January 7th

CURRENT WEATHER

1:06 PM

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Sunny

Blood Pressure: 149/69 Pulse: 58 - this is Omron, with my sleeve gone. Top is very "elevated".

The country seems to have calmed down today. I only have news from the internet and the newspaper. I'm a bit afraid to look a lot. Some of the senators are calling for Trump to be removed from office before anything else gets stirred up by him. Yesterday's video, telling his supporters to go home in peace was also another of his "I won, remember that this was a fraudulent election" things. Not that he said that exactly, but he did say he believed the election to be fraudulent. His Twitter and Facebook accounts have both been locked. This came from White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media, Dan Sorvino:

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification: 

“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”

This only encourages the president to use another account to spout his looney ideas. Twitter and Facebook - all the social media accounts that Trump, his staff and his supporters use - should be made accountable for what they say.

Only two more weeks until Biden is sworn in. Let's hope that things will be kept under control.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Essex County cases

Updated Jan 7 at 1:52 PM local

Confirmed

53,843

+1,110

Deaths

2,422

+12

Recovered

-

New Jersey cases

Updated Jan 7 at 1:52 PM local

Confirmed

564,750

+14,497

Deaths

19,646

+264

Recovered

-

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United States cases

Updated Jan 7 at 1:52 PM local

Confirmed

21,559,660

+350,820

Deaths

364,927

+5,082

Recovered

9,690,971

+95,238

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Global cases

Updated Jan 7 at 1:52 PM local

Confirmed

87,588,168

+835,854

Deaths

1,890,824

+15,504

Recovered

48,944,445

+307,209

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