Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

Let there be snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

No one could have predicted…

The words do not have to be perfect.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  2. 2.

    WereBear

    But that seemed impossible for the interviewers to process: each time they would come back with, “Yes, but how should we make the tradeoff between the economy and fighting the pandemic?” 2/

    I noticed that during the daily Cuomo briefings: journalists knew at least as much as I did: we were listening to the same briefings. Yet over and over, they would ask the same question, even though they always got the same answer.

    Trained NOT to think? What do they think their job actually IS?

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WereBear: And Cuomo would slap them with “Very bad.  Not death.”

    Boneheads.

     

    Does the site not remember your name either?

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 57 new domestic confirmed cases and 51 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Urumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 40 new confirmed cases (15 are previously asymptomatic, already under quarantine), and 37 new asymptomatic cases. The 12th Division of the Xinjiang Construction Corps reported a new asymptomatic case. 4 cases in critical condition, and 14 in serious condition, 1 serious case has stabilized to moderate condition. The Urumqi outbreak so far has 178 confirmed cases (176 in Urumqi, 1 each at Kashgar and Xinjiang Construction Corps), and 170 asymptomatic cases (169 in Urumqi, 1 in Xinjiang Construction Corps), plus 1 asymptomatic case exported to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. There are 8795 close contacts under quarantine and medical observation.

    Dalian in Liaoning Province reported 14 new confirmed cases and 12 new asymptomatic cases. Of the 14 confirmed cases 8 are workers at the import seafood processing plant or their immediate families, 2 are their close contacts, and 4 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, where the plant is sited.All were previously identified as asymptomatic. 1 case went straight from asymptomatic to serious, might have been life threatening if not already under quarantine and medical observation. The outbreak there has a total of 38 confirmed cases and 32 asymptomatic cases in Dalian, plus 3 confirmed and 6 asymptomatic cases exported to the rest of China. A cordon sanitaire is established around the Dalian Bay sub-district that is the epicenter of the outbreak. All public transportation, taxi and ride share service have been halted. Trucks entering and exiting the zone need special permits.

    The city of Dalian will test all 6M residents in the coming week, at a pace of 1M individuals per day, presumably with batching. 1.6M individuals have already been swabbed. It is a curious decision. The Dalian outbreak appears to be strongly clustered around the import seafood processing plant, and their family members and close contacts. Mass screening of the at risk communities is already complete, not sure screening of the whole city is needed. I suppose with batch testing such mass blitzes are feasible and relatively affordable. The main challenge is in collecting the swab samples, and make sure the medical personnel collecting the swabs are well trained and focused enough to consistently follow correct procedures, and minimize false negatives. If there is one thing the CCP regime and regional/local bureaucracy is good at, it is mass mobilization and organization. All employees at the import seafood processing plant, as well as their close contacts, currently under quarantine, will have serological antibody test and RT-PCR tests every 3 days before they are released fro quarantine.

    Siping in Jilin Province reported 2 new confirmed cases, both imports from Dalian and were previously identified as asymptomatic. Both were workers at the import seafood processing plant at Dalian. The city also added an asymptomatic case yesterday, also imported from Dalian.

    Yesterday, China reported 4 new imported confirmed cases, 1 imported asymptomatic case, and 2 imported suspect cases:

    Hohhot in Inner Mongolia: 2 confirmed cases, case information not published

    Xiamen in Fujian Province: 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the Netherlands, formerly identified as asymptomatic

    Chengdu in Sichuan Province: 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Egypt; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore

    Today, Hong Kong reported 145 new cases, 142 from local transmission. Hong Kong authorities issued mandate to wear masks in public areas, prohibition of dining in at restaurants, and even outdoor dining is limited to parties of 2. Gyms and public swimming pools are closed, as well.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers are back — today, at least — to where they were before last week’s spike. Seven new cases. Three cases from local infection, all Malaysians detected in pre-op screenings. Four imported cases, three Malaysians returning from Australia, Russia, and Pakistan, and one non-Malaysian arriving from Indonesia.  Cumulative total 8,904 cases.

    One more patient recovered and was discharged, total 8,601 recovered, or 96.8% of the cumulative total. Active cases in hospital for isolation/treatment rose to 179. Fortunately, no one is in ICU.

    No new deaths. Total stands at 124 deaths, 1.39% of the cumulative total and 1.42% of resolved cases.

    In earlier news, Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaacob said quarantined persons who break quarantine, or who miss their 13th-day test, will be arrested and taken to court(and then tested, presumably). Ismail Sabri also said that the minister’s meeting this morning decided that stricter movement controls will be reimposed if the daily new cases number spikes to three digits. In addition, he reminded Muslims conducting ritual animal sacrifices for Eid al-Adha this week to observe the required Covid-19 SOPs, as well as to mask up and maintain social distancing if they were visiting friends and family, (The Health Ministry is still discouraging such visiting.)

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Clearly, those reporters Krugman spoke to were assigned to get a story on the TRADEOFF between reviving the economy and fighting the pandemic. When he said there was no tradeoff, that fighting the pandemic had to come first, their minds all went like DOES NOT COMPUTE and they persisted in asking about the TRADEOFF. Sad.

  9. 9.

    terben

    From the Australian dept of Health:

    As at 3pm on 27 July 2020, a total of 14,935 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 161 deaths and  9,311 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria. (532 cases today)
    • COVID-19 cases were reported across all ages.
      • The median age of all cases is 39 years (range: 0 to 103 years).
      • The median age of deaths is 82 years (range: 42 to 103 years).
    • There is a relatively equal ratio of male-to-female cases across most age groups.
    • 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.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 35% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 3,987,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted <0.4% have been positive.

    New cases today 549, reclassified 17, net increase 532. All new cases were in Victoria (532) or NSW (17)

    New deaths today 6, all in Victoria which has had 77 of Australia’s 161 fatalities. The virus has got into multiple aged care facilities in Victoria, so more deaths are expected.

    Shorter Krugman: Fuck the economy, we have a pandemic on our hands.

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    RSA

    “In the race to recover, Europe extends its lead over the U.S. and U.K…”

    Business reporting sometimes seems to adopt a weirdly inappropriate perspective. With millions of lives at stake, it’s still a race between economic areas of the world?

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    @RSA: As Amir pointed out, their assignments are framed for them. They aren’t investigating. They are poking with a stick until the right “answer” is spit out.

  12. 12.

    ExpatDanBKK

    Stuff just got real for us in Thailand. My customer in Japan needs me to go to their Tokyo factory. OK, can do, even with a 2 week quartinine. They’ll pay, and we seriously need the money (no income since December). BUT. As it stands now I can’t return to Thailand. The country is closed for anyone except Thai nationals and diplomats. I’m neither. So that means that I have no place to stay (OK, hotel in Tokyo but that would be spendy), and who knows when I can get back to my home of 24 years and to my wife. That’s tearing me up. What to do? Well, I know. I just don’t like the answer…

  13. 13.

    mardam

    Well, now that Larry Kudlow has said the economy is getting better I absolutely know the worst is yet to come.

  15. 15.

    ExpatDanBKK

    @Amir Khalid: Nope, not at the present and since mid-March. I only am able to get one year visas, despite living here over 20 years (and needing to keep $13k parked in a very low interest account to get that). No permanent residency available either because I just live here because of wife’s work (I can live anywhere). I’ve no work permit and you need that for 3 years to qualify for PR. My customers are scattered all over Austral-Asia, but none in Thailand…

  16. 16.

    Chris Johnson

    @rikyrah: Rikyrah, can we do a gofundme or something for an air conditioner for you? I heard about yours dying and my first thought was, ‘I have a old small AC going unused, where are you? I’ll bring it’. And then I thought, yikes, road trip, for that, right NOW? So maybe we can do something else :)

  18. 18.

    ExpatDanBKK

    @daveNYC: Nope, no non-Thais except diplomats and certain very limited scope of work permit holders. And only 400 Thai people/day at that. This is an interesting video, about flying into Thailand right now. Only applies to Thai people though. https://youtu.be/xiMysGHKe9U

  19. 19.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @ExpatDanBKK: So sorry to hear your predicament! China has the same policy – all existing visas are suspended. Business executives need to apply for new special visas to reenter the country, and Americans appear to be at the back end of the line, for a variety of reasons. My nightmare scenario is if something happens to my parents in the US. They do not have family or close friends where they live. Do I leave for the US to take care of them, and risk not being able to reunite with my wife and daughter in China for an indeterminate amount of time, or do I stay with my wife and daughter and not be able to stand by my parents?

    My 1 year residence permit in China also runs out at the end of the year. With the way Sino-US relations are heading, my second nightmare scenario is if I cannot get the residence permit renewed…

  20. 20.

    Skepticat

    I’m trying to reason with hurricane season, as Mother Nature may have noticed she accidentally left a few places standing on this cay after Dorian. The spaghetti models make it look as though we’re going to get hit at the end of the week. I still don’t have everything under cover and need to tarp the cistern, for which I need help, but if we’re going to get hit, I’ll return to the States and another island, this one in Maine. However, I have to drive (with three cats), and now the friends in Virginia with whom I usually break up the trip have said they prefer I not stop, as I’ll have been in Florida for about half a day. One part of me is pleased they’re being very careful, but besides the fact I’ll miss spending time with them, selfishly I’m bummed by the inconvenience. I’ll arrive in a private plane from a country with only a few cases, see one customs agent, pick up my car from friends with weeks of negative tests, and start driving. I’d hoped to avoid hotels, not least because wrangling the cats is sure a chore, but it’s only a nuisance. The days when I’d drive straight through from Palm Beach to north of Boston are long gone. Well, off to batten down …

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    ExpatDanBKK

    @YY_Sima Qian: It’s all frightening to be honest. Horrible decisions to be made.

    BTW, I didn’t know about China cancelling visas. I have a 10 year one.

  22. 22.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @ExpatDanBKK: Yeah. I would not be so anxious if I do not hold a US passport. (Brazilian or Indian passport may put me in a similar bind in China.

    That 10 year multi-entry visa is suspended. No idea if it will be recognized again when the pandemic ends. The fact that the US has been cancelling 10 year multi-entry visa to some Chinese visitors before COVID-19 is just more frost on the ice (if you are American).

  24. 24.

    ExpatDanBKK

    @YY_Sima Qian: Yeah, American. I just haven’t lived there for most of my adult life. I’ve instead lived in Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand. Mostly working for very big manufacturers, until I started my biz supporting said manufacturing.

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    Kristine

    Did anyone else try to read this comment string on iPhone/latest version of OS Safari and have the screen blackout b/c “a problem was encountered?” This has happened a couple of times over the last week. I open the comments view. Comments, additional Twitter photos etc scroll out and fill in. The screen goes white. Everything tries to fill in again. Then crash.

    I’m noticing issues with safari on my laptop, too–hitches in the reload, twitter-embedded photos appearing in comments view but not the front page. If the problem goes away with a different browser, I can always use that one for BJ. But this has only started happening recently.

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    https://wtop.com/dc/2020/07/bowser-orders-self-quarantine-for-travelers-to-dc-from-27-states/

    D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is ordering travelers into Washington from over half the country to self-quarantine due to a widespread escalation in new coronavirus cases.

    Beginning Monday, anyone visiting or returning to the District for non-essential activities from 27 high-risk states will need to isolate themselves and self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days.

    As of July 27, the states included in D.C.’s self-quarantine order are:

    Arkansas Arizona Alabama California Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Iowa Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota
    Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Washington Wisconsin

    People coming into the District for essential purposes are not required to self-quarantine on their arrival. Instead, D.C. health officials advise those visitors to monitor for symptoms and seek medical attention or testing if they start to feel ill.

    Travel to and from Maryland and Virginia is exempt from Bowser’s new order. The list is valid until Aug. 10, when local officials will reevaluate and post an updated list on the D.C. health department’s coronavirus portal.

    […]

    DC is a special case because so many federal government employees are “essential”. MD and VA have to be exempt because so much of the federal workforce lives there. But this will kill (what remains of) DC tourism which is also a huge part of the economy.

    It has to be done, of course. I’m sure other areas with sensible leadership will follow with similar rules soon.

    A reminder from yesterday – we could defeat COVID-19 in 8 weeks if we would do what is necessary (thread):

    COVID Update July 26: We can virtually eliminate the virus any time we decide to. 1/

    — Andy Slavitt @ ? (@ASlavitt) July 26, 2020

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  30. 30.

    Another Scott

    @DanBKK, @YY, @skepticat – So much stress!  :-(  And it’s all so unnecessary.  :-(

    I feel for you.  Fingers crossed that the stars align so that the worry about the worst eases soon.

    Hang in there.  Keep us updated.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  32. 32.

    StringOnAStick

    This past weekend I talked with a friend for the first time since April(she’s been working her butt off on her job’s Covid task force).  Back in early February a co-worker treated himself to a trip to Austria for his birthday and obviously caught it in the earliest wave.  Now a guy who was a serious aerobic athlete and competitive in his age group has lungs full of blood clots and only now can barely climb two flights of stairs. The stats list him as “recovered” though.

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah:  You can’t even go hang out at the library for air conditioning, because surely that’s not safe.  I assume you know the bandanna dipped in cool water trick for the back of your necK/

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Kristine:  Wondering whether you use an ad blocker.

    The site is definitely having issues.  I have asked John to have the ad guy turn off the banner ad for a couple of days in order to either implicate the banner ad as a cause/contributor to the problem – or to eliminate that as a possible cause/contributor.

    Hopefully that will happen today or tomorrow.  Either way, we’ll know more once that change occurs.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @ExpatDanBKK:  Keep us updated if the worst case scenario happens. I know a few people in Japan who might be able to help with temporary housing. No guarantees but there are a few peeps who might be able to help you.

  39. 39.

    FlyingToaster

    @Kristine: I know that for about 3 hours yesterday I could not read Twitter.com in any browser on an Apple device (Mac: Chrome, Firefox, Safari; iPad: Chrome, Safari).  No problem using Tweetbot (app: Mac, iPhone, iPad), but the Twitter website was not cooperating.

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