Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

“But what about the lurkers?”

He really is that stupid.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

We still have time to mess this up!

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

The willow is too close to the house.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Eight new cases. Four cases from local infection, two Malaysians and two non-Malaysian immigration detainees. Four cases from imported infection, all Malaysians returning from Singapore (two), Pakistan, and the UK respectively. Cumulative total 8,704 cases.

    Four more patients recovered and were discharged; total 8,515 recovered or 97.8% of the cumulative total. 67 active and contagious cases remain in hospital for isolation/treatment. Of these, three are in ICU and two of them are receiving respiratory assistance.

    One new death, ending Malaysia’s 26-day run without Covid-19 fatalities: a 72-year-old man with co-morbidities diabetes and hypertension. Total 122 deaths. Infection fatality rate 1.40%, case fatality rate 1.41%.

  3. 3.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3pm on 11 July 2020, a total of 9,553 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 107 deaths, and 7,724 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 172 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 early-June 2020. Cases have increased since mid-June however they remain below the March peak of daily cases.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 53% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • The overall proportion of cases under investigation in each state and territory is relatively low, indicating that public health actions, including case identification and contact tracing, is occurring in a timely manner.
    • To date, over 3,021,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.
    • On 3 July, 189 historic cases reported in crew members on board a ship were classified as Australian cases and included in New South Wales totals.’

    Sadly, one new death and 229 new cases today, 35 reclassified, for a net increase of 191. There were 216 new cases in Victoria, which continues to be the only state with community transmission.

  4. 4.

    Brachiator

    The Guardian has a devastating story of how state officials overruled a local agency and contributed to needless death and suffering. The common thread is political stupidity ignoring the science and known risk factors.

    Five residents from Starr county on Texas’s southern border died on a single day last week after contracting Covid-19. New infections in the rural border community of around 65,000 people have soared in recent weeks, and two intubated patients had to be airlifted to Dallas and San Antonio when overwhelmed local hospitals couldn’t care for them.
    Texas has become one of the US’s new coronavirus hotspots, with new confirmed cases surging to around 14% of the country’s total, when measured by a seven-day average. Starr County isn’t even the hardest hit community in the Rio Grande Valley. After a rushed reopening, the state is scrambling to combat the virus by pausing elective surgeries and closing bars, while some officials worry it is too little, too late.
    But Starr county’s public officials knew months ago that is was especially vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic: roughly one in three residents lives in poverty, a sizable slice of the population doesn’t have health insurance, and risk factors such as diabetes and obesity prevail. To protect their constituents, who are more than 96% Hispanic or Latino, they acted fast to curtail the contagion….
    The inflection point came when the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, unilaterally decided to reopen the state, and stripped local governments of their power in the process.

    And the Texas legislature is still looking to find ways to obey and to please Trump, at the expense of its citizens.

    Idiots are resurrecting the nonsense that the US is trying to achieve herd immunity. It is unclear whether this could even happen, and even if it could, it would take years. And the promised vaccine will supposedly be available before the end of the year.  Or the virus will magically disappear in the winter. Or something. The lies and excuses are self-contradictory and endless. Meanwhile, the virus itself just does what every competent health expert said that it would, in a population that tries to ignore it.

  9. 9.

    JWR

    Just wow. As others have already pointed out, it’s a friggin death cult.

    From Politico (Sorry, can’t link), “Trump campaign office shuns masks, social distancing”

    Facing no threat of enforcement, the Trump campaign has continued to make its own rules on coronavirus protections, said the individuals, who requested anonymity to speak freely. For instance, staff have been told to wear masks outside the office, in case they’re spotted by reporters, but they’ve been instructed that it’s acceptable to remove them in the office, the individuals said, adding that staff also publicly joke about the risk of coronavirus and play down the pandemic’s threat.

    “You get made fun of, if you wear a mask,” said one person. “There’s social pressure not to do it.”

    “There’s social pressure not to do it.” These horrible people are the ones who started the culture war BS, and now they, and more importantly We, will live or die with their bad decisions.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    From one of the many Reuters articles linked above:

    In Texas, another hot zone, Governor Greg Abbott warned on Friday he may have to impose new clampdowns if the state cannot stem its record-setting caseloads and hospitalizations through masks and social distancing.

    “If we don’t adopt this best practice it could lead to a shutdown of business,” the Republican governor told local KLBK-TV in Lubbock, adding it was the last thing he wanted.

    I can’t help noticing that the unnecessary deaths of untold numbers of Texans are NOT the last thing Abbot wants.

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    RE: “If we don’t adopt this best practice it could lead to a shutdown of business,” the Republican governor told local KLBK-TV in Lubbock, adding it was the last thing he wanted.

    I can’t help noticing that the unnecessary deaths of untold numbers of Texans are NOT the last thing Abbot wants.

    He is talking to the resistant idiots who are still in denial, or who foolishly believe that the state can simply plow through the virus.

    Also, Texas does not have a state income tax. Sales tax is the largest source of state funding for the state budget, accounting for 57 percent of all tax collections.

    You shut down business and don’t have a federal rescue package, then you are asking for the state to administer the pandemic on fairy dust.

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Brachiator: Also, Texas does not have a state income tax. Sales tax is the largest source of state funding for the state budget,

    Welcome to a plague of unintended consequences. Fuck Republican governance and those who vote for it.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    The pandemic has spurred the biggest-ever drop in greenhouse gas emissions

    Mmmmm this healthier air is nutritious and delicious! ?

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    Horrendous.

    A bus driver who was assaulted in France on Sunday by young men refusing to wear face masks has died, his daughter Marie revealed to AFP.
    [snip]
    Philippe Monguillot, 59, was the victim of an assault “of extreme violence”, said the deputy public prosecutor of Bayonne, Marc Mariée.

    Authorities said the driver wanted to check the ticket of one of the suspects and demanded that three others wear face masks. Wearing a mask on public transport is compulsory in post-lockdown France. Source

  20. 20.

    Anne Laurie

    @JWR: Link is in the last tweet of my post, if anyone’s curious to read the whole story.

    Politico’s clearly given up on Trump, which I suppose is a tiny sliver of silver lining.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    Out: Lil Marco

    In: Sack of shit Marco

    Wow.  Has anyone asked Senator Batboy for his uninformed, jackass opinion?

  22. 22.

    Brachiator

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    RE: Also, Texas does not have a state income tax. Sales tax is the largest source of state funding for the state budget,

    Welcome to a plague of unintended consequences. Fuck Republican governance and those who vote for it.

    Bigger problem than that. No state can endure a long shut down without federal assistance.

     

    @rikyrah:

    Then he better get on the phone to Cruz and Cornyn about a federal aid package.

    Realistic levels of federal aid will not be possible unless the Democrats win in November.

  23. 23.

    TS (the original)

    Really do have doubts about the media when they include a picture from India with a story about Australia.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    From The Guardian’s liveblog:

    Vietnam’s sickest Covid-19 patient returning to UK

    The British pilot who spent two months on life support in Vietnam as the country’s most at-risk Covid-19 patients was in his way home on Saturday, astounding doctors who give him just a 10% chance of survival, AFP reports.

    Stephen Cameron, 42, was the sickest patient medics have had to treat during the coronavirus outbreak in the Communist nation, which has recorded no official deaths following a fast and aggressive response to the pandemic.

    Little more than six weeks ago, they warned that Cameron would need a double transplant for his lungs, which were only functioning at around 10%.

    But after nearly four months in hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, including 10 weeks on a ventilator, the Vietnam Airlines pilot from Motherwell, Scotland was discharged Saturday and was due to fly back to the UK within hours.

    The Vietnamese doctors who saved this man are heroes, and deserve to be recognised as such.

     

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    Glass half full.

    Might as well get some use out of the pandemic. Probably applies more to the wealthy, but still… From BBC News

    A number of cosmetic surgery clinics around the world are reporting a rise in people getting treatment during the coronavirus outbreak as they can hide their treatment behind a mask or work from home.
    Despite the virus shutting businesses across the globe, a number of plastic surgery clinics have remained open, adopting stricter measures such as Covid-19 tests and more frequent cleaning.

    Clinics in the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia have all seen a rise in patients coming in for treatment including lip fillers, botox, face lifts and nose jobs.

    “I decided to get procedures done during quarantine because it allowed me to heal at my own pace,” Aaron Hernandez, who had lip fillers and buccal (cheek) fat removal in Los Angeles, told the BBC.

    “Getting my lips done is not something that all men tend to do, so some people might find it different. Therefore I preferred to stay home and recover fully and people not know what work I had done once I’m out.”

    And if you have to remote work, why not do it in style.

    Barbados is planning to introduce a “12-month Barbados Welcome Stamp” that would allow visitors to stay in the Caribbean country for up to a year and work remotely.

    You can also bring the kids and they can do island style remote learning.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    @JWR:

    If you ran an office in Malaysia like that now, the office would fail a Covid-19 safety inspection and get shut down.

  32. 32.

    Gvg

    @TS (the original):  if you click on the actual article, it’s a collection of one paragraph per country in the “region” which includes both Australia and India and several others.

  33. 33.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, Beijing reported 1 domestic asymptomatic case, no confirmed or suspect cases. No other domestic cases reported elsewhere in China. There are 12 Medium Risk and 1 High Risk sub-districts left in Beijing.

    Beijing Municipal Health Commission has been sharing results of epidemiological investigations into cluster from the Xinfadi outbreak, to educate and warn the public. Today, they described one cluster of 13 cases in a old residential building. Residents used boiler room for hot water, there are public restrooms accessible by both residents and visitors, and residents visited their neighbors without mask. 8 residents were initially infected, who in turn infected 3 family members. 2 visitors who used the public restroom were also infected, likely fomite transmission.

    There were 2 imported confirmed and 3 imported asymptomatic cases:

    Shenyang in Liaoning Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia

    Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese National returning from the Philippines

    Tianjing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese student returning from the US

    Hefei in Anhui Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the UK

    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national arriving on a flight from Brussels, not sure about the origin

    Chinese Customs is now routinely taking samples from containers, outside and inside of packing, as well the surfaces of imported frozen meats. Today, they published that batches of frozen shrimp from Ecuador tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on RT-PCR (not sure it is live virus or viral fragments) both in inside of the container and outside of the packaging. While fomite transmission appears to be rare, no confirmation that cold chain logistics is a vector, it is theoretically feasible. I guess Beijing is aiming for full eradication after each new flare up (as much as can be determined), and is not taking any chances in any potential for import vectors.

  34. 34.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @TS (the original): Well, BBC used a photo of dead bats on sales in wet markets in Indonesia as illustration for bats purportedly on sale in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. The video of Chinese patrons sampling bat soup, which went viral on YouTube, was actually shot on the Pacific island of Palau by Chinese tourists.

  35. 35.

    Kirk Spencer

    @Brachiator: I don’t get this, but then I can math.

    The most optimistic herd immunity threshold I’ve seen (which carried a lot of ifs and maybes but wasn’t ridiculed by others) was 50%. And if you’re going the herd immunity route you’re exceeding hospital space so your projected cfrs are closer to 5% instead of less than 1. So 2.5% of the population dies, minimum, to get herd immunity if it exists for this.

    750,000 dead Texans. They are thinking that’s just ok.

  36. 36.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @Brachiator: Idiots are resurrecting the nonsense that the US is trying to achieve herd immunity. It is unclear whether this could even happen, and even if it could, it would take years.

    Well, it would be a horrible surprise if herd immunity *can’t* be achieved (but as you note, it’s possible – that it *can’t*, I mean); still, “herd immunity” means, at a minimum, 70% of the entire US – 330 million people, 70% = 231 million, which means likely far more than 2.3 million deaths  (since we can’t keep cases from increasing fast enough to avoid flooding hospitals, we can’t hope to get under 1% – and note, we’re already starting far above that!).

    Plus, reports from Sweden are, “wow, more deaths, *and* all the economic pain; and *we* have a strong social safety net, and universal health care! Sucks to be you, USA!” (That last bit is probably said with honest-to-goodness regret/sympathy – once they get over the astonishment of “wow, we were sure that Trump was a moron, but we really thought the USA would realize that before… oh, those poor, sorry bastards.”

    Anyway: at this point, you don’t just have to be a moron to think herd immunity via infection is the answer. You also have to be engaging in the worst crime against intellectual honesty, which is, of course, “wishful thinking”.

    You know, if the Republicans could give a shit when they had diarrhea about America, what they’ve been engaging in for some 5 years now, as they pretended Trump was a reasonable candidate (but come on, do we *really* think they cared enough to allow at least one spasm-y squirt indicate their concerns?).

  37. 37.

    Obdurodon

    @Punchy: I don’t think that will make a difference to the *people* in either set of states, because the money will be siphoned into officials’ pockets anyway.

  38. 38.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @OzarkHillbilly: In point of fact, the pandemic shows a lot of weaknesses in many Republican policies.

    For an obvious example: would you rather live in a “sanctuary city” where someone who’s undocumented can get a positive test, and be safely allowed to quarantine, or in a city where they have to hide from public health officials?

    Or, would you rather have almost everyone have health insurance, so they know how and where to get tested, and treated? Or would you like an extra 20 million uninsured, and “why bother getting tested? we can’t afford to get treated!’

    Or, would you rather believe the government can help; or do you want to follow St Ronnie’s maxim, it’s terrifying to hear “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” when someone is trying to explain public health measures?

    Or, here’s one that should have been obvious: should you bail out businesses, big time, and consumers, just a little, when millions of consumers are losing their jobs, unable to pay rent, unable to pay bills, etc.; or would you rather put the emphasis on consumers (who will support a lot of businesses, duh!), and bail out businesses that well-supported consumers *can’t* help?

    Serious question: is there *any* aspect of Republican thought which has been, in any way, helpful in this situation? (You don’t have to include “a totally lawless – seriously, not even *pretending* any more – President” as part of “this situation”, but *I* would.)

  39. 39.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @Kirk Spencer: For Covid-19, they assume a minimum of 70%, because it is so contagious (or, at least, so invisibly contagious). The easier it is to spread, the more people need to have immunity to cause an outbreak to die out.

    You’re right, the 50% numbers are already horrid, but the worst part is, it (almost certainly) wouldn’t be enough!

  41. 41.

    Ohio Mom

    The ApiJect story made the Cincinnati Enquirer this morning, which I found puzzling. They usually avoid stories that too blatantly show Republican corruption.

    This story is a real head scratcher, at least until we find out there is a big campaign donor involved. Or maybe Trump is revenging some slight from established injection device manufacturers?

    This is an vaccine injection device that is still in development, has not yet been approved, for which there is no production facility and no way to churn out the numbers we will need if/when a vaccine is ready.

    And yet the Trump administration is giving them more money than any of the companies that could roll out all the approved, proven devices we would need for a huge vaccination effort.

    At Ohio Dad’s old job, there was a jerk who spent weeks obsessing loudly on Solendra. I wish I could shout “ApiJect” back at him.

  42. 42.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland has seven new cases confirmed by test over the past 24 hours, no new deaths. We’re down to six people in hospital in intensive care (that probably means patients on a ventilator). If I’m reading the published data right there were about 9,000 tests performed yesterday so the positive detection ratio is less than 0.1%.

     

    Oddly, Scotland’s governmental advice has not been to insist on masks everywhere but they’re now required for people using public transport since last week and visitors to shops from yesterday. The tight lockdown restrictions on pubs, nightclubs, restaurants etc. seems to have been the key factor in driving the infection rate way down from its peak in April.

  43. 43.

    patrick II

    @Kirk Spencer:

    It would be mostly brown people, so it’s ok.  Texas would turn from a purple state to pure red state again. Getting that done before the election will be hard, but they seem up to the task.

  44. 44.

    Hoodie

    @Robert Sneddon: Leave it to the Scots to be sensible about these sorts of things. This is obvious low hanging fruit.  I’ve seen tons of data that indicates that bars and dine-in restaurants are prime venues for transmission.  I still don’t get why we don’t shut down these down completely in the US, and just put the waitstaff and cooks that can’t do curbside on UI and give some sort of bailout to the business owners.  I suspect that would be a lot cheaper than what we’re expending on emergency and intensive medical care, not to mention the lives saved and reducing long term damage to our healthcare system from burn out of doctors, nurses and other professionals.  Makes no sense whatsoever.

  45. 45.

    catclub

    @Brachiator: Realistic levels of federal aid will not be possible unless the Democrats win in November.

     

    unless the Democrats win and have a filibuster proof majority – or horror of horrors – scrap the filibuster.

     

    I am still gob-smacked that the GOP is refusing to do things that would help them in november – keep the economy and the states functioning.

  46. 46.

    JaneE

    If I read those numbers right, we are maybe a week or two away from adding a China’s worth of cases every day in this country.  We are already eclipsing dozens of countries, every day.  And we are still opening up.

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