Pandemic Report
The latest stats from WaPo:
The latest vaccine stats from CDC:
Well, a sticky top to the BA.2 omicron wave back up to 110K cases per day. The big news is we are rolling out vaccines to babies and young kids. However, the stats I've seen is only about 18% of parents likely to vaccinate in the short term. On a more personal note, my meteorologist nephew, vaxxed and boosted, caught mildly symptomatic COVID-19 from an unsuspecting visiting colleague. And at work things are gradually getting back to normal. It used to be management sent out COVID-related emails once or twice a week. Advice on social distancing,, masking and vaccinations; caution about the upcoming holidays. It just occurred to me the last few emails from management didn't reference COVID-19 at all. The last mention I can recall was a reminder masking was still required when visiting the health clinic.
Other Notes
With 3 days in the month, there''s a modest chance of meeting or beating last month's multi-year low, although it's more likely there'll be a new low, but not as severe a drop as in the past few months. Still, some weird stats like a late February daily post has drawn a high, unlikely number of readers.
Little weird technical issues. My cable voice remote stopped working today. The problem seemed to resolve by cycling the cable box. Than an external drive wasn't working until I plugged it into a different USB port.. Then somehow I lost the first draft of this post and had to retype it from scratch.
While Hallmark is promoting a full month of Christmas movies in July, including a new movie or 2, it's sister channel HMM is currently running the last week of June on the same theme.
I'm now up to the "dream season" of Dallas. JR Ewing, the ruthless anti-hero Ewing Oil CEO/President, the eldest of Jack Ewing's sons. Bobby, the white sheep, is married to Pam Barnes, the daughter of Jock's nemesis Digger Barnes and sister to JR's nemesis, Cliff Barnes. Pam eventually rediscovered her mother who had abandoned Pam and Cliff as young kids. Pam's marriage to Bobby is over, but her half-sister Katherine wants a relationship with Bobby, who is still in love with Pam and not interested. So it turns out in the key scene Katherine is trying to hit Pam with her car, but Bobby saves Pam and tskes the fatal hit.
I probably didn't see a lot of episodes as a workaholiic doctoral student and tenure track professor. But some storylines are rather obvious. For instance. Jamie, Alaska-native daughter of Jock brother Jason, visits the Ewing ranch Southfork. JR manages to alienate cousin Jamie, and she responds with a document showing Jock had agreed to split Ewing Oil with Digger and Jason in the early 30's. JR and Bobby find no related documents. In the meanwhile, Cliff starts dating Jamie, with the obvious hope of gaining majority control of Ewing Oil. Now obviously Jason and Digger lived hard lives into their late years, and so it's obvious they no longer had their ownership interests. The problem is JR and Bobby couldn't prove it. Spoiler: Jock's mentally ill first wife Amanda held the documents of Jock re-acquiring the remaining shares via an intermediary.
