Saturday, June 27, 2020

Wall Building doesn't have to exclude anyone

Wil is building this from locally quarried "Emerald Mist" green shist.

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  1. How the Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System [Click] “In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found.” Points the way toward therapies.

    The Stars and Stripes newspaper has long supported the troops. Now it needs Congress’s support. [Click]

    How Arizona Lost Control of the Epidemic [Click]

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  2. Stop Firing the Innocent [Click] “America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.”

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  3. Incredible political realignment in Ireland. [Click] Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael form coalition [with Green Party as kingmakers], and Sinn Féin becomes the opposition.

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    1. Hey, ya don't have to convince me. Mr. Vote For Me Because I'm Not Trump totally fails to impress me. It hardly comes as a surprise that he fails the fact check test.

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  5. High temperature prediction for today 106 deg. F, tomorrow it plunges to 93. Gardening can wait until tomorrow.

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  6. OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 48,638 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,788 deaths, and 7,570 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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    1. The few facts mentioned about Biden in the article have been common knowledge for years. Anyone not aware of them has been living under a rock...or for a short time. The focus did seem to be on young voters, and perhaps ones not particularly politically savvy. But, still, it was rather discouraging.

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  8. In March Trump was told of US Intelligence conclusion that the GRU had been paying bounties to the Taliban for killing American soldiers. [Click] He was presented with a choice of responses. He did nothing except spout some happy talk about US-Russia relations. I wonder when we will discover what Putin has on Trump. Is it Kompromat, or simply a matter of playing him like a fiddle? I don’t think Trump has the brains to be a Russian agent, but he certainly is a Russian asset.

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    1. He is too needy. If people like Putin and Kim *pretend* to like him they own him from that day forward.

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    2. What's the other term? Not an asset but a useful fool, is that it? Trump is certainly a fool, and useful to any number of undesirable types.

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  9. Here is some information to add perspective to national news reports that California is having a lot of new coronavirus infections.
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    California (population 39.5m)
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 1: 3,014.3 patients
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 25: 3,907.6 patients (29.6% increase, 10 per 100,000)
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    Florida (population 21.5m)
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 1: 10,180 patients
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 25: 13,761 patients (35.2% increase, 64 per 100,000)
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    Texas (population 29m)
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 1: 1,714.7 patients
    Seven-day average for hospitalizations on June 25: 4,098.4 patients (139% increase, 14 per 100,000 )
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    Arizona (population 7.3m)
    Current coronavirus hospitalizations 2577 (35/100,000)
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    4 suburban California counties behind dangerous rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations [Click] Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties

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    1. Where did you locate these numbers, Alan? Do they have same for Vermont?

      My best guess is that on June 1st the State of Vermont’s seven-day average was 2 new cases, with 1 hospitalised, and in June 25th it was more like 8 new cases with 3 hospitalised.
      We got red status on tv for going from 2 to 8.
      (Population 623,989)

      Ref: https://www.healthvermont.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Weekly-Summary-of-Data.pdf

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    2. We’ve been celebrating, so I’m just catching up.

      Yesterday:
      VT: 1200/ 56 (+2/ 0)
      198 active/ 0 x 10 days
      Recovered 946
      In Hospital = 2 (-2)
      Tests 62,723 (+1134)

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