4/2/2020(星期四)
美国洛杉矶Highland
天气晴加多云
不知不觉已经有18天不出门了,家中省了油钱的开销,现在外面的油价多少也不知道了。过去到超市还会看看打折物品优先购买,现在网上只要有就买了,价格已经不会再去计较了。
微信里每天增加的团购群,眼花缭乱目不暇接,果然民以食为天,再难吃也要保障,还要吃自己想吃的,中国人从不亏待自己的胃。在美国解决吃喝一定不是大事,超市里供应基本正常,只是不出门带来的不方便而已,加上华人又有特定的胃口,一些中华美食也只有华人超市才能购买。
天205250,今天240511,3万的增长速度啊,一大早,我妈妈就焦虑的说:美国这数字太可怕了,什么时候到头?
昨天日记里我提到美国估计有四亿人口,我父亲就指出美国人口只有三亿多,特别要我修改更正,今天我也特别查阅美国资料,美国人口具体是3亿2千万多(326766748)今年的人口普查也开始了(my2020census.gov)花2分钟就填写了。
More than 2,000 ventilators, a key piece of equipment to treat coronavirus patients, in the federal stockpile are unavailable to be deployed because the Trump administration failed to maintain the devices as they were in storage, according to The New York Times.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government is withholding 10,000 ventilators from distribution because of an anticipated surge in Covid-19 cases. But an additional 2,109 ventilators are out of commission because maintenance of the devices was halted during a contracting dispute, the Times reported Wednesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday the state had received 170 broken ventilators from the federal government.
据《纽约时报》报道,超过2000台呼吸机是治疗冠状病毒患者的关键设备,但由于川普政府未能在存储设备时对其进行维护,联邦储备中无法部署这些设备。
川普总统周二表示,由于预计Covid-19病例激增,联邦政府将扣留10,000台呼吸机。但据《泰晤士报》周三报道,由于设备维护工作在合同纠纷期间中止,因此又有2109台呼吸机无法使用。
加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆(Gavin Newsom)周六表示,该州已从联邦政府收到170台坏了的呼吸机。
- A New England Patriots team plane loaded with 1.2 million N95 protective masks is on its way back to Boston after picking up the vital supplies in China.
According to a source, Baker is extremely frustrated that the federal government outbid him on supplies that were en route to Massachusetts. He worked with New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft and the Patriots to get these supplies brought over from China.
一架载有120万枚N95防护口罩的新英格兰爱国者团队飞机正在中国取回重要物资后,将返回波士顿。
消息人士称,贝克对联邦政府在运送到马萨诸塞州的补给品方面出价过高于他感到非常沮丧。他与新英格兰爱国者队的老板罗伯特·卡夫特和爱国者队一起工作,将这些物资从中国运来。
美国民间的力量和速度也比政府要快。政府的框架中规中矩,民间的交流购买也许能更快的到位使用。
The major US stock indexes have pulled back from their highs in the early afternoon. The rally earlier in the day came on the back of a jump in energy stocks as oil prices soared following President Donald Trump's call for production cuts.
Trump said in a tweet he has spoken to leaders in Saudi Arabia and Russia about the cutbacks in oil production. Saudi Arabia has since called for an emergency OPEC meeting, while Russia denied the conversation with Trump.
Oil prices are still up in the afternoon but have lost some steam. The same goes for energy stocks, which are off their highs
美国主要股指已从午后的高位回落。当天早些时候的上涨是在能源股上涨的背景下进行的,因为川普总统呼吁减产后油价飙升。
川普在一条推文中说,他已与沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯的领导人谈过石油产量减少的问题。此后,沙特阿拉伯呼吁召开紧急欧佩克会议,而俄罗斯则否认与川普的对话。下午油价仍在上涨,但失去了一些动力。能源股也是如此,已脱离历史高点。
川普的Twitter以后都会成为历史的笑话,谁知道那句是真哪句是假,但Twitter还是要感谢他的丰功伟绩,因他的存在更加值钱。
Trump again said that "nobody" could have foreseen a pandemic crisis leading to a shortage of ventilators, for which there were numerous warnings. He predicted that the virus would no longer be a concern after about a month, a timeline at odds with assessments of experts. And he implied some states are basically fine when it comes to the coronavirus.
Trump said, "After a month or so, I think once this passes, we're not going to have to be, hopefully, worried too much about the virus."
川普再次表示,“没有人”可以预见到一场大流行危机,将导致呼吸机短缺,对此警告很多。他预测,大约一个月后,该病毒将不再是一个问题,这一时间表与专家评估不符。他暗示说,在冠状病毒方面,有些状态基本上是好的。川普说:“一个月后,我认为一旦过去,我们就不必太担心这种病毒了。”
川普的言论一致遭到美国医学家否定和再次指责,美国专家认为这场病毒感染预计有二,三个月的扩散时期,最快在5月份能基本控制就是好消息了。川普的发言似乎也让民众习惯了。他在民众心目中也就一个政客和商人而已。
The last three weeks have marked one of the most devastating periods in history for the American job market, as first-time claims for unemployment benefits have surged more than 3,000% since early March.
Businesses continue to lay off and furlough workers amid the coronavirus outbreak. 6.6 million US workers filed for their first week of unemployment benefits in the week ending March 28, according to the Department of Labor — a new historic high.
Economists characterized the increase as "monstrous," "stunningly awful," and "a portrait of disaster."
Including the prior week's 3.3 million initial claims, Americans have filed nearly 10 million jobless claims in the last two weeks alone.
过去三周是美国就业市场历史上最毁灭性的时期之一,因为自3月初以来首次申请失业救济人数已激增超过3,000%。在冠状病毒爆发期间,企业继续裁员,休假的工人。
劳工部的数据显示,在截至3月28日的一周中,有660万美国工人申请了第一周的失业救济金,这是历史新高。
经济学家将这一增长描述为“惊人的”,“令人震惊的”和“灾难的画像”。包括前一周的330万例初次索赔,仅在过去两周中,美国人就提交了近1000万例初请失业金人数。
Unemployment benefits are becoming a financial lifeline for millions of Americans after their employers shut their doors to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.
The growing tsunami of layoffs has overwhelmed state unemployment systems as a record number of workers try to apply for benefits. The situation isn't likely to improve anytime soon.
The situation is so bad that governors have begun apologizing to frustrated people who can't file claims and have to wait longer for their money.
在雇主关闭大门以阻止冠状病毒传播之后,失业救济正成为数百万美国人的财务命脉。裁员的海啸加剧,使州失业制度不堪重负,因为有大量的工人试图申请福利。这种情况不可能在短期内得到改善。
情况如此糟糕,以至于州长开始向沮丧的人们道歉,这些人无法提出索赔,而不得不等待更长的时间才能得到他们的钱。
这二条新闻,当这些数据公布出来,也就可想而知疫情对许多美国家庭和民众直接的现实的损失。失业率也是社会动荡的根源,祈祷希望不要遥遥无期。
For millions of Americans, a job doesn't only mean a paycheck -- it also provides their health insurance.
Those who've recently lost their job-based coverage can check out the policies available on the Affordable Care Act exchanges by going to www.healthcare.gov.
对于数百万的美国人来说,工作不仅意味着薪水,还有他们的健康保险。
那些最近失去工作和保险的人,可以访问www.healthcare.gov,查看《经济适用医疗法》交易所提供的政策。
Coca-Cola is not planning to lay off workers at this point, CEO James Quincey confirmed to CNN's Poppy Harlow in an interview on Thursday.
可口可乐CEO James Quincey周四在接受CNN的Poppy Harlow采访时证实,可口可乐目前不打算裁员。
Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become 'Essential' During Pandemic Immigrant field workers have been told to keep working despite stay-at-home directives, and given letters attesting their "critical" role in feeding the country.
疫情期间在农场工作的非法移民,他们依旧在努力的工作。去年在川普政府大力打击驱赶非法移民,但在美国最底层的劳工依旧是这些非法移民们在奉献。社会就是如此的矛盾。
- The Democratic National Convention has been pushed back to the week of August 17 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the committee tasked with planning the event announced on Thursday.
Politics in the United States has been forced to make wholesale changes due to the spread of the coronavirus, including multiple states postponing primaries and a virtual halt of all in-person campaigning.
冠状病毒大流行之后,民主党大会已推迟到8月17日的一周。
由于冠状病毒的蔓延,美国的政治被迫做出全面的改变,包括多个州推迟初选,几乎所有当面的竞选活动都停止了。
在美国时间4月1日,全美第一公立大学加州大学(UC)系统主席办公室发布了加州系列大学应对新冠病毒所采取的暂时措施。
为减轻冠病毒(COVID-19)对学生和家庭造成的巨大挑战,加州大学决定暂时放宽一些入读UC的本科录取要求,主要针对:2020年秋季入学和2021年秋季入学的学生。校方指出:全球健康危机已迫使美国各地的高中关闭,并促使学校突然转向远程教学。美国一些学校采用“及格/不及格(pass/fail)”或“学分/不学分(credit/no credit)”的GPA评分方式,而不是采用A-G课程所需的等级评分,以获得加州大学入学资格。
这个消息对于我高中11年级的女儿来说,她认为是好消息,没有SAT的标准束缚,但是一方面高中学校的评判标准有有许多不确定因素,会钻空子的学生在技巧和政策的应用上比会读书的学生更加有优势。我也希望女儿能规划和自我应对这个变化。今天她们高中已经通知预计一直要到5月才能恢复去学校上课。目前已经在网上上课。
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-china.html
美中的爱恨情仇相厮相杀戏剧般的上演,文章比较长,有兴趣的朋友可以点击链接查看。
美国鹰派的战略还会在疫情缓和之后与中方要有清算的,文章里有一个提问川普,Asked whether American intelligence agencies have assessed that China falsified case and fatality numbers over the virus, Mr. Trump said, “I’m not an accountant from China.”
当被问及美国情报机构是否评估过中国伪造了病毒病例和死亡人数时,特朗普说,“我不是来自中国的会计师。”此回答的意味深长。
美中关系,经济是牵动的关键,经济也是民生大计,每个国家都要为各自的民众创造福利,各为其主各谋其政。
现在虽然疫情数字上升,但我居住的地区平时就比较安静,所以对于我们来说没有特别的异常,今天在媒体上看到纽约曼哈顿救护车整日在繁华街道和医院穿梭和呼叫,我看了多少也是揪心。
我做日记整理信息本身就是比较繁琐的工作,也无从确定哪些信息值得我收藏和留档,我也只能以自己的浅薄的判断和对于我来说比较用的信息,经济文化,民生,体制也是我个人比较感兴趣的,我自己也在其中学习和判断。
今天在写这篇日记,想到早期听过的一段话,不记得是哪位主持人说:赞美的话可以脱口而出,诋毁的话需要三思而后行。特别是在一个公众平台,媒体里,每一个讨论的话题都有些不同的观点,大家需要冷静的思考一下,不要去随意审批,这种审批实际上是缺席审判,隔空审判,在你根本不了解事件里,远距离的审判并不抬高自己的道德标准。
昨天开始就看到国内的微信圈和这边的华人圈,流传一个生活在美国的华裔女性自己上传的抖音视频,主要是炫耀自己在今年一月份如何在美国抢购扫荡home depot 3M口罩,视频的中文炫耀自然是难以入耳,风气格调确实让人讨厌,有些想出名的网红,最后都是死在自己的嘴巴上,这位现在也真的红了,骂浪就把她推到岸上拍死了。华人圈骂华人是出了名的狠。我今天在我自己的一个群里说,她只是在于她的无知和浮躁,她自己也出门澄清了,收集的口罩当初也是捐给国内了(虽然也有人不相信,说赚钱了)。一个事件,她已经付出了代价,就是你把她祖宗十八代骂一遍,她也是捐了。
现在美国已经到处煽动反华情绪,已经有算账到华人头上,是华人把口罩搜刮,让美国人缺货,你承认吗?前几天美国还说找到将近4千万个N95口罩,口罩呢?前几天的日记里专门有一篇美国评论员的文章,美国为何一个不到一美金的口罩都缺。
今天下午刚刚收到国内小姑子寄来的几个N95口罩,尽管我们一再说我们不需要,但是国内的亲友还是担心和记挂我们。
父亲今天早上发来几句话:“目前世界上中国最安全,中国是武汉最安全,武汉是我家最安全”。老爷子的心态让我们放心了。
我曾经有过一个比喻华人三代人,你妈妈,你,你儿子,你妈妈认为:金窝银窝不如我的穷窝,你认为:穷窝靠不住,还是现在的窝最好,你儿子:我只知道我现在的窝就是我的窝。各自安好!
笑看人间沉浮事,闲坐摇扇一壶茶!
洛杉矶安静安静再安静!