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Sun Jul 5 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven-ish to seven-thirty without waking. Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds up to 5 mph. Boiled masks. Watched episodes of Mushishi on Hulu. Treated myself to a ThinkPad T495. (That MacBook I bought some months ago had been an continuing disappointment; I haven't warmed to it.) https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/hlcf9d/audubons_mystery_birds/ > However, out of the 435 plates Audubon painted, there are at least five birds still unidentified: Townsend’s Finch, Carbonated Swamp Warbler, Cuvier’s Kinglet Small-headed Flycatcher, and the Blue Mountain Warbler. What, exactly, are these birds? Are they now-extinct songbirds that only exist in Audubon’s engraved plates? Perhaps they do still exist, but only in a small population in the vast American wilderness. Are they hybrid birds, or a rare mutation of an existing bird? Or did Audubon paint these birds from a faulty memory, or a poor preservation job? US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 19 17 16 13 15 14 14 14 15 15 12 12 13 12 15 (today) 3-day avg: 17 14 14 13 13 US new deaths: 630 → 297 → 285 → 775 → 722 → 2500 → 619 → 506 → 273 → 332 → 565 → 527 → 634 → 306 → 209 (today) 3-day avg: 404 1332 466 475 383 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 33 77 43 44 45 42 55 55 59 46 31 47 40 47 54 46 (today) 3-day avg: 51 44 56 41 47 46 MI new deaths: 3 → 7 → 12 → 5 → 19 → 1 → 19 → 5 → 3 → 32 → 5 → 14 → 3 → 3 → 0 (today) 3-day avg: 7 8 9 17 2 Oakland county new deaths: 0 → 0 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 (today) 3-day avg: 0 0 1 1 1 Beaumont 06/01: COVID-19 patients: 178; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 06/04: COVID-19 patients: 163; COVID-19 ICU patients: 67; all patients bed occupancy: 65% Beaumont 06/08: COVID-19 patients: 130; COVID-19 ICU patients: 54; all patients bed occupancy: 55% Beaumont 06/11: COVID-19 patients: 132; COVID-19 ICU patients: 64; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Beaumont 06/15: COVID-19 patients: 114; COVID-19 ICU patients: 59; all patients bed occupancy: 63% Beaumont 06/18: COVID-19 patients: 117; COVID-19 ICU patients: 57; all patients bed occupancy: 72% Beaumont 06/22: COVID-19 patients: 122; COVID-19 ICU patients: 56; all patients bed occupancy: 64% Beaumont 06/25: COVID-19 patients: 123; COVID-19 ICU patients: 51; all patients bed occupancy: 71% Beaumont 06/29: COVID-19 patients: 121; COVID-19 ICU patients: 49; all patients bed occupancy: 66% Beaumont 07/02: COVID-19 patients: 137; COVID-19 ICU patients: 61; all patients bed occupancy: 72% HCC Region 2 North 06/17: in critical 55, on ventilators 30, inpatients 91 HCC Region 2 North 06/18: in critical 44, on ventilators 23, inpatients 89 HCC Region 2 North 06/19: in critical 34, on ventilators 25, inpatients 89 HCC Region 2 North 06/22: in critical 41, on ventilators 37, inpatients 84 HCC Region 2 North 06/23: in critical 46, on ventilators 40, inpatients 95 HCC Region 2 North 06/24: in critical 52, on ventilators 38, inpatients 92 HCC Region 2 North 06/26: in critical 55, on ventilators 39, inpatients 84 HCC Region 2 North 06/29: in critical 44, on ventilators 32, inpatients 78 HCC Region 2 North 07/01: in critical 56, on ventilators 34, inpatients 82 HCC Region 2 North 07/02: in critical 49, on ventilators 30, inpatients 82 Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: Cheetos Lunch: banana, carrots, coffee Dinner: two hot dogs 127/74

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