Category: current events
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jhu update #21
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:38 am: There were 2,167,955 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 146,071 deaths. In the U.S. there were 671,425 confirmed cases, thirty-one percent of the world’s total and 31,761 more than this time yesterday. 33,286 Americans have died from COVID-19, twenty-three percent of the world’s… Read.
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jhu update #20
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 4:33 am: There were 2,072,228 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 137,666 deaths. In the U.S. there were 639,664 confirmed cases, thirty-one percent of the world’s total and 29,979 more than this time yesterday. 30,985 Americans have died from COVID-19, twenty-three percent of the world’s… Read.
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jhu update #19
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:15 am: There were 1,996,681 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 127,590 deaths. In the U.S. there were 609,685 confirmed cases, thirty-one percent of the world’s total and 27,091 more than this time yesterday. 26,059 Americans have died from COVID-19, twenty percent of the world’s… Read.
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turbulent
I’ve got to stop watching videos of the orange menace right before bed time. Or even after supper. Maybe at all. It’s not helping. I already know he’s a menace. I already know he comes up with a new way every day to demonstrate what a menace he is. Watching him do it does not… Read.
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jhu update # 18
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:00 am: There were 1,925,811 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 120,449 deaths. In the U.S. there were 582,594 confirmed cases, thirty percent of the world’s total and 25,004 more than this time yesterday. 23,649 Americans have died from COVID-19, twenty percent of the world’s… Read.
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tin pot
I sincerely believed I would not live long enough to hear a president of the United States declare he has the absolute power to tell the individual states what they could and could not do. Q: What provision in the constitution gives the president the power to open or close state economies, and then —… Read.
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jhu update #17
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 4:52 am: There were 1,859,011 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 114,979 deaths. In the U.S. there were 557,590 confirmed cases, thirty percent of the world’s total and 27,584 more than this time yesterday. 22,109 Americans have died from COVID-19, nineteen percent of the world’s… Read.
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jhu update #16
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:38 am: There were 1,787,766 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 109,691 deaths. In the U.S. there were 530,006 confirmed cases, thirty percent of the world’s total and 28,391 more than this time yesterday. 20,608 Americans have died from COVID-19, nineteen percent of the world’s… Read.
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jhu update #15
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:56 am: There were 1,709,014 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 103,536 deaths. In the U.S. there were 501,615 confirmed cases, twenty-nine percent of the world’s total and 35,316 more than this time yesterday. 18,777 Americans have died from COVID-19, eighteen percent of the world’s… Read.
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shelter in place – day 27
It’s Day 27 of shelter in place at the O’Folks Home, counting from the Sunday after we flew back from Florida, and both of us are still pretty sure we haven’t contracted COVID-19. I’ve read that you can have it without showing any symptoms, but we’re both hypochondriacs so I’m pretty sure if we had… Read.
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