take a "peak"

"...in great trouble to see the bill this week rise so high, to above 4,000, and of them above 3,00 of the plague." samuel peyps diary 10 august 1665

the president says we are lurching towards a "reopening"...that his statements to this point have proved unreliable is a given and this one isn't exact in its forecast...which is understandable...no one really knows...

i have been keeping an eye on the numbers out of johns hopkins and the reality there is the number of new cases and the number of deaths have both had a mild spike in the last two days...they has leveled off...there were still new cases and more unfortunate deaths, however the number of new cases a day had dropped from the mid thirty thousands to the lower twenty thousands and was holding there until it moved back to near thirty thousand yesterday ( 29979 new cases )..."the peak" may be in the future yet..or the numbers may hold steady..whichever, new cases continue...this isn't over...and new york city still has an inordinate number of deaths...

the muddle over what is actually happening and the policy of uninformed optimism continue in the nation's capital as the president prepares to tell us to get closer...

and the powerful minds he is assembling to back up his unbridled lust for undermining caution cannot seem to get their schedules straight...or, seemingly, even know if they are supposed to be in the loop...confusion and contradiction has always been the zeitgeist of this administration ( not that this isn't the usual case...e.o. wilson is probably correct when he says human cognition isn't capable of rationally organizing anything much larger than a village ) and it continues because...for the umpteenth time...no one really knows..they just hope and bend facts to fit the theory...human again...closer to home, the state has finally delivered me a stipend ( although my $1200 is still not present ) and it is not a livable one...one understands limitations and the disrepute a social safety net is held in in the purtitan ethic espoused by politics here...still...the options for most would seem to be exposure to a possibly lethal virus or slow starvation...the government loves us like children...i hope my peers from retail are well..the feedback i am getting is that conditions vary...my hope is still that they remain well..i an off in a bit for a sojourn into the real world for some supplies...look for updates if you are interested