Friday, July 24, 2020

Self-isolation Day 129.

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, got up twice during the night, finally waking/getting up at 8am.

Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, losing all 4. Sigh! My new rating is 1265. The only excuse I can think of is that I had the black pieces for 3 of the 4 games. I was winning the 2^nd game but lost on time and in the 3^rd game I could have forced a draw by repetition.

About noon we started having a light drizzle.

I had a 2-hour chess lesson starting at 2:30. Sometime during that 2 hours it started raining.

Correction, we may be quarantined only Fri-Sun and open Monday. I’m sure I’ll learn more by then.

I forgot to mention that I mastered the ice maker on the new refrigerator. I just needed to hold the glass higher and further back under the dispenser.

Laura recommended a Netflix movie for us – Dark Desire. It’s an 18-episode Mexican soap opera IMDB rated 6.5. I was bored after the first sex scene but Teresa seemed to like it. We’ll see if she asks to see more of it.

 

Nursing home employees across the country have been dismayed by what they’ve found when they’ve opened boxes of protective medical gear sent by the federal government, part of a $134 million effort to provide facilities a 14-day supply of equipment considered critical for shielding their vulnerable residents from the coronavirus.

The shipments have included loose gloves of unknown provenance stuffed into unmarked Ziploc bags, surgical masks crafted from underwear fabric and plastic isolation gowns without openings for hands that require users to punch their fists through the closed sleeves. Adhesive tape must be used to secure them.

 

A new study of COVID-19, based on data from a symptom tracker app, determined that there are six distinct "types" of the disease involving different clusters of symptoms. The discovery could potentially open new possibilities for how doctors can better treat individual patients and predict what level of hospital care they would need.

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades, has grappled with several public health crises, including the AIDS epidemic and now, COVID-19. In an interview with CNN's David Axelrod, Fauci said the magnitude of criticism he is receiving now is different than in the past, and that he and his family have been seriously threatened. 

 

Seyi Fasoranti, a chemist who moved to Oregon from the East Coast six months ago, has watched the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland with fascination. A sea of white faces in one of the whitest major American cities has cried out for racial justice every night for nearly two months.

 

Illinois’ Jonathan Davila spent 44 days in Elmhurst Hospital after contracting COVID-19 in March. When he was discharged on May 5, his wife and their three children greeted him outside.

“We love you, Dad!” shouted his 5-year-old son, Mason.

Four days later, Davila was back at Elmhurst Hospital, where he stayed for another month. He was then transferred to Northwestern Medicine’s Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton where he has spent the last six weeks learning to walk and brush his teeth and write again. When he arrived at Marianjoy he couldn’t roll over on his own.

Davila is 30. His reaction to COVID-19 is a cautionary tale about how severely and unexpectedly the coronavirus can ravage a body, even the body of a young and otherwise healthy person.

 

Covid-19 can be a prolonged illness, even among young adults without underlying chronic medical conditions, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed by the agency said they still weren't back to their usual good health even two to three weeks after testing positive for the disease.

 

Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. 

The rate of cases has been increasing not only in countries like the United States, Brazil and India, which have dominated global headlines with large outbreaks, but in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Uzbekistan and Israel, among others.  

 

Jimmy Tosh, who runs a multi-million dollar hog and grain farm in Tennessee, is a lifelong Republican. He is pro-gun, supports lower taxes and agrees with most of Republican President Donald Trump's agenda.

He is also spending his money to help defeat Trump in November's election.

"I agree with 80% of the things he does; I just cannot stand a liar," Tosh, 70, said of Trump.

Tosh is one of a growing number of wealthy conservative Americans who say Trump is a threat to democracy and the long-term health of the Republican Party. They are actively supporting his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 3 vote, former Vice President Joe Biden.

 

The US has 3,980,107  ð 4,040,230 ð 4,122,121 coronavirus cases with 143,100+  ð 144,000+ ð 145,300+ deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 218,428 ð 226,373 ð 233,541 cases with 7,975 deaths.  Medellin has 10,872 ð 11,344  ð 12,168 cases, an increase of 817 from July 23^rd to 24^th. Envigado has a total of 629 cases, an increase of 47 from July 23^rd to 24^th.

 

Joke of the day

Guy gets a call from his doctor: “John, your tests came back and I have bad news.  You have cancer and Alzheimers.”

John says, “Well, at least I don’t have cancer.”