Coronavirus Today, Lest Anyone Think It's Over

Following are all current reports today, Sunday, July 5, 2020.

Miami mayor says city 'breaking record after record after record' of coronavirus cases

Miami-Dade mayor: Residents 'kind of let their guard down' during reopening

Phoenix mayor: 

'We opened way too early in Arizona'

Public health expert: 'Mixed messaging' on masks, social distancing contributed to 'perilous moment' for US

Austin mayor: Trump's 'ambiguous' messaging 'makes me angry'

Texas hits another record f

or daily new coronavirus cases

Houston mayor: Hospitals will be overwhelmed 'if we don't get our hands around this virus quickly'

Republican governor on Mt. Rushmore event: 'There should have been face coverings'

FDA commissioner says he can't predict when vaccine will be ready after Trump's timeline claims

FDA commissioner declines to confirm Trump claim that 99 percent of COVID-19 cases are 'harmless'

Gottlieb: 'The total number of deaths is going to start going up again'

New Jersey governor: 'We went through hell. We cannot afford to go through hell again'

Note, too, they are all from one source, The Hill, which is not an overly emotional nor one-sided, Left or Right Wing source for stories. My point being, I didn't go all over the internet to get these stories.  I think this gives a good, cold, if sobering overview of where we stand right now, as a nation and even in our area, the Kansas City metropolitan area, on this pandemic.

(Note: The Gottleib mentioned above is Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb).

Have a great day, everyone. Enjoy your Sunday.

Stay safe.

And Now the Psychotic Presidency

This now psychotic Presidency, I swear.

Check out that headline on this article. It broke yesterday.

Trump cheers on governors as they ignore White House coronavirus guidelines in race to reopen

This President, through his White House and staff, has set guidelines for reopening the nation, our businesses, because, of course, of this killing pandemic but--wait for it---this same President is actually cheering on governors across the nation, supporting them, for opening early, against his own guidelines because, you know, business is important.

What the absolute what?

Thanks, Republicans.

The Weather Events Our Media Don't Seem to be Reporting

Sure, we're getting coverage, some, anyway, of first Hurricane Harvey that hit Southeast Texas and Western Louisiana. And then we got coverage of Hurricane Irma that hit Florida---and, far more devastatingly, the Caribbean but hey, let's focus just on our 50 states, right?

We and our media have already seemed to have moved on from the Houston area.

Unless you've actively sought out information on that area and storm, Texas and Louisiana and Harvey, it doesn't seem like we're seeing or reading or hearing much about their plight now. We have, again, moved on, as a country, as a people. We're no longer paying them any "never mind."

Meanwhile, as a matter of fact, yet another hurricane is out there and building strength and heading for the same areas. It is Hurricane Marie, thank you very much. And tropical storm Lee is right behind.

So yeah, we're moving on. We're too busy to keep up with all that rebuilding down there in the ravaged South.

And speaking of moving on, how about the areas of the world that have also, in even recent weeks, let alone the last month or so, been ravaged by weather events? Do you have any idea what's been happening lately, around the world?

The Climate Catastrophe We're All Ignoring

Flooding in Bangladesh has submerged a third of the country. (Photo: British Red Cross)

"...multiply the damage from Harvey and Irma a hundredfold and you’ll get a feeling for the climate-related suffering taking place right now in the rest of the world. In India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, an estimated 40 million people have been affected by massive flooding, with over 1,200 deaths. More than one third of Bangladesh’s land mass has been submerged. As if that’s not enough, Africa has been suffering its own under-reported climate disasters, with hundreds of thousands affected by flooding in Nigeria, Niger, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.

So yeah, maybe we need to know and recognize what, exactly, is already taking place in the world so we can put things, everything, in perspective. The climate scientists have said our planet is warming. They said devastating climate events would increase, from droughts to floods, at least.

Maybe we need to pay attention?

Listen?

Act?

What the Last Week Wrought on the World

Naimey, by the way, is in Niger.

And this doesn't include Nepal or Sierra Leone or Bangladesh or California's blistering heat wave and the wildfires there and across the Western US.