Self-isolation Day 28.
Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once about 4am, woke up at 6am and got up at 6:30.
My back feels better again this morning.
Fact #1: The South Dakota State Medical Association wrote governor Kristi L. Noem a letter April 3rd warning that the state “may soon face the challenges and hardships currently being seen in New York and other large cities across the country if a shelter in place order is not issued immediately.”
Fact #2: Governor Noem resisted ordering her residents to stay home. “Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, she said disparagingly, reflected a “herd mentality.” It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether “to exercise their right to work, to worship and to play. Or to even stay at home.”
Fact#3: Hundreds of workers at a giant pork processing plant in South Dakota have fallen ill and Sunday they announced they are closing indefinitely.
Fact #4: Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken said yesterday, “A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today.”
Fact #5: Governor Noem still resisted, saying during a media briefing yesterday “it’s an exciting day” after conversing with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. She then announced trials of the drug that Trump has been touting.
Fact #6: On Monday alone, 57 more workers at the meat plant were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters.
Fact #7: Reopening the country by May is “not even remotely achievable,” said Mayor TenHaken, who, like Trump and Noem, is a Republican. “We’re in the early innings of this thing in Sioux Falls.”
The seven governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsyslvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Delaware formed a joint reopening strategy council.
California, Oregon and Washington have also combined together into a joint regional task force.
Monday, Trump said, “When somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be. It’s total. It’s total. And the governors know that.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-WY., third-highest ranking Republican in the US, tweeted “The federal government does not have absolute power.”
According to Amendment X of the United States Constitution, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, “The Constitution was written precisely the (sic) deny that particular claim.”
Fox Business host Neil Cavuto on Tuesday disagreed with President Donald Trump after he accused governors of a “mutiny” because they are coordinating regional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
IMHO, the governors are working around the president of the United States because he’s incompetent and they know it.
The Wisconsin Republican party, which forced Wisconsinites to leave their homes to vote during a pandemic hoping to reduce voter turnout, lost their State Supreme Court seat to Jill Karofsky, the Democratic challenger. Go Badgers!
The Today show interviewed a couple who had created a new system for cleaning and reusing N95 facemasks.
For lunch I convinced Teresa to order from Go Wings. She had chicken wings and I had ribs with a side order of coleslaw. The order arrived pretty quickly for 53mil.
According to a Fox News report, the members of the new coronavirus task force include Mark Meadows, Trump’s fourth chief of staff and a climate-science denier; Treasury Secretary and former hedge-fund manager Steven Mnuchin; Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose failure to divest his multimillions “keeps ethics watchdogs up at night,” as NPR put it; Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who also happens to be the wife of Mitch McConnell; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
President
O’Bama’s endorsement today of Joe Biden included these words “Joe helped me manage
H1N1 and prevent the Ebola epidemic from becoming the type of pandemic we’re
seeing now. He helped me restore America’s standing and leadership in the world
on the other threats of our time, like nuclear proliferation and climate
change.
Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our
darkest times and heal us through a long recovery. And I know he’ll surround
himself with good people – experts, scientists, military officials who actually
know how to run the government and care about doing a good job running the
government, and know how to work with our allies, and who will always put the
American people’s interests above their own.”
In Trump’s own timeline video at last night’s coronavirus briefing, the only event he listed between January 31st when he ordered the partial ban on travel from China and March 13th when he declared a national emergency was February 6th “CDC ships First Testing Kits”. If his administration had done anything (else?) significant between January 31 and March 13 don’t you think he would have mentioned it? That’s 6 weeks wasted!
The National Archives reported that someone tried to write the words “TOTAL AUTHORITY” in Sharpie on the glass case protecting the Constitution. Btw, they misspelled both words.
New Jersey, Louisiana, Washington DC, and Maryland record highest daily deaths since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump says he is halting U.S. Funding of the World Health Organization.
Later in the day, Trump backed off from his statement that he had “total” authority to open states and pledged to work with governors instead.
Per the evening news the number of Colombia coronavirus cases has increased thus: 1,184 to 1,406 to 1,485 to 1,579 to 1,780 to 2,054 to 2,223 to 2,473 to 2,852 to 2,979 with 146 to150 to 172 to 183 to 209 to 234 to 239 to 246 to 272 to 289 in Antioquia. Bogota has the most cases with 587 to 695 to 725 to 779 to 861 to 992 to 1,029 to 1,121 to 1,205 to 1,242. A total of 46 to 50 to 55 to 69 to 80 to 112 to 127 have died.
Here is the breakdown by age (showing change):
Minors under 20: 45 to 57 to 69 to 75 to 77 to 85 to 97 to 115 to 128 to 153 to 178 to 190.
20-40 years of age: 399 to 477 to 550 to 610 to 643 to 673 to 750 to 854 to 905 to 1,009 to 1,146 to 1,187.
40-60 years of age: 304 to 355 to 428 to 473 to 507 to 541 to 617 to 709 to 766 to 836 to 968 to 1,013.
Older than 60: 158 to 176 to 220 to 248 to 258 to 280 to 316 to 376 to 424 to 475 to 560 to 589.
Per the Johns Hopkins website, 1,900,000+ cases worldwide with 600,000+ in the US.
Joke of the day
My wife said
I need to grow up.
I was
speechless.
It’s hard to
say anything when you have 45 gummy bears in your mouth.
There will be plenty of finger pointing on the virus issue throughout the election since that is the only thing in the news.
ReplyDeleteBad back: When was the last time you changed show size? As we get older some people can increase shoe size by 1 size. I suffered over a year with bad back to bouts of PT with two different providers. Last PT told me a leg was shorter and made a wedge for me which helped for a while. Traded a Civi for an Accord for easier seating. No help! Finally my wife suggested the shoe size thing and I didn't believer her but looked it up on Google and after reading that was possible, I changed 1 size and now 5 years later and 5 years without a wedge, I have no more back issues except sleeping too hard occasionally but that quickly goes away.
to bouts should be two bouts
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