Self-isolation Day 26.
Happy Easter!
Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, got up once during the night, woke up at 7am and got up at 8am.
At 8:30 Teresa called someone and ordered a few groceries so I had to go to the porteria to pick them up. My back still being stiff this early in the morning I was walking pretty slow. As usual I gave the delivery guy a generous tip.
One of my readers complained that the “à” weren’t showing as “arrowheads”. I couldn’t find a good alternative so I decided to simply change them to “to”. We’ll see how that works.
About 11:30 we had a short rainstorm.
Well, that was different. About 3:15 Teresa invites me for a nap but she gave up after about 5 minutes and went back to her crocheting in a rocking chair next to the bed. Twenty minutes later I give up and I hear something as I get out of bed. It was a small bird that somehow found its way into the narrow opening of the window and was now trapped between the window and the vertical blinds. I opened the window all the way and nudged the frightened bird towards the window until it finally found its way out. Strange!
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that calls to implement life-saving
social distancing measures faced "a lot of pushback"
early in the US coronavirus outbreak and that
the country is now looking for ways to more effectively respond to the virus
should it rebound in the fall. "I
mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was
ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives".
President Duque spoke on TV again tonight. If I understood Teresa correctly, Colombians under the age of 70 can leave their houses after 2 more weeks of self-isolation. The only problem is theaters, sports, restaurants and shops will still be closed so they really won’t have anywhere to go.
What did the president know and when did he know it? The New York Times published a timeline detailing the intelligence reports that the Trump administration brushed off.
One of the country's largest pork processing facilities is closing until further notice as employees fall ill with the coronavirus.
The Republican Governor of Louisiana said he would have cancelled Mardi Gras if the feds had warned him sooner.
Trump tweet: “Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have been investigating CoronaVirus when it first appeared in China. Media played a big roll also!” Reminder: the senate trial ended on February 5th.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): “So the first thing I want to do is get the United States Senate on the record where we — we don't blame Trump, we blame China — the Chinese government's responsible for 16,000 American deaths and 17 million Americans being unemployed. It's the Chinese government and the way they behave that led to this pandemic.”
So, if the Chinese government couldn’t be trusted, why did you trust them? What happened to Ronnie’s “Trust, but verify?” And that still doesn’t absolve the Trump administration of their own failures.
“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [funding for the Postal Service] was in it,” an official from President Trump’s administration told the Washington Post.
Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan suggested that the president of the United States had not told the truth when he said that states have all the medical supplies they need.
The Atlantic had an article on how China deceived the World Health Organization. Basically, the WHO cannot force countries to provide health data, they depend on that information to be freely forthcoming.
Trump Tweet: “For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States.” Like that’s something to brag about.
The US now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths with 21,692. That’s 62 deaths per million people compared to: China, South Korea and Singapore have under 5 deaths per million; Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan have under 1 death per million; India, with 1.3 billion people only has 10 deaths.
Per Medellin Guru Colombia has completed 41,785 coronavirus tests which is 823 tests per million.
Per The Intercept, the US got more confirmed “index cases” of coronavirus from Europe than from China.
Joke of the day
I caught two
kids smoking pot outside my office.
Fifteen minutes later my boss caught me and two kids smoking pot outside
my office.
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