There are fireworks at Mt Rushmore on July 3 and on the Ellipse on the 4th, along with a parade and military demonstrations. There is a common denominator between the two events.
Drive thru fireworks here. I guess it works
Are I haven’t read the last 4 pages, I will go back but I want to share some good/bad news.
D19’s coworker was tested positive with covid after she felt minor symptom. So everyone who were in close contact with her got tested, including my kiddo. I’ve been so worried all day but the result came back negative, thank goodness. Unfortunately 1 other coworker was tested positive but asymptomatic. I was so distracted and in my 1/1 with my boss today she noticed and asked if I was ok. I broke down and cried. I didn’t realize I held back so much inside. Apparently the coworker is getting a little worse. I have been worried ever since she picked up the job. One of the moms whose daughter also worked with DD, she made a comment that implied she pitied our situation as well as her own, that had we been well off we would never put our kids at risk like this. I didn’t know what to say to her, so I said nothing. DD didn’t need to work, she wanted to. I tried to talk her out of it but she wouldn’t listen.
I never thought I “put my kid at risk” when she decided to take the job. I mean I worry, but not until it hits me that she could be infected. But the reality is, many who work in retail do so because they HAVE to, not bc they WANT to.
My boss was very sympathetic, she said omg we have so much work to do we could hire her, that we could bring her in as a temp, not through intern/coop since the program for the year is completed. IDK, I don’t want to deal with this right now. Getting a job for her is not high on my priority list. I don’t want my work life to be more complicated than it already is. Right now I just want her to be safe and happy, and that means she has to agree to quit the damn job. I probably won’t even mention my boss’s offer.
@Nhatrang, I’m sorry about your daughter and her coworker and all the stress. I’d feel like you do if one of my children was going through that.
Thanks @rosered55 my husband and my kids are so calm about it. DH said sooner or later we all are going to get it. I just want everyone to not be sick for the next 6-9 months until the vaccine comes out…
POC exempt from wearing a mask.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/oregon-county-people-of-color-mask-trnd/index.html
“it’s one of the first counties in the US to exempt people of color from wearing masks to prevent racial profiling.”
Now it’s time for wine
In early March when I was making matching masks for my family I texted my black friend if he wanted one, he said something like hell no, a black man in mask will get me killed faster than covid. We laughed but he wasn’t joking.
But it was in March when wearing mask was still a little weird. But now everyone is wearing it, I would hope black peoplel should have no more fear. I wonder whose idea to make the exempt, from black peoples who expressed real fear or from a political group looking to score points?
Lincoln County, Oregon has dropped the mask exemption for people of color.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/lincoln-county-drops-mask-exemption-for-people-of-color-citing-racist-backlash.html
Edited to add – Lincoln County is 90% white.
Colorado’s uptick is also due to teens behaving badly up in the mountains near Vail…
One difference… CHOP started out and still labels itself a protest (my autocorrect wanted to change it to “problem” - I agree with it! )
I went to school at UC Berkeley. We had The People’s Park, a CHOP of its time. It may have started as a protest but by the time I was in school, the People’s Park was more of a problem. Drug infested, dirty, peopled with the homeless and runaways and far from safe. Here’s hoping authorities deal with CHOP quicker than Berkeley did, 'cos that took YEARS
Up here in Southcentral Alaska, the 4th of July fireworks have been cancelled in Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, and Seward, and the Girdwood Forest Fair (no fireworks, but still kind of a hippie Independence Day event) has been cancelled.
Of course, I never understood why we have 4th of July fireworks anyway, because they sky’s still light (technically the sun’s below the horizon, but it’s effectively full daylight) and you can’t really see them. The annual New Year’s Eve fireworks make more sense, aside from the cold.
Racist backlash or not, that can’t be legal, can it?
“U.S. hits highest single day of new coronavirus cases with more than 45,500, breaking April record”:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/us-hits-highest-single-day-of-coronavirus-cases-at-36358-breaking-april-record.html
Doctors always advise you must take the full dose when you take antibiotics to cure a viral infection, otherwise…
I keep reading “CHOP” as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
We’ve been awakened by illegal fireworks every night for a week or so now.
NJ’s numbers have been down. It is really priceless to see my mom to be just a bit more relaxed when she needs to go out for grocery. She is still not getting together with friends. I am encouraging her to take walks with a friend from her community.
I am watching on TV about how Paris is opening up some of its sites, like the Eiffel Tower and museums, but still doesn’t have tourists yet. The Parisians are taking the advantage of able to get to those sites without a large crowd. I may do some of that in NYC. I have never been up the Empire State Building or Statue of Liberty. When the Red Bus starts up again (without a lot of tourists) I may get on one, sitting on top of open seat, to take a tour of NYC.
How the virus spread in the US.
Almost 4 months in and testing is still problematic. SMH
“Inadequate testing capacity has hampered the American coronavirus response since the start of the pandemic. When the federal government distributed faulty test kits in February, states were unable to monitor the disease’s early spread.”
LSince then, no national testing strategy has emerged. Local governments and health providers largely decide where to offer testing. And the bottlenecks today are strikingly similar to those in the pandemic’s early weeks: laboratories unable to obtain the machines they need to run more tests, scrambling to hire enough workers to staff them, and a fragmented laboratory system that makes it hard for hospitals and doctor’s offices to coordinate with facilities that could handle excess volume.l
“American labs continue to compete with one another as well as those abroad for testing supplies like swabs used to collect samples and the machines that process the material.”
“All of these challenges have become acute in Arizona, which has gone from reporting several hundred daily cases last month to 3,000-plus some days this week. The state recorded its highest number of coronavirus hospitalizations on Monday.”
“Sonora Quest, the state’s largest medical laboratory, received more than 12,000 coronavirus samples last Friday — twice as many as it can process in a day. “This is not a position we want to be in,” said Sonya Engle, the laboratory’s chief operating officer.”
^The same is happening with contact tracing and isolation, the other two components of virus control everyone talks about. There’s no meaningful contact tracing almost anywhere, certainly not at the federal level. Contact tracing can’t stop at the state borders. Our isolation strategy? Just stay home.
Residents and local businesses in a community in Germany’s most populous state have been forced back into strict lockdown following a coronavirus outbreak at a local slaughterhouse. Schools, bars, and museums in North Rhine-Westphalia’s Gütersloh district had been gradually reopening their doors until this Wednesday.
The community’s 360,000 residents were forced back into lockdown after over 1,700 employees at the Tönnies abattoir and meat processing plant tested positive.
The incident has renewed fears of a second wave of the virus as hundreds of thousands of Germans are embarking on foreign holidays to Spain, Greece and Portugal; travel agents were inundated with calls and emails from upset residents worried about their summer breaks.
Local health officials said the measures would be reviewed weekly, but the move shows the anger governments around the world may face if they force released communities back into lockdown. (Guardian)