5/1/2020 by The Focus on Albany Show
I’ve known Joe Seeman for years and he would be a great assemblyman. He has a tough race ahead but in the era of Coronavirus a lot is changing and its quite possible that he pulls it off.
Not everyone agrees. On Twitter, some people called the device "appalling" and a violation of "human dignity." Others applauded the police for their creativity to "control stupid people."
Employees at many online retailers, grocery store chains and package-delivery services are planning labor actions Friday to protest what they describe as unsafe working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while others, put out of work by the disease, are using May Day to demand an end to stay-at-home orders they say are ruining livelihoods and irreparably harming the economy.
Meanwhile, nurses at scores of hospitals across the country plan to take to the streets to protest a lack of personal protective equipment; and independent truckers, fed up with low freight rates, plan a congestion-inducing "slow roll" in their rigs through parts of Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and other major cities.
The May Day protests come as the country is on edge, with more than 1 million confirmed infections and some 63,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 and after weeks of stay-at-home orders that have put a fifth of the nation's workforce out of a job, while employees deemed essential risk exposure to the novel coronavirus just by showing up to work.
More than 30 million people have applied for unemployment as of April 30, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Many are falling behind on their rent and are being evicted, despite new rules designed to stop evictions. Experts say the moratoriums by state and local officials don't go far enough and are leaving tenants vulnerable.
"My main concern is that I'll be evicted," says David Perez. The self-employed father of one sells artisanal wares, like wallets and sandals, at a flea market in Elkridge, Md. "What's going to happen to my family?" National Activists Refuse To Pay Rent As New York Struggles With The Coronavirus Outbreak
Perez hasn't had any income since the end of February because the flea market closed, and he says that he and his 14-year-old daughter are living off food donated from his church. He has already lost his van because he couldn't make his monthly payments.
Good morning! Happy May 🕊! Five weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️. Cloudy, gray but no rain and 58 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 pm. I am feeling somewhat better this morning, but I have a doctors appointment this afternoon so I hopefully then I’ll be feeling better after I get doxycycline or whatever I need for the tick bite.
I have a long list of things to do this morning from home, 🏠 and I ended up having to drive the library as my work laptop wasn’t working and apparently I had to connect to the wi-fi to get it up working again. 💻 Things though are up and working again, which is good.
Today will have a chance of showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌦 High of 63 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 27th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 10am. 🏖️ Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2001. There was a dusting of snow in 1978.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62.6° from the due south horizon (-8.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:17 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (285°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (292°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:56 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 8:26 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (180°) at an altitude of 63° from the horizon, 228,988 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:05 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 50 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 44 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 4th. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 71 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 20th. Northwest wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 2018. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄
Looking ahead to Sunday, scattered showers, mainly before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. 😎 Light and variable wind becoming west 8 to 13 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 49 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.
It does sound like a nice weekend on tap 🤠 so I’m thinking about weekend plans. Maybe I’ll head out of town, but I better be real careful, as I don’t want to get sun burn or drink alcohol if I’m on medication for the Lyme. Plus who knows how sick I’ll be feeling this weekend or how bad the bugs will be. But on the other hand, I don’t want to miss a nice weekend, as the rest of the month may be rainy and miserable or things get shut down further. I’ll have to think about it some more.
One month 📅 from now will be June 🍹 when the sun will be setting at 8:26 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm.
