Saturday, August 1st, 2020
Increasingly our Saturdays are becoming like regular Saturdays again. This is no small amount due to Aikido class being held in the morning. EM comes along to meet up with one of her friends in Silver Spring and we head to the Glenmont – Wheaton pool after class for a bit of diving and a swim. Today somehow I began feeling nauseous 30 minutes into my swim, which was rather annoying. No idea why.
Seems that we left the wonderful dinner yesterday just in the nick of time due to EM’s driving restrictions, she prohibits her from driving between mid-night and 4 in the morning as the party carried on until 2:30 still; socially distanced and outside of course. As it was, coming home at midnight and then writing the blog until one in the morning, I had a bit of a hard time crawling out of bed today. No idea how I would have managed had we stayed out that late. As a result of last nights outing, I took a two-hour nap after making lunch late in the afternoon! I am now sort of half awake. EM and I will watch a movie and then have an early night – an no wine tonight!
Across the USA the virus continues to rise stabilizing at roughly 66K new cases every day to total 4.7 million infected as the world reaches 17.8 million. Some States, even though they did it all right at the beginning are seeing a resurgence of the virus. The reason is always the same: no masks, no maintaining of social distanc as lock downs end, people just beleive the virus has disappeared and go back to the old normal.
Amidst all this the first school to reopen in Indiana has already had its first COVID-19 case on day one of school sending a number of students home to quarantine. This is a flavor of what is likely to come across the country if schools go back to in presence classes. Public schools in Maryland will not go back to in presence learning and now even the expensive private school attended by the moron in chiefs’ son will only reopen virtually, as his father pushes for public schools to reopen and threatens to defund them in favor of private schools. Suggest he start by not paying school fees to his private school and see what happens.
Meanwhile in Kashmir schools has moved to being held outdoors. This seems rather cool. Not sure how that would play out with 2,000 students at BCC and what would happen on rainy days.
In the State of Georgia half of the participants to a camp were confirmed infected on day 4 of camp As negative test result was a prerequisite for attending and four days is too short for the infection to have spread through the camp, most of these must have arrived infected already. So much for testing requirementsnegative tests as a prerequisit to anything. unless these tests were taken and results came back within a certain time frame, like 24 or 48 hours and people were quarantining between taking the test and the event it is taken for, tests presumably mean nothing.
Key take away for us, if we were to head to Germany for Christmas: strcitly enforce quarantine for 5 to 10 days. Then take a test quarantining while awaiting results and then board a plane. Test upon arrival, but quarantine for a week or so anyway.