As at 6/30/22, I am informed that this my blog had 421 followers. Further, I am informed that this my blog had 2,332 views for the month ended 6/30/22 (including Saturdays, Sundays, and days which are legal holidays in the District of Columbia), the fewest views since the first-half of calendar 2020, in the depths of the COVID pandemic.

I deduce from the foregoing statistics, without having made independent investigation of their accuracy, that my “followers” simply aren’t “following.” Had even 200 of the 421 viewed this my blog even once daily on 20 days, not the whole 30, there would have been 4000 (count ’em, 4000) views during the said month, not 2,332.

So I invoke the words of Tom Jones’ and Harvey Schmidt’s 1960 classic.