As you can see from the title, I am now updating this information twice a month for the rest of the year. The end of the year will mark 17.5 months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and much of the United States essentially shut down. It has been very taxing for me, personally. I have had no problem staying home and going out only for essential needs. I have had no problem wearing a mask anytime I was outside my home. It did take a long time for me to get my vaccinations - I just had my second injection of the Moderna vaccine on 28 May, and I won't be considered "fully covered" and able to go out without a mask until 12 June. My best friend and apartment sharer will get her second injection on 5 June and will be able to un-mask in public on 20 June.
I say I have had a hard time due to people who don't wear masks, don't believe the threat of COVID-19 is real, and who continue to believe that the former resident of the White House - the 45th one - was illegally removed from office. I have been physically attacked 3 times since the 1st of June last year - punched, slapped, dragged around by my shirt, and spat upon - just for wearing a face mask in public. I have been verbally abused more than 40 times since April 2020. I have made police reports, but no one has been caught. Nothing has been acted upon with the verbal assaults. Because the police are overwhelmed with violence everywhere.
The extent of my travels since the pandemic was announced was one drive through Rocky Mountain National Park last summer, to Grand Lake and back. I have read a lot and have done tons of genealogy research for other people.
Last year, we did not even try to have any plants on the balcony. This year, we have a new baby ivy plant, Creeping Jenny, a salmon Begonia pot with purple/blue Speedwell in the center, and I planted catnip seeds that have just begun to show teeny green leaves above the soil. I can't express how happy that makes me.
Pony Penning on Chincoteague Island has been cancelled, as it was last year. The auction of the foals will be held on-line this year, as it was last year. As of this afternoon, 61 foals have been born to the herds that live in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The ponies who live in Maryland on the Assateague National Seashore do not belong to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, and do not receive any care.
As stated in the first paragraph, will will be updating the COVID-19 numbers and news headlines only twice a month - on the first and sixteenth days of each month. I will include my usual numbers: world-wide, US, and the state of Colorado - for number of cases and deaths. The first two sets are from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Mapping database, and the third set is from the Colorado Department of Public Health. I will also pass along the weekly WHO Epidemiological Report for countries reporting those numbers, along with the most important headline (to me, anyway) news stories of each week.
Crested Butte, Colorado in late May 2021
1 June 2021 -
From the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Report for the world:
171,028,157 cases 3,557,144 deaths
From the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Report in the US:
33,286,427 cases 595,205 deaths
Colorado COVID-19 Report (from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment):
543,581 cases 6,741 deaths
1 June - WHO Weekly Epidemiological Report (for most countries):
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/weekly-epidemiological-update-on-covid-19---1-june-2021
WHO News:
WHO Validates Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use And Issues Interim Policy Recommendations
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2021-who-validates-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-for-emergency-use-and-issues-interim-policy-recommendations
New $50 Billion (US) Health, Trade and Finance Roadmap To End the Pandemic and Secure a Global Recovery
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2021-new-50-billion-health-trade-and-finance-roadmap-to-end-the-pandemic-and-secure-a-global-recovery
US News:
For the First Time In Over A Year, the US Records a Daily Average Of Fewer Than 20,000 New Covid-19 Cases
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html
Masks, Distancing Still Important Even With Vaccination, Study Suggests
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/health/pandemic-precautions-vaccination-impact/index.html
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Fact-Checking Sidney Powell's Claim Trump Could Be Re-Instated
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/politics/powell-trump-inauguration-fact-check/index.html
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