The Virus
As of Aug. 3, 2020:
Total Americans:
Recovered/Recovering: 4,494,631
Cases: 4,649,102
Fatalities: 154,471
Washington State:
58,715 cases, 1,600 fatalities
Lewis County.:
189 cases, 3 fatalities
Yakima County:
10,047 cases, 205 fatalities
The governor is requiring masks in public and prohibiting businesses from serving unmasked customers along with many other limitations.
Our vulnerable people must continue to Stay at Home!
Our frontline workers and nursing home workers and patients must be perfectly protected!
We all must continue masks, separation, sanitation and slowing its spread so that we keep the hospitalizations curve flattened and protect our most vulnerable!
MMA champions wear masks! Roller derby queens wear masks! President Trump
wears a mask!
We’re learning to live with this virus as we must and as we have learned to live with influenza- it’s not going away.
The rest of us must get back to work! We’re not dummies; we will protect ourselves by masks, separation and sanitation, thereby preventing any large increase in hospitalizations.
Total American household expenditures, the foundation of our nation, are $30 trillion.
We pay these dollars for goods and services made by other workers who then spend their paychecks, another $30 trillion, paying them to others for products and services, and so on up through the nation.
Taxes along the way pay for our health care, education, peace, security and everything.
The once or twice paltry $3 trillion (borrowed) government stimulus is miniscule compared to this power of we consumers spending our paychecks up through our nation.
Those who walk 8,000 steps daily have half the mortality of those who walk 4,000 steps.
In this observational study that included 4840 participants, a greater number of steps per day was significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality.
Chance of death for 8000 steps/day was half the chance for 4000 steps/day.
Mental health being damaged by
doom scrolling
Coronavirus deaths (473,000 worldwide and counting), unemployment rates (around 13 percent in the US), protesters in the street on any given day marching for racial justice (countless thousands)—the faucet of data runs nonstop. There are unlimited seasons, and the promise of some answer, or perhaps even some good news, always feels one click away.
But it’s never one click away.
Those who scroll all day looking for it don’t find it.
That means there’s a “lot of demand on cognitive processing to make sense of this, compounding the stress and anxiety they’re already feeling.
While Twitter and Facebook, when used responsibly, can have positive effects on mental health, they can also lead to anxiety and depression.
“In this situation, we engage in these more narrow, immediate survival-oriented behaviors. We’re continuously in fight-or-flight mode,” a researcher says.
Comet NEOWISE has is delighting skywatchers around the Northern Hemisphere. But what makes this comet so special?
The comet made its closest approach to the sun on July 3 but, until now, was only visible in the sky before dawn. Now, for keen observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the comet has been getting higher in the evening sky, sparkling northwest below the Big Dipper constellation, according to Joe Masiero, deputy principal investigator of NEOWISE (NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the NASA space telescope that first spotted the comet).
One of the most fascinating details about Comet NEOWISE is that it won’t return to our skies for another 6,800 years. But that’s not the only thing that makes this icy space rock special. So let’s take a dive into what makes Comet NEOWISE unique — and a little weird.
Info:
https://www.space.com/comet-neowise-strange-facts.html?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=2765550&m_i=woFORoBt8khMUWn9%2BgcGIqt9Y3t5bvlpjADuChJsp12ykPGBLo4Tm2tZkBGwUbCsIDgA_KAqQFs6iHtndtfgr1X4otPQMeCvOoHqljwwwm
In Sweden only one percent of purchases are made with cash.