Quarantine Day 147.
Last night I went to bed at 10:45, got up twice during
the night, finally waking/getting up at 7am.
Last night the doorman brought our utility bill to our
apartment. Of course it seems to go up a bit every month.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, losing all
4. Yikes! Very disappointing! My new rating is 1224. In the first game my
opponent was ahead the whole game except at one point he hung a rook that I didn’t
see and I soon lost. In the second game it was back and forth with both of us
having winning possibilities
My friend Glenn just spent 5 nights in the hospital. He
had 2 heart related procedures and with his insurance he only had to pay for some
tests at a cost of 600,000 pesos (about $160).
Teresa left the apt at 9:15 go visit her mother and
perhaps take her for a walk. She will call me later and we might be ordering
out lunch today.
I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today show
then left for my 50-minute walk. At the end I walked to the small market and
bought 3 bags of milk. I returned to the apt at 10:30.
I cool down for an hour before taking a shower
otherwise I will just be hot again after I come out.
I got my Chess.com puzzle rating up to 1801.
We hit 80 degrees about noon and then it clouded over
and got noticeably cooler. Felt like it could rain.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi today 4 games to 3.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across
the U.S., recent polls indicate dissatisfaction about the federal response to
the pandemic: One Aug. 4 NPR/Ipsos poll found that two-thirds of
Americans believe the U.S. pandemic response is worse than that of other
countries.
Inherent in that response is what can often seem like a lack of
coordination. In recent months, the White House has vacillated on mask-wearing, challenged the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines on reopening schools, and
ordered hospitals to send coronavirus data to the Department of
Health and Human Services instead of the CDC. Then, on Saturday, amid stalled congressional talks,
President Trump signed executive orders extending
coronavirus relief even though the legality of such a move is in question.
But a look back at the influenza pandemic of 1918 reveals that a chaotic White House response to a public-health emergency
is nothing new.
President Trump talks about the fight against COVID-19 as a war against
an invisible enemy, but a little over 100 years ago, President Woodrow Wilson
was fighting both kinds of war: the Great War in Europe was in its final stages
as the flu pandemic swept the globe, including the United States. Wilson chose
to focus on the battlefronts of Europe, virtually ignoring the disease that
ravaged the home front and killed about 675,000 Americans. The 45th President has made inaccurate public statements about
the coronavirus—last Wednesday, for example, Facebook removed a video in which
President Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19—but, by
comparison, the 28th president never uttered a single public statement about
the 1918-1919 flu pandemic.
Even
if the most optimistic projections hold true and a COVID-19 vaccine is cleared
for U.S. use in November, the vast majority of Americans won’t be able to
get the shots until spring or summer next year at the earliest.
That
likely timeline, based on interviews and remarks from top specialists including
Anthony Fauci of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, means businesses,
schoolchildren and families will continue to wait.
In
an interview, Fauci, who has also been involved with White House’s “Operation
Warp Speed” vaccine program, said it may take until well into 2021 for vaccines
to reach the much of the general public.
As the world passes a grim milestone
of 20 million coronavirus cases, we look at how the pandemic humbled and
humiliated the world’s most powerful country. Over a quarter of the confirmed
infections and deaths have been in the United States, which has less than 5% of
the world’s population. Ed Yong, a science writer at The Atlantic who has been
covering the pandemic extensively since March, says existing gaps in the U.S.
social safety net and the Trump administration’s “devastatingly inept response”
made for a deadly combination.
Almost every night about
9:30 there is someone in the neighborhood cooking dinner. Teresa tells me that
she always burns it; every night.
About 9:30 I heard
thunder in the distance; about 10pm it started raining; about 10:30 it was a
downpour. Great, that should make sleeping easier.
The
US has 5,052,168 ð 5,083,857 ð 5,152,393 coronavirus cases
with 162,400+ ð 162,800+ ð 164,400+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 87,481 ð 397,623 ð 410,453 cases with 13,475 deaths. Medellin has 27,883 ð 29,568 ð 30,704 cases, an increase of 1,093 from August 10th
to 11th. Envigado has a total of 1,695 cases, an increase of 37 from
August 10th to 11th.
Joke of
the day
There
once was a man and a woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They
talked about everything. They kept no secrets from each other... except that
the old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she cautioned her
husband never to open or ask her about.
For all
these years he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old
woman got very sick and the doctor said she would never recover.
In trying
to sort out their affairs the little old man took down the shoe box and took it
to his wife's bedside. She agreed it was time that he should know what was in
the box.
When he
opened it he found 2 beautifully crocheted doilies and a stack of money
totaling over $25,000. He asked her about the unusual contents.
"When
we were married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a
happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you,
I should just keep quiet and crochet a doily."
The little
old man was so moved, he had to fight back tears. Only two precious doilies
were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years
of living and loving. He almost burst with joy and happiness.
"Sweetheart,"
he said... "that explains the doilies, but what about all this money?
Where did it all come from?"
“Oh,"
she said, "that's the money I made from selling the doilies."
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