Local Walk: Yellow Crocuses
My town is the green one, with 11 cases. We are on the outskirts of Burlington, which has the most.
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Coronavirus: New Zealand reports no new cases of community transmission as lockdown eases [Click]
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, in the US A Third Of NYC Food Pantries Have Closed, Swelling Bread Lines During Coronavirus Lockdown [Click]
As Farmers Forced to Let Crops Rot and Throw Away Milk While Food Bank Demand Soars [Click]
and Trump Has Praised His Response 600 Times [Click]
A Natural [sic] Coronavirus Experiment Is Playing Out In Kentucky And Tennessee [Click]Tennessee Opens Restaurants as New Cases Surge [Click]
DT is part of Kipling’s monkey tribe the Bander Log, known for declaring: “We all day so and so it must be true.”
DeleteHuzzah NZ!!
DeleteNot clear whether the New Zealand news is bad news for me. If the country's borders remain closed through the end of July, Air New Zealand will presumably cancel my scheduled flight and I will be eligible for a refund. Otherwise I'm out the $1200.
DeleteAlso not clear about the Tennessee situation. (Note that the article is two weeks old.) A mid-June convention in Chattanooga I was scheduled to attend was cancelled a week ago by the convention center and hotel rather than the convention staff. The hotel is apparently closed.
It's not that Trump thinks anything he says must be true because he says it, but that he doesn't think truth matters. People haven't paid enough attention to what he said about his meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau. He told us in so many words that he claimed Canada had a trade surplus with the US without having the faintest notion whether it was so. (It wasn't.)
DeleteI've always maintained Trump doesn't lie. He simply opens his mouth and waits to hear what comes out.
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ReplyDeleteTaegan Goddard: With his advocacy for injecting disinfectants and internal light treatments for Covid-19, Trump seems to have had his “47%” moment. “Trump’s own reaction this time — by withdrawing from his daily briefings over the weekend — tells you he knows he made a big political mistake.
Here’s why:
He didn’t double-down like he normally does when he says something controversial.
He gave in to the advice of Republicans who have been telling him for weeks the briefings were hurting him politically.
He willingly gave up the chance to stand in front of a national television audience.
Trump never does these things.” [Emphasis added]
trump is embarrassed. He can't handle the feeling and he can't escape it, though he tries to run away. For a man totally ruled by the needs of his Ego this must be torture. (good) He needs praise the way you and I need oxygen. Probably why he has "praised his response 600 times".
DeleteIt is probably a vain hope, but Our Dear Leader could reassert his control of the narrative by pretending(?) upset at failure of the GOP establishment to recognize his great performance and refusing the GOP 2020 presidential nomination, then blaming them for their electoral failure.
DeleteOh, Alan, what a lovely idear! If only!
DeleteThey Stand Behind the President: A short film [Click]
ReplyDeleteVT population = 623,989
ReplyDeletecases/deaths = 855/47 (+4/+1)
deaths = 5.5% (of known cases)
Hospitalised 11 ( 0)
Tests 15,073 (+390)
So, take a peek out front. I just added a map showing every town in Vermont and how many cases each has.
ReplyDeleteWe have 11 known cases and have 5070 citizens, so that means .216% of the population has tested positive.
DeleteOHIO; 16,325 COVID cases and 753 death.
ReplyDelete4.6%
DeleteInteractive Covid map of California by counties. [Click]
ReplyDeleteCurrent status reports:
California:
Population: 39,937,500
Confirmed cases: 43801
Deaths: 1724
Fresno County:
Population: 986,500
Confirmed cases: 458
Deaths: 7
CA: 3.9% of known cases resulted in deaths
DeleteFRESNO: 1.5%
.004% of California residents have died of COVID-19.
.137% of Vermont residents have died of COVID-19.
DeleteYes, Vermont is getting walloped. Tulare County (Devin Nunes' stomping ground, just south of Fresno County) has five times the death rate of Fresno County, and the biggest nursing home outbreak in the entire state. The citizens, supervisors, and mayors were slow to act, discounting the seriousness of the virus.
DeleteAlan how is it going around LA? My Mother’s Ring is stuck there near Thousand Oaks.
DeleteWell, my county in Vermont is getting walloped. We have had several nursing homes hard hit and the medical center is here. North of us is a native Abenaki tribe hard hit too. Most of the state, though, is doing quite well.
DeleteI will look into LA a little later; in terms of number of cases it is very high for California, but so is the population. I probably know more about LA than about NYC, but that still doesn't amount to much. Fresno (about halfway between SF and LA) after all these years still seems to me like the Deep South.
DeleteCity of Los Angeles
DeletePopulation four million
County of Los Angeles
Population ten million
Confirmed cases 20423
Deaths 944
Deaths per 100,000 = 9.4
Los Angeles Metro Area
[AKA Greater Los Angeles]
Population nineteen million
Look what I found. (see link) It sure looks like my ring may be a lot longer coming. The repair was supposed to take 7-10 days. That was 6.5 weeks ago. But at least their website no longer says they are closed. It now says they are working from home. And they are taking orders for new Mother's Rings! So maybe they can simply repair (upsize) the one I already bought?
Deletehttps://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/
Wil first bought the ring in early December, but ordered a 6 instead of a 6.5. So I sent it back and they resized it in January. In February, I bought the Gramie Ring in 6.5 and it fits perfectly. But the upsized Mother's Ring is about a quarter size smaller than the Gramie Ring. So I sent it back March 11th to be correctly resized. And here we are. Sigh. It's been away longer than I've had it. Looking forward to its return, when that becomes possible.
DeleteThat coronavirus info article you found in the LA Times is very impressive!
DeleteUS was warned of threat from anti-vaxxers in event of pandemic [Click] To whom might this not have been clear, aside from the anti-vaxxers themselves?
ReplyDeleteJustices Order New Briefs in Trump Tax Return Case [Click] “Should the justices say the courts lack power to hear Trump’s suits over the House subpoenas, the ruling could lead to his tax returns becoming public before the November election.” Also his dealings with Russian bagmen?
ReplyDeleteUtterly heartbreaking
ReplyDeleteNew York City doctor who treated coronavirus patients dies by suicide
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.amp.html
No history of mental illness, but she was a NYC ER doc who saw multiple patients die even before they could be taken out of ambulances. She survived COVID-19 herself, but, really, it killed her anyway.
There a couple of possibly similar stories from Russia in the news today.
DeletePresidential Daily Briefings repeatedly cited coronavirus threat during January and February. [Click] But of course Our Glorious Leader ignored it.
ReplyDeleteMy attempt to revive some yeast from bread that had an aroma of yeast did seem to be proceeding, but so slowly that I thought it might go straight to mother of vinegar. While shopping today and verifying that there was still no yeast available, it dawned on me that the store might well stock frozen ready-to-rise bread, and it did! In the form of rolls, which made it easier. Two of them rose very well in a dish covered with plastic wrap and left in the sun (after thawing, natch). I shall transmogrify them into a bread sponge/starter.
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On another note, we bought some bananas of a sort that we greatly prefer to the standard American ones. They are quite a bit smaller, have a much better flavor, and also last much longer. Even when the skins have turned black (and tough), the bananas are not spoiled. The carton said they were "Thai bananas," grown in Mexico. They were a little more expensive than the Chiquitas, but well worth it IMO. That store also stocks some other small bananas that are so expensive we have never bought them.
I wonder if these [Click] could be the small bananas we prefer. The size is right, and they are a little sweeter than Cavendish, but they have IMO a nicer flavor aside from that.
DeleteGood thinking to look for ready to bake bread!
DeleteCheck this out. COVID-19 death rates by state.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
Very striking; thank you, listener.
DeleteOxford Leaps Ahead on Coronavirus Vaccine [Click]
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ReplyDeleteBiden Shouldn’t Overthink His Veep Pick [Click] “There is no single running mate who can emerge, like Wonder Woman, with the preternatural power to enhance black and Latino turnout, reach out to hardcore Sanders supporters, and appeal to wavering Republican voters in the Midwest.”
That's because any running mate will still be running with Biden.
DeleteFred Marple: A man for our time
ReplyDeleteFred's New Magazine - Click
Not basically news, but some more detail:
ReplyDeleteWaPo: U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19 [Click]
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ReplyDeleteI have been following this fellow on YouTube; it is a nice diversion. [Click]