2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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A month-long investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that study participants who tested positive for COVID-19 were roughly twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant within two weeks of the onset of illness than those who tested negative for the virus.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-patients-restaurant-dining-study_n_5f5f9b1ec5b6fd3d052773830 -
My NS package that went on walkabout from PA to WV is now in Halethorpe MD so I guess that's progress.
Two more amazon packages showing as "undeliverable" and another two showing as "arriving late". I see Amazon is going to add thousands of employees in Maryland. DH's nephew had one of those jobs for awhile and apparently they're awful.0 -
Trump Blames Biden, Who Isn’t President, For Not Instituting Mask Mandate
“To be clear: I am not currently president,” Biden wrote moments later. “But if you chip in now, we can change that.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-mask-mandate-abc-town-hall_n_5f617ac9c5b68d1b09c9541a0 -
This is a fun twitter thread started by Lin-Manuel Miranda when his 5-year lost his first tooth:
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I want this cat tree:
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My Post Office is very efficient. I have a parcel locker, and when I have a package they put the key to it in my Post Office regular box. If it is too big for the parcel locker, they put a notice to call at the window for the package.
My Amazon deliveries have been on time. In my years I have only had one package to go missing from Amazon delivery. When I was getting NS delivery, I would get the package the day after it was shipped by UPS and then also by FedEx, the one with least reliable delivery. Other vendors, however, have a shaky history with FedEx, especially when shipped from the South.
My Covid-19 screening is done, and I have my flu and pneumonia shots. Now, I just have to have my furnace checked out before it gets really cold.0 -
I thought that was a mural of a tree until I saw the cat perched in it. Very cool. DH had his eye exam today. They did the intake interview by cell while he waited in the car. I brought a book to read while he was inside. It went very smoothly. Ran a few errands while we were out.0
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I just noticed that the sofa in that picture is exactly the one I’m currently occupying in our rented condo at the beach, lol! However, there is no cat tree or cat. We are leaving this morning, and not a moment too soon as we awoke to no A/C.0
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Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee, reached new levels of exasperation after President Donald Trump’s wild news conference on Wednesday.
Trump claimed he’d done a “great job” with the coronavirus pandemic despite the U.S. having the world’s highest death toll and one of the highest per-capita death rates of the industrialized nations.
But Steele said on MSNBC that Trump’s supporters just don’t care.
“I’ve talked to enough of them over the last few days. I’m exhausted, I’m exasperated. You know, at this point, it’s like, save who you can save because there’s only so much you can do. There’s only so much you can say. The fact that we have to literally beg people to wear a mask to save their own dumb *kitten* from getting sick, I’m sorry. To me, it is beyond the imagination.”
Steele also complained about Trump contradicting his own CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, who earlier in the day said a possible coronavirus vaccine would not be available to the general public until the second or third quarter of next year, and urged Americans to wear a mask to stop the spread of the infection.
“The CDC director is telling us the truth and Donald Trump is literally lying to us,” Steele said. “And yet, 40 percent of the country looks at it and goes: ‘Yeah, I’m with stupid.’”
Steele said the nation is facing a stark choice in the coming election.
“I don’t know what more you can take before you say you’ve had enough,” he said. “Because, my heavens, this is too much for a country to go through.”
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This morning I need to head to the vet to pick up Jack and drop off Sammy. Tomorrow I pick up Sammy. I miss having actual vet appointments but I guess overall that's one of the more minor annoyances.
I decided to break out an audiobook for the trips last week - the most recent Stephanie Plum. Those are usually good for a few laugh out loud moments in the car.0 -
I don't worry too much over things I have no control. Let's face it; the orange cheeto is an expert in all fields. If I ever have knee surgery, I may have him to do it. NOT!!!!!
I did my hour of exercise, and my car was picked up to be detailed. Isn't that an exciting day?0 -
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Every time I hear another one of his outrageous claims, I think what planet does the Cheeto live on? Stephen Colbert talked about the town hall in Philly with the undecided voters. He expressed disbelief that there could be any undecided voters left. When you think about it, how could anyone not know whether or not they thought he deserved a second term or not.0
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Ruth Badger Ginsburg passed today. I’m afraid tRump and his buddy Moscow Mitch will ram through another poorly qualified conservative justice before January, even if he loses the election. So hypocritical, considering he refused to even hold hearings for Neil Gorsuch for 11 months, saying the next president should get to make the appointment.0
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Ruth Badger Ginsburg passed today. I’m afraid tRump and his buddy Moscow Mitch will ram through another poorly qualified conservative justice before January, even if he loses the election. So hypocritical, considering he refused to even hold hearings for Neil Gorsuch for 11 months, saying the next president should get to make the appointment.
That is sad on so many levels. She was such a trailblazer. I've been such a fan. I know she was trying to hang on until after the election. What the h____ else can happen???? I'm afraid to ask.
I've got to dig out my RBG tshirt.
Mitch has ALREADY said that the cheeto's nominee will get a vote. So much for the Merrick Garland "precedent".0 -
What hypocrites. Trump should have to follow the same rules as they put Obama through regarding nominees for Supreme Court. RGB was a tower of strength. I’m so sorry that she’s gone. If only she’d made it into 2021.0
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Sad times as the democracy fades into non-existence. Will more of "Do as I say, not as the Constitution says" continue?
I got in 5 days of 60 min each of exercise this week. I had a Wendy's half-size apple pecan salad for lunch.1 -
Wearing my RBG shirt....0
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Stop expecting Life to return to normal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/coronavirus-precautions.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3i25F2iHJaaEkvuZo-3CY9EIKzZGT33P6kkl4GTTtvMYd7Syasuk6pZNQ0 -
Stop expecting Life to return to normal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/coronavirus-precautions.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3i25F2iHJaaEkvuZo-3CY9EIKzZGT33P6kkl4GTTtvMYd7Syasuk6pZNQ
I read that. I'm thinking we've got at least a year (more) of this so we might as well hunker down.0 -
Fortunately, we don’t mind staying home that much. We’ve gone out to lunch every couple of weeks but only at places with outside seating and social distancing. There was a case in MA where a high school student came to school the first day even though he had a positive Covid test a few days before. He and his parents knew he was positive but they let him go to school anyway. About 20 students/staff that had contact are getting tested and have to quarantine. I hope they make him do the rest of the year remotely after he willfully put others in danger. Maybe if there was a serious consequence, people would think before being so irresponsible.0
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My cousin’s 37 year old son was hospitalized Friday with COVID. They also have found a mass in his lungs and are unsure if it’s related to the virus or something else. He will be having a lung biopsy this afternoon. Because he is COVID positive, his surgery has to be the last of the day, I assume due to the need for additional time for deep cleaning the surgery suite afterward. He was not a smoker, so a mass in the lungs was a big surprise. He’s been sick for a couple of weeks but finally was having so much difficulty breathing that he went to the doctor on Thursday. They did several tests and sent him home with antibiotics. On Friday they called him and told him to come into the doctor’s office and to bring his wife. When he got there, his oxygen level was at 80 and the doctor told him they were calling an ambulance to transport him the 60 miles to the nearest hospital that could treat him. He’s lost 17 pounds in the past 2 weeks due to the illness. They don’t know where he might have gotten it, but both of his stepsons had mild cases and have recovered, so that is the most likely source.0
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Oh, Pam, that's terrible! I hope they can save him!
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I wonder if more people would take this seriously if they started reporting not just deaths but numbers of ongoing disabilities. That "side effect" seems to be horribly underreported.0
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Pam, I’m so sorry for what your family is going through. Have you heard anything more about the surgery? I hope he has the strength to survive this.0
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He was discharged today to self quarantine at home while he recovers. No doctor at the hospital was willing to perform the biopsy while he is positive for COVID 19, so that will have to wait. Apparently he has stabilized and is breathing better or they wouldn’t have discharged him.0
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He was discharged today to self quarantine at home while he recovers. No doctor at the hospital was willing to perform the biopsy while he is positive for COVID 19, so that will have to wait. Apparently he has stabilized and is breathing better or they wouldn’t have discharged him.
I guess that's not surprising but boy, that leaves him on tenderhooks, waiting for a diagnosis. I get tied up in knots every year just waiting for my CT scan results on my lung masses, even knowing they've been unchanged for years.0
