Quarantine Day 136.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 1
and losing 3. My new rating is 1225. The first game was even when I lost on
time.
Last night I went to
bed at 10:30pm, got up twice during the night, finally waking/getting up at 8:15.
I had 2-hour chess
lesson with Juan Castro from 2-4 this afternoon.
Yesterday, the Commerce Department said the GDP (the value
of goods and services produced in a certain time frame) shrank 9.5% in the
second quarter of 2020 – the greatest drop ever. Analysts are pointing the
finger at COVID-19 and things like stay-at-home orders and concerns over safety
shuttering businesses and slowing the economy. There was some good news:
personal income was much higher, in part thanks to federal stimulus checks. But
the Fed chair is saying the US can't recover from the economic fall until the
pandemic is under control.
An
organization that successfully proved President Donald Trump violated the law
when he blocked Twitter critics sued him anew on Friday, saying he continues to
reject some accounts two years after losing in court.
The Knight
First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued Trump a second time in
Manhattan federal court over use of his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account,
saying the president and his staff continue to block some accounts.
Some
individuals identified in a lawsuit filed in 2017, along with dozens of others
who were blocked on the basis of viewpoint, have been unblocked, the lawsuit
said.
The Trump campaign
temporarily paused TV ad spending as it undergoes a "review and
fine-tuning of the campaign's strategy," according to a Trump campaign
official. The re-evaluation under new campaign manager Bill Stepien does not
extend to digital advertising.
The authorities said on
Friday that a Florida teenager was the “mastermind” of a recent high-profile hack of 130 Twitter
accounts, including the accounts of celebrities like
former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Silicon Valley mogul Elon
Musk.
Graham Ivan Clark, 17,
was arrested in his Tampa home early Friday, state officials said. He is
believed to be the linchpin of a hack that turned into an embarrassment for
Twitter and called into question the security measures of a range of tech
companies. Two other people were also charged with taking part in the hack.
The general consensus on children and the
novel coronavirus is that they neither play as large a role in spreading it as
adults, nor do they contract the disease as often.
But new research says children younger than 5
years old can hoard up to 100 times more of the virus in their noses than older
children and adults, suggesting kids could be a significant driver of viral
spread.
The researchers said understanding transmission potential in children
could help guide public health decisions surrounding school and daycare
reopenings scheduled to occur in the coming weeks.
The study was published Thursday in the
journal JAMA Pediatrics.
In the span of a few months, Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis has gone from one of the most admired state leaders in America to
one of the most disparaged, with an approval rating that has dropped
precipitously as coronavirus cases surged.
A pair of recent polls indicate more
Floridians now disapprove of the job DeSantis is doing than approve. The latest
was released Friday by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy. It shows that 49% of
Florida voters disapprove of the governor’s job performance, compared with 45%
who approve.
That’s a 17 percentage point drop from the
62% of Florida voters who approved of DeSantis in a Mason-Dixon poll from last
year.
The stunning turnaround is another example
of how politicians often are defined by how they respond in a crisis, and many
people are taking a dim view of how Florida’s Republican chief executive has
handled the latest phase of the coronavirus outbreak.
DeSantis has been accused of standing by and
doing little to halt the march of the virus in his state, allowing Florida to
become a global hotspot.
Today I beat Teresa in
parcheesi 7 games to 6. It’s amazing how many games are decided by the last
throw of the dice.
At 6pm we ordered ribs
from Mu. I was surprised how quickly they arrived. They are packing them
better so they are still hot, just not quite as hot when they come directly to
your table. Here’s a breakdown of the charge:
MIL
77 – ribs
5 – Coca Cola
12 – delivery
2 – packing charge
96 – total
I gave the delivery guy
100mil so he got an extra 4 mil tip out of it.
Teresa ate 1 ½ ribs and
I ate 2 ½ and we have lots left over for the rest of the weekend. They also
come with lots of fries but we usually eat most of them the first sitting
because they aren’t good warmed up.
I received an email
from Envios Market asking if they can deliver a package to me tomorrow.
I think it must be the Joint Support supplements I ordered 2 weeks ago.
The
US has 4,435,387 ð 4,499,833 ð 4,559,720 coronavirus cases
with 151,100+ ð 152,300+ ð 153,600+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 276,055 ð 286,020 ð 295,508 cases with 10,105 deaths. Medellin has 16,360 ð 17,205 ð 18,123 cases, an increase of 1,097 from July 30th
to 31st. Envigado has a total of 1,048 cases, an increase of 74 from
July 30th to 31st.
Joke of
the day
A retired man went into the Job Center in
downtown Toronto and saw a card advertising for a Gynecologist's Assistant.
Interested, he went in and asked the clerk for details.
The clerk pulled up the file and read; "The job entails getting the ladies
ready for the gynecologist. You have to help the women out of their underwear,
lay them down and carefully wash their private regions, then apply shaving foam
and gently shave off the hair, then rub in soothing oils so they're ready for
the gynecologist's examination.
The annual salary is $65,000, and if you are interested ..... you'll have to go
to Sudbury, Ontario."
"Good grief", the man asked, that's 270 miles away, "Is that
where the job is?"
“No
sir…that’s where the end of the line is right now.”
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