StarFleet Carl: Blog

Once you've all read this, please, no comments about Cal being PWd. He's 16/17, was a virgin when he landed here, and now has 16 women in his life. Of COURSE, he's PWd.

I may have been unconsciously influenced by a certain author during a scene in this chapter, too. I literally just realized that after reading it one more time this morning before posting. You'll see, Saturday morning.

(For the clueless out there - pussy whipped)

This will probably be a one time bonus, until I get the whole thing done. I know that I'm sure not planning on staying up until 2:30 tomorrow morning like I did this morning, because the words for Chapter 84 (24, for Book Three) were just flowing out of me. I literally started it yesterday, and wrote 5,000 words before I went to bed.

Since I still got up at 7 to go into the office, and I have to show three houses starting in about half an hour ... yeah, DEFINITELY not going onto a typing fest like that tonight.

I truly am blessed to have a wonderful group of readers. Thank you.

Wow! It was an honor to be nominated. But to win over authors with the skills of G Younger, Shaddoth, QM, Michael Loucks in TWO categories? Damn! Thank you.

Chapter 9 is uploaded and in the queue for Saturday morning! California has finally made it to California, and it's going to get more interesting for people out there. On a related note, life has gotten interesting here, and this week has been THE perfect reason why I wanted a 15 chapter buffer.

I think I've spent maybe an hour, total, working on Chapter 83. Don't get me wrong, it's almost done. I've also shown close to 30 houses to a client, written four offers, and we finally got one accepted. Just in time for a new client to contact me, so I'll be showing at houses all day tomorrow, too. At least I don't have anything planned for this weekend ... yet.

And now ... MY vent.

I've gotten a couple of emails in the last month complaining that there's not enough graphic sex in the story any more, and that it's really annoying that I only post once a week. My open blog response to that is pretty simple, and in line with something Ricky Gervais said. "Fuck off, I don't care."

Each chapter of this story is about 15 - 20 hours of my time researching and writing in the first place. Then it's hours of time for my editor, proofreader, and final proofreader, plus more of my time. I'm posting it on a site where it's free for you to read, and it's completely voluntary on your part as to whether or not you purchase of a copy on Bookapy as a 'thank you' to me. The three books of 'A True History' are at 775,000 downloads total so far. I don't have a lot of different titles posted, but right now I have 1.8 MILLION words posted online here at SOL. If you don't like what I'm writing, or how I do things, don't read my story. It's that simple.

TL:DR - I'm apparently a heartless, uncaring, and completely insensitive bastard. I'm also tired of a threat actually being overblown. Is the Wuhan Flu Virus potentially something that can cause serious health issues, if you catch it? Yep, can't argue with that. Has this whole thing turned into a completely overblown response to evolution in action? (Or what actually was an investigation into a real virus that got out of control, and they won't admit it.)

Well ... that's for you to personally decide. I'm just going to throw a few things out here. Real, honest to goodness, hard data. Just the numbers. You draw your own conclusions.

The US had 3.75 million births in 2019.
The US had 2.85 million deaths in 2019.
The US had a population of 329.6 million in 2019.
Based upon sheer numbers, every person in the country had a 0.86% chance of dying. Yes, I know individual factors matter regarding your entire risk factor, some higher, some lower. That's irrelevant to this.
As per the CDC, on Dec 31, 2020, there were 350,616 deaths in the US due to Covid.
As per the CDC, on Dec 31, 2020, there had been 20,040,828 cases reported.
That's a 98.3% SURVIVAL rate, with it's 1.7% death rate if you got it, and a total increase in the death rate to 0.97%.

Things peaked in the middle of January. In a NORMAL year, 7,800 people die EVERY SINGLE DAY. We're right now adding 700 to that total, so 8,500 people die every day.

Now, I'm seeing huge numbers being reported from India. Holy crap, they're reporting more than 5,000 people per day are dying there from Covid. That's a number people can relate to.

India had 26,900,000 births in 2019.
India had 9,780,000 deaths in 2019.
India had a population of 1,350,000,000 in 2019. For those of you in Rio Linda, that's four times the number of people that live in the United States.

If an additional 5,000 people in India die per day, that puts them from 0.72% to 0.85%. Meaning that they'll STILL have 15 MILLION more people born every year than die, while here in the US, we'll have half a million more people born every year than die.

When exactly do we get to decide for ourselves that it's an acceptable risk and live our lives like we really don't give two shits?