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In a state where supposedly everything is bigger, people in Texas don’t want to see the coronavirus cases and death tolls much larger. Unfortunately, Texas has joined some auspicious company this week by logging over 10,000 cases a day, a record previously held by only 2/3 other states before this week. Hmmm, I wonder if reopening early was still a good idea….
Meanwhile, despite the fact that earlier in the week that San Antonio officials saw a “small ray of hope” in terms of the acceleration rate of the Coronavirus slowing down in the city. Unfortunately, by the end of the week that death rate of Coronavirus in San Antonio was broken.
As the week progressed, Texas continued setting grim records, leading one Hidalgo County Judge remarking to the Associated Press that, “Several months ago, I warned of a potential tsunami if we did not take this more seriously. The tsunami is here.”
Texas saw itself in the national news for another stupid reason this week, as the Mayor of Houston decided to cancel a Republican convention billed as “the largest political gathering in the free world.” The city of Houston has quickly become one of the new epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and as mentioned last week their ICU system is at capacity. Many Texas Republican leaders took the news of the cancellation in stride, merely deciding to sue the mayor of Houston in an attempt to force the rally to happen, promising merely to have temperature checks but masks and social distancing optional.
A judge from one of Houston’s suburbs has volunteered his county to host the convention. Can’t image what could go wrong, not that Tulsa could provide any examples or anything.
Later in the week, another judge basically told the Texas GOP to fuck off, but in the language of legal-eese. The Tesas GOP of course took these news in stride, saying they would appeal the decision because they really want to have the convention billed as "the largest political gathering in the free world” in one of the hardest hit coronavirus areas in the united states, where hospitals in Houston a past capacity!
Maybe these Texas officials should chill out by taking in the state fair or something. Oh wait… never mind.
Well, there’s always Fiesta in November for the first time ever. Oh wait….
After last weeks breaking burger news, the famed Texas burger chain Whataburger continued making headlines this week by announcing it will remodel ALL of its buildings over the next few years into something a little less church-y and a little more modern looking.
A couple weeks ago the darling Erika Paradise, being the ingenious life-hacker that she is, created a small hanging bird feeder using only some string and a tiny plate. She also put out a porcupine shaped bowl with some bird seed in it as well, but was ready to take it all down due to lack of interest from birds. But this week changed her mind after some birdbrained pigeons and baby blue jay’s began enjoying the bountiful bird seed that she laid out. Hooray!
Erika Paradise and myself have come to the conclusion that Fifi the cat prefers a little noise in the condo at almost all times, regardless if it us catching up with HBO’s Westworld or the sounds of smooth jazz reverberating from our Echo Show. This is because Fifi is a simple cat with complicated anxiety.
In case anyone was curious, Fifi the cat doesn’t give a shit about the birds.
Work this week saw some major news, in that due to a miscommunication between management and the training team, many in the training department will essentially be demoted should they not feel comfortable coming into work. While myself and others do work from home a majority of the time, due to certain regulations those working in training are required to work in the office on our assigned days. But because of this small snafu, the training department will be understaffed in the near future, meaning those of us left will be required to come into the office at least more than 2 days a week.
As far as I’ve been told, this should not impact me as this is more of a morning shift problem, as I work the night shifts. But we will see. I’m holding my breath for the other shoe to drop and shit to hit the fan, maybe at the same time.
In addition global pandemic, most of the southwest, including Texas began feeling the sizzle of a massive heat wave during the end of the week that will stretch into the next. Maybe we can finally test theory of our stable genius president (who has a natural ability for these things) that the heat and sunlight kill the coronavrus.
Listened to Kid Cudi and Eminem’s dope rap that dropped this week. In the song, Eminem has some choice words for peeps who don’t want to wear a mask.
Just like when the COVID first began making waves in the United States, it may take another sports institution to make people take this resurgence of COVID seriously.
The state of Texas saw a mini revolt during the week as a handful of sheriffs w/in Texas declared they would NOT enforce Texas Governor’s mask order. Texas Governor Abbott took decisive action in response by asking the sheriffs nicely to pretty please enforce the order.
If the shit-show that is Texas’s handling of the coronavirus isn’t bad enough along with the economic devastation that’s happening, the Texas government attempted to call a woopsies and thought it would be a good idea to ask many unemployed people to give back their benefits after the state supposedly overpaid, ignoring or not considering the fact that most people probably spent the money already.
Later in the week the Texas government called a whoopsies on the whoopsies and basically backtracked on asking.
Erika Paradsie and myself have enjoyed not having to go inside the grocery store to get our food these last 2-ish months or so. But now we are potentially seeing the beginnings of having to make some more trips inside the grocery store as the HEB grocery chain has started to show longer waits of pick up and delivery again. #firstworldproblems
Forgot to mention from previous weeks that Erika Paradise and myself are spending our night reading, specifically one of my favorite books of all time ever, “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert A. Heinlein.
A San Antonio nurse shared a heartbreaking story this week about treating a person with coronavirus who thought the virus was a hoax, sharing that the person’s dying words were supposedly “‘I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.’”
One of the main stories of the week saw our stable genius who has a natural ability for these things, President insist that schools reopen in the fall, going so far as to say that he might consider cutting funding for schools that don’t reopen, though the Trump administration later backtracked on that, sorta. This is all partially because the CDC noted this week that schools reopening was unsafe.
Yes man Vice President Pence later insisted the CDC would revise it’s school opening guidelines because why let facts get in the way, like when Texas senator John Cornyn wondered if kids can even get the COVID-19 on the same day more than 550 COVID infections in children 9 and younger were reported in Texas.
While some push for schools to reopen, Dr. Birx at a press conference basically says only 0.01% of kids could potentially die if school reopens. wtf?
