Saturday, June 6, 2020

Self-isolation Day 81.


Today is the 76^th anniversary of D-Day.


Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once at 5am, finally waking/getting up at 7:45.


Teresa made blueberry pancakes with sliced bananas for breakfast. I went to get the new box of Bisquick I had stored in my closet and next to it I found another jar of Swanson marigold extract capsules so I’m good until about the end of July.



President Trump was incredulous after MSNBC announced that they had former FBI lawyer Lisa Page as a legal analyst.  “You must be kidding???" the president tweeted Friday night. "This is a total disgrace!"



Nearly 600 frontline healthcare workers have died of Covid-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, a project launched by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) that aims to count, verify and memorialize every healthcare worker who dies during the pandemic.

The tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as crucial healthcare support staff such as hospital janitors, administrators and nursing home workers, who have put their own lives at risk during the pandemic to help care for others.



The architect of Sweden's coronavirus response has defended the country's controversial decision not to go into lockdown, while admitting "improvements" could be made with the benefit of hindsight.

Much of the criticism around Sweden's response has focused on the high death rates in care homes. Tegnell admitted the country's Public Health Agency "didn't know that there would be such a big potential for the disease to spread in elderly care homes, with so many deaths."

"We knew that group was very fragile and that we would get a lot of deaths if they got infected. But we didn't know that the disease would enter so easily and for the spread to be so big." he said.

Wilson came over about 1pm and started cleaining our windows.

A handful of players from the New Orleans Saints criticized Drew Brees for his remarks, such as Cam Jordan, Malcolm Jenkins, Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas. It reached the point where the team needed a meeting to address what happened.

According to Saints reporter Nick Underhill, the team received a very emotional apology from Brees during Thursday’s meeting. He reportedly had tears in his eyes as he apologized to his teammates. “We must stop talking about the flag and shift our attention to the real issues of systemic racial injustice, economic oppression, police brutality, and judicial & prison reform. We are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history! If not now, then when?”

An illustrious list of dozens of former U.S. defense leaders, both military and civilian and across the political spectrum, have signed a strongly worded letter condemning President Donald Trump's call for a military response to quell protests.

Leon Panetta is one of four former defense secretaries at the top of the list of 89 signatures backing the letter which accuses Trump of using "inflammatory language" in the unrest caused by the death in custody of George Floyd.

The letter published in The Washington Post describes Trump's pledge to send active-duty members of the military to "dominate" protesters, whether local mayors or state governors wanted him to or not as a "shocking promise."

More than 140 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) — a philanthropic organization founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan — sent Zuckerberg a letter Saturday calling the social media site’s lax policy enforcement around inaccurate information and incendiary language contrary to CZI’s mission to “build a healthier, just, and more inclusive future.”

The list of signatories includes professors from more than 60 leading research institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as well as one Nobel laureate.

“As scientists, we are dedicated to investigating ways to better our world,” the letter says. “The spread of deliberate misinformation and divisive language is directly antithetical to this goal and we are therefore deeply concerned at the stance Facebook has taken,” on policing content.

The Hill notes, “American diplomats are facing a tough challenge defending U.S. values as violent clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters dominate headlines around the world.”

“President Trump’s calls to ‘dominate’ the streets are being compared in the U.S. and in other countries to authoritarian leaders who look to treat civil discontent and unrest as acts of terrorism,” the report added.

That has left diplomats charged with denouncing similar actions and statements by foreign governments in the uncomfortable position of now receiving that criticism in return.

If you’re an American diplomat overseas, suddenly we look hypocritical,” said Nicholas Burns, former ambassador to Greece and NATO under the Clinton and Bush administrations.

“We’ve been saying to countries, ‘do the right thing, treat minority populations well, don’t use force against protesters, let people exercise their civil and constitutional rights in your societies.’ Now they’re coming to us and telling us to do that. How sad is that?”

The Maine swab factory that Trump visited said that they will have to throw away everything produced while he was there because he didn’t wear a mask.

The Marine Corps said it will no
longer allow its troops to display the Confederate battle flag. “The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremists and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps.” the military branch said in a statement released Friday. 

The May jobs report that showed unemployment dropping to 13.3% contained a massive error and the BLS says the unemployment rate is three points higher.

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday that he did not agree with President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy active-duty U.S. military at protests.

“The troops hate it, they don’t see it as their job, they don’t want to be used in that way,” Kelly told Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director, during a livestreamed interview.

George W. Bush will not support the re-election of Donald Trump, according to people familiar with his thinking, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Wilson did a real thorough job cleanging the windows finally finishing about 7pm. At 6:30 I used Whatsapp to order ribs from Mu that arrived about 7:15. Only thing is they forgot to include our drinks in the order.

A Trump replay from March 9^th: Trump says that developments are “good for the consumer” and compares COVID-19 favorably to the common flu.

The US has 1,880,542  ð 1,910,038 ð 1,933,121 coronavirus cases with 108,117 ð 109,285 ð 110,019 deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 35,120 ð 36,635 ð 38,027 cases with 1,205 deaths.  Medellin has 594  ð 607  ð 620 cases, an increase of 13 from June 4^th to June 5^th.



Joke of the day

The wife and daughter are NOT amused by the father had said, so the daughter asks, "Mom, how many different kinds of penises are there?"

The mother smiles and says, "Well honey, a man also goes through three phases in life. In his 20s, his willy is like an oak tree, mighty, strong and hard. In his 30s and 40s, it becomes more like a birch, flexible but reliable. But after 50, it's like a Christmas tree."

The daughter laughs and asks, "A Christmas tree?"

The mother replies, "Yes, dear. Dead from the root up and the balls are just for decoration."