COVID19 – The Musings of the Big Red Car https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 The Nightmare Recedes https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-nightmare-recedes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-nightmare-recedes Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:53:12 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9549 As I write, Americans are being vaccinated against the COVID19 virus within the same zip code in which I sit. It began four hours ago. For some reason it reminds me of D-Day, the radio reports wherein our countrymen listened with anticipation: “This morning, under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces supported by […]

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]]> COVID19 Divorce https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/covid19-divorce/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid19-divorce Sun, 02 Aug 2020 05:14:44 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9266 It is 2 August 2020 and I report to you that I am getting a divorce. Do not beg me to reconsider.  My mind is set. COVID19 (actually COVID16 because it was a mild case) came into my life in early July with a seductive appeal that left me hot and bothered, unable to sleep […]

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]]> Operation Warp Speed https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/operation-warp-speed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=operation-warp-speed Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:28:35 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9241 It takes 6-10 years to develop a new vaccine from scratch. Ebola broke out in 2014. Vaccine development commenced. The vaccine was approved in December 2019. Comes now Operation Warp Speed in which the Trump admin is trying to use advanced management techniques (and some risk tolerance) to urge the private sector to develop a […]

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]]> COVID19 and Me https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/covid19-and-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid19-and-me Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:27:33 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9217 Brother Rat (what we call classmates at VMI, a very sacred term) of mine asks, “Do you know anybody who has actually had COVID19?” “Well as it turns out,” I say,” I do. Me.” I’m in about Day #7 of COVID19 and doing fine. How did this happen, Big Red Car? That, dear reader, is […]

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]]> Breathing Life Back Into A Company https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/breathing-life-back-into-a-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breathing-life-back-into-a-company Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:29:38 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9183 If you are the CEO of a startup, a small business, or a medium business, you are currently dealing with a unique situation — how do you re-invigorate an enterprise that has been rocked by three distinct issues:  1. COVID19 on a personal, human scale;  2. Externally imposed economic and workplace restrictions and impacts based […]

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]]> Fear V Danger — Perspective https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/fear-v-danger-perspective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fear-v-danger-perspective Tue, 26 May 2020 16:17:05 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9145 Fear is an emotion. Scary things create fear. How we deal with fear and scary things is within our control. Sometimes, it takes real will power to control fear and to  deal with scary things. Dealing with scary things is part of adulting. Not everybody is good at adulting. Not everybody wants to be good […]

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]]> COVID19 Reopening Facts https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/covid19-reopening-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid19-reopening-facts Sun, 03 May 2020 18:59:50 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9080 Long ago, I opined that the United States was facing 50 individual fights as it relates to COVID19. Fifty Fights — COVID19 War Now, I opine there will be a like number of “re-openings.” They will be guided by the facts. Let me use a couple of examples. These numbers are for the time period […]

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]]> Japan Abandons China https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/japan-abandons-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-abandons-china Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:32:08 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9072 Relations between Japan and China have always been dicey since before World War II, so a new development between them is not a huge surprise. The nature of the development in this instance is. Japan has funded a program — as part of its COVID19 economic stimulus package — to financially support companies who move […]

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]]> Unmasking China https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/unmasking-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unmasking-china Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:03:04 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9060 The world wants to know what exactly China knew about its most recent gift to the world — the virus that creates COVID19. What did China know and when did they know it; and, why didn’t they  tell us? China is bristling at all the attention. President Trump recently indicated his unhappiness with China for […]

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]]> The Doolittle Raid and COVID19 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-doolittle-raid-and-covid19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-doolittle-raid-and-covid19 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:52:26 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9010 On 18 April 1942 — today is 18 April, y’all — sixteen B-25B Mitchell bomber aircraft flew off the deck of the USS Hornet and conducted a bombing raid on Tokyo. The raid was militarily insignificant, but it sent a message to the Japanese. America was in the fight — four months after Pearl Harbor […]

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