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Wed Jul 15 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Half-hour walk in the morning. Heard a mourning dove, saw a northern flicker. A dragonfly buzzing around far overhead attracted my attention to a pale sliver of moon in the blue sky. Work ---------------------------------------- Scott took the day off. - Call Yardi about license Done. - Patch Tuesday Done (mostly). - Work with Heather on security deposits in Entrata Done. - Voicemail, IVR for Jim, portal No. - Yet more Dell invoices No. - Send more RentPayment forms to deactivate phases seven+ No. - Have FL swap out their router No. Home ---------------------------------------- - Order sheets (Old top sheet ripped.) Done. - Pixel art Dialing in my French Press procedure. Weight and grind beans (medium-coarse), boil water. Pour water over grounds, put on lid (plunger raised), and let steep for about 4:30–4:45. Stir to create a whirlpool to suck grounds downward. Let sit for a minute. Slowly, slowly depress the plunger. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888906337/unholy-examines-the-alliance-between-white-evangelicals-and-trump Interesting NPR piece on the American Christian right's support of Trump. Why do Christians back Trump when Trump behaves in a way so add odd with their purported values? It's not values that tie conservative Christians to Trump but grievances — the displacement of the centrality of the white (straight, male) Christian in American society. They feel something went wrong with America in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Often, they name Roe vs. Wade, but Brown vs. Board of Education is closer to the truth — hurt at being forced to integrate private Christian schools under threat of losing tax exemptions. > So the Christian right, for the evangelicals and fundamentalists who came into the national politics in the era of the Moral Majority, the founding story that they like to tell is that they were propelled into national politics because they were upset and outraged about Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. But, in fact, even by the admission of the leaders of this movement at the time, they were motivated to get involved in national politics because of federal government policy meant to desegregate or end discriminatory policies in private Christian schools after public schools were being desegregated in the wake of Brown. > So in the 1960s, as public schools were desegregating, you saw a rise of what were known as segregation academies. These were private schools that were intentionally created to avoid desegregation. They were intentionally segregated. And you also saw the rise of Christian schools, which were formed for multiple reasons, including the invalidation of mandatory school prayer and Bible reading in public schools by the Supreme Court in the early 1960s. But they were definitely a response to a number of different social changes, including desegregation. And even though they weren't explicitly segregation academies, the IRS in response to a series of court decisions went to them and said, look; you cannot get a tax exemption and basically be subsidized by the American taxpayers by having a policy or having policies that lead to the same segregation that we are trying to end in public schools. > They hoped that he would deliver judges, which he has, and they hoped that he would deliver personnel with the freedom and flexibility to implement policy that they wanted. And he has largely done that, too. > One of the principal things that they did was create conscience and religious freedom division within HHS. And there, they invited members of the public to file complaints against states or health care providers that they believe are violating conscience protections that are written into federal law that basically allow a health care provider, say a nurse in a hospital, to opt out of participating in a procedure that she has a religious objection to, like an abortion or sterilization procedure. The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is trying to expand the scope of what those conscience protections mean to broaden the ability of these religious objectors to exercise that objection and potentially punish hospitals or even states who they believe are violating the conscience of these people. Ordered $400 worth of books from LotFP. The jump in new cases in Oakland county is concerning. Testing in the US is simply not increasing enough to keep pace with the new cases (and be an effective control tool). US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 12 13 12 15 11 11 12 10 12 12 10 12 12 12 12 (today) 3-day avg: 12 12 11 11 12 US new deaths: 565 → 527 → 634 → 306 → 209 → 242 → 911 → 897 → 867 → 854 → 757 → 476 → 327 → 736 → 855 (today) 3-day avg: 575 252 892 696 639 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 47 40 47 54 46 38 27 36 46 37 40 54 41 31 33 (today) 3-day avg: 45 46 36 44 35 MI new deaths: 5 → 14 → 3 → 3 → 0 → 3 → 30 → 11 → 9 → 14 → 28 → 1 → 7 → 5 → 4 (today) 3-day avg: 7 2 17 14 5 Oakland county new deaths: 2 → 2 → 2 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 2 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 1 → 0 → 0 (today) 3-day avg: 2 0 1 0 0 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% Beaumont 07/06: COVID-19 patients: 115; COVID-19 ICU patients: 45; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 07/13: COVID-19 patients: 139; COVID-19 ICU patients: 49; all patients bed occupancy: 68% 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 HCC Region 2 North 07/06: in critical 45, on ventilators 35, inpatients 78 HCC Region 2 North 07/07: in critical 43, on ventilators 32, inpatients 82 HCC Region 2 North 07/09: in critical 36, on ventilators 33, inpatients 96 HCC Region 2 North 07/13: in critical 38, on ventilators 39, inpatients 119 HCC Region 2 North 07/15: in critical 44, on ventilators 31, inpatients 132 Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: coffee, carrots, banana Lunch: egg and cucumber wrap Afternoon snack: apple Dinner: Cheestos -32

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