Tonight, it will be announced there are 2 million cases worldwide, On April 3rd only 12 days ago there were a million cases. 850,000 of the cases are in the US. Trump is having tantrums at reporters and playing pro-Trump propaganda. He's saying he acted before anyone thought he should which is a rewriting of history because he denied it was real, denied its seriousness. I tried to find the propaganda video but some sites wouldn't share it because they were so disgusted. He is saying the president of the United States csn fo whatever the president of the United States wants. I just saw a headline which said Covid19 relief cheques will have Trump's signature on them.
We had writing group tonight, I haven't written a poem for a long time. There were three poems all with a dangerous melancholy. I'm not so jittery now, but they are jittery times. Our new cases in New Zealand gave hovered around 20 per day for the last 3 days. The Newshub site though showed there were far more tests today so in fact the percent of positive results was going down. The four weeks of our total lockdown are due to end in a week, on Wednesday. On Monday Ardern will announce if we are staying in Level 4 lockdown or moving to Level 3. They are announcing over the next day what Level 3 will mean. I don't think schools will go back. Today was officially start of term 2, Alex has done most of the work for this week already. Maggie is learning about pre-Treaty Pākehā-Māori contact. I have been taking photos of 50 things, I want to take 50 photos of 50 things before I turn 50. C. has been giving me tips. I talk to friends overseas, little pits of being stuck, glimpses of despair and vulnerability, where income is fragile or broken and when that goes, choices go. I think of how this is happening everywhere at the moment, millions of stories, things broken, things taut.
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