Saturday, August 1, 2020

Quarantine Day 137.

Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 2 and losing 2. My new rating is 1223. The first game was even when I lost on time. The last game he fell into an opening trap and I was clearly better but later his pesky knight got in my backfield and I eventually blundered a rook. Sigh!

Last night I went to bed at 10:30pm, got up twice during the night, finally waking/getting up at 8:15.

 

One of the first school districts in the country to reopen its doors during the coronavirus pandemic did not even make it a day before being forced to grapple with the issue facing every system actively trying to get students into classrooms: What happens when someone comes to school infected?

Just hours into the first day of classes on Thursday, a call from the county health department notified Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana that a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Administrators began an emergency protocol, isolating the student and ordering everyone who had come into close contact with the person, including other students, to quarantine for 14 days. It is unclear whether the student infected anyone else.

 

 The chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee said Saturday he tested positive for the coronavirus days after he sat close to another member of the panel, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, who also tested positive.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said in a statement that he has the virus but, like Gohmert, has no symptoms. He is at least the 11th member of Congress known to have tested positive for the coronavirus.

It’s unclear where Grijalva, 72, caught the virus and whether it was from Gohmert, a Republican who has questioned the use of masks and often walked around the Capitol without one. Grijalva went into isolation after Gohmert tested positive on Wednesday, since the two had sat close to each other at a Natural Resources hearing the day before.

 

The U.S. reported more than 25,000 deaths in July related to the novel coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, a grim milestone for the country as it seeks to stem a rising number of cases.

The country saw 1.87 million new cases of the virus last month - an increase of nearly 70 percent - bringing the total number of cases during the pandemic to just more than 4.5 million.

 

Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac became the first NBA player to stand for the National Anthem as the league resumed play after a 20-week hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The delayed and shortened 2020 Major League Baseball season amid the COVID-19 pandemic is only eight days old, but commissioner Rob Manfred is already threatening a shutdown following positive test results across numerous teams.

The report came via ESPN's Jeff Passan on Friday: "Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark on Friday that if the sport doesn't do a better job of managing the coronavirus, it could shut down for the season, sources familiar with the conversation told ESPN."

Two unnamed St. Louis Cardinals players tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, per Passan. That's in addition to a much larger outbreak on the Miami Marlins that included 18 players and two coaches.

 

The coronavirus transmission risk remains high, warned the World Health Organization during a meeting of its emergency committee.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “once-in-a-century health crisis” with effects that will be felt for “decades to come.”

The health crisis already taught us that some COVID-19 patients will take weeks or even months to recover and may sustain internal damage from the infection that could lead to long-lasting medical conditions.

 

Brazil recorded 45,392 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as well as 1,088 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, its health ministry said on Saturday.

 

“Wrong!” Trump wrote in a retweet of a video where Fauci explained to a House subcommittee that the U.S. has seen more cases than European countries because it only shut down a fraction of its economy amid the pandemic. “We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases,” the president added.

 

The doorman called and I went down and picked up my package – a large bottle of Joint Support that I ordered 2 weeks ago.

We each had 2 leftover ribs for lunch today and we still have 2 left for someone tomorrow.

Teresa and I tied 7-7 in parcheesi today.

 

The US has 4,499,833 ð 4,559,720 ð 4,599,345 coronavirus cases with 152,300+ ð 153,600+ ð 154,300+ deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 286,020 ð 295,508 ð 306,181 cases with 10,330 deaths.  Medellin has 16,360  ð 17,205 ð 18,123 19,691 cases, an increase of 1,564 from July 31^st to August 1^st. Envigado has a total of 1,152 cases, an increase of 104 from July 31^st to August 1^st. Cases just keep on not only increasing daily but accelerating.

 

Joke of the day

A farmer drove over to his neighbor’s house and knocked on the door...

A boy, about 8, opened the door.

“Is your mom or dad home?” the man asked the boy.

“No, they went into town,” the boy replied.

“Well, how about your brother Howard?” the man asked.

“No, he went with mom and dad,” the boy said.

The man stood there for a minute shifting from one foot to another and mumbling when the boy says: “I know where the tools are if you need to borrow one or I could give my dad a message for you.”

“Well,” The man said uncomfortably “I wanted to talk to your dad about your brother Howard getting my sister pregnant.”

The boy thought for a moment then said: “You’ll have to talk to my dad about that. I know he charges $500 for the bulls and $150 for the pigs, but I have no idea how much he charges for Howard.”