Happy St Patrick's Day

This is St Patrick’s Day March 17, 2020.   Last night was your usual news and I turned on the BBC news at six.  I had bouts of drowsiness here and there.   I got an egg sandwich with my medication.   It was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I think they still both had audiences.  It was Law and Order Sexual Victims Unit at eight.  I went to bed at nine.  I was restless and got up a little after four and showered.  It’s clear sky outside for the majority of the sky with clouds off to the east.  Hopefully we will get bright sunshine today.  The ultraviolet rays help kill the germs.  Let’s pray that it won’t be till July or August when this epidemic ends.  Let’s hope they will be able to have proms and graduations and weddings.  Let’s hope the Olympics still go on and that the party conventions are held normally.  We need to be prayer warriors.  We have this arsenal of divine power we aren’t tapping into.  Let’s think positively for once.  I made myself instant coffee here because they have stopped serving coffee in the dining room entirely now.  I don’t know why.  I turned on Democracy Now at twenty after five but it was more doom and gloom about the virus.  Yesterday I turned on Democracy Now at five fifteen and it was doom and gloom about the Corona virus.  Stephanie Miller had the Rude Pundit on at six thirty.  We’re almost to the bottom of the page.  Let’s hope the epidemic lasts only a few weeks.  In China they are going back to work now.  It hasn’t been that many weeks.  Like Trump says, this virus will cycle through and we’ll be back to normal.  Today is Paul Evans’s birthday.   I know he’s in his early eighties but doesn’t look it.  I guess they won’t be having any celebrations here, but I’m not sure.   The primaries are going on as scheduled.   I was wearing a green shirt yesterday but it smalls like cigarettes so I changed it to a non-green shirt.  That’s very unusual.  I guess there will be no gathering in bars today to celebrate.   The Romulans are still celebrating.   This guy has a website on democracy now with 35 million viewers, about half of them in the United States.  He learned how to code websites just by watching others.  Yesterday they tested the first vaccine for the Civid 19 virus.  The faster we can put this in general usage, the better. 

(Monday)  This is later and I didn’t get my medication till nine thirty when I heard my name called.  Thom Hartman says this crisis won’t be over till next year preferably till a democratic administration takes control.   I would measure this crisis in weeks rather than months.  The information I’ve seen indicates that by June it will be over.  It would be unthinkable to cancel the Olympics this year.  This is unusual for a virus not to show symptons for fourteen days.  Thom says this virus could mutate but into a milder form because all of the really bad cases die off and don’t spread it.  Thom Hartman was pleased with Biden’s performance in the debate.  His faith in Joe is strengthened and now he feels he could hold his own with the President.   In Los Angeles county they have closed all bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys, arcades and health clubs.  Hopefully we can get through this rough patch and get back to normal.  But Thom Hartman says we’ll never get back to what normal used to be.   I hope not.  I hope a year from now this will all be a bad dream and not another continuing 9 – 11 situation.   

(Monday)  The democratic debate last night lasted two hours and not three.  I took one cigarette break after an hour.   Sanders kept returning to his Medicare for all message.  He hit the fundamentals.  Biden was more interested in saying that this is a war with the virus and that he may have to bring the military in to enforce order.  He stressed that fees will be waved for things like drugs and doctor’s visits and not to worry and the solution to our current problem has nothing to do with socialized medicine that Sanders talks about.  They also discussed global warming and climate change.  Biden has convinced me he’s serious about tackeling this problem.  He wants to end subsedies for oil drilling and the like.  Biden still wants to keep fracking because the carbon footprint is smaller with natural gas than it would be with oil or coal.  Sanders says it’s a crisis and he wants a revolution.  I don’t recall foreign policy being discussed much.  As the session progressed they spent less and less time talking about the virus.

This is Monday morning after six and Stephanie is on vacation but they are playing a post Christmas clipof her right now.  Jody Hamilton and Chris and Travis are in the studio.   Stephanie has canceled the rest of her sexy liberal tours.  Everything is canceled.  The governor is ordering the closing down of all the bars and casinos and restaurants and theaters are being cut to half capacity to facilitate social distancing.  Meanwhile we are told not to visit our elderly relatives, which to me is a terrible idea because these people need reassurance.  This morning I was restless and Joe had the TV on before four thirty.  They aren’t serving any coffee in the dining room.  You see patches of clear sky out but it isn’t hopeful for sunshine.   (Today I'm more hopeful)