#he was governor of tennessee for approximately 1 year before his wife of three months left him

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I was planning on answering a bunch of asks and writing up that au I was talking about into an official post but I got distracted and, long story short, it's been four hours and I now have an 11-page Google Doc about the 7th Governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston (6th, depending on who you ask)

#he was also the first president of texas but that's not the reason i started researching him so that's not important really #he was only commander-in-chief during the battle of the alamo and governor during the civil war but who cares about that #he was governor of tennessee for approximately 1 year before his wife of three months left him #and he was so embarrassed he left office and moved in with a cherokee clan in arkasas #which is the second time in his life that he ran away from home to live with the cherokee #and then eight years later he became the first president of texas #did i mention it took eight years and becoming president of texas for him to convince his wife to officially divorce him? #and during that time he got remarried and divorced again? #actually i don't think she ever actually agreed he had to use his power as president to get a district court judge to do it for him #i'm going to make a powerpoint this man is FACINATING to me #he was actually made an official cherokee citizen and considered them his family which is really cool #this isn't for a class #i just fell into a rabbit hole #also in case anyone is wondering i am not from texas so i had never heard of this man until i was looking at a list of tennessee governers #and wondered why there was a gap during 1828 #saframbles #history #sam houston #governer sam houston #president sam houston #i wonder if anyone is searching through the sam houston tag on tumblr.com #if you are please tell me why you're equally as fascinating to me as sam houston #texas history #tennessee history #i don't know what the frick to tag this so i'm just gonna stop now

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COVID19 UPDATES: 03/21/2020

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RUMINT (Mississippi): Evening! Have to go back to work tomorrow after 5 glorious days off. Been getting reports from my coworkers that they are being refused masks when taking care of possible CoVid pts. Um, no. I LOVE my job, but I'm not down to die for a company that will replace me before I'm in the ground. We've had a positive patient who was on the floor for 3 days before the test came back positive. Nobody wore any PPE other than the standard gloves. Numerous staff were exposed, one is in her 3rd trimester and one told the hospital they'll get her badge in the mail. Her 4 yo has pneumonia and now they think it could be CoVid that her mom may have brought home. Please, please, please raise hell wherever you are in the world for your healthcare workers to get the proper PPE as YOUR life may depend on it. I mean from EMS on the streets, to the docs in the hospital and everyone who works in a hospital. It takes all of us to run it, not just doctors and nurses. Stay home, wash your hands and pray for us on the front lines, including those in trade jobs who are busting their asses to keep us healthcare workers in business!

Massachusetts: 60 people quarantined at a assisted living facility on Cape Cod in Massachusetts after a resident tests positive.

NYC: Majority of NYC’s coronavirus cases are men between 18 and 49 years old LINK

RUMINT (UK): Morning from Southern England! It's cold but there's sunshine for today and most of the coming week. Still have a consultant job (work from home) for the next four weeks at least. Might have been exposed 9 or 10 days ago, the person I sat with in Germany (he's from the UK) in the office for two/three days is now very unwell (and his wife has become sick) with what appears to be COVID19. They aren't testing most people unless they need a hospital admission, so he hasn't been tested yet. By the sounds of it, he will need admitting to hospital. None of us, his work colleagues are sick (yet). Got an email yesterday from the Taxman (HMRC) for my business. They are throwing the kitchen sink at this. Suddenly after years of austerity under Cameron and May (all false looking at things now), they can pull a couple of trillion pounds (and yes, since this has just started with 350 billion, it will probably take a couple of trillion) out of thin air and basically most people don't need to work. Starting to look like the cycles of boom and bust were fake, engineered to keep most of us poor. Anyway, I basically don't have to pay tax this year (personal or corporate), even the quarterly payments of VAT I collect for the government (equiv to $11,000 every three months) don't have to be paid. There is no interest on any loans. In summary, the government APPEAR to know that this is the end of the UK (and the world) if they don't throw everything at this. The speed at which this has been organised is incredible. They know if they don't pay people out of their pockets, then the country would descend into anarchy and they would be just as fucked because society would break down, no supply chain for anything and EVERYONE would be dead in weeks except for the few in the UK like us who are armed and have six months of supplies. They are managing to keep everyone on the same page in the UK for now with these financial arrangements. The people of this country don't realise how VERY close to the edge everything is and just how VERY bad things are about to get. The virus is now everywhere, in every town and the main vector will be supermarkets now. These next two weeks will see all hospital overwhelmed as they go past surge capacity in the next three days.

Germany: BREAKING - The number of young #COVID19 patients is on the rise in Germany. "The youngest symptomatic patients are in their early 20s. We see the entire demographic age spectrum, whether in the normal ward or ICU," says Chief Physician of the Infectiology at a Munich clinic.

Spain: +233 deaths and +3.355 cases. So 24.926 cases and 1.326 deaths in Spain!

RUMINT (Hong Kong): ..... it’s complete madness right. HK largely on lockdown since end Jan. It looked like it was stabilising so some people started going back to working then the numbers just spike again. No idea how it ends

Russia: Footage of ambulances lined up bringing COVID19 patients to hospital in Moscow. LINK

China: A 26-yr-old woman surnamed Huang in South China's Guangxi Province was retested positive for nucleic acid 31 days after discharge. Huang was confirmed on Jan 30, and was treated in hospital. After being cured on Feb 10, she was retested positive in hospital on Mar 12.

New York: #BREAKING US STATE OF NEW YORK REPORTS 3,254 NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, RAISING TOTAL TO 10,356 CASES - GOVERNOR

New York: Younger people listen up: 55% of NYS #Coronavirus cases are ages 18-49.Young people aren’t invincible. You can get this and you can give it to someone older you love. You shouldn’t endanger your own health & you certainly shouldn't endanger other people's health. #StayAtHome

New York: NY Governor Cuomo: "You have to expect at the end of the day, 40% to 80% of the population is going to be infected. So the only question is how fast is the rate...and can you slow that rate so your hospital system can deal with it."

New Jersey: Top New Jersey health official Judith Persichilli says everyone will get coronavirus.  New Jersey’s top public health official says everyone, including her, will eventually contract the coronavirus. “I’m definitely going to get it. We all are,” Judith Persichilli told NJ.com. “I’m just waiting.”

Italy: CORONAVIRUS DEATH TOLL IN WORST-AFFECTED ITALIAN REGION LOMBARDY RISES BY 546 IN PAST 24 HOURS TO 3,095 - OFFICIALS

New York: UPDATE: NYC Covid-19 cases rise to 7,530 approximately 1,300 higher than Cuomo announced an hour ago with 45 deaths - NBCNY

Eugene Gu, MD: The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat the coronavirus has not been proven safe and effective through large scale clinical trials. There is only anecdotal evidence from case reports in countries overseas. Promising them as miracle drugs gives false hope.  I know this is an emergency and we are desperate. But as a physician, I took a solemn oath to “first, do no harm.” That means not testing off label drugs on human patients that may have side effects like vision and hearing loss, heart problems, and death for an unproven benefit.

UK: Rioting and looting have already started in London. LINK

Georgia: View of the TSA security line at Atlanta’s airport. LINK

Italy: BIG BREAKING: Italy reports 6557 new cases of #Coronavirus and 793 new deaths.Total number of Confirmed cases reach 53,578 and Total death toll reaches 4825. Fatality rate= 9%

US: John Bolton declares China 'responsible' for coronavirus outbreak, says world must hold them 'accountable' LINK

UK:  CORONAVIRUS DEATH TOLL IN THE UK HAS REACHED 233 AFTER NHS ENGLAND SAID A FURTHER 53 PEOPLE HAD DIED IN ENGLAND AFTER TESTING POSITIVE

US: BREAKING - US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife will be tested for #COVID19 this afternoon.

UK: Frontline NHS staff risk "cross infecting everybody" because they are not getting the recommended protective equipment, a consultant has warned.The face mask, short gloves and apron worn by NHS staff is far short of the World Health Organization recommendations, Dr Lisa Anderson of St George's Hospital, London, said. Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the government to "sort this out". LINK

US:  BREAKING: Ground stop now in effect — all departures stopped — for JFK, LGA, EWR due to positive covid-19 tests. Other regional airspace sectors halted through key “gates” through NY air traffic areas. -Sources

World: The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide has surpassed 300,000, an increase of 50,000 in one day

Europe: - France: 1,847 new cases, 112 new deaths - UK: 1,035 new cases, 56 new deaths

US: Mark Dice’s commentary on celebrities and COVID19. LINK

New Orleans: A Medical worker describes his experiences treating COVID19. LINK

US: USA + 4759 new cases = 24,142 cases + 32 new RIP = 288 RIP

Israel: Official statement from the Israeli Foreign Ministry was just posted, calling on all Israelis worldwide to return to Israel before a full lockdown is imposed and cancellation of all flights.

Ukraine: 10 new COVID19 infections registered in Chernivtsi region, 1 in Zhytomyr region, 2 in Kyiv region, 1 in Donetsk region, 2 in Ivano-Frankivsk and 2 in Kyiv city. Total 47 confirmed cases in Ukraine

Florida: FL Gov. DeSantis says the test results coming today "are coming from the last two weeks." South Florida "is a challenge now" he says in terms of COVID-19.

US: Newsweek: Inside the Government Continuity of Operations Plans. LINK

US: Newsweek: Inisde the Military plans to stop civil disturbances from COVID19. LINK

US: To help put the size of the Navy's hospital ships into perspective, this is a photo of USNS Mercy alongside the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. LINK