Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

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

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

How stupid are these people?

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

We will not go back.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

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

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    Never thought that I would see the day when the American passport would mean absolutely nothing. That countries would look at it and go.

     

    “Nah….You can’t come here.”

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    As far as a vaccine goes…let all the red states take it first .

     

    Let the MAGA crowd be first in line ….and , I will see you three, four months later??

  5. 5.

    James E Powell

    @rikyrah:

    There are several categories of people who are just not going to go along with any effort to fight this COVID-19 pandemic. The angry refusal to do so has become part of their identity. We’ve seen a few of these people express regrets from their hospital beds, but most behave as if their anger and resentment provide immunity.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Countries with cumulative total number of cases officially reported over 500,000 as of this hour:

    U.S. – 4,959,478
    Brazil – 2,917,562
    India – 2,027,074
    Russia – 877,135
    South Africa – 538,184

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers are climbing. 25 new cases. 16 cases from local infection, all but one Malaysians. 12 of these cases are from the new “Sivagangga” cluster in Kedah: 10 in Perlis, one in Penang state, one in Kedah itself. Nine imported cases: eight Malaysians, returning from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Australia, the Philippines (four), and Yemen; one non-Malaysian, arriving from Djibouti, east Africa. Cumulative reported total 9,063 cases.

    The Ministry of Health reports that Perlis, which had only 28 reported cases as of yesterday and now has 38, is considering a temporary enhanced movement control order for areas affected by the new cluster. The Sivagangga cluster, whose index case returned from India and failed to comply with his quarantine order, is thought to involve a particularly contagious strain of the virus, but this has not been confirmed yet.

    15 more patients recovered and were discharged. Total 8,728 patients recovered, 96.3% of the cumulative reported total. Active and contagious cases being isolated/treated in hospital rose to 210 patients; two are in ICU, one is on a respirator.

    No new deaths. Total stands at 125 deaths, 1.38% of the cumulative reported total and 1.41% of resolved cases.

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    When Joe wins, can you imagine the response of the tRumpturds to any attempt at a national response led by the Dem federal gvt? Like ‘bad money drives out the good’, Lowest Common Denominator people will destroy any effective response attempts. Remember desegregation and ‘massive resistance’.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    What was the exact quote? Oh, yes.

    “We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’”

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired and dead of winning

    ETA

    It’s not fair to everybody else.

    Haha, like this scumbag ever cared about being fair to others!

  16. 16.

    Soprano2

    My sister said Sturgis was like spring break for middle-aged people, so yeah, terrible idea.

  17. 17.

    Jinchi

    @mrmoshpotato:

    The US Government has warned its citizens to be very cautious about travelling to New Zealand because of our “23 active cases” of Covid-19.

    Poor Peter Thiel is trapped with the rest of us during the plague. Not really good planning for the end times on his part.

     

    @mrmoshpotato:

  18. 18.

    Matt McIrvin

    When refugees start flooding out of the collapsing United States, they should just shoot us at the border.

  19. 19.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 27 new domestic confirmed cases and 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 26 new confirmed cases, and 10 new asymptomatic cases. 9 cases in critical condition, and 19 in serious condition. There are currently 643 confirmed cases (640 in Ürumqi, 1 each at Kashgar, Changji Prefecture and Xinjiang Construction Corps), and 128 asymptomatic cases (127 in Ürumqi, 1 in Changji Prefecture), plus 1 asymptomatic case exported to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. 20 confirmed cases have recovered and were released from hospitals, 12 asymptomatic cases were released from medical quarantine（including 1 at Xinjiang Construction Corps). There are 19546 close contacts under quarantine and medical observation.

    Dalian in Liaoning Province did not report any new cases, confirmed or asymptomatic, yesterday. The outbreak in Dalian has a total of 92 confirmed cases: 37 are workers from the import seafood processing plant, 13 are their close contacts, 19 are residents of Dalian Bay sub-district, and 18 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptotic cases not directly connected to the plant. The city also currently has 21 asymptomatic cases: 11 are workers from the import seafood processing plant, 1 is a close contacts, 6 are residents of Dalian Bay sub-district, and 3 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptotic cases not directly connected to the plant. Additionally, 6 confirmed and 9 asymptomatic cases exported to the rest of China. 4 confirmed case has recovered and was released from hospital, and an asymptomatic case was also released from medical quarantine. 1 serious cases, 75 moderate cases, and 11 mild cases are currently in the hospital.

    Beijing Municipality reporter a new confirmed case yesterday, a close contact of prior cases introduced from Dalian, already in quarantine.

    Yesterday, China reported 10 new imported confirmed cases, 4 imported asymptomatic cases, and 2 suspect cases:

    * Shanghai Municipality – 7 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from the United Arab Emirates and 6 from the Philippines; 2 suspect cases, information not released
    * Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from India
    * Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore
    * Dandong in Liaoning Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    * Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese National returning from Singapore

    Today, Hong Kong reported 89 new cases, 81 from local transmission. This is the 5th consecutive day with double digit new cases.

  20. 20.

    Kirk Spencer

    The US numbers in the Reuters tweet don’t look right. About 5 million cases, about 160,000 deaths. I suspect the death toll is higher grade given that when I look at various state numbers the deaths to total case numbers are between 0,5 and 1%.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    @NotMax:

    In a different reality — one where Hillary won and had a Dem Senate (instead of the current majority-traitor one) — that quote would rival, maybe even beat, some of your best work.

    In a different reality …

  22. 22.

    SFAW

    @Kirk Spencer:

    Well, DeSantis has done his best to make sure FL deaths are attributed to anything other than COVID-19. I would be surprised/amazed if no other governor tried similar tactics.

  23. 23.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Kirk Spencer:  That’s about a 3% CFR, which makes some sense given that in the Northeast wave in the spring, infections were being grievously undercounted (and deaths were also being undercounted but probably not by as large a factor), which would tend to boost the apparent fatality rate.

    There’s a countervailing effect which is that if there’s an outbreak exploding somewhere, it will tend to bring the apparent CFR down just because most of the sick people who are going to die haven’t died yet. When the current wave was taking off in Florida and Texas, you got some people saying “yeah, but look, the fatality rate is going down!” as if that meant something good.

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    different-church-lady

    U.S. has come to resemble not the wealthy and powerful countries to which it is often compared, but instead far poorer countries

    You know: “shithole countries.”

  25. 25.

    Ohio Mom

    Our next door neighbor, a fourth grade teacher at the elementary school, tells us the solution (I use that word loosely) our district has come up with is, families decide whether to send their kids in or do distance learning.

    It’s all or nothing, none of this “three days distance, two days at school,” or whatever the convoluted schedules I keep hearing about.

    Our neighbor will be teaching at the school, I wish him luck. And his youngest will be leaving soon for her first year at college at The Ohio State University. I wish her luck too.

    Meanwhile, I worry if going for quick grocery shops more than once a week is too rash (maybe I should work on my meal planning instead of waiting until the last minute).

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    mrmoshpotato

    @different-church-lady:

    You know: “shithole countries.” 

    Now now.  What kind of shithole country would be #1 in infections and deaths from an entirely preventable viral outbreak?

    That’s called “American exceptionalism!”

  29. 29.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — sportsmen are being sportsmen here as well as in the US. The Scottish Football Association is trying to “bubble” major football teams so they can play games in empty stadiums. There was supposed to be a match between Aberdeen and St. Johnstone, it’s been called off after two Aberdeen players tested positive for COVID-19. It now transpires that eight Aberdeen players went to a pub together in Aberdeen at the weekend when the current pub-related outbreak started. The other six are self-isolating, supposedly. Bubble? What bubble?

    It’s possible that all Scottish football might be called off now. It’s unlikely these players were the only ones that thought the rules didn’t apply to them, they just happened to break the rules in a way that meant they were majorly exposed to the virus.

    In other Aberdeen news the outbreak cluster size is now up to 101. There were 43 new cases reported in Scotland in general, no new deaths from confirmed cases reported again.

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    prostratedragon

    @mrmoshpotato:  The good news is that there are now fewer than 7.67 million seconds until the close of Nov. 3 (by which time I suspect we’ll have a good idea). But temper that wild enthusiasm: there are still over 14.36 million until noon on Jan. 20.

  32. 32.

    Bruce K

    Greece: 153 new cases, according to Kathimerini. Third day in a row with over 100 new cases, which is only the second time that’s happened (the first was March 31 to April 2, during the lockdown).

    Getting scary.

  34. 34.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Ohio Mom:

    Meanwhile, I worry if going for quick grocery shops more than once a week is too rash (maybe I should work on my meal planning instead of waiting until the last minute).

    We go every two weeks, and shop according to menus we plan out first. We do big batches of stuff (grilled chicken, meatloaf, lasagna) that can be portioned out and frozen. Right now its fresh stuff out of the garden, and there’s a storm of tomatoes and basil coming, so we’ll adapt the menu and the shopping accordingly. We got it easy, the TeensFromOhio are long gone now living on their own, and it’s just me and MrsFromOhio.

    We know it’s time to plan another trip when we run out of bananas.

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    BruceFromOhio

    @WereBear: Not rule followers, typically older, and not icons of healthy lifestyles. 8 weeks from now, some, if not many, will be dead because of it. How much ICU capacity will be expended trying to keep these people alive is what irritates the hell out of me. How many people they will infect when they go home is what scares me.

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    StringOnAStick

    The only reason why tRump can claim the U.S. has better numbers is because the R states have been cooking the books.  Also, lack of adequate testing capacity means tons of cases are missing from the data.  One person I know of (the boss of a close friend) caught it in February while in Europe and came home sick, became very ill and to this day can barely climb 2 flights of stairs because of the blood clots in his lungs.  The first test he was given returned a false negative, and tests are in such short supply that his doctor just told him you obviously had it but we can’t ‘spend’ a test on you.  So, his case, the case that has devastated him physically, has not been included in the totals because the reporting requirements are for positive testing results only.

  38. 38.

    Ohio Mom

    BrucefromOhio: What is interesting to me is that even among educated, science-believing, liberal/lefty, people with generally prudent lifestyles, there is such a wide range of where lines are drawn.

    I don’t think I’d send a kid out of town to college right now, though everyone I know personally with a college kid is doing so. They think the pros outweigh the cons.

    I feel safe enough in the supermarket, especially now that everyone is wearing masks — though I avoid the busy weekend and evening hours. My sister spaces her grocery runs to two week intervals, no matter how sparse her larder gets.

    I could go on with many other examples.

  39. 39.

    J R in WV

    In the original post:

     

    People entering Australian state of New South Wales from neighbouring Victoria will have to quarantine at a hotel for 14 days at own expense https://t.co/O8F04QjIuJ

    I can’t tell if this is mostly a health protection measure, or an enrichment tool to help hoteliers get well quickly!

    Also, Last???

    Also, Too, my browser can’t tell “neighbouring” is a Britishism spelling of next door.

  40. 40.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    • U.S. – 4,959,478
    • Brazil – 2,917,562
    • India – 2,027,074
    • Russia – 877,135

    Brazil looks to have second place locked up for the foreseeable future, but India is breaking on the inside! We can always count on the world’s largest kinda Democracy to make a great effort… but when it comes to teh stupid, Brazil and the USA have the lock on that!

  41. 41.

    Sloane Ranger

    UK figures published just after 4pm local time.

    871 new cases (England 796; Scotland 43; Wales 17; NI 15). There is talk that the rise of cases in England is levelling off. Personally I’d like to see a few more days of data before I get my hopes up.

    Deaths – 98 (England 91; Wales 7. None in Scotland or NI).

    185,980 tests were processed in last 24 hours (NI 923; Scotland 4667; Wales 2863; England – the rest)

  42. 42.

    Sloegin

    Having no freedom to leave the pariah nation I grew up in wasn’t on the list of things I was expecting as I got older.

  43. 43.

    Bill Arnold

    @WereBear:

    OMG Sturgis. These are not rule followers.

    True. Their immune systems follow the laws of immune systems, and SARS-CoV-2 will be hitching a lot of long-distance rides via mobile clusters of epithelial cells AKA humans.

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