[link:https://americanindependent.com/trumps-failure-to-fill-hundreds-of-cdc-positions-endangers-millions-of-lives/amp/?__twitter_impression=true|]

Wilful and malicious destroying of competence. And if deaths are contained at 240,000 I would be very surprised, unless they do not start mitigation to a much greater extent than the federal government currently says needs to happen.

This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

[link:https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/|]
Emphasis mine
As she says at the end of the piece... It’s the end of the world as we know it, and everything does feel fine—not fine like chill, but fine like china, like glass, like thread. Everything feels so fine, and so fragile, and so shockingly worth saving. Things will not go back to what they were before the crisis, a time of change is coming. Worth clicking on the link to read the whole article, she is a splendid writer.

Hehe - very clever.

HAB911 Won the February contest and therefore has the privilege of deciding the theme for the April contest. I will be hosting the April contest. So without further ado the theme for April is "bokeh, the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light"

For those who are unsure what this looks like HAB911 kindly provided a couple of examples which I will replicate here:





Stunning!!! and very challenging as a theme.

Now to timelines.

I will open the competition to entries on the 15th April
Will close the competition for entries on 22nd April 17:00 GMT
First round of voting 22nd April for 3 days
Final round of voting 26th April for 3 days
Winner announced 29th April and they will decide the May theme as a marvellous prize!!!

Please be aware that I will be nagging all of you relentlessly to keep this competition kicked. As always it would be great to get 30 original pictures so spread the news far and wide please.

Get snapping