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Fri Mar 19 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to seven. Woke briefly around three-thirty. Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - review Dell quote Done. - 7316, allow Entrata reports for Collections Done. - revenue management Done. - order wireless mouse for Dave Tracy Done. - work log to Jamie Done. Home ---------------------------------------- - buy stock Done. https://www.metrotimes.com/table-and-bar/archives/2021/03/18/covid-19-cases-rise-in-michigan-after-restaurants-reopened-for-indoor-dining > One month after Michigan restaurants were allowed to reopen for indoor dining, COVID-19 cases are climbing, returning to levels not seen since earlier in the winter. > According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Michigan now ranks fifth in the nation for most new COVID-19 cases per population over the last week. > COVID-19 cases have been rising steadily in Michigan for the past several weeks. - METRO TIMES > Dr. Teena Chopra, an infectious-disease specialist and Wayne State University professor, says it's likely that restaurants are a factor in the rise. > "This could be multi factorial," she says. "Restaurants are one factor. Variants another one, and people are are also letting their guard down thinking vaccines are here." > B.1.1.7, a highly contagious variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 that emerged in the U.K., was detected in people connected to the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor earlier this year. B.1.351, a highly contagious variant that emerged in South Africa and could be resistant to the available COVID-19 vaccines, was detected in a child in Jackson County earlier this month. > The very same day in January that Michigan officials announced that restaurants could reopen for indoor dining, former MDHHS director Robert Gordon resigned. Earlier that day, Gordon warned people that indoor dining was still dangerous. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/us/michigan-covid-19-cases-increase/index.html > Morse said the rollback of restrictions has led to poor mask wearing. She also said that news of emerging vaccines led people to believe they could relax some of the their hygiene habits such as wearing masks. > Morse told CNN that a Covid-19 outbreak in a prison in Ionia County and the B.1.1.7 variant have also fueled the recent surge. > Michiganders are also starting to travel more, nearing levels not seen since before the pandemic, Morse said -- a claim backed by data from the Bureau of Transportation. > Morse, who noted that the state has administered more than three million vaccine doses, said she fears progress to combat the virus could be reversed if the trend of rising cases continues. > "My one hope is that we have been really aggressively vaccinating and have been working through the different categories for vaccination quite well," Morse said. "And my hope is that that will help to keep (cases) from climbing as rampantly as (they) did back in the fall." > Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist shared that hope during Thursday's announcement at Ford Field. Jesus Christ, assholes, lock it the fuck down. Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Lunch: banana, cucumber, two hot dogs, coffee, orange Dinner:

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