Quarantine Day 139.
Last night I went to bed at 10:30 and got up once during
the night. I got up again at 5:30 due to a cramp in my right calf although it was
light and I worked it out quickly and easily. I finally woke/got up at 7:30.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 2
and losing 2. My new rating is 1208.
Teresa left at 9:15 for her walk. I watched the first
20 minutes of the Today show then left for mine. After I finished my
usual route, I stopped at the small grocery store and bought milk and coffee.
One of the NFL’s standout quarterbacks is now on the
reserve/COVID-19 list. Matthew Stafford was put on the list by the Detroit
Lions, according to the league’s transactions report Saturday. The
reserve/COVID-19 list was created for players who either test positive for
COVID-19 or have been in close contact with an infected person. The 32-year-old
Stafford is easily one of the most high-profile players to land there.
The Chair of the Republican National Committee claimed that
Trump supporters were out in full force to protest Nevada Mail-In voting, as
she tweeted a picture with 18 people in it.
After voting for President Trump in 2016 and staunchly defending
him in conservative publications, a Federalist Society leader appears to be
having some very public buyer’s remorse.
Steven Calabresi, co-founder of the powerful conservative
legal organization, is now calling on the House of Representatives to do again
what it has already done once this year: impeach Trump.
In a scathing opinion piece in The New York Times published
online Thursday, the Northwestern University law professor points to what
ignited his newfound ire with the president: a tweet Trump sent out shortly after news broke Thursday morning that the U.S. economy had
suffered its biggest recorded contraction ever last quarter.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not
Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &
FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA,”
the president intoned on Twitter. “Delay the Election until people
can properly, securely and safely vote???”
SIOUX FALLS,
S.D. (AP) — Sturgis is on. The message has been broadcast across social media
as South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent
weeks, braces to host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of
the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
More than 250,000 people are expected to rumble through western
South Dakota, seeking the freedom of cruising the boundless landscapes in a
state that has skipped lockdowns. The Aug. 7 to 16 event, which could be
the biggest anywhere so far during the pandemic, will offer businesses that
depend on the rally a chance to make up for losses caused by the coronavirus.
But for many in Sturgis, a city of about 7,000, the brimming bars and
bacchanalia will not be welcome during a pandemic.
Coronavirus deaths are going to get a lot worse soon in some parts of
the US. That’s according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
which on Friday released a new estimate showing an increase in expected
coronavirus deaths in the US over the next few weeks. That increase in
coronavirus deaths is expected to be the most acute in Alabama, Kentucky, New
Jersey, Tennessee, and Washington. Also included is the US territory of Puerto
Rico.
A new report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight
and Reform found that the Trump Administration repeatedly delayed an Obama-era
order from the health-technology company Philips for 10,000 ventilators,
wasting half-a-billion dollars for machines that won’t even arrive until
September 2022.
According to
the report, in 2014, the Obama Administration signed a contract with Philips to add 10,000 ventilators to the
nation’s stockpile by June 2019. Though Philips delayed the fulfillment until
November 2019, had they been held to that deadline, the nation would have had
plenty of ventilators for when the coronavirus epidemic started in March 2020.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi
I checked the elevator and they have the new pico y
cedula schedule posted. Our day out is again on Thursday.
I received an email from Medellin Guru announcing a
new restaurant that has opened (takeout & delivery only thus far) in La
Buena Mesa called Brooklyn Restaurant and Lounge. The owners are an
American man and Colombian woman.
The
US has 4,599,345 ð 4,659,853 ð 4,719,276 coronavirus cases
with 154,300+ ð 155,100+ ð 155,800+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 306,181 ð 317,651 ð 327,850 cases with 11,017 deaths. Medellin has 19,691 ð 20,898 ð 22,511 cases, an increase of 1,606 from August 2nd
to 3rd. Envigado has a total of 1,351 cases, an increase of 120 from
August 2nd to 3rd. Cases are still increasing but finally
aren’t accelerating. We’ll see if that trend continues. Well, it didn’t last
long as they increased the past 2 days.
Joke of
the day
A man finds
himself in front of the Pearly Gates to heaven. In front of them, stands a
guardian angel. As the man approaches, the angel greets him and warns him it is
not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed.
For example,
was the fellow religious in life? No. The guardian angel told him that's bad.
Was he
generous? Gave money to the poor? Charities? No. The guardian angel told him
that that too was bad.
Did he do
any good deeds? Help his neighbor? Anything? No. The guardian angel was
becoming concerned.
Exasperated,
the angel says, "Look, everybody does something nice sometimes. Work with
me, I'm trying to help. Now think!"
The man
says, "There was this old lady. I came out of a store and found her
surrounded by a dozen Hell's Angels. They had taken her purse and were shoving
her around, taunting and abusing her.
I got so mad
I threw my bags down, fought through the crowd, and got her purse back. I then
helped her to her feet, and went up to the biggest, baddest biker and told
him how despicable, cowardly and mean he was and then spat in his
face".
"Wow",
said the angel, "That's actually very impressive. When did this happen"?
"Oh,
about 10 minutes ago", replied the man.
No comments:
Post a Comment