Self-isolation Day 121.
Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up twice during
the night, again at 5am, couldn’t get back to sleep so I got up at 5:45.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning all
4. My new rating is 1267. Remarkably for 3 of the games I had the black pieces.
Don’t worry I won’t get a swelled head.
One of my readers recommended a supplement for joint
pain so I ordered a bottle of Joint Support from Arazo Nutrition for $19.95.
(As I recall I have a credit with Paypal so I shouldn’t get billed for this.)
Seth Meyers on Late
Night "Donald Trump is clearly upset that he can't hold rallies
anymore now that attendance is so bad they look like Tuesday afternoon Mets
games. So yesterday he lured reporters to the Rose Garden by pretending to hold
a press conference, but decided instead to hold a little campaign rally for
himself which quickly evolved into yet another one of his trademark psychotic
meltdowns," Meyers said to open the segment.
And of course the
coronavirus pandemic — you know that ongoing crisis that has left the country in
ruins — barely came up at all. He basically ignored it. That's like the fire
department showing up to a burning house just to sell you their new calendar.
It is impossible to watch
what is unfolding right now under this administration and avoid the conclusion
that America is in free fall at this very moment, as a mostly preventable
second coronavirus outbreak spirals further out of control, more than five
million Americans have lost their health insurance, a third have missed housing
payments, as many as 28 million face eviction, expanded unemployment benefits
are about to expire, people are about to get their tax bills, schools might not
be able to reopen, and even the postal service is being gutted by soulless
corporate raiders installed by our cretinous business husk of a president.
Think about that. We
might not even be able to get our mail on time anymore. That's how bad things
are. And for most of us, getting our mail is the only entertainment we have
left.
Georgia Republican Gov.
Brian Kemp issued an executive order Wednesday night, which outright banned
cities and counties in the state from issuing mask orders to help stop the
spread of COVID-19. (How stupid
can you get?)
The Republican National
Committee is planning to sharply limit attendance for its convention in
Jacksonville, Fla. next month, shrinking the event celebrating President Donald
Trump’s renomination amid concerns about coronavirus. (But of course republicans want full attendance
when it comes to kids going back in school.)
Yesterday, Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp (R) sued Atlanta's mayor for requiring people to wear masks in
public places. The reason: the governor said the city's rule violates an
executive order he signed earlier this week that bans local
governments from issuing mask mandates. He said he's encouraging masks but
requiring them is "a bridge too far" and hurts businesses. Atlanta's
mayor said the rule would "save lives" and she'd defend it in court.
Georgia was the first state to reopen its economy back in April, despite health
experts' concerns. Since the pandemic began, it's had nearly 128,000 confirmed
cases of COVID-19 and more than 3,000 deaths. Now, it's issuing a law against
masks while about half the country requires them.
Today the US reported over 70,000 daily coronavirus cases, a new
record high since the pandemic began.
Republican
Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland on Thursday night said he has always been a
straight-shooter with President Donald Trump over the federal coronavirus
response after the White House chided him for "revisionist history."
Hogan had earlier slammed Trump's early
response to the coronavirus pandemic as
"hopeless" in an article published
Thursday in The Washington Post, elaborating on his efforts to secure testing
kits and prevent the deaths of residents in his state. His account, excerpted
from his forthcoming book, subsequently drew criticism from White House press
secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
"I have, from the very beginning of this, been very upfront
and straightforward," Hogan told CNN's Erin Burnett on Thursday night when
asked about McEnany's response. "When I think progress has been made, I
give them credit."
At
A White House event, Trump claimed that one of his major first-term
accomplishments is making sure that dishwashers have more water.
Trump said,
“Dishwashers, so you didn’t have any water, so the people that do the dishes,
you press it, and it goes again. You do it again and again, so you might as
well give them the water, because you’ll end using less water, so we made it so
that dishwashers now have a lot more water, and in many places, in most places
of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what to do with it.
It’s called rain. They don’t have a problem and old fashioned incandescent
light bulbs. I brought em back. I brought em back.”
Covid-19 can cause a
wide variety of symptoms, but a new
analysis of records by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found
that most patients seemed to share at least one of three symptoms: fever, cough
or shortness of breath.
The emergency room overflowed with
patients. Then, the next wave arrived. This time on stretchers.
"They were lined up along the walls in
the ER," a health care worker inside a Navicent Health-owned hospital in
middle Georgia told GPB News. "We never have had an influx like that.
Since the Fourth of July, it has just exploded."
I left the apt at 8:30
for my 9:15 appointment. I arrived at Dr. Rendon’s office and since he had an
8am no-show he took me right away. He pulled out the temporary crown and put in
the new one. He said to bite down hard and I did and we heard a “crack”. The new
crown broke. He had to take a new impression and put in a new temporary. He will
call me when the new crown arrives.
I took a taxi to Pricesmart.
As usual I grabbed one of the carts on the upper level so I wouldn’t have to go
down to the garage to get one. When I reached the next level down I saw that
they had it roped off. I could see that I had to take my cart down the
escalator and up the other side. When I got down I saw a Disney World like
line. I got in the back and it was a 10 minute to enter. Of course they check your
cedula, ask about your health, take your temperature and spray your hands with
disinfectant. I picked up most of the things on my list including 2 Butterball
turkey breasts that I know Teresa will be excited about. Traffic was heavy
returning to the apt. I transferred everything from the taxi trunk to the
portero’s shopping cart and took everything upstairs. (I was very grateful the
elevator was working.)
I remembered we were
out of milk so I went next door to Exito and bought 3 bags of whole milk
(they were out of our usual – what is it called? Semi?).
I had a chess lesson
with Juan Carlos from 2 to 4pm. Teresa returned at 3:15 from the beauty shop.
I beat Teresa in
parcheesi today 5 games to 0.
At 6:30 I went next
door to Exito and bought 2 small tubs of ice cream. I noticed they were
completely out of milk. It was about a 15 minute wait to checkout.
A Trump replay
from April 29th: Trump: “It’s going to be gone. It’s going
to be eradicated. And it might take longer, it might be in smaller sections. It
won’t be what we had.”
The
US has 3,433,156 ð 3,503,533 ð 3,572,085 coronavirus cases
with 136,122 ð 137,146 ð 138,087 deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 159,898 ð 165,169 ð 173,206 cases with 6,029 deaths. Medellin has 5,044 ð 5,599 ð 6,067 cases, an increase of 466 from July 14th
to July 15th. Envigado has a
total of 281 cases, an increase of 29 from July 14th to July 15th.
(I’ve noticed some of the numbers – especially increases – don’t jive, I’m just
reporting them as I receive them.)
Joke of
the day
Ned decided
to go golfing in Scotland with his buddy, Carl, so they loaded up Ned's minivan
and headed north.
After
driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard, so they pulled
into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door, if they
could spend the night.
"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all
to myself, but I'm recently widowed." she explained. "And I'm afraid
the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house."
"Don't
worry." Ned said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn and if the
weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light."
The lady
agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the
night. Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way.
About 2
years later, Ned got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few
minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the
attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the golf weekend.
He dropped
in on his friend Carl and asked, "Carl, that night at the barn, in that
farm we stayed at on our golf holiday in Scotland about 2 years ago, do
you remember it?"
"Sure I
do." said Carl.
"Did
you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night and pay the widow a visit
at the house?"
"Well,
um, yes..." Carl said, a little embarrassed about being found out, "I
have to admit that I did."
"And
did you happen to give her a false name?"
Carl's face
turned beet red and he said, "Yeah, look, I'm really sorry, buddy. I
panicked a bit and gave her your name, actually. Why do you ask?"
"Because I'm rich. she just died and left me everything."
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