Probably a bit like the American economy is going to go...
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Update: May 13, 2020, 02:44 GMT
USA
1,430,348 confirmed cases of COVID-19
85,197 American Deaths
Milestone:
The World has gone past 4 million cases of COVID-19.
This has more than doubled in the past month alone.
National Note: The US President "voiced frustration Wednesday at the nation's top infectious disease specialist after Dr Fauci warned a day earlier against reopening schools and businesses too quickly. When asked about Dr. Anthony Fauci's warnings during televised congressional testimony that reopening states too quickly could have dire consequences. Trump said, 'It's just -- to me it's not an acceptable answer.'"
Local Note: Our city is "On a list of locations with significant COVID rises". It is now considered by the White House Task Force as potentially the Nation's next "hotspot". Our county (within our specific zip code) saw a 35% increase in new cases just overnight. The metro's "rate of new cases" as a whole has seen an “ increase of more than 200% over the past week".
We're staying at home.
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Still hanging on, this hibiscus saw a 75% decrease in bloom size as the weather outside started to cool last Fall. Brought inside our Solar Room to safely Winter indoors, the plant pretty much stopped blooming. As soon as we had a few warmer days at the beginning of May, we moved it outside for the Summer months. A couple of small blooms appeared. However, May suddenly turned bitterly cold again; with day after day of killing freezes. That meant all the deck plants had to be brought back indoors. This plant is now blooming indoors. But the flowers remain subsized. Someday, where the temperatures are finally deemed "safe", the hibiscus will once again go back outside. Hopefully, it can then return to last Summer's glory.
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