Last night I went to bed at 10:45, fell asleep
quickly, got up at 4am, was still awake by 5am, got up took another Zopiclona,
did some work on my notebook, returned to bed at 6:15, soon was asleep, finally
waking/getting up at 8:30.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 3 of
4. The last game I was slightly better but lost on time. My rating is now 1455.
Once again I’m going for 1500.
Today is Dia de Amor & Amistad (Day of Love and
Friendship), the Colombian version of Valentine’s Day.
Teresa left at 2:30 to see
a doctor in downtown Medellin. At 3:30 I walked thru La Buena Mesa to a flower
store where I bought her a bouquet of exotic looking flowers for 20mil. On the
way back I noticed people sitting inside Parva so I guess its officially
open for indoor seating now.
Teresa was there when I
returned and she thanked me for the flowrs.
Teresa beat me in
parcheesi today I don’t know how many times. 6 to 2?
After months of mass death and sickness,
what could possibly count as a success story against the pandemic?
President Donald Trump would have you believe
Americans are already living that success story, even as the death toll approaches 200,000 and
infections spread by the tens of thousands a day.
Trump’s latest revisionism on the pandemic came
during a week when he unleashed a torrent of misbegotten claims about mail-in
voting, a monthslong preoccupation growing more intense with the approach of
the Nov. 3 election.
While Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden laid
out a broad and largely supported case that Trump has underplayed the severity
of the pandemic, the devil was in the details: No, Trump did not call the
coronavirus a hoax.
TRUMP: “If you look at what we’ve done and all of the lives that
we’ve saved … this was our prediction, that if we do a really good job, we’ll
be at about a hundred and — 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. And we’re below that
substantially, and we’ll see what comes out. But that would be if we did the
good job. If the not-so-good job was done, you’d be between 1.5 million — I
remember these numbers so well — and 2.2 million.” — news conference Wednesday.
THE
FACTS: He’s glossing over grim numbers and wrongly describing the scientific
projections.
First
and most notably, the U.S. is not running “substantially” below projections
that 100,000 to 240,000 would die from COVID-19. The death toll is close to
200,000 and the pandemic is far from over. Tens of thousands of new infections
are being reported each day.
The
White House and federal public health authorities have often pointed to the
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington as
a source for their pandemic projections. The institute now forecasts more than 378,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19 by Jan. 1.
The rain started about
5pm.
It’s 9:30pm and she
still hasn’t put the flowers in a vase. Sigh! I moved it to the center of the
dining room table an she finally opened them and added water.
The
US has 6,696,260 ð 6,736,256 ð 6,788,238 coronavirus cases
with 197,400+ ð 198,200+ ð 199,100+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 743,945 ð 750,471 ð 758,398 cases with 24,039 deaths. Medellin has 58,849 ð 59,934 ð 59,627 cases, an increase of 233 from September 18th
to 19th. Envigado has a total of 3,271 cases, an increase of 27 from
September 18th to 19th.
Joke of
the day
A
buxom broad from Bogotá,
Went
into a nudist spa;
It
thrilled her a lot,
But
somehow she got,
Thrown
out for wearing a bra.
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