Quarantine Day 141.
Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once during
the night finally getting up at 7:15. If I have oatmeal at night (lots of
liquid) then I get up 3-4 times during the night but if I have something simple
like an apple then I tend to get up 1-2 times during the night.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 2,
losing 1, and tying 1. I was winning one of the games but was running out of
time so was forced to take my opponent’s last pawn in order to draw due to him
having insufficient material.
I had the white pieces in 3 of the games. My new rating
is 1233.
Last September I hurt my left shoulder, probably from
a gym exercise although I didn’t feel any discomfort until hours later. As long
as I can remember I’ve always slept on my left side (which I’ve read is the best
side to be on anyway) but I couldn’t any longer because of my sore shoulder. It
took a while to learn to sleep on my right side – at least it’s better than
feeling pain. After 10 months my shoulder finally feels healed but I’m having
trouble getting back to left side sleeping because I’ve gotten so used to right
side sleeping. Sorry for the rambling.
I finally bit the bullet and fixed my out-of-order blog
postings.
I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today
show then left for my 50-minute walk. Teresa returned soon after, having only
walked around the inside of the apt complex.
My daughter sent me a Whatsapp message introducing her
own Youtube channel as a life and career coach. Just go to Youtube.com, search
for Jeannie Andresen and she is the one with the big smile.
We were playing parcheesi when I heard the Dunkin
Donuts theme song. I asked Teresa if she wanted a donut and she surprised
me by saying “yes”. I looked outside and
saw the van just the other side of Exito. I changed my shoes and put on my mask
and by then it was almost at the guard house. I went downstairs and bought 2
filled donuts (1 whipped cream the other strawberry) for 6mil. Teresa chose the
whipped cream one.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi today 4 games to 3. 90% of
games end with each of us taking turns throwing the dice and whoever hits the desired
number (again, usually ‘1’) wins. She is know ahead overall 167 games to 164.
For those of you mostly housebound like me, if you
have Netflix I highly recommend these series: Dirty John, You, Designated
Survivor, and The 100. Right now, I’m working on the 7-season series
Blacklist but I’m not sure I’ll continue.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos have called for the nation's public schools to re-open this fall,
but a new study by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children of all
ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection — and can efficiently transmit
the virus to others.
The study analyzes a coronavirus super spreader event at a
Georgia sleepaway camp in June. Several hundred campers (with a median age
of 12) and staffers (with a median age of 17) were tested for COVID-19. Of the
344 individuals for whom test results were available, 260 came back positive
for COVID-19, or more than 75%.
Neil
Young sued President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign Tuesday for copyright
infringement, saying he doesn’t want his music used as a theme song for a
“divisive un-American campaign of ignorance and hate.”
The
Grammy-award winning Canadian-born musician filed the lawsuit through his
lawyers in Manhattan federal court, seeking up to $150,000 in statutory damages
for each infringement.
A message
seeking comment was left with a campaign spokesperson.
The
legendary singer cited repeated use of two songs: “Rockin’ in the Free World”
and “Devil’s Sidewalk.”
Emergency room physician, Dr. Megan
Ranney, called out Donald Trump for dismissing 160,000 American deaths and failing
to come up with a national pandemic strategy more than six months into this
public health crisis.
In a discussion with MSNBC’s Ari Melber,
Dr. Ranney blasted Trump for acting as though the U.S. coronavirus casualties are
meaningless, particularly during his disastrous Axios interview.
Dr. Ranney also debunked Trump’s claim
that his administration is doing everything in its power to stop the
coronavirus.
“The
claim that we are doing everything is just blatantly false,” the doctor said.
“The federal government still lacks a comprehensive national strategy around
testing, around personal protective equipment, or around national mandates for masking.”
White
House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed on Wednesday that the United
States has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world. “Yeah, it is
quantitatively if you look at it, it is. I mean the numbers don’t lie,” Fauci
said when asked during an interview with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta whether the
U.S. had the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak. The U.S., which accounts for
less than 5% of the world population, leads all other countries in global
coronavirus infections and deaths.
Magically, as soon as federal agents
withdrew from Portland, the rioting disappeared. As restrained Oregon state
police took the place of federal agents around the Mark O. Hatfield federal
courthouse downtown, the protests were peaceful and people went home rather
than engage.
The Atlantic: “No one
should be shocked that a liar who has made almost 20,000 false or
misleading claims during his presidency would lie about whether the U.S.
had the pandemic under control; that a racist who gave birth to birtherism
would do little to stop a virus that was disproportionately killing Black
people; that a xenophobe who presided over the creation of new
immigrant-detention centers would order meatpacking plants with a substantial
immigrant workforce to remain open; that a cruel man devoid of empathy would
fail to calm fearful citizens; that a narcissist who cannot stand to be
upstaged would refuse to tap the deep well of experts at his disposal; that a
scion of nepotism would hand control of a shadow coronavirus task force to his
unqualified son-in-law; that an armchair polymath would claim to have a
“natural ability” at medicine and display it by wondering out loud about the
curative potential of injecting disinfectant; that an egotist incapable of
admitting failure would try to distract from his greatest one by blaming China,
defunding the WHO, and promoting miracle drugs; or that a president who has
been shielded by his party from any shred of accountability would say, when
asked about the lack of testing, ‘I don’t take any responsibility at all.’”
For the third straight week, no NBA
players tested positive for the coronavirus. As it turns out, we are not
powerless to stop the deadly pathogen. We just have to take it seriously.
That may seem like rudimentary analysis
five months into a pandemic that’s killed
nearly 160,000 Americans. But with President Donald Trump nonchalantly saying
the catastrophic death toll “is
what it is” — as if he were Bill Belichick talking about an errant call in
the fourth quarter — it is easy to feel defeated. And with nearly
every country in the world currently closed to Americans, we are literally
trapped.
But we possess the ingenuity and
resources to curtail the coronavirus. The missing ingredients are willpower and
discipline. The NBA is running a comically restrictive bubble at the Walt
Disney World resort, where players face mandatory quarantine for menial
offenses such as picking
up delivery food or chicken
wings at an area strip club. But the stringent formula is working. After
all, there is an estimated
$1 billion in revenue at stake.
Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that
the massive explosion in Beirut was a bomb attack has revived fears of the
president’s potential to foment international crises.
In off-the-cuff remarks at the White
House on Tuesday, Trump called the blast a “terrible
attack”.
“I’ve met with some of our great generals
and they just seem to feel that this was not some kind of a manufacturing
explosion type of event,” the president told reporters. “It was a bomb of some
kind.”
Soon
after, CNN quoted Pentagon officials as saying there was no
evidence of any attack, raising the question of where Trump got his
information. Lebanese officials were reported to have sought urgent
clarification from US diplomats.
For the second time this summer, voters
in a solidly Republican state have decided now is the moment to expand Medicaid
coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
Missouri voters passed a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid during
Tuesday’s primary elections; 53 percent of voters supported the measure and 47
percent opposed it. That vote comes about a month after Oklahoma voters also
decided to expand Medicaid via ballot referendum by
less than 1 percentage point.
Trump sues Nevada for expanding voting by mail
as he declares the practice "safe" in GOP-led Florida. Trump falsely claims on "Fox & Friends" that
Nevada will mail ballots to people who aren't registered to vote there
The
US has 4,719,276 ð 4,772,487 ð 4,821,668 coronavirus cases
with 155,800+ ð 157,100+ ð 158,300+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 327,850 ð 334,979 ð 345,714 cases with 11,624 deaths. Medellin has 22,511 23,158 ð 23,968 cases, an increase of 800 from August 4th
to 5th. Envigado has a total of 1,411 cases, an increase of 33 from August
4th to 5th. Well, for the past few days new cases have
plateaued. Hopefully, that will continue.
Joke of
the day
The
Sunday School lesson for the first graders was on the plan of
salvation. The teacher asked, "If I sold my house and my car, had
a big garage sale, and gave all my money to the church, would I
get into heaven?"
"No!"
all the children answered.
"If
I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept
everything neat and tidy, would I get into heaven?"
Again,
the answer was, "No!"
"Well,"
she continued, "then how can I get to heaven?"
One boy
confidently answered, "You've gotta be dead!"
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