Self-isolation Day 98.
Last night I went to
bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, woke up at 4:30 and got up at 5am.
Teresa got up at 7am.
Just days after the NFL
Players Association told
players to end group workouts, following the news that multiple Buccaneers’ players tested
positive for COVID-19, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady was back holding a private
practice with teammates on Monday.
A prosecutor who withdrew
from the Roger Stone case after Justice Department leaders intervened to
recommend a lighter sentence intends to testify before Congress that he and his
colleagues were repeatedly pressured to cut Stone "a break," and were
told that it was because of his relationship with President Donald Trump.
Gabriel
Sherman, of Vanity Fair reported Monday
that President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager is going to step down
following widespread mockery of the reelection effort after the disappointing
turnout at a rally held in Tulsa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Donald
Trump’s exhausted trudge from Marine One toward the White House after his
botched rally in Tulsa, his red tie undone, a grim look on his face, a crumpled
MAGA hat in his hand, is now an iconic image of his presidency. And as always
with Trump, he’s already looking for someone to blame. The most obvious
candidate, according to sources, is his embattled campaign manager, Brad
Parscale.”
Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president:
"Donald Trump has
been the worst president this country has ever had. And I don't say that
hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And he has brought
this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply
unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack
Obama left office. And there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply
skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is
a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.
When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an
imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them
because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his
behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of
incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody
in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial
responsibilities.
It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United
States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed
businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A
successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and
the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death,
suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And let's be clear.
This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place.
Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the
place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones
with the most shattered economy. And we are because of the fool that sits in
the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk."
Here, in no particular order, is a list of various people,
developments and entities that President Trump and his top advisers have tried
to blame for his towering failures on the novel coronavirus and the resulting economic catastrophe we’re currently
living through:
1. China
2. The World Health Organization
3. Democrats
4. Governors
5. The media
6. Hospitals
7. Protesters
10. The top deputy inspector general for Health
and Human Services
11. Barack Obama
But now Trump’s advisers are taking this to a new level
entirely. The latest target for their blame-shifting? Trump’s own government. White
House advisers are concocting a new campaign to turn the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention into the latest scapegoat, as coronavirus cases spike in
many states and as the U.S. falls behind other countries in combating the virus.
At his Tulsa rally
on Saturday, Donald Trump may
have failed to draw the big crowd or
the violent protests
he desired, but he did enter a new phase in his efforts to make the
coronavirus pandemic disappear through the magical power of lying about
it.
During Trump's disjointed speech, he mentioned that the
"bad part" about testing people for the virus lies in the
fact that "you're going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please.” Earlier he tweeted
“Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are
testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller
testing we would show fewer cases!”
Republicans say
the U.S. should expand its testing capacity for the coronavirus,
breaking with President Donald Trump who
said over the weekend that he had ordered
staff to “slow the testing down.”
“We need the tests. They help us contain the disease and they
build confidence so we can go back to work, back to school,” Sen. Lamar Alexander
(R-Tenn.), who chairs the Senate health committee, told HuffPost.
European Union countries rushing to revive
their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus
restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United
States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of
acceptable travelers reviewed by The New York Times.
Americans overwhelmingly want clear standards on when police
officers may use force and consequences for officers who do so excessively,
according to a new poll that finds nearly all Americans favor at least some
level of change to the nation’s criminal justice system.
The Georgia Legislature on Tuesday afternoon passed a hate crimes bill
that will now head to the desk of Governor Brian Kemp. If signed into law,
Georgia would no longer be among four states without hate crime legislation on
its books.
Law professors and faculty from George
Washington University Law School, Attorney General William Barr's alma mater, said in a letter Tuesday he has
"failed to fulfill his oath of office to 'support and defend the
Constitution of the United States.'"
Arizona health officials reported yet another record number of
coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the same day President Trump is traveling to
the state to visit the nation's southern border and speak at a rally.
The Arizona Department of
Health Services reported 3,591 new COVID-19 cases and 42
related deaths. The state previously had its highest number of cases last
Thursday and added more than 1,000 cases in three of the last four days,
nearly doubling its case count from last week.
Hospitalizations have exceeded 2,000 for the first time amid th
A record-shattering Arctic heatwave reached 100.4° in Siberia on
Saturday. The town of Verkhoyansk, which is about 3,000 miles east of Moscow,
will have the northernmost recorded 100-degree temperature if the data is found
to be accurate, according to The Weather Channel. Record-keeping to measure
Arctic heat began in 1885. The same location reached another recorded high
temperature of 95.3° on Sunday. The town’s average high temperature in June is
in the mid-60s and the previous record high temperature was 99.1°.
Financial advisory firm Signum Global Advisors is telling
clients that it now believes the U.S. Senate is going to flip blue as Joe Biden
continues to surge past President Donald Trump in the polls.
Reporters on the scene at Trump’s event in Phoenix, Arizona, are
reporting that the only people in attendance wearing a mask are the reporters
who are covering the President.
Concentrated outbreaks
In rural areas are fueling Missouri’s coronavirus increases. Statewide, there were 1,528 new
coronavirus cases for the week ending June 19. That’s up 8% over the previous
week, and on June 18, new cases topped 300 in one day for the first time since
the beginning of May. Some of the increases are coming from outbreaks in rural
areas that are tied to meatpacking plants and Fort Leonard Wood.
Brazil recorded 39,436 new confirmed cases of the novel
coronavirus in the past 24 hours as well as 1,374 new deaths resulting from the
disease, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
Today Teresa beat me in
parcheesi 6 games to 2.
If I understood correctly
the president has extended the period of restrictions and isolation to July 15th.
A Trump replay from March 27th: Trump tells Pence not to call
governors who have been critical of the federal government’s response to the
crisis.
The
US has 2,291,237 ð 2,304,256 ð 2,352,968 coronavirus cases
with 119,979 ð 120,128 ð 121,100 deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 68,652 ð 71,183 ð 73,572 cases with 2,404 deaths. Medellin has 1,238 ð 1,278 ð 1,332 cases, an increase of 56 from June
22nd to June 23rd. Colombia’s rolling 6-day average of
new cases is still on the increase, Medellin included. Envigado has a total of 65
cases, an increase of 2 from June 21st to June 22nd.
Joke of
the day
MOSES'
JEWISH MOTHER:
"That's a good story! Now tell me where you've really been for the
last forty years!"
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