Sunday, June 28, 2020

Self-isolation Day 103.

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once during the night, again at 4:30, gave up falling back asleep and got up at 5am. After breakfast and working on my computer a bit, I went back to bed at 6:30 and slept until 8.

It’s obvious we got some rain during the night. Only 66 degrees at 8:15.

Teresa got up at 5:30 and must have left just after 6:30 to go walk with a friend. Apparently, her blood test showed her vitamin D is low so she wants to get more sun. (So far all the sun is behind clouds but that probably won’t inhibit the transmission of vitamin D.)

Glenn sent me an El Colombiano newspaper article that stated that 5 Envigado restaurants will be opening on a trial basis. One is Black Pepper, hopefully the La Buena Mesa location 5 minutes from my apt.

I left the apt at 9:30 and walked to Aymará where I found Glenn waiting for me. The benches were all wet, the sky was still dripping so we sat on concrete borders. We chatted about a lot of things, finally leaving about 11:30. We walked to the mall and he went on to buy some drinking glasses and I made an ATM withdrawal, bought some cereal and took a taxi back to the apt arriving just after noon.

Per Medellin Guru, 16 restaurants in the Aburra Valley will be opening on a pilot basis July 1^st for table service. One of these is Black Pepper Steakhouse on Calle La Buena Mesa in Envigado.

 

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that the "window is closing" for the U.S. to take action and get the coronavirus under control, calling the current state of the outbreak a "very, very serious situation."

 

Teresa beat me in parcheesi 8 games to 6.

A huge dust cloud has traveled thousands of miles from the Saharan Desert in northern Africa to the Gulf Coast.

 

Republican governors in Florida, Arizona and Texas followed Trump’s lead by quickly reopening their states while taking a lax approach to social distancing and mask-wearing. Now each of them is seeing skyrocketing coronavirus caseloads and rising hospitalizations, and Republican leaders are in retreat.

 

If I understood the evening news correctly, Bogota is returning to quarantining because they are running out of ICU beds.

A Trump replay from March 31^st: Coronavirus task force briefing: “I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead.”  Trump says he anticipates the epidemic will be the “the worst thing the country has probably ever seen.”

The US has 2,478,695  ð 2,509,464 ð 2,562,925 coronavirus cases with 124,966 ð 125,344 ð 125,804 deaths. (Total cases in the US are still increasing.)

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 84,442  ð 88,591  ð 91,769 cases with 3,106 deaths.  Medellin has 1,624 ð 1,756 ð 1,885 cases, an increase of 127 from June 27^th to June 28^th. Colombia’s rolling 6-day average of new cases is still increasing, Medellin included. Envigado has a total of 79 cases, an increase of 3 from June 26^th to June 27^th.

 

Joke of the day

A young virgin couple is finally wed.

Each one is nervous about the impending night, but neither is willing to admit it or ask each other about it.

Wondering what to do first, the young man calls his father.

"Pop, what do I do first?"

"Get naked and climb into bed," his father replies.

So, the young man does as he is advised. The girl is mortified and calls her mama.

"Get naked and join him," is the advice from mama, so she complies.

After laying there for a few moments, the young man excuses himself and calls his dad again.

"Now what do I do?" he asks.

His father replies, "Look at her naked body. Then, take the hardest part of your body and put it where she urinates!" is the dad's advice.

A few moments later, the girl again calls her mama. "What do I do now?" she asks.

"Well, what is he doing?" mama asks.

"He's in the bathroom, dunking his head in the toilet!"