Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up twice during
the night, finally waking/getting up at 7am.
Last night I had some
last minute things to take care of so I didn’t have the opportunity to play
chess on Chess.com.
Teresa was talking to Laura
and then informed me that Lenny’s father has a house in Italy so we can travel
there and stay for free. I told Teresa I want us to go visit Chicago first. She
said Laura first has to get her papers in order. I asked her if Laura goes to Italy
how can she get back in the US without papers? That ended that discussion.
I left the apt just
before 10am and walked through the back street of La Buena Mesa. The
intersection of one of the restaurant streets with a café street is closed off
to traffic. They have 4 sideless tents set up for people to eat outside. I walked
past Parav and they were open but still not to indoor seating. I walked past
Eduardo Madrid bakery and observed a short line outside. They don’t appear to
be letting people inside either. I walked to the mall and had a café con leche in
Todo Fresa. At 11:45 I went upstairs to the food court. I saw at most a dozen
people sitting at tables. In the restaurant aread almost all are open but sadly
most were completely empty. The most I saw at any were 2 customers. I picked up
a few things at Exito and took a taxi back to the apt.
There’s a general consensus in the medical community that the
first safe COVID-19 vaccine won’t be available until at least very late this year
and that truly effective vaccines will have to wait till next year. Yet that does not jive with guidance from the White
House, which is fueling hopes that we will have an FDA-approved vaccine before
Election Day in November— a prospect that scientists say is “very unlikely.”
Military veteran and famed US Airways
pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III on Friday urged voters to send Donald
Trump packing in November, a day after news broke that the president had
allegedly derided Americans killed in World War I as “losers” and “suckers.”
“We owe it not only to those who have
served and sacrificed for our nation, but to ourselves and to succeeding
generations to vote him out,” Sullenberger said in a tweet thread.
A former senior
White House official said the controversial remarks President Donald Trump was
reported to have made, according to The Atlantic, resembled his speech pattern
and was "so consistent with who he is."
"He uses the
word 'loser' as often as he can," the former official told Insider, adding
that Trump's interest in the military was "totally disingenuous."
Trump was said to
have called notable US military veterans, including Sen. John McCain and
President George H.W. Bush a "loser," according to The Atlantic's
previous reporting.
The Atlantic
reported on Thursday that President Donald Trump made derogatory remarks about
fallen members of the military, going so far as to call them
"suckers" and "losers."
Fox News on
Friday said the report was fabricated and criticized The Atlantic's use of
anonymous sources.
However, one
of its own — national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin — said parts of
the damning report were verified to her by two people who previously worked for
the Trump administration.
"According
to one former senior Trump administration official: 'When the President spoke
about the Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a
sucker,'" Griffin tweeted.
Griffin also reported
learning that Trump "just hated" Sen. John McCain and thought it was
"not a good look" to include the "wounded guys" in a July 4
military parade.
Trump appeared
to be aware of Griffin's reporting and called on Fox News to fire her.
Journalists
who covered the White House responded by defending Griffin's credentials and
her reporting.
Dr. Anthony
Fauci said Friday that he's not sure what President Donald
Trump meant when he said earlier that evening that the country is
"rounding the corner" on the coronavirus pandemic.
"I'm not sure what he means,"
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, told CNN's Jim Acosta on "The Situation Room."
"There are certain states that are
actually doing well in the sense of that the case numbers are coming
down." However, Fauci continued, experts remain concerned by a number of
states, including Montana, Michigan, Minnesota and the Dakotas, that are
starting to see an uptick in the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back
positive -- an indication of spread of the virus.
The
exchange marked another example of a top scientist and a member of the White
House coronavirus task force publicly disputing the President's claims about the virus, a dynamic that has played out nearly since the start of the pandemic.
"By the way, we are rounding the
corner," Trump said during a news briefing at the White House. "We
are rounding the corner on the virus."
Earlier Friday, a new model often
cited by top health officials projected that more
than 410,000 people in the US could die from the coronavirus by
January 1 -- more than doubling the current death toll.
"Of course it's possible,"
Fauci said of the model's forecast. "If you do a lot of indoor activity
and you don't utilize masks to the utmost, you very likely will get to this
number."
But
Fauci cast the projection as a "good heads up" of what could happen
if Americans don't take precautions. "Although the number's a little scary
... it may be a sort of a nudge for us to realize that we can do something to
stop that," Fauci said.
Since the start of the pandemic, experts
have warned that
the coronavirus — a respiratory pathogen — most likely capitalizes on the scarred lungs of smokers
and vapers. Doctors and researchers are now starting to pinpoint the
ways in which smoking and vaping seem to enhance the virus’s ability to spread
from person to person, infiltrate the lungs and spark some of Covid-19’s worst
symptoms.
“I have no doubt in saying that smoking
and vaping could put people at increased risk of poor outcomes from Covid-19,”
said Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, a pediatric pulmonologist at Columbia
University. “It is quite clear that smoking and vaping are bad for the lungs,
and the predominant symptoms of Covid are respiratory. Those two things are
going to be bad in combination.”
On
the West Coast, the COVID threat joins forces
with deadly heat and an
increase in wildfire danger. Between California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado,
at least 43 million Americans are baking under record temperatures.
We left the apt at 7pm,
called a taxi, picked up MT and went to Antica Pizza in La Mesa barrio
of Envigado. Nicely, Gloria let us sit inside, but we were the only ones; everyone
else had to sit on the curb to eat their pizza. When we left it was in a light
drizzle but luckily not hard enough to bother us much and I don’t think it lasted
very long. We were back at the apt by 9pm.
The
US has 6,154,383 ð 6,217,833 ð 6,241,869 coronavirus cases
with 186,300+ ð 187,600+ ð 188,000+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 641,574 ð 650,062 ð 658,456 cases with 21,156 deaths. Medellin has 48,968 ð 49,932 ð 50,942 cases, an increase of 1,008 from September 4th
to 5th. Envigado has a total of 2,698 cases, an increase of 45 from September
4th to 5th.
Joke of
the day
One day a
husband comes home from work. His wife greets him and says, "Honey, you
know, in the upstairs bathroom one of the pipes is leaking, could you fix
it?"
The husband says,
"Who do I look like, Mr. Plumber?"
A few days
go by, and he comes home from work and his wife says, "Honey, my car won't
start. I think it needs a new battery. Could you change it for me?"
He says:
"Who do I look like, Mr. Goodwrench?"
Another few
days go by, and it's raining pretty hard. The wife finds a leak in the roof.
She says,
"Honey, there's a leak on the roof! Can you please fix it?"
He says, "Who
do I look like, Bob Vila?"
The next day
the husband comes home, and the roof is fixed. So is the plumbing. So is the
car.
He asks his
wife what happened. "Oh, I had a handyman come in and fix them," she
says.
"Great!
What did he charge?" he says.
"Nothing.
He said he'd do it for free if I either baked him a cake or slept with
him."
"Cool!
Well, what kind of cake did you make?" asks the husband.
"Who do I look like," she says, "Betty Crocker?"
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