Thank you for the nice note. I started this effort 247 days
ago. I expected to do it for several months. It has now
been over eight months.
It’s not easy providing the information. I spend 3-4 hours
per day on this project. I debate with myself whether I
should go on. I have come very close to stopping, but
each time I consider it, it occurs to me that it would
leave a void of information.
I have been very tempted to stop for five months now. I
log updates to 232 nations every day. I do it twice a day
so there won’t be any surprises as I download data. Each
time a new nation is added, it take 45 minutes of extra
time for me to incorporate that nation in.
I use WorldoMeters as my primary source these days, but
there are four nations tracked by Johns Hopkins University
that aren’t tracked by WoM.
This is a thankless job. I get more insults than thanks for
doing it. That’s okay. I didn’t do it for praise.
I do it because I want the information to be accessible for
review and discussion.
If anyone doesn’t want to look at it, that’s fine with me.
If anyone wants to look at it, that’s fine with me.
This is information that is worthy of review.
If you don’t wish to, I respect that. For those that do,
it’s here.
We know this. The posts are very impressive, from a technical standpoint.
I debate with myself whether I should go on.
And you have earned that right, to decide what you would like to post. I am just suggesting to you, that most Freepers would prefer you invest your valuable time in posting your insights on all the other important threads that occur each day, rather than this recurrent, potentially boring, one.
We truly love and miss you on the other threads, and to think it is another thing lost to the CCP virus, is depressing.
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