Saturday and Reading

I tried something different last night. My arm has not hurt in weeks and so I tried to sleep without the brace. It worked out pretty well but I think I will wear the brace....just to be sure. I don't want it to start to hurt again.

When I opened the door this morning Scruffie was waiting for her breakfast. I put out three bowls again. The double bowl I always put out and the two blue bowls...it's a good thing I did. Just as she started to eat, the kittens came running across the street.   They ate two to a bowl and Scruffie abandoned her bowl and left it to three kittens to share and she went to the double bowl to eat. Then some of them joined her there too. She seems to be finished now but at least two kittens are still eating.  What a crew!!

I have had my oatmeal and a breakfast bar too. I am working on my coffee now.

All the cats are gone now. I don't think any of the larger yellow cats have eaten yet so I will leave the bowls out there for awhile for them.

I am getting quite a list of groceries now. I will probably just go out to Dollar General to see if I can get everything on the list.

I have been making headway on that large book. I think I just have 100 pages left to read.  That's good since I downloaded another free book from Amazon on my Kindle last evening.

Speaking of last night, a strange thing happened while I was watching Amazon Prime last night. Suddenly Tivo rebooted and I had to wait several minutes while it downloaded and connected again. I texted Keith to see if he ever had anything like that happen with his Tivo and he said "more often then I like". I have had my Tivo for a couple of years and that was a first.  But it did let me reconnect to my show and evidently nothing was lost. That was scary though. I would sure hate to lose my Tivo. About the only thing I watch on regular TV is the news, "Bull", (which is doing reruns now) Lucky Dog (same thing) and a couple of shows on Sunday morning about animals. There just aren't any other shows on regular TV that I care anything about. They are either too violent or too silly.

Well, Scruffie and the black kitten and the yellow kitten are back for another course of cat food. Now even the gray kitten has joined them That one looks like Scruffie.

CBS news is on so I will get back to this later...

I had just brought in the cat bowls and was about to sit back down when I looked out and two of the larger yellow cats were looking for their food. So, I filled the dishes again and took them out for them. This must be cat heaven for them.

Back to the news....

Thunder started and soon it was pouring down rain I guess I will leave the flowers out there. The rain will probably be good for then. I will watch them and see how they do. If they start getting beat down I will brave the elements and go out and get them and bring them in..

More later...It's 7:53AM now.

After lunch I will go out to Dollar General and get my groceries.

I had my lunch at lunchtime and then went back to my book "Epidemics and Society" . Finally in the middle of the afternoon, I finished it. This book was written in 2018, right after the Ebola epidemic in Africa.

In conclusion, the lessons he brings forth from his experience in medicine and dealing with epidemics are three:

First: is the need of establishment of functioning health care systems everywhere.

Second: it is essential to ensure direction and coordination from an internationalist  perspective  through a well funded competently staffed, and ever vigilant World Health Organization.

Lastly:  the relationship between the global international system and public health cannot be ignored. An economic system that neglects what economists euphemistically call "negative externalities" will ultimately exact a heavy cost in terms of public health.

We are a global economy in cases like epidemics. As we have seen once again, treating these epidemics so loosely just causes them to become pandemics. There seems to be no organized coordination between countries. This is the third book I have read on these epidemics and pandemics and after each one I realize how uncoordinated and political they become.

One thing the author says that certainly makes sense is this "Under the administration of Donald Trump, the federal government has also declined to provide leadership, to devise strategies to confront the problems, and to fund existing programs that tackle pandemics".

It's 4:45PM now and I will play a game fro awhile and then at 5:30PM, I will watch the CBS news.then at 7:00PM, I will take my bath and plan to go to bed at 9:00PM