Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Second rate reporter says what?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Please don’t feed the bears.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Saturday/Sunday, September 19-20

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New ‘normal’ — the official daily upper limit used to be 5,000:

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… The study was small, involving fewer than 300 cases of Covid-19, a tiny fraction of the nearly 30 million reported cases of coronavirus infection around the world. Another concern is that the data on nearsightedness in the comparison group were gleaned from a study that took place decades earlier.

And Dr. Maragakis noted that any number of factors could confound the data, and it may be that wearing glasses is simply associated with another variable that affects risk for Covid-19. For example, it could be that people who wear glasses tend to be older, and more careful and more likely to stay home during a viral outbreak, than those who do not wear glasses. Or perhaps people who can afford glasses are less likely to contract the virus for other reasons, like having the means to live in less crowded spaces…

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  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 52 new cases. The cumulative reported total is 10,219 cases.

    40 new cases from local infection. 26 Malaysians: 22 in Sabah, comprising 15 cases from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, two from the Selamat cluster, one from the Pulau cluster, one from the Bakau cluster, two healthcare workers, and one detected in community screening; three in Kedah, detected in screening conducted in enhanced movement control order zones; one in Penang state, in a new cluster(named the Ara cluster). 14 non-Malaysians, all in Sabah: 12 from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, one detected in pre-surgery screening, one detected in a workplace screening.

    12 new imported cases. Three Malaysians, all returning from India. Nine non-Malaysians, arriving from Bangladesh, Yemen, Russia, India (five) and Indonesia.

    40 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,355 patients recovered — 91.55% of the  cumulative reported total. 734 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; 10 are in ICU, two of them on respirators.

    No new deaths were reported today, and the total stands at 130 deaths — 1.27% of the cumulative reported total, 1.37% of resolved cases.

    It was reported yesterday that Malaysia will be joining the COVAX international alliance to help it secure vaccines for the country when they become available.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, 10 new imported confirmed cases and 21 imported asymptomatic cases:

    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the UK, the Ukraine, Kenya and Cameroon; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar
    * Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 6 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Russia
    * Shanghai Municipality – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Russia and Ghana, a Brazilian national coming from Brazil and a French national coming from France
    * Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed and 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    * Xiamen in Fijian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Italy
    * Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    * Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese nationals returning from the United Arab Emirates
    * Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese student returning from Pakistan
    * Nanning in Guangxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from overseas, no further information released
    * Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese National returning from Myanmar
    * Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, 1 Chinese national returning from Russia (the case had arrived at Shenzhen in Guangdong Province in 8/22, underwent 21 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative 5 times, went in to Chengdu in 9/12 and entered home quarantine, tested positive on 9/19); the case is more likely to be someone who was infected and self-healed, now shedding dead viral participles

    Ruili in Yunnan Province has completed the mass screening of all residents in the city. Of the 287,254 individuals tested, none are positive. All 201 close contacts have each been tested twice, all results negative, but they’re remain under quarantine. Miraculously, the two imported cases who smuggled themselves from Myanmar did not infect anyone else at Ruili, including their family members.

    Today, Hong Kong reported 23 new cases, 4 from local transmission, all have clear sources of transmission identified.

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    Jack Canuck

    Update from Down Under:

    Nationwide:

    • 19 new cases in the last 24 hours
    • 26, 898 total cases
    • 24,057 recovered, 909 active (estimated)
    • 109 hospitalised
    • 849 total deaths

    Victoria

    • 14 new cases in the last 24 hours (lowest since early June, second day running with less than 30, I think)
    • 743 active cases
    • 14 day average case number for metropolitan Melbourne is 36.2; for regional Victoria 1.8
    • 761 total deaths (5 in the last 24 hours)
    • 94 in hospital, 8 in intensive care

    So we’re doing well in terms of getting a handle on it, but everyone (even those of us – the majority – who support the government’s policies) is getting sick of things in Melbourne with the restrictions. I think most of us are hoping that things will keep going well enough that they can move up the reopening schedule.

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    NotMax

    FYI.

    For the first time in it’s 36-year history, the Maui Jim Maui Invitational will not be held in it’s namesake location — moving over 4,000 miles to North Carolina.
    [snip]
    Trading the Aloha state for the Tar Heel state will be a big economic blow to the Valley Isle. The tournament has been one of the county’s biggest forms of revenue — bringing in thousands of visitors to Maui.
    [snip]
    The other major college basketball tournament that is held in [Hawaii] is the Diamond Head Classic, which is rumored to be moving off island to Orlando — operating in a bubble format, much like the NBA. Source

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    satby

    My sister fell in her room in the nursing home and so was transported to a hospital for x-rays and pain management, and hopefully a proper not quick covid test to determine if the quick test was a false positive or not. I should hear results today. She’s very frail from MS, wheelchair bound, but she keeps saying she feels fine. So, I’m assuming the test was a false positive.

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    prostratedragon

    At least two of today’s articles are directly related to the NewYorker article by Gawande from yesterday: the one by Delthia Ricks on storage requirements of the eventual vaccine supply, and the one by Topol on the host of testing criteria being used by vaccine developers. His post buried the lede rather badly, but there’s a translation in the replies:

    Moderna trial is using the US clinical case definition + PCR confirmation. The other trials are using variations on the US case definition. Seems a rather unnecessary variation.

    One role for the federal government should be to coordinate vaccine development so that any and all can be judged on the same basis. That NewYorker article, btw, is very good, a must-read for the week.

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    prostratedragon

    @NotMax:  Ahhh who cares? Hawaii is a blue State, if it really is a State. (Grrrrr. And of course it’s possible that at that time neither State should be trying to host such events yet. And maybe the experience of college athletes is already bizarre enough without putting them in bubbles for several weeks so they can play games for tv.)

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    TS (the original)

    @prostratedragon:

    One role for the federal government should be to coordinate vaccine development so that any and all can be judged on the same basis.

    With trump, whoever pays the tithe will be judged best.

    One hopes it will be the Biden administration overseeing the development.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Update from the UK.

    Yesterday there were 4422 new cases in the UK, up 100 from Friday. Broken down by nation, 3638 were in England, 222 in Northern Ireland, 350 in Scotland and 212 in Wales. England’s new cases count is essentially the same as the day before (but a big increase from a week previously), all other home nations have seen an increase from Friday.

    There were 27 new deaths, 22 in England, 3 in Scotland and 2 in Wales.

    There is no update on testing and hospitalisations.

    The government is continuing to say that new, nationwide (this means England) restrictions will be imposed if people don’t follow the guidelines already in place and to threaten a new lockdown if necessary. Sir Keir Starmer (Leader of the Opposition) has criticised the government for the delays in the testing regime but has said that Labour will support new restrictions if the figures keep growing.

    In other news, with effect from 28th September, failure to quarantine after receiving a positive test will be a criminal offense with violators potentially subject to a £10,000 fine. This will also apply to anyone who prevent people from self isolating. The example given in the government press release is an employer who threatens an employee with redundancy if they do not come to work. Taken from the same press release, people on low incomes, who cannot work from home will receive £500 to help cover lost income if they have to quarantine.

    That’s all from Blighty.

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    Another Scott

    @Sloane Ranger: When I glance at the BBC TV reports over here, they are doing much more reporting about the inability for people to get tests (UK testing capacity seemed to plateau weeks ago while demand keeps going up).  But they’re also continuing to push feel-good stories about places opening up and how BoJo is trying to “strike the proper balance between public health and the economy…”

    It’s infuriating to me.  There is no “balance” to strike.  The economy isn’t going to come back until the virus is under control, and opening too early will put that day off.

    The NE US seems to be doing “well” compared to the rest of the country, but even they still haven’t’ been able to crush the virus.  There are still too many daily cases, and as long as the daily cases remains high, it’s impossible to safely “open-up”.

    We just turned our heat on for the first time this season.  I dread the fall and winter.  :-(

    Good luck.  Stay safe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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