Category: daily drivel
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jhu update #22
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:38 am: There were 2,259,317 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 154,694 deaths. In the U.S. there were 706,779 confirmed cases, thirty-one percent of the world’s total and 35,354 more than this time yesterday. 37,079 Americans have died from COVID-19, twenty-four percent of the world’s… Read.
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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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plague diary
Spent the day at the state office building, which was eerie because in The Before Times it was a building filled with more than 4,000 state office workers, but in The Plague Times I have been there twice and on each of those visits I have seen less than a half-dozen people each time. Weirdly,… 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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what’s going on
Got my bike down from the rafters, pumped the tires full of air and took a ride around Lake Monona yesterday morning – an eleven-mile circle, the shortest route I could make – and it just about kicked my butt; the first ride of the summer season usually does. After a couple more rides I’ll… Read.
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