Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This fight is for everything.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

This really is a full service blog.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Everybody saw this coming.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

I was promised a recession.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Infrastructure week. at last.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Sunday / Monday, May 31 – June 1

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    Good Morning.

    Thanks for the update.

    So. We are sending the drug that has proven to be a bust, for COVID-19, but is needed here,for the actual diseases that it REALLY HELPS, to another country.???

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers: 38 new cases. 12 cases from local infection, including six non-Malaysians; 26 imported cases, i.e. repatriated Malaysians. Total 7,857 cases.

    51 more patients recovered, total 6,404 or 81.51% of all cases. Of 1,338 active cases, eight are in ICU of whom two are on ventilators. No deaths for the 10th straight day, total still 115. Infection fatality rate 1.46%, case fatality rate 1.76%.

    DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says the challenge facing his ministry now is dealing with infection among foreign workers. Employers need to make sure that worker accommodation complies with existing law to prevent crowding and unhygienic conditions, while educating workers on social distancing and proper hygiene practices.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Reports that attendees at (illegally held) parties of up to 200 people on a beach on Oahu over Memorial Day holiday were “mostly” members of the military.

  7. 7.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘

    As at 3:00pm on 1 June 2020, a total of 7,204 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 103 deaths and 6,619 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    Over the past week, there has been an average of 13 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.

    To date, over 1,472,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.5% have been positive.’

    9 new cases  today. Total of 20 cases in hospital, 3 in ICU.

  9. 9.

    YY_Sima Qian

    All reported cases in China yesterday were imported. It includes 11 confirmed and 6 asymptomatic cases on a single flight from Cairo, Egypt that landed at Chengdu in Sichuan Province on 5/30, 3 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases on a flight from Moscow that landed at Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, and 2 confirmed (both from Nigeria) and 6 asymptomatic (3 from Nigeria and 3 from the UK) were reported by Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. Earlier today, 1 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases were reported from a flight from Edinburg, Scotland that landed at Xi’an in Shaanxi Province.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Searcher:

    Unpossible! How could the hydroxychloroquine stockpile be useless, if it was built by Prince Jared himself?

  11. 11.

    Soprano2

    I heard a new crazy thing about COVID-19 this weekend. We went to a farm supply store to get some safflower seed for the bird feeders. I was talking to the clerk about COVID-19 changes, and she said they had to put a sign on the Ivomectin, which is a cow dewormer, because someone on the internet started telling people that they could take it to prevent COVID-19 infection!. She said people were coming in and asking about buying it for that. It’s insane the things people are willing to believe because they want a magic bullet cure so badly.

  13. 13.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Soprano2:

    “The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute’s Dr Kylie Wagstaff, who led the study, said the scientists showed that the drug, ivermectin, stopped the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture within 48 hours.”

    I think “cell culture” is probably the most significant part of that.

  14. 14.

    charon

    autopsy results show blood clots and blood vessel damage as underlying cause behind symptoms.

     

    http://bigbadbaldbastard.blogspot.com/2020/05/know-thy-enemy.html

     

    COVID-19 was initially conceptualized as a primarily respiratory illness, but the Mount Sinai analysis laid out in detail that it also causes damage to the thin layer of cells that line blood vessels (endothelium), which underlies the clotting abnormalities and hypoxia observed in severely ill patients who develop multi-organ failure that leads to death in some patients.

     

    The lungs in nearly all cases showed diffuse damage to the alveoli, the small sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged with the blood. This damage is the typical microscopic evidence of clinical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with most cases showing fibrin (a fibrous, non-globular protein involved in the clotting of blood) and/or platelet thrombi, or clots, to varying extents. This same pathology is found in most cases of ARDS, including those related to other coronoaviruses. However, the totality of findings in the autopsy series as a whole, with blood clots in multiple other organ systems—most notably the brain, kidney, and liver—reflects endothelial damage as an underlying process, which would also correlate with the activation of the coagulation cascade and persistent elevation of blood markers of inflammation.

    This would also explain the Kawasaki Disease-esque symptoms and elevated stroke risk that have been observed in younger COVID-19 patients.

  15. 15.

    bjacques

    Those Rona shields together in the restaurant in the AP story look like the Cone Of Silence from Get Smart!

  16. 16.

    Ohio Mom

    Viva Bris Vegas: You got it.

    As someone who casually follows breast cancer research news, I can tell you that many BC “treatments” and “cures” that seem to work in test tubes, Petri dishes and mice, do not end up working in actual humans.

    I can only assume the same will be true for many announcements of breakthroughs in COVID treatments. I don’t think scientists are an especially excitable bunch but the PR departments of their sponsoring institutions sure are.

  19. 19.

    JaneE

    My county had not had a new confirmed case for weeks.  The paper says 40 days, but that sounds awfully high to me.  We started opening up, with distancing and masks.  Then last Friday a new case appeared.   I think this is going to be around forever.  Even after a vaccine.

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