Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

In my day, never was longer.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Bark louder, little dog.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

When we show up, we win.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Sunday/Monday, June 28-29

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… The spike comes amid fears that the disease has been spreading through the city’s large Asian community, who often live in multi-generational households. The local outbreak underscores the disproportionate hit that the pandemic has had on Britain’s minority communities.

Britain has Europe’s worst confirmed coronavirus death toll, with some 43,600 dead and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has been strongly criticized for what has been seen as a slow, chaotic response to the pandemic.

Britain is now slowly emerging from a total national lockdown imposed on March 23, with plans to ease things further by early next month. That reopening plan has rested on the notion that local outbreaks could be tamped down through aggressive programs to track, test and trace those infected.

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The tweets below don’t even mention the problem that leapt to my mind: It is a college bar, and patrons ‘aged 18-23’ were not following social distancing guidelines, but from the reporting I’ve seen so far most of the victims aren’t (yet) suffering the worst symptoms, so they’re extremely blase about doing things that could’ve killed them and very probably endangered people who aren’t in the magical youth demographic. Which is predictable, because they’re young and therefore believe themselves immortal! Given this predilection, how in the name of Murphy the Trickster God are ‘we’ supposed to open up college campuses in the next few months, without sparking more outbreaks?

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Three new cases: two from local infection, both Malaysians; one a hospital patient screened ahead of a medical procedure, one detected in a workplace screening. One case from imported infection, a Malaysian returning via Singapore after being refused entry in Fiji and New Zealand. Cumulative total 8,637 cases.

    16 more patients recovered and were discharged; total 8,334 recovered or 96.5% of the cumulative total. Of the 182 active cases still in hospital for isolation/treatment, four are in ICU and one patient is on a ventilator.

    No new deaths, for a 15th straight day. Total stands at 121 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.40%, case fatality rate is 1.43%.

    In his media conference earlier today, Senior Minister (Security) Ismail Sabri Yaakob reminded fifth- and sixth-formers that, for their own safety, they need to maintain social distancing even after school has let out and they are outside school grounds.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Ever since rump got elected, the back of my truck has said, “Got Vaseline?” I finally changed it yesterday. Now it says:

    125,000 dead
    13.3 % UE
    So Much Winning

    I’ll be updating the numbers weekly.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    U.S. cases reported in past 24 hours nearing 40,000. That’s new cases. In one day.

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I was gonna put something along those lines too but decided to leave it at So Much Winning for now. I also finally took down the “Impeach trump” sticker. Trying to decide what to replace it with.

  11. 11.

    Anonymous At Work

    Florida’s daily new case numbers have gotten so bad that officials are canceling daily new case reports and going to weekly.  Like they “adjusted” ICU capacity figures and like they “adjusted” the employment of the data officer in charge of the original COVID dashboard.

    Feeling really helpless with Florida’s off-year state-wide elections.

  12. 12.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, Beijing reported 7 new domestic confirmed, 4 new suspect and 1 new asymptomatic cases. Case reports not yet published. Several of the neighborhoods in Beijing that had been designated at Medium Risk have now been redesigned to Low Risk, due to no new cases in the past 14 days. Lock downs have been lifted from 7 residential compounds in Haidian District, as well as a few more in the past couple of days.

    A couple of days ago, Beijing CDC reported the first instance of fomite transmission that I am aware of. A couple running a stall in a shopping mall in Haidian District were detected as confirmed cases. The contact tracers could not find any link to any known confirmed/suspect/asymptomatic case, nor did they have any direct or indirect connection to Xinfadi. Finally, they learned that the couple had used the public restroom at the basement of the shopping mall, because the ones on the other floors were out of order due to a power outage. A confirmed case had used the same restroom at the same time, and environmental samples taken from the restroom had tested positive. That was the only connection found. Not bullet-proof evidence, perhaps, but certainly worth keeping in mind. A full 1/3 of the confirmed cases from the Xinfadi outbreak have worked or visited the meats and seafood trading hall in the basement of the exchange. Lesson for everyone, do not venture into basements with crowds of people.

    According Beijing Municipal Health Commission, from 6/12 – 6/28, RT-PCR swab samples have been collected from 8.3M individuals, with tests processed for 7.69M people, finding 318 total confirmed cases (plus 26 asymptomatic cases and couple of dozen suspect cases). Beijing now has surge capacity to process 458K RT-PCR tests per day, before sample batching. Before the Xinfadi outbreak, Beijing’s testing capacity was 82K tests per day. The official testing policy is that whoever is deemed at risk of exposure or whose job has high contact rate must be tested, and whoever wants to be tested will be tested.

    The lock down of the Anxin County is quite curious. The county has seen a steady trickle totaling 13 confirmed and asymptomatic cases over the pat 15 days, all directly or indirectly traced to the Xinfadi wholesale produce exchange. There has not been any evidence of tertiary infections. By the National Health Commission’s guidelines, the county could have been locked down days ago. However, Fengtai and Daxing Districts in Beijing, with an order of magnitude more cases, have not ordered district-wide lock downs. Therefore, the new measure at Anxin seems to be an overreaction, unless the local authorities have uncovered a larger, yet to be officially reported, cluster. Anxin County, along with Rongcheng County, make up the new, still being built, Xiongan City that is to be the adjunct capital of China. Its purpose is to relieve the pressure on Beijing, with plans to relocate some of the national level State and Party bureaucracies there, and all of the major universities (of which there are dozens) in Beijing will open sizable satellite campuses. The city is built from ground up, in terms of urban planning and infrastructure, to be a smart city with 5G, autonomous driving, drone delivery taken into account.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Bars and gyms are some of the last establishments to reopen in China. Movie theaters and karaoke are still closed.

  16. 16.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3pm on 29 June 2020, a total of 7,767 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 104 deaths and  7,008 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 42 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 60% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 2,415,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.’

    85 new cases today, 4 removed, for a net increase of 81.  Victoria had 75 new cases. The remaining 10 were in quarantine in two states. I mentioned a few days ago that 260 people had arrived in my state and would undergo 14 days quarantine. 3 of those returnees have tested positive, possibly the first of many.

  17. 17.

    Soprano2

    Missouri S & T at Rolla announced over the weekend that mask wearing on campus will be mandatory for students and instructors. I guess that’s one way to try to have class on campus.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Addendum to my initial post: Beijing Municipal Health Commission has now release the case summaries of the 7 confirmed cases reported yesterday, as well as the 2 cases from 6/27 that had not been published. Of the 9 cases, 8 are vendors and workers at the Xinfadi exchange (or their close contact), having been under self- and centralized quarantine for at east 12 days. The last case has two people in her household being confirmed cases, but it is unclear if and when she has been in quarantine.

    That is 3 consecutive days of almost all confirmed cases being identified from already isolated population.

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    Miss Bianca

    AL, did you see the Detroit Free Press story about how there’s now a big spike in Grosse Pointe (my hometown!) because of that bar in East Lansing? Strange to say, the privileged folk are not happy about it.

  21. 21.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Trapped Lurker: I can’t find a definition of UE that makes any sense in this context. What does it mean? Will people that see your bumper know?

    Glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t figure out what the hell “UE” meant. May we have a clarification please?

  24. 24.

    Trapped Lurker

    @rekoob: thank you. That makes sense, though I wouldn’t have guessed & would have left ozark’s truck still puzzled. Maybe if he used “UE rate” I’d have figured it out….

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