US surpasses 250,000 coronavirus deaths, as hospitals are overwhelmed by cases – ABC News

Parking garage ward: hospital beds covered in plastic sit in a parking garageOverwhelmed medical facilities are converting chapels, cafeterias, waiting rooms, hallways, and parking garages into patient treatment areas, while staff members are desperately calling around to other centres in search of open beds.

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in the US has doubled in the past month, and set new records every day this week.

As of Tuesday, nearly 77,000 people were hospitalised with the virus.

Newly confirmed infections per day in the US have exploded by more than 80 per cent in the past two weeks to the highest levels on record, with the daily count running at close to an average of 160,000.

Source: US surpasses 250,000 coronavirus deaths, as hospitals are overwhelmed by cases – ABC News

Illinois COVID 19 Update Today: IL reports 8,922 new coronavirus cases, 140 deaths; Tier 3 restrictions announced by Gov. JB Pritzker – ABC7 Chicago

CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois public health officials reported 8,922 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 along with 140 deaths Wednesday, one day after Governor JB Pritzker announced new Tier 3 restrictions for the state. COVID-19 is once again one of the leading causes of death in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said in his daily COVID-19 briefing Wednesday. He and Illinois’ public health director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, called out those who continue to deny the seriousness of the disease.

Source: Illinois COVID 19 Update Today: IL reports 8,922 new coronavirus cases, 140 deaths; Tier 3 restrictions announced by Gov. JB Pritzker – ABC7 Chicago

The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures

https://ift.tt/36Rodkm But they will still have parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents and teachers who be alive to help them catch up when we have made it safe for them again. Losing loved ones is not the price to pay for disruption of the old normal!

Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.

Group of Florida mayors call on DeSantis to issue mask mandate | TheHill

The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the mayors of Miami Beach, Sunrise, St. Petersburg, Hialeah and Miami Shores Village urged DeSantis to take a range of actions to confront the outbreak, including expanding state testing and contact tracing efforts.

“It’s unmistakably clear that Florida’s approach to managing this pandemic is failing pretty horribly,” said Miami Beach’s mayor, Dan Gelber (D) according to the newspaper.

“The window is closing and closing fast,” added Hialeah’s mayor, Carlos Hernandez (R). “If we sit here and don’t do anything, I don’t want to be the one sitting here talking about closing businesses again or the hospitals are overcrowded.”

Source: Group of Florida mayors call on DeSantis to issue mask mandate | TheHill

Great Greek Wednesdays, emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual self-care, and Health Care For All — The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

I think most will agree that most of us do not take proper care to care for ourselves on each of the four levels that I can think of: emotionally, mentally or intellectually, physically and spiritually. But that makes me stop and think: what on earth or in heaven above exactly is spiritual health? Come […]

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İnsanlığın Yolu

It’s time to thank the eyes we see and the ears we hear. It’s time to love and tolerate human beings as human beings… It’s time to think about every heart we break and learn that it’s not worth two days of life… Religion, belief, language etc. Whatever happens, it’s time to live in brotherhood… It should not be forgotten that the gamut that touches a soul should touch all humanity. A stone thrown into a belief is thrown to all humanity. The hatred that hears a glance is the hatred of all soul. It is absolutely wrong to attribute natural disasters, which are the order of the world, to people, ideas and beliefs.

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Güzel bir şeyler söylemek isterim bugün yine. Lakin insanlık yorgun, kalplerimiz yorgun…

Umudumuzun tam bittiği, hayallerin, geleceğin kaygısına kapıldığımız anda İzmir depreminden sağ çıkanlar umut oldu bizlere. Şikayet ettiğimiz, usandığımız hayatlara bin şükürler ettik. Utandık pişmanlığımıza.

Beğenmediğimiz yemekler, israf ettiğimiz sular, elektriğimiz, en çok da gün ışığı ah ne değerliymiş meğer, bilemedik…

Bizlere düşen insanlık yasımızı tutup yine de umudu kaybetmemek! İnsanlık yası diyorum, insana olan empati…

Gördüğümüz göze, işittiğimiz kulaklara bin teşekkür etme vakti. İnsanı insan olarak sevip hoşgörme vakti… Kırdığımız her kalbi düşünüp iki günlük ömre değmeyeceğini öğrenme vakti… Din, inanış, dil vs. ne olursa olsun kardeşçe yaşama vakti… Unutulmamalıdır ki bir cana değen gam, tüm insanlığa değmelidir. Bir inanca atılan taş, tüm insanlığa atılır. Bir bakışa duyan nefret, tüm cana duyulan nefrettir. Dünyanın düzeni olan doğal afetleri insanlara, fikirlere, inançlara bağlamak kesinlikle yanlıştır, yapılmamalıdır.

Kardeş tohumlarının filizlendiği bu coğrafyada peki düşmanca vuruşmak niye? Gelin bir olalım, insan…

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Georgia secretary of state says wife has received threatening texts about recount | TheHill

Text messages sent to his wife and obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta reveal personal threats against Raffensperger and his wife, which he said came from members of his own party.

One text message read, “You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.” Another said, “Your husband deserves to face a firing squad.”

A third text aimed at the couple read, “The Raffenspergers should be put on trial for treason and face execution.

Source: Georgia secretary of state says wife has received threatening texts about recount | TheHill