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Well, we had our October surprise. Trump got COVID-19 and almost infected Biden at the first (and probably only) presidential debate. There will be a VP debate. After RGB died, to no one's surprise, Trump and McConnell rushed to have a nominee to replace her before her body was even cold. It didn't matter that McConnell refused to even meet with Merrick Garland and held the Supreme Court seat open in an election year, 2016. They want ACB seated before the election, so the legal challenges to the election will be ruled in their favor. So Trump had a Rose Garden ceremony (Melania destroyed the historic garden and replaced it with her own monstrosity). Well, it turns out it turned into a COVID-19 super spreading event, and a veritable who's who of GOP big wigs were infected. The only names missing that I wouldn't mind seeing infected are the Nazi Stephen Miller, religious End Times fanatic, Betsy DeVos, and ACB herself (RGB's fanatical replacement). Apparently, she had it earlier this year.

I've said it before that I wasn't sure we'd even make it to the November election, and we still might not. I don't know if Trump is going to recover. He likely will. He has the best medical care in the world, but if they hadn't been I such a rush to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, none of this would have happened. The next few days will matter. The frustrating thing is, not knowing what if anything about his illness is true. I have no doubt he has it, because he doesn't want to appear weak. He's already trying to spin it that he was willing to take the risk to be a leader of the country. It was his own carelessness that allowed him to be infected. It was the first time we'd seen him without his orange makeup. I do want him to recover just enough, but because a) he doesn't deserve a state funeral and b) I want him to be held accountable for his malfeasance because he is responsible for over 200,000 totally avoidable deaths.

There were calls for Biden to suspend his campaign and they thankfully aren't because we know Trump would not have suspended his had Biden been the one who'd become infected.

And in other news, I just realized that NaNoWriMo is coming up again. I've tried to participate several times and have always given up after a short while. Should I try again? I might give it a go and see what happens. Probably the same thing as the previous tries, but at least I'll be consistent. I might not since, I'm learning German and I really want to be fluent in the language, or at least be able to hold a conversation or two. I'm also brushing up on my Russian which I started recently. I'm using Duolingo as my starting point but branching out from there with my German. I know a lot more now than I did. I blew my 180 day goal, but I'm prepared to take as long as it takes to get there. I'm almost at ¾ of a year now. So if NaNoWriMo takes away from learning German, I'll stick with German.

 There's something about 4-20 and I don't get the reference. I suppose I should look it up. 

We've been sheltering in place for a little over a month now as SARS-CoV-2 infections rage across the world and the US. We have a malevolent administration that leaves each state fending for itself in dealing with the pandemic. I've made a few cloth masks I can stick filter material in them, though I do have a few N95's to use in an emergency. I've been washing my hands a lot more and I've stocked up on essentials and some non-essentials since this has started, though we were in pretty good shape before it started. We were planning a cruise next month which has been canceled. We'll try again next year but I don't expect it to happen because of our malevolent administration will keep things from getting under control. I'm thinking it'll be two years before we can go on a cruise. The world is going to be a very different place.

Civilization could collapse in the next few months, so this self-quarantine may be the last few good months we have on this Earth. I'll post from time to time as things progress.