佛誕日佛山顯靈雲如意 Buddha Sign above Buddha Hill on Buddha Day

今天是4月最後一日，農曆初八，佛誕。
早晨，佛爺山上天空出現一片祥雲，狀似如意，好兆頭，預示疫情有轉機，一路向好。
Today is the last day of April, the 8th day in Chinese calendar, and Buddha's birthday.
In the morning, a "Ruyi" like cloud appeared above Mount Johnston. "Ruyi" was originally the ancient Chinese back-scrubber that monks often carry during the Tang dynasty, and later morphed into precious art for the rich and nobles. This is an auspicious sign, foretelling the pandemic will turn for the better. Let's hope.

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香港仔同南丫島周氏溯源 Origins of Chow Clans in Aberdeen and Lamma

香港仔和南丫島周氏源於同一祖先，出現過兩個名人：周壽臣和周潤發，分別出生於香港仔黃竹坑和南丫島。關於二人屬於哪條分支和其先祖原屬村落開拓時間及開創者，眾說紛紜。根據確切史料和可追溯文字記載，加以邏輯論證，剖析理順如下:
周敦頤一支後裔於約元代明初時期遷徙至廣東南雄府寶昌縣，歷居數百年。明代後期，寶昌分支再有後裔落籍廣州府東莞縣，世居愛蓮里。周壽臣和周潤發的香港始祖屬於東莞愛蓮里分支。周氏後裔繁茂，不同支派往往供奉不同的先祖，如周壽臣一派稱周啓文公為其16世祖，而屬南丫島橫塱兩派包括周潤發的一派，皆奉周啓文公為11世祖。
1667年左右，周啓文據記載被派往新安九龍，即原新安縣九龍巡檢司衙門，泛指現在大致香港地區，包括香港島，所以不一定指九龍寨本地，但可能性極高。當時香港一帶已經禁海，應該沒有駐軍和正常鄉民居住，所以周啓文最有可能隸屬鄭成功之子南明延平王鄭經的反清復明義軍，南撤並佔據被遺棄的九龍寨。根據其它時間資料分析，周啓文當時應該並未成年，所以禁海後義軍南撤的推斷有一定的依據。
1883年後，義軍失敗，周啓文隱居被其後裔稱為碳山南面的香港仔上水塘一帶，後娶車氏，先後生四子及多女。四子取名周裕興、宗、進、生，可見周啓文多麼期望其子嗣繁茂、光宗耀祖。女兒名稱和具體數目未詳，估計至少有5-6人，因為長子和次子年齡相近，但與三子和四子卻相差至少廿多歲。
1710年代，長子周裕興和次子周裕宗成年，為娶妻和耕地兩兄弟移居南丫島橫塱，而其第三代、即孫子輩後人正式建村，因此橫塱村建村時間應該是1760以後。周潤發的曾祖父周國泰(字純厚)是長房周裕興的第六世孫，而二房周裕宗的第五世孫周英華和第六世孫周國明也都塟在南丫島上。三子周裕進和四子周裕生其後相繼出世，同父母和數名家姐留守香港仔上水塘處。需要指明的是，當時的上水塘一處是山谷窪地的塱，水源充足、土壤肥沃，適合耕作，但面積不大和交通不便，難以支撐較大村落。另外值得指出的是，周氏族人當時對塱地特別靈感敏銳，後來再移居的黃竹坑也是塱地。
1730年代，周啓文離世，塟在北面碳山之邱南望家田子孫後裔，即現代上水塘北面的金馬倫山。
1759年左右，人口增加加上海盜猖獗，周裕進和周裕生兩兄弟同其母車氏帶領兩房家人移居黃竹坑，在山腳平臺之上建立新居。新居背靠高山，左右被茂密深林和天然斜坡保護，易守難攻; 前面是遼闊的塱地，適合耕作和人口繁衍。後來隨著人口不斷增加，到1845年，已建成5排排屋，排屋的前面是一座高高的圍牆。每排大約有8-10間相連但獨立的居室，可居住兩百來人。估計每有成年男丁嫁娶都會興建新的居室。
1760年代，車氏離世，塟在其夫周啓文的墓旁，1845年英制地圖清晰標記有兩座墳頭。
1792年9月和1793年2月，美國夫人華盛頓號南海遭遇海難後在漁民幫助下避險香港仔海灣，並被引見很有可能是周裕進和周裕生兩位老人本尊，砍伐位於圍村西北山上的大杉樹修補桅杆，並購買食物鮮貨等生活用品，開始西方人對香港島使用正式名稱，並引起英國人對香港島的重視和導致後來的竊取。
1832年，周壽臣的父親、周裕進第六世孫周錦書字寶興出世。
1846-1859年間，後人起骨合葬周啓文和車氏，並於1859年立碑。雖然1936年再修，但碑上後裔孫名單未改。截止1859年，周啓文在世後裔男丁共158人，南丫島大房周裕興28人、次房周裕宗22人，黃竹坑舊圍村三房周裕進62人、四房周裕生46人。1854年港府普查，黃竹坑男丁107人、女76人，成年男70人、女50人，兒童63人，男童37人，女童26人，總共183人。男丁107人與5年後墓碑上的108人數目極為接近，說明三房周裕進和四房周裕生乃黃竹坑周氏的始祖。估計三房有後裔19戶，四房後裔20戶，共39戶，與1845年地圖的五排排屋狀況相吻合。老人約9名，3人為男性。男女主人各36人，成年未婚男31人、女8人。男童38名，女童26名。周壽臣父親周錦書的名字雖然出現在墓碑上，其兩位家姐周土妹和周玖妹因為是女性沒有留名，而做為長子的周壽臣本人卻還未出生。
1860年左右，移民難民湧入黃竹坑，周錦書和族人佔地移居黃竹坑新圍，詳情未有記載。很有可能的是，四房留守舊圍，三房部分遷移至新圍、部分外遷至南丫島石排灣榕樹下。有文指周氏建村榕樹下有300年歷史是無依據的，應該不會超過160年。
1861年，周長齡字壽臣出生於黃竹坑新圍村。雖然名為新圍，但圍村的圍的實質已經不再。周氏族人初期移居選址考慮的要素是水源、耕地和安全，對塱地情有獨鍾，並保持排屋的族群集體生活方式。1860年港島的安全已不再是問題，搬遷新圍的周氏族人開始以家庭為主的分散生活方式，居屋不再是狹小的排屋，而是獨立的大屋和院落，越富有越大越闊落。黃竹坑現保留的古屋，以及南丫島榕樹下古排屋和石排灣村的老屋是最好的見證。1890年代到1900年代，工業和航運興起，農業勢微，水源和耕地不再是考慮要素，佔地和炫富成為新的追求，周壽臣一支更成為港島南區最大的地主。

U.S Knew Covid-19 on Jan 1, Before Any Other Country

Report by The New York Times on March 28 "The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to COVID-19" confirmed the U.S. CDC had been informed with details from the very beginning possible: "The first time Redfield heard about the severity of the virus from his Chinese counterparts was around New Year’s Day, when he was on vacation with his family. He spent so much time on the phone that they barely saw him. And what he heard rattled him; in one grim conversation about the virus days later, George Gao, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, burst into tears." Robert Redfield is Director of U.S CDC! China CDC was not involved until December 31, before that it was local CDC from Wuhan or Hubei, which did not know what the disease was until December 30 or 31. Report confirmed also Redfield, on January 3rd, informed Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, and other top U.S. officials, which Azar himself admitted to reporters.

CDC in January invented its own test kits, instead of following WHO recommended procedures, and did not allow any other organizations or labs to conduct the tests for weeks. When pressure built up and CDC was forced to scale up and send out the test kits to other public labs in the country, 24 out of 26 these labs had problems with testing results. The problem was not fixed until March, why? Over two months passed without any meaningful testing or tracking, there is no way to trace the origin of the virus. What has the CDC been trying to hide, if this was not an honest mistake?

May 1: Trump no longer says China "should have told me earlier". Instead, he is trying to frame and blame Wuhan lab, and forcing U.S. intelligence to find evidence; so far, none. When pressed by reporters for evidence, here is what he had to say, “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.”
June 10 "Time": "U.S. Response to COVID-19 is Worse than China’s. 100 Times Worse."

Sept 10: LA study indicates the virus was spreading locally before Xmas. Bob Woodward book shows Trump knew how severe the virus was before 7 Feb!

Coronavirus "SIN" followed by "BURM" and "ABRIU"

The worst hit real hotspots for Covid-19 turn out to be "SIN": Spain, Italy, New York!

May 23: the SINs are now followed closely by "BURM": Brazil, UK, Russia and Mexico, whose leaders are either just like Trump or worshipped by Trump.

Meaning of BURM:
1. the area between and directly below a female's breasts,
2. one who lacks the basic hygenic and social skills to lead a productive life,
3. to be publicly humiliated in front of a zillion indie kids,
4. to take a short break from eating during a meal,
5. a large pile of snow or debris made from a snowplow which accumulates on the side of the road.

June 11: the top countries are now ABRIU: America (US), Brazil, Russia, India and UK. All have something in common: a Trump like leader. One of the meanings for Abriu is to spread.

Does Trump Understand the Meaning of Milestone?

Charles Goodhart observed in the mid-1970s that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Read this on 11 June, well said!

Visible Super-duper Warp-speed Demon-sperm Trump Virus
President Demon Sperm
Visible Trump Virus
Commander-in-Thief Mt. Russiamore
Fields-Jungles-cum-Desert Thief Operator
Greatest Pretender
Cleavage Loving Mario Kart Mushroom Head CoronaviKing
George Floyd trumped Covid-19 and Trump
Super-duper Moscow Agent Govern America
America First = America Fucked as MAGA = Moscow Agent Govern America
Divider-in-Chief
Bunker Inspector General
White Supremest having White Dream in White House
PP Loving DD (David Dennison)
America First = Anglowhite First
MAGA = Make Anglowhite Great Again
Dominate White Supremest
Stormy Dominate
多行不義畢自斃 Chicks come back home US to roost
Commander-In-Cheap
President Pennywise
Petulant child
President Swamp Filler
President Petty Tweety
Dumpty Trumpty
A super duper!
Honking trucker lover!
Not so warp speed developer!
A warp speed truck trumping super duper!
Bright trump the dumb.
Covid-19 is nature's way to expose the weak, the fake, and burst bubbles.
When a monkey learns from another monkey, you get monkey results.
Trump stupidity trump Trump virus trump Trump politics.
A billionaire will choose money over life  (other people's, not his own).

Trump, the other day, said on TV, America achieved another "milestone" by testing one million people. Does he understand the word "milestone"? Or he simply keeps inventing new "milestones" as he feels like? What is the goal, the final objective? No wonder U.S is in such a mess. No one knows how to set true "milestone" that matters, and people are easily fooled with tasks from objectives. Busy body, fool's errand with no end in sight.
April 9: according to new reports it might have not been 1 million tested but 1 million capacity of test kits shipped out by then, and 3 weeks later only about 88,000 had been processed due to problems! Not only did Trump not understand the word "milestone", he also did not know the difference between test capacity and tests!
April 10: The number of new deaths in a single day over 2,000 is more than next two countries France and UK combined, another AF MAGA "milestone" achieved, that is according to Trump's definition.
April 11: two Trump style AF MAGA milestones. Now ranked #1 in Covid-19 death counts, accounting for over 20% of world total, and "Army's Seatle field hospital closes after 3 days, without treating a single patient".
April 13: all 50 states officially declared disaster, another AF MAGA milestone.
April 21: "The anti-malaria drug touted by President Trump showed zero benefits for coronavirus patients in a nationwide study — and even caused more deaths among those given the drug versus those given standard care, researchers reported." That is a real milestone that will spare critical resources and save lives.
April 23: Trump suggests to shine strong UV light or inject bleach inside Covid19 patients' body. How about inside his brain? May enhance his level of stable genius. Stephen Moore, a member of Trump's economic task force, spoke to The New York Times this week about restarting the U.S. economy, said "I was thinking this morning, and this is just kind of a thought experiment because I was thinking about this — why don't we just put everybody in a space outfit or something like that?" Trump is surrounded with stable geniuses like himself.
April 24: deaths exceeded 52,000 accounting over 25% world total, another Trump style milestone!
April 25: “When he gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue — and so that’s what dialogue he was having. I think he just saw the information at the time immediately before the press conference and he was still digesting that information,” Birx just sold her soul by desperately trying to defend Trump, and by doing so unwittingly exposed Trump as a big liar as Trump later claimed he was simply being sarcastic.
April 26: close to 1 million confirmed cases, approaching another Trump milestone. Apparently Bill Bryan sold Trump the ideas of UV/bleach/sunlight treatments.
April 27: historical Trump milestone achieved passing the million mark with 1,009,259 confirmed cases.
April 28: Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open, as said before he would choose money over poor people's life in any given day. Pence visited Mayo Clinic without wearing a mask.
April 29: "U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight", that is a milestone in itself. Trump said "China will do anything they can to have me lose this race." Honestly Chinese leaders would prefer Trump over anyone else - he has been the best ever for China. Not only America is now almost alone in confronting China with AF MAGA, Trump's little back stabs here and then serve as the best siren calling for a strong and united China.
April 30: Trump said he had seen evidence that the coronavirus outbreak originated in a research lab in Wuhan,  but is "not allowed to tell anyone" what it is. Really? I claim it came out of his orange rear end, but am not allowed to tell anyone what it is!
His new press girl came out saying U.S "intelligence is estimate". Wow, that is rich.
May 4: Trump has moved his milestone again, saying death toll will be 75,000, 80,000 or 100,000. What a stable genius! And it is all China's fault!
May 5: Another Trump milestone passed with over 70,000 dead.
May 7: 76,916 dead, passing yet another Trump's new milestone of 75k. The stable genius moved his milestone again to 95k now.
May 9: another milestone with over 80k (80,037) dead!
May 16: new Trump milestones with reported over 1.5m infected and over 90k dead, 3 times more deadly than Germany per capita . Actual death count already between 126 and 180k. How many of these dead could be attributed to Trump? 60-150k! Because Trump did not test early, track or isolate cases; did not invest in healthcare to get hospitals ready, but actually cut funding and withdrew personnel from Wuhan lab which was designed with US and others to prepare for an event like this; did not lockdown even when it was out of control; did not trust experts and let them do their proper jobs. Even though US had known about the severity of the coronavirus earlier than Germany and other countries (China CDC director called US CDC head starting January 1 for several days and on occasions even cried out during the calls!), but Trump said it was a hoax, just like flu, US was safe (cases will go from 15 to 0 in no time), stopped travel from China but not from Singapore, Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Spain or UK, did no proper screening at the airports, it was a bioweapon released or leaked from a lab, and it was all China's fault.
May 20: Columbia University research found 83% of US coronavirus deaths due to Trump's inaction, which means Trump "murdered" 78,769 to 157,000 Americans as of this date.
May 21: another milestone with 96,184 dead, already passed Trump's revised target of 95k! 8th Amazon warehouse worker died from Covid19.
May 23: reported test numbers, bragged by Trump as milestones, turn out to be greatly inflated as CDC combined tests that detect active infection with those that detect recovery from COVID-19. Real stable genius scientists? Way to fake and inflate! In addition, each person requires multiple tests to ensure accuracy, that is why China Mainland and HK never talk about number of tests but only number of people tested. Number of tests is irrelevant except for purchasing and planning machines and materials.
May 25: Wuhan reported tested over 9 million people in two weeks! No mention number of tests but only number of people tested, and will continue for people missed or unable to move outside home.
May 26: Another Trump milestone 100,573 dead. Senior White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, "our capital stock hasn't been destroyed. Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work, and so there are lots of reasons to believe that we can get going way faster than we have in previous crises." People are nothing but stocks in the eyes of billionaire minions.
June 4: another milestone with over 110k dead.
June 6: nearly 600 (586) health workers died, another milestone.
June 7: another milestone with over 2 million cases!
June 10: another milestone with over 115k dead.
June 12: Rebekah Jones proved Florida used number of tests instead of people as the denominator in calculating % confirmed or deaths of tested. This proves my early suspicion of Trump and most Republican states were purposely committing a fraud.
Tony Schwartz said, “he is, a psychopath. Meaning, he is missing the two ingredients that are critical and common with human beings. Number one, conscience, and number two, empathy. So, he lacks both of these qualities, and therefore anything goes for Trump.”
June 16: "The US now has 66 million surplus anti-malaria pills after the FDA revoked an emergency waiver allowing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine." As I said on 2 April,  "busy body, fool's errand with no end in sight."
June 18: another Trump milestone with over 120,000 dead.
June 25: another Trump milestone with over 126k dead.
June 30: another Trump milestone with over 130k dead.
July 6: another Trump milestone with over 3m confirmed.
July 9: another Trump milestone with over 135k dead.
July 15: another Trump milestone with over 140k dead.
July 20: Trump took the cognitive impairment test as a proof for his cognitive abilities and bragged about it!
July 21: Trump achieved another milestone with over 4m cases!
July 22: another Trump milestone with over 145k dead.
July 27: another Trump milestone with over 150k dead.
July 28: Trump keeps boasting number of tests as his achievement.
Aug 4: another Trump milestone with over 160k dead.
Aug 6: another Trump milestone with over 5m confirmed.

Aug 13: another Trump milestone with over 170k dead.

Aug 18: another Trump milestone with over 175k dead.

Aug 22: another Trump milestone with over 180k dead.

Aug 27: another Trump milestone with over 6m confirmed.

Aug 28: another Trump milestone with over 185k dead.

Sept 3: another Trump milestone with over 190k dead.

Sept 9: another Trump milestone with over 195k dead.

Sept 15: another Trump milestone with over 200k dead.

Sept 20: another Trump milestone with over 7m confirmed.

Sept 22: another Trump milestone with over 205k dead.

Sept 29: another Trump milestone with over 210k dead.

Oct 2: another Trump milestone with over 7.5m confirmed.

Oct 5: another Trump milestone with near 215k dead.

Oct 12: double Trump milestones with over 8m confirmed and over 220k dead!

Oct 15: Qingdao tested all of its over 10m citizens within a week! That is a milestone!

Oct 19: another Trump milestone with over 225k dead.

Oct 20: another Trump milestone with over 8.5m confirmed.

Oct 24: another Trump milestone with over 230k dead.

Oct 27: another Trump milestone with over 9m confirmed.

Oct 30: another Trump milestone with over 235k dead. Record increases in cases 99,476 and deaths 971 per day.

Nov 5: another Trump milestone with over 240k dead. Record increases in 113,143 cases and 1,091 deaths. 

Nov 6: another Trump milestone with over 10m confirmed. Record daily increases in 124,207 cases and 1,182 deaths. 

Nov 10: another Trump milestone with over 245k dead. Record daily increases in 133,437 cases and 1,322 deaths.

Nov 13: Trump milestones with over 11m confirmed and near 250k died. 

Nov 19: another Trump milestone with over 12m confirmed and near 260k died.

Nov 24: Trump milestones with near 13m confirmed and over 265k died.

Nov 26: another Trump milestone near 270k died. Thanksgiving.

Dce 1: Trump milestones with over 14m confirmed and 276k dead!

Dec 15: Trump double milestones with over 17m confirmed and over 310k died!

Dec 29: Trump new milestone with 20m (19,958,557) confirmed.

Dec 30: Trump double milestones with 20,201,192 confirmed 350,429 died.

Jan 3, 2021: Trump double milestones again with 21,113,528 confirmed 360,078 died.

Jan 15: Trump double milestones again with 24,102,429 confirmed 401,856 died!

Jan 20: On his way out Trump Virus 24,986,521 confirmed 415,528 died!

Jan 26: TrumpVirus milestone 26,006,765 confirmed 435,301 died. 

Feb 20: 28,706,473 confirmed 509,875 died 1 month after Trump gone

Sept 20: reported 43,106,846 confirmed cases, 694,612 dead and 32,661,537 recovered, which leaves 9,750,697 either hospitalised or still recovering! 

Dec 12: reported 50,801,455 confirmed cases with 817,956 dead. Actual #s much higher as the US has never fully tracked or tested cases even today! 

Interesting Case of Iceland and Italian Town Vo

Iceland is a small country but has done something on the coronavirus that other countries have not or are very difficult to do. They tested a sample or maybe later all its population. So far they find about 1% of people have the virus but half of them are asymptomatic. This also helps confirm my earlier analysis and conclusion that Wuhan's reported number of cases was actually quite accurate as they did house to house search seaking out all patients but potentially missed out 50% who showed no symptoms.
A small town Vo, near Venice, which spotted the first Italian death, tested everyone of about 3,000 total residents since March 6, found 2-3% initially had the virus but majority (about 80%?) had no symptoms, quarantined everyone for 14 days, now it is fully under control!