Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once during
the night, again at 6:15, catnapped until finally getting up at 7:15.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 1 of
4. Most discouraging was that my finger slipped early in the 4th
game and I gave away my queen. My rating is now 1435. Now I have to work to get
it up to 1450 again.
I started a test sending myself $100 using World Remit
but Av Villas and Grupo Aval aren’t in their list. So, either I visit 2 banks –
Bancolombia to retrieve cash and Av Villas to make my rental payment – or I use
the ATM to withdraw cash, AV Villas to make my rental payment and a
Consignacion machine to pay Juan Castro.
I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today
show then left for my 1-hour power walk.
If
not enough Americans get a Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes
available,
it won't help reduce the spread of the deadly virus, the nation's top
infectious disease official said.
In an interview with The
Wall Street Journal, Dr. Anthony Fauci addressed the risks of too few people taking the vaccine.
Even a third of Americans getting vaccinated
against the coronavirus won't be enough, the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.
"It's a combination of how
effective a vaccine is and how many people use it," Fauci
said. "If you have a vaccine that is highly effective and not enough
people get vaccinated, you're not going to realize the full, important effect
of having a vaccine."
The less protective a vaccine is, the
more people need to get it to provide population-wide immunity, Fauci said. The
fundamental goal is to get the level of infection so low that when there are
little outbreaks, they're easy to control, he said.
A recent poll from the Kaiser Family
Foundation found that 54% of respondents said they would not get the vaccine if
it was available for free before the November 3 presidential election -- a time
frame suggested by President Trump but one health officials say is unlikely.
The hesitancy of many people to get a
Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available is an issue that needs to be
urgently addressed, said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National
Institutes of Health.
"Those who are vaccine hesitant have
had their hesitancy enhanced by a variety of things that are happening right
now, particularly the unfortunate mix of science and politics," Collins
said at an event hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine. "I don't want to have us, a year from now, having a conversation
about how we have in our hands the solution to the worst pandemic of more than
100 years, but we haven't been able to actually convince people to take charge
of it," Collins said.
Fauci
said he still thinks it will be the final months of the year before a vaccine
is proven to be safe and effective. ''I would still put my money on November/December,"
Fauci said during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute panel on global
pandemics.
After nearly half a decade of repeated
allegations, another woman has publicly accused President Donald Trump of
sexual assault.
Amy Dorris, a former model, said Trump
forced his tongue down her throat and groped her against her will at the U.S. Open tennis tournament
in 1997, when she was 24 years old, according to a report in The Guardian
published Thursday. Dorris said he ignored her demands to stop.
Uh-oh. Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsberg died today at the age of 87. That’s going to lead to a
constitutional crisis. Mitch McConnel didn’t allow O’Bama to appoint a supreme
court justice because Mitch said it was in the last year of Barack’s presidency
and they should let the voters decide. Now he will want Trump to appoint a judge
even though it’s less than 2 months before the presidential election.
Teresa beat me in
parcheesi today 6 games to 2.
A blog reader sent me
an interesting article about chess and AI. Thank you!
About 7:15 Teresa
suggested we go for patacones. First I had her call to make sure the lady was making
them tonight. Teresa placed an order and I understood they would be ready in 20
minutes. She wanted to wait a bit but I figured walking to the guardhouse, waiting
for a taxi and the ride there ought to take at least 20 minutes. As we walked
out of the parking garage we felt raindrops. (My Accuweather app was predicting
rain at 9pm.) I told her to go order the taxi and I returned to the apt for the
large umbrella. At the 20 minute mark we were on our way and the drops had
turned into a light rain. Teresa asked the driver to wait and we picked up our
order, I paid 22mil and we returned to the apt. Even though they were no longer
hot she thought they tasted best of all tonight.
I finished reading
Barbara Delinsky’s paperback Escape.
The
US has 6,643,409 ð 6,696,260 ð 6,736,256 coronavirus cases
with 196,400+ ð 197,400+ ð 198,200+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 736,377 ð 743,945 ð 750,471 cases with 23,850 deaths. Medellin has 58,224 ð 58,849 ð 59,934 cases, an increase of 540 from September 17th
to 18th. Envigado has a total of 3,244 cases, an increase of 56 from
September 17th to 18th.
Joke of
the day
The new
cinematic emporium,
Was not just
a super-sensorium,
But a
highly effectual,
Heterosexual,
Mutual
masturbatorium.
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