There Was Something to See Here Today

Greeting Fellow Earthlings!  How are you doing in the time of Covid-19?  I'm pretty much unchanged, really pissed off and somewhat scared.  The pandemic is not how any of us envisioned spending our golden years.  Here are pretty pictures for us all.

This was two nights ago.  We had a very pink sunset.

This was the pink moon last night.  It was somewhat underwhelming.  Last year's worm moon seemed larger, and I was able to capture the lunar seas.

Cactus down the street.  They really are that color.  Look at the spines on that plant.  Weeding near or under it will be life threatening.

I thought this was a good tweet.  The original version of the chart had labelled the blue circle "wears masks" as if to say wearing masks was the cause of fewer cases.

We did grocery pickup at Safeway today.  It was a waste of time.  No chicken, at all; no zucchini, no a bunch of stuff.  The lady who loaded the car said there had been toilet paper on the shelves, so I grabbed my bandana and went in, but to no avail.  Someday...

This afternoon we had this:

A Pima County Sheriff's officer parked across the street and went hustling out in to the desert.  He was moving fast.

An ambulance went down the street, followed by this.

Finally, there was the technical rescue team.

We were tied up with the lady who came to measure three of our giant windows for screens that block 90% of the UV.  Facing west is hot!  Anyway, we went down to gawk after she left.  They did bring someone out of the desert on a stretcher.  It's a cool device, it's a gurney with a frame connected to one wheel so they can get you out.  They loaded up the person, and did not go out with sirens blazing, so it must not have been too awful, what ever it was that happened.

I'm pretty happy to know they will mount that kind of response.  The fire department is very close to us.  They're the ones that will come and remove rattlesnakes and gila monsters from your yard.  They make the new guys do it.

ABC news put up an interesting article about when it was known that Covid-19 would be a problem.

As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting. 

From that warning in November, the sources described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House. All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said. For something to have appeared in the PDB, it would have had to go through weeks of vetting and analysis, according to people who have worked on presidential briefings in both Republican and Democratic administrations.

It was in the President's Daily Brief in early January.  January!  What if they had begun then?  December would have been better, but January would be better than what we got.

Other than this brief bit of excitement, we're all still bored spitless.  I finished up three masks today.  The second pleated mask is also uncomfortable, so it's not due to the fabric in the first pleated attempt.  Quilt fabric just does not feel very good against one's face.  We like the flannel much better. Once my next shipment of shoe laces arrives, I believe I will make another two.