Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Woke up to a bright blue sky this morning. Hopped onto the scales and saw to my dismay that I have gained a few kilos. This needs to end; either reduce food intake or figure out a way to be more active. Given life is confined to the environs of home, the latter is a challenge. The former a deprivation of the few joys left in life. Maybe we need to go veg.
Today would have been EM’s first day back at work as lifeguard had pools opened as they usually do on Memorial Day weekend. Alas they did not. In fact, pool season at SMC is not happening at all this year – cancelled – like so many other things in this new world of ours. Instead she spent the day, yet again, remotely interacting with her friends.
After some nagging, she did manage to spray paint those stands I acquired to keep my windows elevated. She also finished mending our patio side tables. Somehow, they do not do winter well and need to be redone every spring. They are pretty and a nice way to showcase our shell collection. We designed them a few years ago; buying little plexiglass trophy boxes and sticking the shells to the bottom. They are the perfect height to place a glass or ashtray on when sitting on the love seat or the chairs out back. Today was a fix it day – beyond lounging in the sun in my garden that is.
I striped the paint of all my spice jar lids. In Istanbul they were blue to match my kitchen. I somehow do not like the color and even though they are in a cupboard out of sight, they do not match my back splash now. The blue came of and grey went on. Now they are drying in the sun so I can finish the rims tomorrow. Other than this, a chill day at home enjoying the sun and my book until it became to dark to read, hence writtin now. I just wish the keyboard were lit.
Am toying with the idea of sailing either tomorrow afternoon or Monday, seeing it is a day of. Like almost everyone else I entertain the sentiment of “can this be over now?” Far from it though if numbers are anything to go by.
The world today has 5.66 million known cases of which 1.66 million are in the USA and deaths in the US have reached 97k, so we may hit the 100k well before June 1. Work on potential treatments continues and I am amazed by science and what it can do in such a short period of time.
What does make me hopeful is news about research in South Korea where scientist have established that people testing positive a second time are not infectious as the tests are unable to distinguish between life and dead viral particles.
I am ever more convinced I had this virus in January. It was just due to a perfect storm that I survived/ was not terribly ill. Because of the rotator cuff tendonitis, I had been on a one month course of diclofenac to suppress inflammations. Just as that course was done I had a Cortisone shot. This in combination with the TB vaccine I received as an infant may well account for a light case with the immune system not going haywire. As a person with prexisting conditions an immune compromised I really fear this evil virus, sooo hoping I am "done". There was the temperature, the soar throat, the dry cough and the lost of taste all within two weeks. No matter what the antibody test said; it all adds up.
I would contest that death by COVID19 is most unlikely, seeing people die of pneumonia induced by COVID, so following the logic of the administration Corona death are zero, that still does not explain why 95k Americans died in three months of diseases such as diabetes, heart attack, stroke and so on. While the death toll in the US rises, the administration is arguing it is overstated. I so do not trust anything this administration puts out!