Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

White supremacy is terrorism.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

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

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Wednesday-Thursday, July 1-2

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I’d like to hope these kids were pranking the city counciler/reporters, but then again…

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  1. 1.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Trump is like a fireman who arrives at a home on fire, he does nothing insisting that the fire will go out.  He’s right, ONCE THE WHOLE FUCKING HOUSE BURNS DOWN.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    The OC has had an explosion of cases and hospitalizations. Doubled in about two weeks. They managed to greatly increase testing, which is good, but the positive rate today was 10.4%, which is double the state & county average from last week. Hospitalizations up 9% in three days, and ICU beds free down to 38%. Not good at all. Will keep staying home (coming up on four months now). I am so privileged to be able to do it, but even as a massive hermit it’s getting old.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    Tuscaloosa students diagnosed with COVID-19 have been attending parties as part of a disturbing contest to see who can catch the virus first, a city council member says.

    Now Playing: The Who – The Kids Are Fucking Morons!

  4. 4.

    Aleta

    Vaughn Hillyard @VaughnHillyard

    Arizona just reported *4,878* new COVID cases in the last 24 hours–a staggering record. Arizona just reported *88* newly-reported COVID deaths–another staggering record. Arizona just reported the percent positive rate of tests today was *28.3%* — this is…a numbing number.

    Why is this 28.3% positive number so numbing? More than 1 out of 4 tests coming back positive. (Was ~6% in early May) Indicates coming spike in hospitalizations & more widespread exposure. Hard to compare this to NY’s height because there was such targeted testing early on.

    Vice President Pence just landed into Arizona. Take this all into account:

    Just last week, thousands of Trump supporters congregated–almost none wearing a masks–just down the road. For the first time, this Sunday, in response to @albamonica , the @VP said: “Wear a mask.”

    Two weeks ago as Arizona cases surged, @VP Pence told Americans: “The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach has been a success. We’ve slowed the spread…that’s a cause for celebration, not the media’s fear mongering.

    Ystdy, @VP Pence said at a time in which AZ does not have the testing or contract tracing to meet the need, “We’re ready & we’re more prepared than ever before.” “We’re going to make sure that we expand testing…identify people in communities that have contracted the disease.”

    Yesterday, @VP Pence seemed to push back against the connection between the rise in cases & the re-opening of states like Florida, Texas & Arizona. But the percent positive rates align with the expiration of those states’ stay-at-home orders.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Three new cases: two from local infection, both non-Malaysians; one imported case, a Malaysian returning from Singapore. Cumulative total 8,643 cases. (The Ministry of Health’s dashboard at the link has an error: it lists both local infection cases as Malaysians, whereas the Ministry’s Twitter feed — in Bahasa Malaysia, not English — says they are both non-Malaysian.)

    We still have some way to go before Malaysia reaches zero new cases daily, but we’re consistently in the low single digits now and it feels like the zero-cases goal is within reach.

    62 more patients recovered and were discharged; total 8,437 recovered, or 97.6% of the cumulative total. The number of active and contagious cases has fallen to two digits for the first time: 85, all of them being isolated/treated in hospital. Two are in ICU, both of them on ventilators.

    It has been 18 days since the most recent Covid-19 death in Malaysia was reported. Total deaths remain at 121; infection fatality rate is at 1.40%, case fatality rate is 1.41%.

    The reports from America are frightening. Especially that one about the college kids.

  7. 7.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3pm on 2 July 2020, a total of 8,001 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 104 deaths and 7,090 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 63 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Following the peak of cases at the end of March, there have been a relatively low number of new cases reported daily between mid-April and mid-June 2020. Cases have increased since late June, however, they remain below the March peak.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 59% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 2,563,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.’

    86 new cases today, 5 reclassified, for a net increase of 81. Most cases are in Victoria (+77/-5)

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Aleta:

    For the first time, this Sunday, in response to
    @albamonica , the @VP said: “Wear a mask.”

    “Oh look at how the fire’s grown!  Let’s do something about the raging inferno now.”

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Aleta: Donnie Dumbfuck and Mike Dense: Why’s it not going out – we gave you a Super Soaker?  Should we water bomb your house? (Notre Dame)

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    Amir Khalid

    The Deep Knowledge Group’s safety ranking of Asia-Pacific countries is dated a month ago — June 4. I’d have expected Nikkei to report a more recent ranking.

  12. 12.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, Beijing reported 1 new domestic confirmed and 2 new asymptomatic cases. The confirmed case is a worker at Xinfadi,  therefore likely have been under centralized quarantine since 6/16 at the latest.

    The case from 6/30 (that had underwent a 14 day self-quarantine after visiting the Xinfadi market, developed symptoms on 6/21, and then proceeded to join several parties and outings after quarantine ended on 6/25) turns out to be a construction worker. If construction workers at Wuhan, Shenzhen and Shanghai are any indication, he and his coworkers most likely did not wear masks regularly. Expect more cases from a cluster this case has seeded.

    Wuhan’s education department has announced the plan to return to in-class instruction. Graduating classes of lower and upper middle schools (grades 9 and 12, respectively) have already returned to the classroom weeks ago. Grades 10 & 11 will return on Jul. 10, and summer recess starts from Jul. 31; grades 7 & 8 return on Aug. 10, summer recess starting from Aug. 30. Kindergarten and elementary schools will remain on remote learning, with summer recess starting from Jul. 5. So, it resumption of in-person instruction will be staggered for lower and upper middle schools as well as K-6, as will summer recesses (and start of Fall semester?). Given that semester finals are cancelled, not sure what is the point of calling the students back to the classroom for 3 weeks.

    Universities will resume in-person instruction in the Fall semester, usually in mid to late-Aug. Hopefully, there will not be a second wave in the Autumn. Crowded campuses, with dorm rooms packed like sardines, shared showers and restrooms, and young inflected undergrads asymptomatic or with very mild symptoms, is a recipe for a firestorm of super spreading events. They will then infect the teaching, admin and custodial staff, as well as the larger community… Returning students and staff will certainly be screened 100%, I would not be surprised if the students and staff are re-screened every other week, using sample pooling.  Wuhan’s university student population is 1M+!

  13. 13.

    Gvg

    Those college kids sound like they don’t want to go to class….I would start expelling some as examples. Endangering others.
    Also do a mental health check. Suicidal is actually a possibility. Probably just stupid, but maybe not. Still endangering others. Colleges don’t like to expel students but they also want to reopen, and this makes it impossible.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @Gvg:

    The ringleaders organising the coronavirus parties definitely need to be identified and expelled.

  16. 16.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Amir Khalid: Yeah, trust Nikkei to rank Japan so high. Why is Taiwan so low? If it is being penalized for low testing rate, then that applies to Japan, too. Are they saying that they do not believe Taiwan (and Vietnam) have the capacity to contain a large scale outbreak (like South Korea capably demonstrated)? Probably true for Vietnam, not implausible for Taiwan. Although Taiwanese health care system is excellent, and epidemic control is quite competent, containing a sizable community outbreak would require an all of government and all of society response, at a higher level than has been necessary to date. If epidemic response becomes politicized (just about every public policy debate has become deeply politicized and polarizing over the past 8 eight years in Taiwan) as government and society is stressed, then the effectiveness of response could be affected. Then again, that applies to Japan, too. Government response to the Diamond Princess situation, and the Fukushima accident before, do not inspire that much confidence. I am still mystified how Japan has so far avoided major outbreaks, despite a response not that much more energetic than Sweden’s. Is it really in the masking rate, and lack of nursing homes? Japan probably does contact tracing much better than Sweden, though.

  18. 18.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Amir Khalid: The Nikkei ranking also overestimated India. In spite of the seemingly draconian lock down (and a relatively early one at that), Rt never appeared to dip below 1. India’s curve has been a relatively slow but clearly exponentially growing one. And now India has relaxed social distancing measures…

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    @Aleta:

    Two weeks ago as Arizona cases surged, @VP Pence told Americans: “The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach has been a success. We’ve slowed the spread…that’s a cause for celebration, not the media’s fear mongering.

    Pence is an idiot. And blaming the media is a tiresome distraction.

  20. 20.

    Barbara

    I don’t understand what Trump or Pence get out of denying reality.  Not at this point.

  21. 21.

    Skepticat

    My U.S. driver’s license expires in three weeks, but because we olds have to have an eye test, I can’t renew online. There are some family issues about property in the States that are percolating fast and need to be dealt with. I’m waaay over the time allotted by immigration, but they no longer are allowing extensions. A longtime, cherished friend died without my being able to be there to help with her hospice care. It’s much too hot here for an elderly Yankee with fibromyalgia exacerbated by heat, and we won’t have power for months. I fear that if I do leave, they won’t let me back in. So, I’m in a safe bubble here on a tiny island in the Bahamas (and will be avoiding like—you’ll pardon the expression—the plague the influx of people from Floriduh coming in for the holiday weekend) and can work online, so I guess the choice isn’t that difficult. I simply cannot believe what a fustercluck the States have created.

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    Won’t it disappear when everyone is dead?

    Oh wait, no it won’t. Only the victims will.

  23. 23.

    Royston Vasey

    New Zealand

    +2 new cases (1x NZer returning from California, 1 from Kenya)
    -6 cases recovered
    =18 Active Cases (1 stable in hospital, Auckland)
    0 new deaths (22 total)

    1180- confirmed cases total
    350 – probable cases total
    1530 – combined total

    The Health Minister resigned from Government.

     

    RV in NZ

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