April 3rd - 4,737 active cases in Australia, 217 new cases in the last 24 hours. I didn't make an entry yesterday, it looks like there were 4704 active cases yesterday (though I don't know how close to 24 hours ago that number is from), meaning the net increase was only 33! And that number of new cases is the lowest it's been in a long time too! Hopefully this is the beginning of leveling off!
Yesterday a friend on an island in the Philippines said 17 of the 50 doctors on her island had died already. I hope that's just a wild island rumor, that can't be right. Still freaks me out.
This morning I came across this story of bodies piling up in Ecuador. Earlier on instagram I had seen a video purporting to be in a hospital in Ecuador, showing the hospital closet full of bodies. Officially only 120 people have died of coronavirus in Ecuador but I think that can't be right. It sounds like it may be as bad there as NYC/Spain/Italy, but they aren't reporting numbers and no one has noticed. I'm terrified that that's a preview of what Venezuela will be like.
All week my throat has been tense and sore, the way one's throat feels after they've been crying, I think it's from stress/sadness over everything.
And here's a cool relief I saw in Sweden in 2014 which I think is about a plague
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The Trump Putsch
Today was a beautiful day. Perfect for beekeeping. I didn't get much work done today. In the early morning my time, my phone started beeping…
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2020 Year In Review
As is tradition let us begin with the map of where I've traveled in the past year: Though this would seem to imply I've been to the Melbourne…
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Whimsically Hunting For Lucrous Chunder
Ambergris. A greyish substance that looks like a rock, is sometimes found washed up on beaches. When fresh it smells vaguely of manure or squid,…