Tier 2 Week 3 Report Card

Well, we have not been able to keep the 7-day average under 50 for the past week so it does not count towards being able to move to Tier 3; the City looks at the Wednesday stats to determine how well we are doing. Starting from tomorrow, if we can get the 7-day average below 50 with a positivity rate below 2.5%, then we will be able to move to Tier 3 on 11/25. Or the day before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, what we are seeing now is the result of our actions 2 weeks ago; because of this delay I personally don't see us going to Tier 3 until mid-December or so. Humans need to have more immediate gratification in order to do well with something like this; otherwise we lose interest and grumble about it not working. When in actuality, we have not given it enough time to work. As a community, people need to become more conscious of the infection cycle of this disease and pay attention!

Wanna stay here? Then ignore the Best Practices.

Wanna move to this? Then pay attention and do the right thing!

It started raining quite early this morning about 7:30. But it didn't last very long. The Aix weather app does show it was going to rain at 7:30; actually it showed it raining all day. It did not rain all day; there was another quick downpour in the evening, but it was dry & sometimes sunny between the 2 showers.

I started the morning with another ʻuala greens proothie. I also added the stems of the kale I had for salads yesterday. I think I will be out of kale by the end of the day tomorrow. Then there will not be much left for salads until we get our CSA box on Saturday.

Maunalani Nursing & Rehabilitation Center held their Veterans Day celebration today. They sent out a link to view it on Zoom; they also streamed it on Facebook Live. There was a delay in the beginning since they tested all the outside participants before they allowed them into the facility. This was also their first live video event. Later Czar sent me some photos that were taken at the event during the presentation of the certificates.

Each veteran received certificates from elected officials.

Presentation of Colors.

Dad is sitting closest to the screen.

Dad receiving his certificates from 1st Lt. Arakawa.

Dad with 1st Lt. Arakawa.

This is Week 6 Day 3, I took a look at the "Graduation" email that I got a week ago (on what would have been Week 6 Day 3 if I had started on the Sunday prior to when I really started). It suggested doing the workouts they call Lean on Mondays & Wednesdays, Curvy on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and Strong on Thursdays. With no workouts on Fridays and Sundays. Since it's Wednesday I did the Lean workout today. Bronagh leads the Lean workout; she does not demonstrate the moves much before you get in to doing the AMRAPs. I started out by watching the entire video first to see what I would be doing since more than half the moves were new to me. I also have to move the 20# kettlebell for some of the new moves.

For lunch I had leftover Japanese-style steak with a kale salad with vinaigrette beet spirals, Kalamata olives, and smoky chipotle sauerkraut. I probably have only enough kale to last through tomorrow evening.  

For dinner I had a similar mea but with chicken & beef fajita meat instead of the steak. And I am out of vinaigrette beet spirals; I will have to make more.

Since it was a holiday all The Roommates were home. The Potential Most Favorite Roommate spent more time decorating the Christmas tree. Keala was very interested in it; this is her first Christmas.

Curious Keala. (Photo by The Potential Most Favorite Roommate)

Based on the Tesla app, it looks like it was rather cloudy & rainy in Kapaʻau today. The Aix weather app forecasted that it would be.

 

This is just so wrong! Some old Boy Scouts decided to cook chicken in a hot spring at Yellowstone! I donʻt know why these old Boy Scouts want to relive their childhood without updating their methods. ON one of our camping trips Kai & I ran in to 3 dads taking their kids camping; they were also old Boy Scouts. The cut green branches to place under their tents to create a "mattress" and burned green branches to create a smoky fire to keep mosquitoes away. Both are very destructive practices that are not allowed in the National Forest that we were in. Their kids were also the ones tearing up the corn lilies along the way that Kai loving put back in the lake. We saw them at the camp site near the lake still tearing them up; before I could stop him Kai went running up to them & scolded them. Fortunately, they stopped; they also began following us around as we walked around the campground & I taught Kai about the plants & looked for animal signs. In the meanwhile, the dads were still bringing in supplies from the parking area about 1/4 mile away; they could have carried in mattresses as well!

 

Hereʻs some election humor.

And some holiday humor.

 

Here is Kai's preferred way of figuring out how far away people should be from one another. Both could have dire consequences if violated. Maybe that's what we need to let people know how serious it is.

So far the surveillance testing has found 18 positive COVID-19 tests out of 15,158 travelers who took a 2nd test since their arrival, or about 1 in 1000 as originally expected. The surveillance testing will continue through the end of the year to ensure that these early numbers are accurately identifying the number of people who develop COVID between the time they take the test and arrive here.

There were 118 new COVID-19 cases reported today for a total of 16,205 known cases. There were no new deaths reported so the death toll remains at 222; there are 1376 active cases. The 7-day average on Oʻahu was 81 with a positivity rate of 3.1%.

Yes, there is nothing here.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Chavie!