Worldwide (Map)
April 7, 2022 - 495,119,710 confirmed infections; 6,166,410 deathsApril 8, 2021 – 133,132,000 confirmed infections: 2,888,000 deaths
US (Map)
April 7, 2022 - 80,248,990 confirmed infections; 983,820 deaths
April 8, 2021 – 30,923,000 confirmed infections: 559,116 deaths
SA (Coronavirus portal)
April 7, 2022 - 3,725,200 confirmed infections; 100,070 deaths
April 8, 2021 – 1,553,610 confirmed infections: 53,111 deaths
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| Numbers from April 2019 |
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Serious times (0:55 mins)
Last week in the Republican Party - April 6, 2022 (2:15 mins)
An increase of workers does not mean an increase in effectiveness clearing the culverts.
Tea-tee (Teeti?), the sole female overseer of the work, promised the work team would be back to continue today. One problem? Tea-ti sees two culverts on “my” side of the road – one of which is totally blocked – but does not see that culvert on the other side of the road. This leads her to believe there is no culvert exiting the other side of the road, that, somehow, someone(s) built half a culvert that ends halfway under the road. She also thinks the department may have to tear out the culverts and build a bridge. A bit radical, but I’m not against that long-term solution. It would allow a larger space for water to flow – that is, until silt and debris builds up and blocks the space under the bridge. That’s unlikely to happen over the next decade so… go for it, Tea-tee. (First, though, check with locals – farmers and small-holders, plus drivers who use this back road to avoid backups on the freeway – on how building a bridge would affect them day-to-day.)
KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 6:13am
Sunset: 5:49pm
San Francisco Bay Area
Sunrise: 6:45am
Sunset: 7:37pm
News blues
While we have an “official” end to Covid’s state of disaster in South Africa, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma throws cold water on a nation when she…warned that government can declare a national state of disaster again should Covid-19 infections spiral.
South Africa exited the national state of disaster following an announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa during an address to the nation on Monday night.
… Addressing the media on Tuesday, Dlamini Zuma said the Covid-19 pandemic no longer qualified as a disaster.
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As national concern for COVID withers [across the United States], the country’s capacity to track the coronavirus is on a decided downswing. Community test sites are closing, and even the enthusiasm for at-home tests seems to be on a serious wane; even though Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a new deal on domestic pandemic funding, those patterns could stick. Testing and case reporting are now so “abysmal” that we’re losing sight of essential transmission trends…Read more about what this might mean >>
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The Lincoln Project:Serious times (0:55 mins)
Last week in the Republican Party - April 6, 2022 (2:15 mins)
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On war…
Analysis: Why some African countries are thinking twice about calling out PutinHealthy planet, anyone?
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.”Read “Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested” >>
– United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Update of culverts. Yesterday, after I sent a photo of growing signs of damp walls in this house, the roads work team went from one lone backhoe and driver dealing with the periphery of the culverts to a backhoe and driver and a dozen people wearing reflector jackets milling about watching the backhoe and driver scrape silt and debris around the culverts.An increase of workers does not mean an increase in effectiveness clearing the culverts.
Tea-tee (Teeti?), the sole female overseer of the work, promised the work team would be back to continue today. One problem? Tea-ti sees two culverts on “my” side of the road – one of which is totally blocked – but does not see that culvert on the other side of the road. This leads her to believe there is no culvert exiting the other side of the road, that, somehow, someone(s) built half a culvert that ends halfway under the road. She also thinks the department may have to tear out the culverts and build a bridge. A bit radical, but I’m not against that long-term solution. It would allow a larger space for water to flow – that is, until silt and debris builds up and blocks the space under the bridge. That’s unlikely to happen over the next decade so… go for it, Tea-tee. (First, though, check with locals – farmers and small-holders, plus drivers who use this back road to avoid backups on the freeway – on how building a bridge would affect them day-to-day.)
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I’ve three weeks more here before I return to California. Friends tell me CA weather is hot, hot, hot – unseasonably hot for April. This time I’ll not return to my boat on the river so no way to easily cool down on hot days.KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 6:13am
Sunset: 5:49pm
San Francisco Bay Area
Sunrise: 6:45am
Sunset: 7:37pm
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