It was a lousy pitch — heck, it was a wild throw. But #AnthonyFauci tossed the opening ball for the @Nationals v @Yankees game and now a limited edition run of Fauci official baseball cards has sold the largest number in MLB history.https://t.co/JpmdnbGQaH
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2020
80 percent of all Americans report wearing masks constantly, but tell me more about the bubble. https://t.co/Qk2ZJsiHB8
— Alex Hazanov (@alexhazanov) July 27, 2020
2018 – every Republican poses for picture with Maria Butina.
2019 – every Republican poses for picture with Lev Parnas.
2020 – every Republican poses for picture with COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/nBWtun4BYH
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 27, 2020
Kris Kobach closing out this campaign day in Ness City, KS, taking a question from a vaccine skeptic.
"I am 100% against mandatory vaccines," Kobach says, "be it for covid, or the flu, or anything else." #KSSen
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 28, 2020
#Covid19 in the US today
Good: New cases flat as hottest growth states descend (but new ones are ascending); Hospitalizations still <60K
Bad: @HHSGov takeover of the data has left *big* holeshttps://t.co/6gWsoa61gE; Test numbers are decreasing: 930K (peak) on 7/24; 760 K today pic.twitter.com/Jfry1WArbD— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 27, 2020
As public health officials warn the coronavirus poses new risks to parts of the Midwest and South, enhanced federal aid that helped avert financial ruin for millions of unemployed Americans was set to expire — leaving only threadbare state safety nets. https://t.co/lcTgIQHBJO
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 24, 2020
This is appalling. The @WhiteHouse stripped @CDCgov of its data-collection responsibilities for #COVID19. @HHSGov hired a private company to take over. The data is now useless, insane.
Call/write your Congressional Rep & say we need #pandemic truth in America. https://t.co/XI4DTwkZf7— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 27, 2020
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Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus https://t.co/gGkBJp7ojH pic.twitter.com/T33DGHjy4Q
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 28, 2020
World Health Organization says coronavirus is "easily the most severe" global crisis it has faced https://t.co/gQ95nm7Z97
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 27, 2020
Swiss study demonstrates how critical time is when responding to #COVID19. Non-pharmaceutical measures — school closures, strict limits on the number of people allowed to gather, can saves lives https://t.co/8smkOrISpJ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 28, 2020
Schools in Republic of Ireland set to fully reopen before end of August https://t.co/Wxzf0hTOg8
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 27, 2020
Japan stirs controversy with huge COVID aid contract for ad giant Dentsu https://t.co/D2tHX2e7Lx
— Antoni Slodkowski (@slodek) July 28, 2020
Japan government persists with 'Abenomask' giveaway, reignites social media outcry https://t.co/wU6cYIhbNa pic.twitter.com/ThsoEbN9Yq
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 28, 2020
Vietnam locks down Da Nang, its third-largest city, for two weeks after 15 cases of COVID-19 were found in a hospital. https://t.co/WYW6RPJJ4R
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 28, 2020
Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom’s oversight of one of Islam’s key pillars and the safety of visitors in the face of a global pandemic. https://t.co/ZsiQ2g8JlT
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 27, 2020
Millions of young people in the Middle East have had job prospects, plans for education and marriage upended by the pandemic. While such turmoil is universal, the despair is particularly pronounced in the conflict-ridden region. By @zkaram @qabdulzahra https://t.co/BpbtNqzwqo
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 27, 2020
#COVID19 in Africa: Three countries facing the biggest challenges are Nigeria: 40,532 cases w/ 858 deaths; Egypt: 92,062 cases, 4,606 deaths; South Africa: 445,433 cases & 6,796 deaths. Figures from Johns Hopkins University https://t.co/oGXZSzKcLo pic.twitter.com/M7RfzQ3rT6
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2020
'Everybody is scared. The critical-care physician. The guy in the wards. The guy cleaning. Everybody.' Voices from Africa's first COVID-19 hot spot as the continent's confirmed cases approach 1 million. https://t.co/vdUXCU8oRI
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) July 28, 2020
Coronavirus: How it turned the tables on Ghana's diaspora https://t.co/UVfkLu8puj
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 28, 2020
Young adults make up the majority of new #coronavirus cases in Canada. Health authorities estimate that people under age 39 are a clear majority of new cases of #COVID19 & warned young adults they are not "invincible" https://t.co/v9DKVqajIL pic.twitter.com/hgMQzmq1kc
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2020
Millennials and Generation Z are tired of social distancing, and are driving the latest global wave of infection and death https://t.co/CZOYaecNLV
— Bloomberg (@business) July 27, 2020
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This morning’s update to the @nytimes coronavirus vaccine tracker: Moderna and NIH have started a Phase III trial of their mRNA vaccine https://t.co/8RbPgb3aHs
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) July 27, 2020
Experimental #COVID19 vaccine is put to its biggest test. The messenger RNA vax developed by the biotech company Moderna & the Nat'l Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (led by Dr. Tony Fauci) began Phase 3 tests in 30k Americans https://t.co/ew8R7hAOe0 via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2020
Early still but signs are hopeful there will be #Covid19 vaccines. But the evidence so far suggests the vaccines may be "reactogenic" — & people should be prepared for it, experts say. Some vaccines do carry a kick — the shingles vaccine, for instance. https://t.co/AG59z5sPGM
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 27, 2020
If you haven't already, make time for this absolutely fantastic piece about the challenges ahead for a COVID-19 vaccine. Just superb work by my colleague @sarahzhang, who is one of the finest science writers working today.
https://t.co/CSAAyRHk7c— Ed Yong (@edyong209) July 27, 2020
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“We know where [WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat” https://t.co/5qUPWLz3nW
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 27, 2020
Numerous states in southeast, west show 'uncontrolled spread' of #COVID19 https://t.co/5E9dgF1p9B
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2020
Florida had >8k new cases today
California had >7k
Texas had >6k
Three states (GA, TN, LA) had >2k each
Twelve states (AL, AZ, NC, VA, OK, IL, PA, SC, MO, MD, OH, WA) had >1k each pic.twitter.com/ciJhBmn5T2— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 28, 2020
Over a hundred coronavirus cases in Nevada linked to casino https://t.co/PZWwZEQ2iS pic.twitter.com/vNh5RFprCu
— The Hill (@thehill) July 28, 2020
Recklessly as some acted, I don't think you can blame the individuals who went out to bars and indoor restaurants after the opening. Blame the policymakers who lifted bans contrary to all evidence and implicitly told them it was safe irrespective of any other messaging https://t.co/ct07gm6Svr
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 27, 2020
"We're opening bars and restaurants but you shouldn't go" was the dumbest thing ever. If it's not safe close them and if some country-level officials in Orange County complain tell them to eat shit, it's your job https://t.co/F2JDq9wyco
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 27, 2020
Good news / bad news:
News: Sinclair tells me it is totally abandoning the segment pushing a Fauci conspiracy theory. Previously, the company said it would postpone and "rework" the segment. Now a company spox says "upon further review" it has "decided not to air" it at all. https://t.co/wdbeaJpV6G
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 27, 2020
They had already aired it in a couple of markets before they postponed and then canceled it.
— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) July 27, 2020
… So, while Sinclair will not further weaponize this *particular* propagan-doc, it’s been released into the internet wild, where QAnauts and other crazies are no doubt swapping clips back & forth for their own purposes.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers suck. 39 new cases, the most since 15 June. 28 cases from local infection, 22 Malaysians and six non-Malaysians. 21 of these cases are in Sarawak, including nine cases reported in two new clusters. 11 cases from imported infection: four Malaysians returning from South Korea, the US, Sudi Arabia and Ireland; seven non-Malaysians arriving from the UK (two), Russia, South Korea, the US, India and the Philippines. Cumulative total 8,943 cases.
Six more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,607 patients recovered or 96.2% of the cumulative total. The number of active and contagious cases being isolated/treated in hospital has risen to 212; one patient is in ICU and on a respirator.
There have at least been no new deaths today. The total stands at 124 deaths, which is 1.39% of the cumulative total and 1.42% of resolved cases.
JPL
trump is going to demand a baseball card.
Anne, Thank you for the update, but I’m beginning to think the virus will be spinning out of control for a long time.
terben
In Australia today:
400 new cases. This brings the total to 15,304. In Victoria, there were 384 or 96%. 14 cases in NSW.
6 new deaths, all in Victoria. This brings the Australian total to 167, and in Victoria to 83.
The number of tests conducted exceeded 4,000,000 since the start of the epidemic.
beth
The candidate in the Weigel tweet is a medical doctor. Just think about that. Makes me want to cry.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh good lord. And all those stories about huge house parties? People have to protect themselves too.
WereBear
Republicans want more to die “for the economy.”
Came right out and said it about the elderly. Now want to open schools which will kill a certain number of children, teachers, and bus drivers, among others.
Exercising First Amendment right? Looking forward to killing someone for a campaign ad.
Which shows they don’t know anything about how economics works. They really only know criminality.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
SF Bay Area Counties lagged way behind the rest of the state in re-opening and there still was a surge in cases. I will note there is still a constant message from in the media about getting back to normal, this still part of the problem with the pandemic is being treated at a political issue.
OzarkHillbilly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yep. Saying the individuals weren’t responsible for their bad choices because there were idiots telling them it was all OK is a bit too lenient.
Mary G
Orange County’s numbers look better. Still bad, though. This is some hard shit. I do love the Fauci baseball card story, though. Now we know why there were so many batshit hydroxychloroquine tweets today.
NotMax
Tinkering around the edges of an untenable situation.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: They have been mixing messages from the beginning, on purpose. Letting people “choose” what they want to believe.
Baud
@JPL:
Fixed.
Amir Khalid
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
The new During Time normal is not the old Before Time normal. That has to be the message. The virus is still out there and you can’t let your guard down. You can go out and do some stuff when you need to, but take all the precautions.
Mary G
@Baud: Lol!
NotMax
Pish and tosh. It was a textbook flattened curveball.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I have a mental image of der Orange Scheißenfresser in a baseball uniform top ten sizes too small, holding a bat like it’s a golf club.
Mary G
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
Per the 7/24 version of the weekly report, the Tennessee Department of Health said we had 35,157 active cases (89,078 since we started testing), 938 total deaths, and 1,079 currently hospitalized, with 388 of those patients in ICUs and 182 on ventilators. The hospitalization figures are good news, especially since 20 of Tennessee’s 96 counties don’t have a hospital and have to send their cases elsewhere. Of those that do have hospitals, many have under 100 beds. (The report is here: https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/novel-coronavirus/Public-Critical-Indicators-Report.pdf )
We had a visit from Dr. Birx, whose advice to Governor Bill Lee, the HVAC guy, was to close the tourist bars in Nashville—all the bars, in fact. Governor Lee, a handsome but not very bright fellow, is loathe to do so, as he Believes in Small Businesses, and also the bar owners are really agitated about being closed. So are those entrepreneurs in the beloved (by the tourists) business of transportainment, AKA the party tractors, which includes, I shit you not, a hot tub on a trailer pulled by a tractor through downtown Nashville.
Mask wearing is only being pushed in urban areas, and East Tennessee is finding out that the virus is indifferent to the bad roads.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: You and I both heard the same stupid shit and yet somehow or other we’ve made a different choice.
OzarkHillbilly
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:
Copy cats. I was a founding member of the Stewed Krewe and we had a hot tub as the center piece of our float every MardiGras (Soulard, STL) back in the ’90s. Somebody’s always stealing my best ideas.
Punchy
Baseball card? Pfft. I’ll see yer cardboard and raise ya a D-Fowch bobblehead. Ordered in March(!), arrived in early July. The spawn sees it as a good luck/health charm.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
But did it include multiple TVs and wet bars?
;)
raven
@Mary G: My brother in the Valley has it and he’s been pretty careful but he has teen daughters. My cousin in intensive care in Arizona, I don’t know.
Brachiator
The Las Vegas outbreaks suggests that casinos may be a problem because people don’t simply stroll through the area. They sit and play for extended periods of time. I wonder how the air circulates and may contribute to infection.
In California, state officials at least understand that various regions of the state present their own dilemmas. Also, business efforts may not be sufficient to protect workers in agriculture and manufacturing. Worse, workers may go home and take the virus to their families and communities.
A partial breakdown of California from various reports:
Weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom identified Imperial County as the state’s hardest-hit region, he announced at his daily news conference that the state’s Central Valley was the new major area of concern.
While the 14-day average rate of positive tests statewide is 7.5 percent, that rate in the Central Valley ranges between 10.7 and 17.7 percent. Essential workers at farms, manufacturing and prisons there have been hit especially hard.
The governor announced that, much as he did a few weeks ago in hard-hit Imperial County, he was deploying three “strike teams” made up of of HHS, OSHA, state emergency services personnel and local partners to aid the Central Valley….
In the Central Valley here are 8 counties where the is R above 1, meaning that for every person infected, they pass it on to more than one additional person. The state’s top health official, Dr. Mark Ghaly, said the R was as high as 1.4 in some cases.
Some areas seeing 65 percent of their hospital and ICU beds taken up by coronavirus cases, said Dr. Ghaly.
Outside the Central Valley, said the governor, Imperial Valley is making progress, while Los Angeles was still “a disproportionate focus” of state efforts.
Statewide, the 18-49 age group “continues to see a disproportionate rate of growth” and the Latino community continues to be disproportionately impacted said Newsom.
California saw 6,891 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, he reported, for a total of 460,550 confirmed infections. COVID-19 resulted in 29 new deaths on the state for a total of 8,445. The number of COVID-related deaths increased by 0.3 percent from Saturday’s total of 8,416. The numbers were significantly lower in part because of delays caused by a new reporting process.
The number of COVID-19 diagnostic test results in California reached a total of 7,296,578 an increase of 128,439 tests since Saturday. The rate of positive tests over the last 14 days is 7.5 percent. That number has been “holding strong,” according to Newsom….
Hospitalizations increased by 29, or .3 percent. The number of new ICU patients in the state rose by 19, filling a total of 2,012 of the state’s ICU beds. After bottoming out at 28 percent of the state’s intensive care beds, the percentage of those beds occupied by coronavirus patients has risen over the past seven days to 28.8 percent. The governor says those rates of increase are “more modest” than they had been a few weeks ago.
About 7,000 Californians are now in hospital beds with COVID-19. That’s more than during the March-April spring surge, according to the California Hospital Association.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 64 new domestic confirmed cases and 28 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Urumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 57 new confirmed cases (18 are previously asymptomatic, already under quarantine), and 11 new asymptomatic cases. Changji Prefecture in Xinjiang reported 2 new asymptomatic cases, both imports from Urumqi. 3 case in critical condition, and 13 in serious condition, 1 critical case has stabilized to serious condition, and 4 serious case has stabilized to moderate condition. The Urumqi outbreak so far has 235 confirmed cases (233 in Urumqi, 1 each at Kashgar and Xinjiang Construction Corps), and 165 asymptomatic cases (162 in Urumqi, 2 in Changji Prefecture, 1 in Xinjiang Construction Corps), plus 1 asymptomatic case exported to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. There are 8809 close contacts under quarantine and medical observation.
Dalian in Liaoning Province reported 6 new confirmed cases and 12 new asymptomatic cases. Of the 6 confirmed cases 2 are workers at the import seafood processing plant or their immediate families, 2 are their close contacts, and 2 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, where the plant is sited. All confirmed cases were previously identified as asymptomatic. The outbreak there has a total of 44 confirmed cases (32 are workers of the import seafood processing plant or close relatives, 4 are their close contacts, 8 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district) and 38 asymptomatic cases in Dalian, plus 4 confirmed and 9 asymptomatic cases exported to the rest of China.
2.96M individuals in Dalian have already been tested since the start of the outbreak on 7/21.
Baicheng in Jilin Province reported a new confirmed cases, imported from Dalian, a worker at the import seafood processing plant at Dalian. Beijing Municipality added a confirmed case, imported from Dalian, a close contact of a confirmed case in Dalian. Suihua in Heilongjiang Province added 2 asymptomatic cases, a couple living together, the wife has recently traveled/lived in Dalian.
The Xinfadi outbreak in Beijing still has 25 confirmed cases (out of 355 total) under treatment in hospital, and 4 asymptomatic case under quarantine. There has been no fatalities.
Yesterday, China reported 4 new imported confirmed cases, 6 imported asymptomatic case:
Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, Chinese nationals returning from Singapore and Ethiopia, respectively
Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 confirmed case. Chinese national returning from Bangladesh
Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals. 2 from Bangladesh, 1 from the UK, and 1 from Singapore
Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
Today, Hong Kong reported 106 new cases, 98 from local transmission, 50 of whom do not have clear sources of transmission. There are at least an additional 85 cases who are preliminarily positive, awaiting confirmation. The Hong Kong SAR government has official requested assistance from Beijing central government to increase testing capacity and constructing makeshift hospitals to house mild and moderate cases.
Ken
I’m wondering how things will change in January (assuming as always that Biden wins). He can do a lot for PPE and other supplies, I understand, and hopefully we’ll get proper data and guidance from the CDC again. But will enough people listen and follow the guidelines?
Say for example he announced in January “We’re doing it right this time, eight weeks of lockdown in all states to get the virus under control.” Is there any way to make that stick? Is there anything that can be done when (as I fully expect) a dozen red-state governors say that they’re not going to comply?
There go two miscreants
If Jake Tapper had an ounce of self-respect, he’d say: “Larry, you’ve had a long career, and you’ve been wrong about everything. You’ve been **spectactularly** wrong during the pandemic. Why should anyone pay attention to you now?”
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@OzarkHillbilly: You should check in and demand your cut, as a royalty.
As a parade float for Carnival, I can see the charm, although it seems risky for St. Louis that time of year…but as an addition to downtown Nashville traffic, it’s not ideal.
Kay
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:
I don’t go to bars, well, not often, so I don’t miss going to them but thru this whole thing there’s been a lack of coherence on what we’re ordering or asking people to do. One of the complaints I hear frequently is this “I have to go to work – that’s ‘safe’- but I’m not allowed to do anything else I enjoy”.
And that’s true. We’re telling people who are 18 inches away from others in workplaces all day (or night) that this risk is acceptable but what they enjoy, in their off time, is not. Now maybe that’s the message- economic activity is essential (if they want to eat and pay rent) but leisure activity is not but that’s not THAT different a message than “we have to keep the bars open because of small business”.
Chief Oshkosh
Is it wrong to hope that Kobach gets the ‘rona and dies a horrific death on live TV?
Brachiator
It’s still only July, but Universal Studios and Universal Orlando have announced that their Halloween special activities have been cancelled.
I suspect that kids will not be out going “trick or treat” at all this year.
Probably no Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Kay
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:
Maybe they love their work, or like it, but they could also just work so they can eat, pay rent, and do the things they enjoy when they’re not working. They’re required to do the whole working part, risk or no risk, but they’re not allowed to do any of the leisure activities they enjoy – unless they happen to enjoy solitary leisure activities or outdoor exercise. I just think it’s difficult to tell someone who just spent 8 hours picking and packing in an Amazon warehouse that they must do that, but they can’t do anything they enjoy when they’re not picking and packing. This is a hard sell and it puts economic activity ahead of all other activity, just slightly differently.
JPL
@Punchy: I’d consider buying pissy pants’ punching bag.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland’s First Minister is giving a briefing at the moment (12:30 p.m. local time) — no new deaths and four new cases confirmed, a testing positivity rate of 0.1%. Tuesday’s figures are more reliable than the Sunday and Monday numbers which are usually lower than reality since health centre office staffing at the weekends is reduced. It looks like the Lanarkshire call centre cluster breakout from last week has been contained. There are still about 260 people in hospital confirmed to have COVID-19 and of those, 2 remain on ventilation.
Schools are probably going to be given the green light on Thursday to reopen starting from the middle of August. Again there are caveats, if things go bad this decision will be revisited and if necessary reversed.
The Nippy Sweetie is going to be under the hammer today during questions over care home deaths due to COVID-19 (estimates are that over half the recorded deaths due to COVID-19 in Scotland occurred in institutional care homes). Basically it looks like care home monitoring by the government fell apart in the spring as care workers got sick and spread the disease between multiple care homes — care homes rely on minimum-wage zero-hours contract staff who often move around to work at several locations in a given area. Being on zero-hours contract they’d be reluctant to take days off since there’s usually no sick pay. This was something which, looking back on it was a series of superspreader events waiting to happen.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: We only had one bar (it was very wet) and it only had 3 drinks: Hurricanes, cold beer, and not quite as cold beer. It also had bikini clad young ladies.
Robert Sneddon
@OzarkHillbilly: I am reminded of the disaster-movie spoof, “The Big Bus” which had, if I remember correctly, a bowling alley on the roof of the nuclear-powered transcontinental bus along with a swimming pool.
yellowdog
@Chief Oshkosh: No
OzarkHillbilly
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:
Actually, it was great. Everybody in the crowd bundled up against the 30-40 degree temps and there I am in a hot tub (as the creator and maintainer I was the “Tub Master”) in shorts and no shirt with as noted above several bikini clad young ladies. A couple times the cry of “REPEL ALL BOARDERS!!!” was heard and it was all hands on deck.
Good times, good times, I was a lot younger then.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chief Oshkosh: I’d watch that.
dnfree
Interesting note about reactions to the potential vaccine. When I had the newer shingles shot (which is two doses), with the first one I just had a very achy and hot area where the shot was given. But the second shot laid me out for three days in bed, fever, chills, etc. I was completely unprepared for that. So I looked it up and found it wasn’t an uncommon response. People should be warned if that’s the case, and it will definitely make people less willing to have the vaccination if that’s true. Word will get around.
Percysowner
@dnfree: Although I didn’t have the reaction you did the shingles vaccine left my arm hurting for weeks, but it’s better than getting shingles.
I had a televisit with my doctor last week and he said he thought things were cooling down enough that I could get my colonoscopy, but to play it by ear. Now Ohio is climbing in cases, so I think I’ll put it off a little longer.
mrmoshpotato
Owning the libs by getting sick (and possibly dying) of preventable diseases!
I’ll never understand why these idiots seem to love killing their own voter base.
Sloegin
Ug, looks like a big HCQ blow-up from the president last night and today – all because President big-baby is in a snit about Fauci’s opening day pitch.
Robert Sneddon
@dnfree: The shingles vaccination isn’t anything like a coronavirus vaccination. The major trials for COVID-19 vaccines that are running at the moment aren’t reporting serious adverse effects, other than one vaccine trial where a large-dose injection caused noticeable pain and swelling in a minority of recipients. The following trial stage of that particular vaccine has removed the large-dose variant as it doesn’t seem to be significantly more beneficial in terms of perceived immunity than the moderate-dose vaccination.
Don’t worry, there will be plenty of scare stories to go around when the first of the current vaccine candidates are approved for general use.
piratedan
one item that I am surprised that hasn’t come into the limelight is that if COVID is a real threat for indoor transmission, is anyone working on updating our building air conditioning to filter for this and trap it?
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@mrmoshpotato: Ah, the irony of some fool dying of a “hoax”.
Is there any more popcorn, please?