The first case of the omicron variant in the United States has been confirmed (although it's probably been here for weeks already). The patient is a man in San Francisco who just arrived from South Africa. His family and close contacts have been tested but were negative, and the man is in quarantine.
The average number of new covid cases in Georgia has been under 1,000 cases per day for two days now. The number was 868 cases on November 29 and 874 cases on November 30. Whether this represents a drop in infections or just underreporting over the Thanksgiving weekend remains to be seen.
Also, the 2021 hurricane season officially ended on November 30 with zero (0) trees falling on my house.
One year ago today, American athlete Arnie Robinson died of the covids. Impermanence is swift. Robinson won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1972 Olympics (Munich) and a gold medal in 1976 (Montreal).
On this day in 1997, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli died at age 89 in Paris. Impermanence is swift. Grappelli is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. The Quintette was one of the first all-string jazz bands, and Grappelli has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists."
On the day that Grappelli died, sprinter Sada Williams was born in Barbados. Today is her birthday! She competed primarily in 200- and 400-meter events and represented her country at the 2017 World Championships in London and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, because, you know, the covids.
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