Well, if you're thinking that AIDS turned out to be not that big a deal in Africa, you're clueless.

AIDS is the third leading cause of death in Africa, trailing lower respiratory track infections and diarrhoeal diseases, but ahead of renowned killers like malaria, tuberculosis, heart disease, stroke, etc.

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks...

Those are 2019 figures, but more recent statistics wouldn't disturb that ranking. Africa has seen fewer than 300,000 COVID deaths total since the disease began. The leading countries for COVID deaths are South Africa (by far) followed by Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Would be interesting to see a racial breakdown of the departed in the RSA.

I'll add this important note, that a major US effort to help combats AIDS/HIV in Africa was an initiative from George W. Bush's time in office:

<Bush demanded billions for AIDS in Africa at his 2003 State of the Union. It paid off.

<President George W. Bush stunned the world by proposing what many thought impossible: providing wide access to HIV treatment in poor countries devastated by AIDS.>

eb. 7, 2023, 6:32 PM EST / Updated Feb. 7, 2023, 10:46 PM EST By Benjamin Ryan

President George W. Bush’s reputation may have been forever complicated by 9/11 and war, but a proposal he made in his 2003 State of the Union address became a historic humanitarian success, one that resulted in 25 million lives saved from AIDS, 20 million people with HIV provided antiretroviral treatment and 5.5 million babies born to HIV-positive mothers but free of the virus themselves.

After two decades, this is the legacy of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR — the most ambitious and transformative U.S. foreign aid program since the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe from the rubble of World War II.

This is also the story, unknown to many Americans, of how Bush — a devoutly religious man who campaigned for president on a platform of “compassionate conservatism,” but whose legacy was stained by the carnage of the Iraq War and the Afghanistan quagmire — conceived of and launched a juggernaut aid program that is widely credited with saving sub-Saharan Africa from cataclysm.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out...

Scroll down a bit to find this photograph, which is (was) rather topical:

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/...

<Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)>

Now then, I have a few, ahem, choice words about the pun this game has been saddled with.

How low can <Missy>, that pixelated master of deceitful maxilation go?

Pretty low, it appears, all because s/he wanted to perpetrate a right-wing hate trope on the front pages of <CG>. Trouble is...

<There is no such player named Frank K Ouchi>!!

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The player of these games, who currently has no bio whatsoever - no bio, no dob, no dod, no nothing - just the notice of 2 games.

This game is sourced, the other isn't.

This game is from <Chess Review, June 1952, p.191> where we see the player's name is:

<K. Ouchi>

I found the other game too <Chess Review v17 N11 (Nov. 1949) p329>, where the opponent of Huntzinger is none other than:

<K. Ouchi>

So, I don't care if there's a Frank K. Ouchi out there in some index file or not. The name of our chess playing friend is only known as

<K. Ouchi>

So the pun sucks in more ways than one. And our vainglorious punster comes up a cropper.

<There is no such player named Frank K Ouchi>!!>

A moment of silence on a website? Is this some kind of weird performance art?

<<Frank K. Ouchi, 75 [sic], of 375 Linden Avenue died yesterday at his home after a short illness. He was a bookkeeper for Langefelder, Homma, and Carroll of New York City.

Born in Japan, he had lived here 45 years.

A chess buff, Mr. Ouchi was a former member of the Northern Valley Chess Club. He had scored first place in the York Open Trophy. A golden knight winner, he was a member of the New York Chess Federation.

He is survived by his wife Rosalind; a daughter, Mrs. Constance Waits of Park Ridge; two sons, Frank of Little Falls, and Harry of Bogota; three grandchildren; and one great grandchild."(1)

Source
(1) Hackensack Record, 1967.05.04, Section C, p9>

Don't say internment, say lockdown. Aren't you feeling better already?

<The English “r” sound doesn’t exist in Japanese. Many times, students will swap in an “l” sound, which is ironic because when an “l” sound occurs in an English word they often pronounce it as: “ru”, “ro”, “ra”, “re”, or “ri”.>

https://blog.talk.edu/learn-english...

Keypusher lies, following the lies of the vultures who lie:

<If that's how you feel, I'm at a loss to understand why you post POLITICAL NONSENSE all over the place.>

I believe it, and value your measured and often insightful posts.

I also think your previous post was well intended (but a bit eclectic(?) for a website).