Today is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the US.
Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up twice during the night, waking at 6:15 and getting up at 6:45.
Last night we watched Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich on Netflix so I didn’t have time to play chess on Chess.com.
I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today show then walked to the mall. I paid for Direct TV outside Exito, Une inside Exito and Claro in the Claro store. It was only 10:10 so I went downstairs and had a café con leche in Todo Fresa. I left at 11am and walked back to the apt.
I left again at 11:40 and walked to La Buena Mesa where I met Chuck and John. We had lunch at Brooklyn Restaurant & Lounge. I wasn’t very hungry after my coffee so I had the Caesar salad and the others had burgers. Chuck informed us that he and Darnelly will be returning to the US on October 3rd so she can have another knee replacement and he has to see a doctor about the dizziness he has been experiencing. We walked across the street to Parva but after awhile we understood it was too much trouble to sit inside so we went to Aymara for coffee and sat in the park. About 1:45 some raindrops appeared so we left. I stopped at Otra Parte to ensure they are open – they are.
I returned to the apt by 2pm. The downpour started just after 2:30 but it didn’t last long.
Teresa called me at 3pm and told me she is walking back from Parque Poblado. She called from Parva asking if I wanted to meet for coffee. I declined. She called a few minutes later and reported she’s heading to meet her mother. Later she’ll call me and we might go for pizza.
She called me at 6pm and asked me to join her at Wilson’s restaurant/bar and to bring the large umbrella.
The U.S. budget deficit hit an all-time high of $3 trillion for the first 11 months of this budget year, the Treasury Department said Friday.
The sea of red ink is a product of the government's massive spending to try to cushion the impact of a coronavirus-fueled recession that has cost millions of jobs.
The deficit from October through August is more than double the previous 11-month record of $1.37 billion set in 2009. At that time the government was spending large sums to get out of the Great Recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis.
A teen has died from a rare "brain-eating" amoeba infection after a family vacation in Florida, according to news reports.
The 13-year-old, Tanner Wall, and his family had recently stayed at a campground in North Florida, which has a water park and lake where the boy went swimming, according to local news outlet News4Jax. Several days after swimming in the lake, Tanner developed symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, headaches and a stiff neck, News4Jax reported.
A life-saving COVID-19 maneuver may leave some patients, particularly older ones, with permanent nerve damage, according to a new report. The study comes from Northwestern University, where researchers have found that the use of the prone position — where a patient is placed face-down — may leave patients with an unusually high risk of troubles with their arms and legs.
A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN'T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
For the last 19 years, Sept. 11 has cast a lingering shadow on John Feal.
The Nesconset, New York resident and former construction worker suffered long-term health damage from working at Ground Zero and endured the emotional pain of seeing his fellow responders die from ailments contracted at the pile.
Feal told ABC News that despite all of those hardships, one of the biggest challenges he's had to face was COVID-19, which he contracted in March.
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"Nothing scares me at all, but COVID scared me," he told ABC News.
Feal is one of the more than 1,400 Sept. 11 survivors and responders who have contracted the coronavirus so far as their compromised immune systems, particularly their ailing respiratory symptoms, make them more susceptible to the virus, according to health officials. As of Aug. 21, at least 191 have been hospitalized and 44 have died, according to data from the World Trade Center Health Program.
Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, appeared on Cuomo Prime Time Thursday to promote his newest book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, but he found himself instead talking about a different book, journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming Rage. Woodward’s book reveals that the president downplayed the dangers of the COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, despite knowing that it was going to be much more deadly.
“What the Woodward book does is make it much more serious,” said Bolton. “Because if [Trump] did know and he did it anyway, you simply can't reconcile that with the qualities and the character you need in a president of the United States.”
More than 190,000 American’s have died from the coronavirus, and Trump’s former advisor believes that this new information may cost him the election.
“It is striking how clear he is on these tapes to Woodward of his appreciation for how dangerous the coronavirus was compared to what he was saying publicly at the time,” said Bolton. “And that coming out of his own mouth, I think this could be nearly the point where the campaign ends.”
Even as movie theaters, gyms and salons are opening and some states are allowing limited indoor dining, daily life in the U.S. won't get back to normal until late 2021 when a vaccine for COVID-19 could be widely distributed, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Friday.
In an interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he remains confident there will be a vaccine available by the end of this year or early 2021.
"But by the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccine and get a majority or more of the population vaccinated and protected, that’s likely not going to happen until the end of 2021," he said. "If you’re talking about getting back to a degree of normality prior to COVID, it’s going to be well into 2021, towards the end of 2021."
President Trump said Thursday evening at a White House news briefing that “I really do believe we’re rounding the corner,” adding that new weekly cases have declined by 44% since July.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday about the president’s comments. “I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with that because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, Andrea, they’re disturbing,” he said.
The biggest scandal of the week is that President Trump refused to defend the United States from a pandemic. The second-biggest is that he refuses to defend our democracy from growing Russian attacks on our election — and that, indeed, he appears to be aiding the attackers.
The target of Derkach’s smear campaign has been Democratic nominee Joe Biden — and Derkach’s willing collaborator has been Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. Giuliani now claims to barely know Derkach, but the former New York mayor has met with him at least three times. Earlier this year, he told The Post that he knew Derkach “quite well” and that the Ukrainian lawmaker “has been very helpful to me.” Trump, in turn, has hyped this Russian agent’s bogus charges against Biden.
As you’ve probably noticed by now, Donald Trump has spent the entirety of his presidency saying certifiably insane, 100% made-up stuff, including but not limited to suggesting he invented the word “caravan”; claiming you need an I.D. to buy cereal; insisting a hurricane was going to hit Alabama when it definitely wasn’t; telling people that wind turbines give you cancer; dubbing himself the greatest environmentalist president in more than 100 years; and repeatedly talking about a nonexistent commercial flight filled with “thugs” who apparently used their frequent-flier miles to get a deal on a red-eye to Washington. With fewer than two months until the election, these statements have only gotten more absurd and have focused nearly completely on his opponent, Joe Biden. In the last few weeks, the president has claimed his opponent is controlled by “people that are in the dark shadows,” that he’s fine with children being “slaughtered,” and that if he’s elected, you’ll have to flee your home in the middle of the night. On Thursday it was shown that Trump took his Biden commentary to its next “logical” conclusion, claiming in an interview that the Democratic nominee has gained an edge in the polls by using...performance-enhancing drugs.
“I think there’s probably—possibly—drugs involved,” Trump told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro in an interview that will air on Saturday night. “That’s what I hear. I mean, there’s possibly drugs. I don’t know how you can go from being so bad where you can’t even get out a sentence.”
I left the apt at 6:30 and walked to Bocados Bar. The last block I started feeling a few raindrops. By the time I sat down it was pouring so my timing was perfect. It lasted about an hour. MT was there also and we all had chicken shish-kebab and drinks for a total of 42mil. MT left a little early and Teresa and I took a taxi back to the apt about 9:15.
The US has 6,354,614 ð 6,411,551 ð 6,462,503 coronavirus cases with 189,900+ ð 191,500+ ð 192,700+ deaths.
Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 686,856 ð 694,664 ð 702,088 cases with 22,518 deaths. Medellin has 53,114 ð 53,595 54,245 ð cases, an increase of 626 from September 10th to 11th. Envigado has a total of 2,908 cases, an increase of 42 from September 10th to 11th.
Joke of the day
Did you hear about the lawyer hurt in a crash? An ambulance stopped suddenly.
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