July 9th, 2020 in Hidalgo County Texas

[welch]

During Hurricane Hazel, I went to the backyard as the eye passed. It was windy, but nothing like what hit after. I remember the rain, especially.

Meanwhile, Covid-19 grinds on. In NYC, we have passed through the worst, but worry that it will return. Young people seem drawn to cluster in bars -- moths to the flame, or the bug-zapper. Cases up in New Jersey. Given the population density in NYC, and in the NY-NJ-CT metro area, there is, always, the loom of a backwash from other places or from the virus that has not completely been obliterated.

I follow the daily stats from places where kids and cousins now live, and from Texas. No kidding. Spent four years bouncing to Killeen and back, with visits to Austin and San Antonio. The numbers show Texas as a whole, so it's hard to follow Hidalgo County.

Stay safe, Jar. I'm sure you are doing everything right.

My hope is that we live through until there is an effective vaccine. My sad hunch is that the US will reach 200,000 dead by November.

[jar]

During Hurricane Hazel, I went to the backyard as the eye passed. It was windy, but nothing like what hit after. I remember the rain, especially.

Meanwhile, Covid-19 grinds on. In NYC, we have passed through the worst, but worry that it will return. Young people seem drawn to cluster in bars -- moths to the flame, or the bug-zapper. Cases up in New Jersey. Given the population density in NYC, and in the NY-NJ-CT metro area, there is, always, the loom of a backwash from other places or from the virus that has not completely been obliterated.

I follow the daily stats from places where kids and cousins now live, and from Texas. No kidding. Spent four years bouncing to Killeen and back, with visits to Austin and San Antonio. The numbers show Texas as a whole, so it's hard to follow Hidalgo County.

Stay safe, Jar. I'm sure you are doing everything right.

My hope is that we live through until there is an effective vaccine. My sad hunch is that the US will reach 200,000 dead by November.

I remember Hazel well.

I'm hunkered down. Go out only when necessary. Order groceries online with curbside pickup so they just bring stuff out and put it in the trunk. I go out to pick up medicines at the drive through and medical appointments are on the phone. The vampires in my doctors office though claim they are starving. I told them that they can take my blood right after they give me the vaccine but not until then.

What truly pisses me off is that so much unneeded death has already been be scheduled. We will start seeing the deaths from the July infections next month and unless we stop the spread of infections the death toll will only keep growing.

On my trip to the store today I passed gyms that are open and families not wearing masks entering restaurants with indoor dinning and people out jogging wearing no masks and barber shops open ...

All Quiet on the Governor Front!