Quarantine Day 132.
Last night I went to
bed at 11pm, took a little while to fall asleep, got up once during the night,
finally waking/getting up just before 8am.
Last night I played 4
games on Chess.com, winning 1, losing 2, and drawing 1. Again, I was ahead in
the last game but lost on time. My rating is now 1280.
Teresa left for her
walk at 9:20. I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today show and left
at 9:25.
I walked my usual route,
walked up the steps of our building, returning to the apt at 10:15. Today I took
my step counter with me and it was 3,839 steps.
At noon it was 80
degrees but it didn’t increase much after that.
Teresa returned at 1:15.
I understand she visited her mother and took her for a walk around her apartment
complex.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi
10 games to 6.
In a call to arms to
conservatives, Bulwark founder Charlie Sykes said that it is not enough for
Republicans to reject Donald Trump in November and that the president’s
enablers in the Senate need to be sent packing too.
It was a little
startling to hear President Trump announce that he would throw out the first
ball at a New York Yankees game next month — now that the
delayed and shortened Major League Baseball season is underway — since he has
refused to do this since he became president. But since Dr. Anthony Fauci was getting
so much good press in anticipation of his season-opening foray to the mound in
Washington, Trump was clearly jealous, and no doubt pleased to learn there
would be no crowd in Yankee Stadium to boo him. But then Fauci got ribbed
mercilessly in the press for his wild pitch, and Trump was perhaps reminded
that he might not be able to do much better. So over the weekend he announced
to the nation that he was just too busy.
President Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien
tested positive for coronavirus.
Baltimore Ravens wide
receiver and return specialist De'Anthony Thomas has
voluntarily decided to sit out the upcoming campaign, the Ravens announced Monday.
Meanwhile, Seattle Seahawks offensive
lineman Chance
Warmack will also skip the 2020 NFL season, sources told NFL
Network's Mike Garafolo.
Kansas City Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif was
the first NFL player to opt out this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Just weeks before schools must open across Florida, the numbers of new
cases and hospitalizations due to Covid-19 have surged.
On July 16, the state had a total of 23,170 children ages 17 and under
who had tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the
Florida Department of Health. By July 24, that number jumped to 31,150. That's
a 34% increase in new cases among children in eight days.
And more children in Florida are requiring hospitalization. As of July
16, 246 children had been hospitalized with coronavirus. By July 24, that
number had jumped to 303. That's a 23% increase in child Covid-19
hospitalizations in eight days.
President Donald Trump hasn’t
led a Florida poll since the pandemic began, and that’s a major warning sign
for his re-election campaign.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday that the
presence of federal authorities in Portland, Oregon, as protests continue in
the city is "not consistent" with the Department of Homeland
Security's mission.
Ridge, a Republican who was the first Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security, said the first words of the department's vision statement
that he helped establish are "preserving our freedoms."
"When they appear to be quasi-military rather than law enforcement,
I think it's like pouring a little bit of gasoline on the fire," Ridge
told CNN.
"Preserving the right to dissent is something very important,"
he said, though he noted that "you can't justify the violence" that
has accompanied the protests.
The coronavirus isn't going anywhere. That
appears to be the thinking of Google, as CEO Sundar Pichai told employees
Monday morning that many of them would be working from home until July 2021 at
the earliest. That's right, the Big Data company thinks we're all in this for
the long haul — at least in the U.S., anyway.
Trump was forced to
cancel a meeting with the nation’s five largest pharmaceutical companies after
they refused to show up.
Microsoft founder and
billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said therapeutic drugs to
treat the coronavirus could reduce the death rate substantially by the end of this
year but a vaccine will be crucial to bringing back a sense of normalcy to the
society.
If
something was capable of going sideways for a league operating without a bubble
during the COVID-19 pandemic, baseball would send a
warning to the NFL. Football executives didn’t expect it to come so soon in the
season — after a single weekend baseball series — nor did they anticipate the
warning to be a full-blown air raid siren. But here we are, with the Miami Marlins already teetering on
the brink with
11 players and two coaches testing positive for COVID-19.
Neil Young is not happy about
what’s been going on in the United States due to Donald Trump’s actions. He’s
so displeased, he revealed in a post on his Neil Young Archives Sunday (July 26)
that he may take legal action after all against the former reality TV
personality for using his music at rallies.
“I
am changing my mind about suing President Trump. Reconsidering,” wrote the
celebrated two-time Grammy winner, who had said earlier in July that he didn’t want a lawsuit to distract
the president from properly responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m looking at it again. There is a long history to consider and I originally
considered it, deciding not to pursue. But then President Trump ordered thugs
in uniform onto our streets. His idea. … This is all DJT.”
The
US has 4,189,625 ð 4,221,959 ð 4,297,923 coronavirus cases
with 146,200+ ð 146,500+ ð 148,300+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 240,795 ð 248,976 ð 257,101 cases with 8,777 deaths. Medellin has 12,933 ð 13,514 ð 14,753 cases, an increase of 1,239 from July 26th
to 27th. Envigado has a total of 791 cases, an increase of 76 from July
26th to 27th.
Joke of
the day
John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said,
"Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!"
That won him the top prize at the pub for the
best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I
won the prize for the best toast of the night."
She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your
toast?"
John said, "Here's to spending the rest of
me life, sitting in church beside me wife."
"Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!"
Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's
drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said,
"John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you,
Mary."
She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a
bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been in there twice in the last four
years. Once I had to pull him by the ears to make him come, and the other time
he fell asleep.”
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