Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Second rate reporter says what?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

“But what about the lurkers?”

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Monday/Tuesday, May 25-26

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Misery loves company… British epidemiologist, concerning Boris Johnson’s Steve Bannon, Dominic Cummings:

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  1. 1.

    Ascap_scab

    Our county in southern Minnesota has had only 95 cases and zero deaths as of last week.

    I went to Walmart on Saturday and mask usage was down to 25-30% from 70% last week. Most observant were 40-50 yos. Least observant were under 30s and 60 pluses. Only half were observing the one-way aisle signs, meaning probably none were. There was even a family of six, none were wearing a mask even though there was a sign out front that said only one shopper per family.

    When this thing really hits, we are going to be so completely fucked.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers: 187 new cases; 155 of them at three immigration detention centres. 10 imported cases, just four Malaysians were locally infected. Total 7,604 cases.

    62 more patients recovered. Total 6,041 recovered, or 79.45% of total cases. Of 1,448 active cases, eight are in ICU and five of those are on ventilators. No new deaths, total stands at 115. Infection fatality rate 1.51%, case fatality rate 1.87%.

    The contagion clusters in immigration detention centres involve mostly detainees. These clusters have been driving the new cases numbers for the past few days.

  4. 4.

    Brachiator

    So tired of reading articles that project #Covid19 vaccine could be ready in a few months or a year without the key proviso that that doesn’t mean you or I will be vaccinated on that timeline. Making/deploying vaccine for whole countries, let alone the world, is gonna take time.

    Every now and then, Trump grunts his intention to make sure that US drug companies are the first to make a vaccine or, if this doesn’t happen, to make sure that the US gets control of the first batches of any vaccine.

    And I will bet that Young Jared will be placed in charge of distributing any vaccine.

    With Brazil emerging as one of the world’s most infected countries, President Jair Bolsonaro is deflecting all responsibility for the coronavirus crisis, casting blame on mayors, governors, an outgoing health minister and the media.

    Gee. I wonder who he is imitating?

  5. 5.

    rikyrah

    Once again about Sweden.

    For the bleachers.

    Take Sweden’s 5 closest neighbors.

    Add up their COVID-19 deaths.

     

    TRIPLE IT.

     

    And, that is Sweden’s death toll-ALONE ??

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    @rikyrah:

    I was listening to the DG of Health’s daily media briefing today, and he was confident that there is no need to extend isolation beyond 14 days.

  9. 9.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    In my closest grocery (exurban 60+ percent Trump-voting county outside lovely blue Louisville), nearly three out of four courageous patriots defiantly went maskless on Sunday. Most were doughy, gone to seed men in the 55 and up crowd. Several seemed to glare at me.

    As I checked out, a guy in his 30s at the station behind me did a big sloppy wet sneeze – but it was into his mask, which I appreciated.

    I’m not going back to that store – it’ll be a pain in the ass, but I can go to better locations for meat and produce anyhow. Plus, the people in the ‘Ville are good about their masks.

  10. 10.

    YY_Sima Qian

    The 100% mass screening at Wuhan is drawing to a close, trying to catch the stragglers who have not tested in the past ten days.. According to the municipal authorities, from 5/15 – 5/24 over 9M residents have been sampled by nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab and RT-PCR test processed. A total of 161 asymptomatic cases have been found, no confirmed cases.

    The number of tests conducted:

    5/15 113.6K

    5/16 222.6K

    5/17 335.9K

    5/18 467.8K

    5/19 856.1K

    5/20 887.3K

    5/21 1M

    5/22 1.47M

    5/23 1.15M

    Still no official confirmation whether lab testing is done by grouping samples.

    When people open up their APPs to show the health code, the interface shows the most recent PCR/antibody test results, and the date of the sample collection. This is useful, since many places require negative PCR results within 7 days to grant access (such as long distance mass transportation). However, the information is only automatically linked for Chinese citizens with citizenship ID, or Taiwanese/Hong Konger/Macanese with Chinese resident ID. As someone with foreign passport, it was a hassle just to set up my health code on Hubei Province’s health APP. Not sure if the testing results is automatically linked for me.

    In China, life with citizenship or resident ID can be extremely convenient (though the big brother data mining by the government and the IT giants also comes with the territory), can be cumbersome without them, and virtually impossible without a local mobile number.

  12. 12.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @rikyrah: Well, at one level this is a “show of force” by the CCP regime (aimed at both the international and domestic audiences), at another level this is “showing off” by the Wuhan municipal administration (aimed at Beijing, other cities and provinces, and Wuhan residents), and at a third level this is an attempt by the government to assuage residual concerns of people in Wuhan as well as people in other provinces about those from Wuhan. Same with medical staff in non-COVID hospitals in Wuhan no longer wearing layers of full body protective gear. I see more and more people who are comfortable without masks outdoors in non-crowded environs. The vast majority of people are still wearing masks, though, almost 100% whenever it is crowded.

  13. 13.

    Soprano2

    • I’m waiting to see how many of the Lake of the Ozarks covidiots live in Springfield. I’d say 15% of everyone at the Walmart we shop were wearing masks. We were doing so well on cases here…..
  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    Once again about Sweden.

    For the bleachers.

    Take Sweden’s 5 closest neighbors.

    Add up their COVID-19 deaths.

    TRIPLE IT.

    And, that is Sweden’s death toll-ALONE

    The situation in Sweden is complicated by a couple of factors. Their policy of not having a lockdown may have led to staffers bringing the infection to care homes.

    Also, it is possible that Sweden was deliberately choosing not to treat care home patients who had the virus.

    From BBC News.

    Most of the 3,698 people who have died from coronavirus in Sweden so far were over 70, despite the fact that the country said shielding risk groups was its top priority….

    The Swedish Public Health Agency told the BBC that 48.9% of deaths were care home residents up to and including 14 May.

    Sweden did ban visits to care homes on 31 March. But as in many European countries, relatives, staff and union officials have shared concerns that protective clothing arrived too late, and that some staff may have gone to work at the start of the crisis despite showing symptoms of Covid-19.

    Now, increasing numbers of workers are also coming forward to criticise regional healthcare authorities for protocols which they say discourage care home workers from sending residents into hospital, and prevent care home and nursing staff from administering oxygen without a doctor’s approval, either as part of acute or palliative (end-of-life) services.

    “They told us that we shouldn’t send anyone to the hospital, even if they may be 65 and have many years to live. We were told not to send them in,” says Latifa Löfvenberg, a nurse who worked in several care homes around Gävle, north of Stockholm, at the beginning of the pandemic….

    Ms Löfvenberg is now working on a Covid-19 ward in a major hospital in the Swedish capital, where she says the demographic of patients she’s treating is further evidence that the elderly are being kept away. “We don’t have many older people. It’s a lot of younger people born in the 90s, 80s, 70s.”

    A paramedic working in Stockholm, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC she had not had a single call-out to an elderly care home connected to Covid-19, despite putting in overtime during the crisis.

  15. 15.

    beth

    https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/pro-trump-boat-parade-packs-charleston-harbor-thrills-supporters/article_ecd65148-9edb-11ea-961e-f30ba30ff12a.html
    We had this happen on Sunday – the organizers claim over 1300 boats participated, police counts were more like 700. Videos do show a ton of boats.   Either way it’s sad to see so many  – I’m hoping most people just wanted to get their boats out on a beautiful day rather than purely supporting Trump. From the photos, lots of boats full of people, no masks to be seen. Apparently they crowded local waterfront restaurants afterwards. I’m sure some folks I work with participated. It’s just sad.

  16. 16.

    Gvg

    There shouldn’t be any reason for boaters to be masked. The outdoors are much safer, people on a boat would generally be the same household. Boat safety rules keep boats much further apart than regular social distancing rules. Only put in and take out have much chance at close encounters between people and even those times used to only have near encounters on very crowded put in docks or when someone had motor trouble and other boaters would generally try to help. That won’t happen now.
    I am sure many or most there were supporting Trump but a boating event is actually probably not a superspreader event.
    My 70 year old dad will probably go boating soon and I will go with him. We’ll take masks but on the boat won’t need them. We’ve all been very careful, but this just isn’t high risk quarters. Really, we just have to do some planning. It’s the travel to and from. Bathrooms etc. when I hold the boat line to the dock while he parks the trailer, each boat needs to be kept from bumping into other boats or currents and wind banging them into the dock. I am more than the length of the boat from the next guy doing the same thing. Then dad comes back hops in, starts the engine, I hop in and we’re gone. Extra passengers can socialize in normal times, but mostly we all just wave at each other as the boats pass, not to close for safety. A crowd on the water is a good deal more spread out than land. Boats move with wind and water so you actually have to keep them well away from each other, not at all like cars.

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    On the advice of an online friend, I’ve been reading Dying of Whiteness, and it’s not metaphorical.

    They are literally killing themselves rather than lose their white guy privilege. It’s a perfect storm of toxic masculinity, politically manipulated religion, and what they see as in-group allegiances.

    The pandemic has acted as a jolt that has sped things into fast-forward: exposing all their deadly delusions at once.

  18. 18.

    J R in WV

    @Gvg:

    You describe a serious attempt to stay safe while boating.

    How many of those people in the parade of boats made even a pretense of being safe? My take is less than a handful cared at all. I’m  betting it was another superspreader event, one of hundreds across the nation over the weekend.

    We are so fucked, mostly by the example set by ignorant leadership!

  19. 19.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @DrTedros noted in today’s @WHO press conf. that Japan has lifted its #Covid19 emergency declaration; Japan is down to ~40 cases/day.

    What makes them think the Japanese’ government isn’t lying to save face? Japan is a densely populated country with the oldest population on earth.

  20. 20.

    Taken4Granite

    @Gvg: I think the appropriate analogy here is with skiing. Remember that some of the early superspreader events took place at ski resorts. It’s not the skiing itself that’s the problem, it’s the apres-ski crowding in bars and restaurants. I suspect the same goes here: the boating itself is not so much of a problem as what happens when people are done boating for the day. Boat take-out points are going to be crowded at the end of a holiday weekend, and Beth noted that the waterfront restaurants were also crowded.

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