Thursday, July 9, 2020

Self-isolation Day 114.

Las night I felt really tired so I went to bed at 10pm.

About 10:25 pm, Teresa asked me if I felt a tremblor. As soon as I moved from my side to my back it was obvious the bed was swaying a little. According to my QuakeWatch app it was a 5.1 at 10:22 pm.

I got up once during the night, again at 5am, finally getting up at 6am. It was still raining the first time I got up but it had stopped by 5am.

After yesterday’s trip to the grocery store we still forgot to buy milk.

I left the apt at 7:45 and at Otra Parte I checked their phone number and I was way off on the last 4 digits. My best recollection now is 8973 which I will check tomorrow. So, hopefully the entire number is 315 875 8973. I stopped in the nextdoor Exito and at first I was told I could only come in on my cedula day but the cashier relented and allowed me to buy 3 bags of milk and was back at the apt by 8:35. My back felt fine today – no stiffness or soreness.

Teresa left at 9:30 to go for a walk then take her mother for a walk.

 

I had a 2-hour chess lesson with Juan Castro in the afternoon. During the lesson Jose called but I didn’t answer. I called him back afterwards. He is house bound as much as I am. We discussed playing chess games against each other on Chess.com but we decided that the likelihood of one of us losing our internet connection during a 2-3 hour game was just too great.

I beat Teresa in parcheesi today 5 games to 4.

No rain today which is probably why we hit a high of about 85 degrees.

 

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Wednesday that his government had told the Texas Republican Party that their in-person convention scheduled next week will be canceled.

 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday defended the state's refusal to release coronavirus hospitalization data as dozens of hospitals in the state reported they had run out of space in their intensive care units amid a dramatic surge in infections.

At least 56 Florida hospitals in 25 different counties have hit 100% ICU capacity, according to overall hospital data released by the state. Another 35 only have 10% or less capacity remaining. In all, the state has just 962 out of a total of 5,023 ICU beds available as infections continue to rise. One expert said contact tracing has become impossible, because here are so many infections now in South Florida.

 

China’s embassy in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has put out a statement warning of an “unknown pneumonia” that is reportedly even deadlier than the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the South China Morning Post reports.

“The death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus,” read the warning to Chinese citizens in Kazakhstan, as quoted by the SCMP. “The country’s health departments are conducting comparative research into the pneumonia virus, but have yet to identify the virus.”

 

Anthony Fauci on Wednesday told a Wall Street Journal podcast that states experiencing a significant uptick in new coronavirus cases "should seriously looking at shutting down."

 

The coronavirus crisis nationwide is not only deepening, it is growing more deadly. The country's three biggest states — California, Florida and Texas — are reporting their largest single-day death tolls since the pandemic began. Hospitals there are struggling to keep up with the rising number of patients.

 

Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says.

Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night.

In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting "in lines and various large vessels," she said.

"What we saw at autopsy was sort of an extension of that," she said. "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels.

"And this was dramatic, because though we might have expected it in the lungs, we found it in almost every organ that we looked at in our autopsy study," she said. Rapkiewicz's study outlining her findings was published at the end of June in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine.

 

Fox News host Sandra Smith quickly cut off a Trump campaign spokesman on Thursday after he went on a bizarre tangent about former Vice President Joe Biden's leg hair.

 

President Trump slammed the CDC's guidance for reopening schools, but Maryland's GOP Gov. Larry Hogan says the guidance was helpful and he believes Trump is confused about it.

 

The Ivy League is the first Division I conference to suspend this fall's football season.

 

A Trump replay from April 15^th: Trump says the U.S. has "passed the peak" of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

The US has 3,001,585 ð 3,054,069 ð 3,128,107 coronavirus cases with 131,134 ð 131,979 ð 133,009 deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 124,494 ð 128,638 ð 133,973 cases with 4,714 deaths.  Medellin has 3,168  ð 3,404 ð 3,633 cases, an increase of 230 from July 7^th to July 8^th.  Envigado has a total of 145 cases, an increase of 10 from July 7^th to July 8^th.

 

Joke of the day

After 20 years of marriage, a wife decides to take her husband, Dave, to a strip club for his birthday. She figures there's no harm in it if she's there with him, after all.

They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, Dave! How ya doin'?"

His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before.

"Oh no," says Dave. "He's on my bowling team."

When they are seated, a waitress asks Dave if he'd like his usual and brings over a glass of red wine.

His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says, "How did she know that you drink that?"

"She's in the Ladies Bowling League, honey. We share lanes with them."

A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around Dave, and says "Hi Davey. Want your usual table dance, big boy?"

Dave's wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club.

Dave follows and spots her getting into a cab. Before she can slam the door, he jumps in beside her.

He tries desperately to explain how the stripper must have mistaken him for someone else, but his wife is having none of it. She is screaming at him at the top of her lungs, calling him every name in the book.

The cabby turns his head and says, "Looks like you picked up a real witch tonight, Dave."