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Hospitality Point Jetty (Taken 5.22.21)

  
I haven't spoken to Nova's mom in years, which is why the fact that her presence is so constant in our lives is so infuriating. Every time Nova speaks to her on the phone, we end up unraveling the call for hours. Sometimes, like today, we were still talking about it even though it's more than 24 hours later. 

The issue is that Nova feels she has to "photoshop" her life because nothing meets her mother's approval. She's a super Christian wingnut and would be totally fine if Nova only had white bible thumping friends. As it is, her music is inappropriate, her clothes not feminine enough, her friends too diverse. She's barely been in school but has made a friend who is non-binary and feels super connected to them. Nova was practically in tears realizing her friend's parents accept their gender diverse identity while Nova is stuck with a mom who thinks it's a sin to eat Indian food because Indians aren't Christian. It's fucking ridiculous. 

So today we had another long talk and walk that we know it's hard for her to stand up to her mom and always have to edit her life and I think it maybe sunk in a little more, offering the back up that if it continues, we're going to start listening in on speakerphone like we did when she was little and interjecting or ending the call altogether if she cannot behave like a kind and civil human being. 

We drove out to Marina Village at Hospitality Point and walked along the bay while she vented. I hadn't ever been out on the jetty and it was so pretty and clear out and I feel like we got through to Nova. She actually said that if her mom doesn't clean up her act, she can't imagine maintaining a relationship with her after she turns 18. I hope for her mom's sake that she get her shit together. 

Stay safe out there. 

• COVID-19:
• A retrospective cohort study of 12,306 pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States - Scientific Reports (5.13.21)
• IDSA and HIVMA Respond to New CDC Masking Guidance for Fully Vaccinated People - (5.17.21)
• Other Reading:
• More High Schoolers Are Gender-Diverse Than We Thought. An unprecedented 9.2% of teens in a new study didn’t identify with the binary. - Them. (5.20.21)
• Watch:
• San Diego Public Library How-To Festival 2021 
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 5.22.21 9:20pm):
• 166,458,217 Known Cases
• 3,450,259 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• JHU
• 33,104,800 Cases
• 589,703 Deaths
• CDC Data Tracker:
• +27,596 New Cases/32,912,150 Known Cases 
• +748 New Deaths/586,335 Known Deaths
• 357,250,375 Doses Delivered
• 283,941,223 Doses Administered
• 162,470,794 Partially Vaccinated
• 129,006,463 Fully Vaccinated
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
• Vaccination progress dashboard
• Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 32.8%
• R-effective: 0.79
• 45,119,680 Doses Delivered/36,080,674 Doses Administered
• 4,482,570 Partially Vaccinated/16,534,554 Fully Vaccinated
• 1,186 New Cases/3,671,655 Total Cases (2.8 new cases/100k)
• 50 New Deaths/61,722 Total Deaths (0.05 new deaths/100k)
• 0.9% 7-day test positivity rate
• 1,540 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-71 patients, -4.4% from prior day)
• 347 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-4 patients, -1.1% from prior day)
• 2,303 ICU beds available (+54 from prior day)
• San Diego County 
• Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
• VaccinationSuperstationSD
• Vaccination Dashboard
• San Diego County Of Education School Reopening Dashboard
• Evening COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Coming to North, East, South County

• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 33.9%
• R-effective: 0.77
• 64 New Cases/279,554 Total Cases
• -1 Deaths/3,748 Total Deaths (One death removed after audit)
• 3.8 cases/100k population (Assessed on 5/18. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 1.6% Test Positivity (Assessed on 5/18)
• 2.1% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 5/18)
• 146 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-5 patients, -3.3% from prior day)
• 42 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-5 patients, -10.6% from prior day)
• 225 ICU beds available (+4 from prior day)
• County Data:
• 60 New Cases/279,613 Total Cases 
• 3 New Daily Deaths/3,751 Total Deaths
• 3,948,895 Doses Received/3,523,992 Doses Administered
• 1,882,979 Partially Vaccinated/1,447,610 Fully Vaccinated
• 0.4% Daily Test Positivity/1.3% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/1.2% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 3.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 5/18. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• 99.5% Case Investigation 
• 3.1% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (110 patients. -37% over 30 days)
• 37% ICU Capacity (35 patients. -33% over 30 days)
• 49 Staffed ICU Beds Available
• 1 New/17 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU