Self-isolation Day 100.
Last night I went to
bed at 10:45, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 3:30, woke up again at 6am,
cat napped until finally waking/getting up at 7am.
Last night I played 6
games on Chess.com, winning 4, losing 1, and drawing 1, finishing with a new
rating of 1338. The game I lost I was winning and he didn’t make a move for
something like 4 minutes so I don’t know how they figure I lost that game.
The Saharian dust storm
is supposed to reach Colombia today.
The US confirmed 45,000
new Coronavirus in the last 24 hours. A new record. Nice job! (I say sarcastically.)
I finished season 3,
episode 13, of Colony (7.4). Unfortunately, USA network didn’t renew the
TV series after the 2016-2018 seasons. It ended just as the alien war was
starting which really pissed off most reviewers. I read the reviews in IMDB before
I started the series so I knew it was going to end abruptly without completion.
"We had a ventilator
problem that was caused by the fact that we weren't left ventilators by a
previous administration," Donald Trump said in April, referring to his Democratic predecessor. Soon
after, the president argued, "When we took over, we didn't have
ventilators. Nobody knew what a ventilator was."
The Washington Post
discovered “There were
nearly 17,000 ventilators available for use that had been left behind by the
Obama administration. Trump instinctively wants to blame Obama, but no matter
how you do the numbers, 16,660 is far more than zero.”
During his
Tulsa rally last weekend, President Trump confessed that he sees coronavirus testing as a political threat and wants to
diminish America’s caseload by doing a worse job of measuring it. “Testing is a
double edged sword,” Trump told the sparse Oklahoma crowd. “Here’s the bad
part. When you do testing…. you will find more cases. So I said to my people,
‘Slow the testing down, please.’”
After a
gaslighty news cycle in which top deputies insisted that Trump was being
facetious, Trump clarified, “I don’t kid,” and even expanded his thinking on
Twitter: “Cases
up only because of our big number testing.”
Despite — or perhaps because of —
these shameful numbers, the administration is following through on Trump’s
orders to slow down testing. The Department of Health and Human Services has
announced it will pull
funding from more than
a dozen drive-through testing sites across five states, including Texas, at the
end of the month.
The move has left top Democrats
incensed: “The pandemic is clearly getting worse in states nationwide,” Sen.
Patty Murray of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the health committee,
said in a blast to reporters, “and instead of trying harder to stop it,
President Trump is apparently trying harder to hide it.”
U.S.
officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the
coronavirus since it first arrived in the United States, meaning that the vast
majority of the population remains susceptible.
Thursday’s
estimate is roughly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that
have been confirmed. Officials have long known that millions of people were
infected without knowing it and that many cases are being missed because of
gaps in testing.
On January 22, President
Donald Trump did an interview with CNBC from Davos, Switzerland, where he was
asked, for the first time, about the coronavirus in America.
"We
have it totally under control," Trump said. "It's one person coming in from China, and we have it
under control. It's going to be just fine."
That was 156
days ago. In the interim, 2.4 million Americans have tested positive for
coronavirus and more than 121,000 have died. And just Wednesday, the three most
populous states in the country -- California, Florida and Texas -- reported
record numbers of daily coronavirus cases.
As recently as a week
ago, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump said this of the virus: "I don't even like to talk about that, because it's
fading away. It's going to fade away."
Remember when the World
Health Organization (WHO) said that asymptomatic coronavirus patients can’t
spread the virus, only to retract the
statement almost immediately? Sadly, some people may not have received the full, correct message.
The novel coronavirus is so devious that not all people start showing signs
upon infection. The body still has
to deal with the disease, and a variety of studies have shown that the lungs of asymptomatic
patients had damage similar to pneumonia as well as a lower count of white
blood cells (lymphocytes). But the person could feel fine and continue to
behave as if they were not infected. Only a PCR test would confirm the COVID-19
diagnosis, and if you don’t have any symptoms, you’re less likely to get one.
From Colombia’s
US embassy today “COVID-19 Quarantine Update and
Extension: According to the Colombian Ministry of Health, as of
June 24 there are 77,113 cases of
COVID-19 in Colombia. On June 23, President Duque announced the extension of
isolation measures in the country to July 15 but stated that the gradual
reopening of the economy will continue contingent upon on department and
mayoral guidelines.”
Positive coronavirus
cases in the U.S. hit a single-day record high today amid the reopening of
state businesses and the relaxing of social mitigation protocols. Cases were
markedly higher in Texas, California and Florida, leading to the overall gain.
On Thursday, the U.S.
reported 39,818 new cases of the virus, the largest single-day increase since
the pandemic began. In total, the U.S. has reported 2,504,588 positive cases of
the coronavirus making it the second hardest-hit nation in the world.
This afternoon I had a
2-hour chess lesson with Juan Carlos that went 2 ½ hours. He told me my tactics
have improved.
The Trump administration
asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act,
telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.” The administration’s
argument comes as hundreds of thousands of Americans have turned to the government program for health care
as they’ve lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.
A Trump replay from March 30th: “It will go away. You know it is
going away. And it will go away and we are going to have a great victory.”
The
US has 2,352,968 ð 2,387,335 ð 2,426,751 coronavirus cases
with 121,100 ð 121,833 ð 122,456 deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 73,572 ð 77,113 ð 80,599 cases
with 2,654 deaths. Medellin has 1,332 ð 1,409 ð 1,504 cases, an increase of 94 from June 24th
to June 25th. Colombia’s rolling 6-day average of new cases is still
on the increase, Medellin included. Envigado has a total of 72 cases, an increase
of 4 from June 24th to June 25th.
Joke of
the day
Three virgin
sisters were all getting married within a short time period.
Mum was a bit worried about how their sex life would get started and made
them all promise to send a postcard from the honeymoon with a few words on their
first impressions of marital sex.
The first girl sent a card from Hawaii two days after the wedding. The card
said nothing but: "Nescafe". Puzzled at first, Mum went to her
kitchen and
got out the Nescafe jar. It said: "Great from beginning to end". Mum
blushed but was pleased for her daughter.
The second girl sent the card from the Maldives a week after the wedding,
and the card read: "Rothmans". Mum now knew to go straight to her
husband's cigarettes to read from the pack: "Super strong King Size".
She was again slightly embarrassed but still happy for her daughter.
The third girl departed for her honeymoon in New Zealand. Mum waited for a week,
nothing. Another week went by and still nothing. A month passed; still nothing.
A card finally arrived from Auckland on which was written with shaky hand,
"Air New Zealand ".
Mum took out her latest travel magazine, flipped through the pages fearing
the worst, and finally found the ad for Air NZ. 'Ten times a day, seven days a
week, in all directions.'
No comments:
Post a Comment