March 11, 2020

1,010,356 COVID-19 cases in U.S.  as of April 27, 2020

Worldometer

UPDATE:
38 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. on March 11, 2020

56,797 COVID-19 deaths in U.S.  as of April 27, 2020.  (Likely an undercount.)

Based on CDC data, COVID-19 is the leading cause of death in the U.S. this month.

Patricia Hamm Suppa (1933-2020) Warren High School class of 1951

Source:  Warren Times Observer

1951 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory

• Hamm Byron G (Eva M) sernior technician Pennsylvania Gas r1780 Scandia Road
• Suppa James F (Patricia M) estimator National Forge h17 Hillview Drive
• Suppa Patty Mrs clerk Will's Cleaners r17 Hillview Drive 

1983 Warren City Directory

• Hamm Byron G junior instrument technician National Fuel & Gas r1780 Scandia Road
• Suppa James F  & Patricia M; cost estimator National Forge h17 Hillview Drive

The popularity of Patricia as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at granddaughter Carly. 

Source:  Social Security Administration

Carly debuted in 1973 and worked her way into the top 200, where she spent 22 years (1987-2002, 2003-2008), peaking at #122 in 1995.

Other members of the WHS class of 1951:
2019
John Steele Sr. (9/9/2019)
Josephine Gregerson Baker.  (6/1/2019)
Tilda Hildum Hulteburg.  (2/7/2019)
George Gern (2/6/2019)

2017
Patricia Elaine Black Williams.  (10/12/2017)
Marilyn Albaugh Frycklund.  (9/23/2017)
Carol Amacher.  (5/30/2017)
John Wood.  (5/28/2017)
Catherine Collins Sheldon.  (4/22/2017)
Ronald McCain.  (4/13/2017)
Elaine Crecraft McDunn.  (3/1/2017)
Albert Kondak.  (2/28/2017)
Richard Cook.  (2/16/2017)
Marilyn Pasquino Nyberg.  (1/19/2017)

2016
Mark Bevevino.  (8/26/2016)
Diedra Peterson Andersen.  (6/8/2016)

Marilyn Lyke Bonace.  (6/6/2016)
John Tingwell.  (6/5/2016)

2015
Donald Quiggle.  (12/19/2015)
Genevieve Larson McKown.  (12/16/2015)
Franklin Reiff.  (7/14/2015)

Mary Ann Font Schafer.  (6/29/2015)

Nominations for the Coronavirus Nutburger Hall of Fame are now open (Dale Zorn edition)

Another chubby older white guy

Learn more about Dale here

Text and photo found at Michigan state lawmaker apologizes for wearing apparent Confederate flag face mask.  (CNN, 4/25/2020)

4/26/Michael Kubosh nomination

Photo credit:  Facebook

As described in Here Comes Trouble by Mimi Swartz.  (Texas Monthly, January 2007)

Support for nomination:
Houston Council Member Compares Violation of Dine-in Service Restrictions to Rosa Parks.  (Law & Crime, 4/24/2020)

Among those who showed up in support of the Federal American Grill was Houston city council member Michael Kubosh. In an interview with local news outlet KPRC 2, Kubosh managed to compare the restaurant’s defiance of safety measures put in place to stymie the spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus to Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. “Sometimes civil disobedience is required to move things forward, and so that’s why we remember Rosa Parks,” Kubosh said.