Heading into July

Already June 29, heading to the 4th of July, which in our town always has featured a big (5,000 folk) picnic and fireworks in the Woodlake park, sponsored by Kiwanis and the town, with major local business donors.   Well, this year the 4th of July may come on September 6th, depending on Covid. 

Drat.

It was plenty warm this past week, averaging over 100 degrees.  Saturday was 106, which is hot enough for me.  Not exactly Phoenix or Las Vegas where we've lived on occasion, but still warm.
I'm an inveterate gardener, and my newly planted summer annuals displayed their resentment.

The interactive Dashboard, https://anywhereanytime.io/covid19/, has some metrics for the past two weeks that I found encouraging--446 individual viewers, more than half returned at least once, average Dwell Time was 21 minutes.   And forty+ viewers have written with comments and advice.  THANK YOU ALL for that.

Also, we are five weeks past RE-OPENING America, and we might ask--Howze it goin'?   Answer is NOT WELL.    Here's a plot of the four states getting the most news--AZ, CA, FL and TX.  How do these plots look to you?   Note that on the Maps, ORANGE is bad, Brown is next, Rich Blue is really not good either, while Light Blue and White are GREAT.    Except for rural Northern CA and some of the Texas prairie, the outbreaks have spread across most counties--a new phenomenon



Also, it might be of interest what others think about all this?   The BBC in London posted a couple of stories this weekend, one focused on Texas and the other on the impact for continents of the world.   Hard to assert, as some diehard Trump supporters still do, that this is a hoax designed to drive him out of office--nearly 8 million cases in other countries probably could care less about US politics, but they certainly understand that this is not a hoax, its not going away with hot weather, and it has killed four times the number of any flu strain in memory (the 1918 world event is past our recollection).



Finally, I'd be remiss to not include an update on our local counties--Tulare (my own), Fresno, and Kern, which produce 70% of California's agricultural output.   We've had our own Spikes, it would seem, and people (finally) are wearing masks in our county.   BE SAFE


All in all, let's hope that July exhibits a turn-around for the USA on this Covid19 tragedy--we HAVE to move on, and get some sense of normalcy (was that Warren Harding's only contribution?)

Best regards,
Chuck