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Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

No one could have predicted…

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, September 20-21

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In the first week of August, a COVID-19 surge in Provo, Utah, was subsiding—but almost six weeks later, it’s roared back, with the county that encompasses it recording more than 500 new cases in a single day. The Salt Lake Tribune says the spike follows dance parties for local college students organized by a defiant duo of young Mormon entrepreneurs. Their promotion company, Young/Dumb, held underground bashes days before outbreaks at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University…

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  2. 2.

    Zzyzx

    I’ve had a headache/sore throat for a week+ now stretching back to the smoke filled Seattle days and I was so tired on Saturday that I went to sleep at 2 PM. That was one symptom too many so I’m getting tested today just to be safe.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    a defiant duo of young Mormon entrepreneurs

    Why do I feel certain that homicide can be justified in the case of these 2?

  4. 4.

    Tony Jay

    Shit is raining down here in Lesser Brexitania where the Tory Government’s tame science-bro mouthpieces have been telling journalists that Britain is “heading in the wrong direction” where Covid-19 infections are concerned. “What? Really? Oh no, dudes, you don’t say? Wow, I’m like, super-shocked.” Meanwhile the walking ball-gag we have as our Health Minister, Matt “The Wrong Type of Twat” Hancock, along with various other over-promoted Ministerial yes-men, has been making the rounds to insist that surging infection rates are entirely the fault of the General Bloody Public, who seem to have wilfully disregarded the Government’s clear instructions not to get infected while obediently flocking to pubs, bars, restaurants, schools, public transport, airports, beaches, brothels and everywhere else the Government told them it was their patriotic duty to go in large numbers. The cheek of those plebs. Deliberately conspiring with the dirty, foreign virus to make the Tory Party look bad by getting sick and causing the privately operated/publicly funded “Test and Trace” scheme to go into meltdown by expecting it to be capable of actually testing and tracing large numbers of people when, as we all know, its real job was to funnel hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money into the bank accounts of Tory Party donors.

    Oh, and speaking of Tory donors apparently there’s a story out that one of the major ones was more or less funnelling cash from Uncle Vlad directly into Party funds, and Flobalob Johnson himself is getting heat for spending a long weekend in Perugia, Italy, where he definitely did not visit his good chum and former security risk (Lord) Yevgeny Lebedev at his castle and definitely didn’t discuss the breaking of international law with other representatives of Uncle Vlad. Oh, and there’s absolutely no truth to the suggestion that Tony Blair was also in the area at the same time, and if he was it was to heal the sick and talk to the animals or something equally saintly.

    Honestly. These people are so exhausting. Their vileness and mendacity leaves you as breathless as a smotherer’s pillow.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. 57 new cases, for a cumulative reported total of 10,276 cases.

    51 new cases from local infection. 46 Malaysians: 45 in Sabah comprising 13 from the Pulau cluster, 11 from the Selamat cluster, five from the (new) Quarters cluster, three from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, two screened for severe acute respiratory infections, two screened for symptoms, two screened in police lockup, two in CCRC screenings, one close contact of another case, one healthcare worker, one screened for influenza-like illness, and one detected in pre-surgery screening; one in Kedah from the Sungai cluster.

    Five non-Malaysians: five in Sabah, comprising one each from the Pulau and Selamat clusters, two from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, and one screened upon referral to a hospital; one in Selangor, detected in pre-surgery screening.

    Six imported new cases. One Malaysian, returning from the UK; five non-Malaysians, arriving from Indonesia (three), Pakistan, and Zambia.

    40 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,395 patients recovered — 91.43% of the cumulative reported total. 751 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; nine are in ICU, two of them on respirators.

    No new deaths were reported today, and the total stands at 130 deaths — 1.26% of the cumulative reported total, 1.36% of resolved cases.

  6. 6.

    prostratedragon

    Young/Dumb. Very clever. If these guys live more than a few years, they’re going to have to create a false past to justify themselves to the world. At least, more likely than coming to terms with it. Look out for ’em.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    Re Andy Slavitt’s tweets: it’s hard to see any hope of controlling the pandemic in the US with that extent of refusal to comply.

  12. 12.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Amir Khalid:
    At present, there isn’t. We’re screwed. And I don’t see that changing much after Biden wins, the freaks will just get freakier.
    I’m still inhaling coffee,  so I’m teetering between pessimist and realist.
    Good Morning =-)

    Eta: the freaks will just go pro, per Hunter Thompson

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, 12 new imported confirmed cases and 25 imported asymptomatic cases:

     

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar and 1 from Uzbekistan; 10 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals each returning from the Philippines and Kuwait, 2 from Indonesia and 1 each from Côte d’Ivoire and Myanmar
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 6 asymptomatic cases, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Saudi Arabia and 1 from Nigeria
    • Qingyuan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Kenya
    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from Guinea an Egyptian national coming from Egypt
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia – 2 confirmed cases, no information released
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 2 confirmed and 4 asymptomatic case, all Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from the United Arab Emirates (via Bake) and 1 returning from Uzbekistan (via Yekaterinburg); 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Côte d’Ivoire (via Abidjan and Brussels)
    • Xiamen in Fijian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Italy
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Kazakhstan 

    Today, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, 2 from local transmission, 1 does not clear sources of transmission identified. 

  16. 16.

    PeakVT

    COVID GAVE A 21 Y.O. HEALTHY MALE A HEART ATTACK. but you want to keep going out cuz you’re bored?

    In a land that has promoted selfish consumption over everything else since at the 1950s, is anyone surprised?

  18. 18.

    Mousebumples

    Fyi – Andy Slavitt has an informative podcast, for those that are looking for that sort of thing. It’s called In The Bubble.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Tony Jay:

    Deliberately conspiring with the dirty, foreign virus to make the Tory Party look bad by getting sick and causing the privately operated/publicly funded “Test and Trace” scheme to go into meltdown by expecting it to be capable of actually testing and tracing large numbers of people when, as we all know, its real job was to funnel hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money into the bank accounts of Tory Party donors.

    Don’t you know the virus on your side of the pond is a “Everyone-else-but-Tories hoax”?

    Perhaps everything would be better if Flobalob Johnson held massive indoor ego strokefests where his supporters could suck his orange cock. (You have orange sucking roosters in merry ol’ England, right?)

    ETA – why don’t they have a referendum on whether or not the virus should fuck off out of the UK for the EU?  It’d make as much sense as Brexshit.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    @prostratedragon:

    If these guys live more than a few years, they’re going to have to create a false past to justify themselves to the world. 

    We’ll know them by their Groucho glasses and nose.

    “Now, you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses, would you?” (holding two drinking glasses)

    -Vernon – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon

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    mrmoshpotato

    @PeakVT: But you don’t understand!  I’m BORED!

    Get it now?  And to think we have entire libraries of entertainment (including entire TV series) at our fingertips! ???

  24. 24.

    Sloane Ranger

    No good with rants (although I would point out that the virus is surging across Europe, even in countries that don’t have Boris Johnson as PM and in some which seemed to have handled it well initially.)

    Having said that, Boris and his low quality Cabinet (because all the Tories with more than 2 brain cells to rub together were Remainers and they’ve been frozen out) were focussed on Brexit and ignored COVID-19 until it was too late, presumably on the basis that we had left the EU so the virus would stop at Calais. Then had a fling with Herd Immunity, before someone pointed out that the rising death toll (the worse per capita of anywhere in Europe and still among the top 5 globally) made the government look bad, so there was some AmDram theatrics. Then our Boris got the disease (it was announced he had tested positive on 27 March but I bet he had symptoms before then), there was panic, it’s actually got the temerity to infect people like us and we had the national lockdown!

    Boris recovers, and is initially very grateful but, he’s not one to dwell on the past, so after the passage of some time, he forgets the lesson he had learned and gives in to his natural instincts to project sunny optimism and give his donors what they want, the re-opening of businesses so they can start making loads of money again, when the R number was still hovering at about 1. Although other countries opened up bars and restaurants, only the UK, as far as I know, actually gave people an incentive to go into them (because those poor people in the hospitality industry like Tim Martin, of Weatherspoons, who gave zillions to the Brexit campaign were suffering) and here we are with cases surging!

    Now, yesterdays figures from the UK. There were 3899 new cases, this figure is probably low due to the usual weekend closures of admin offices etc. 3279 of the new cases were in England, 176 in Northern Ireland, 199 in Wales and 245 in Scotland.

    There were 18 new deaths, all in England.

    233,199 tests were processed on Friday, 18 September out of a capacity of 253,521. On the same date, 205 people were admitted to hospital in England and 41 in Wales. (no figures currently available for the other 2 nations). As of yesterday there were 1141 people in hospital in England, almost double what it had been 10n days previously and 142 on ventilators.

    Government reaction – Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Advisor saying that the number of cases is doubling roughly every 7 days. BoJo expected to announce new restrictions in England tomorrow, Nicola Sturgeon indicating that the same is likely to happen in Scotland shortly. Meanwhile, in Wales 4 new areas, Newport, Bridgend, Merthyr and Blaenau Gwent are going into local lockdowns.

  25. 25.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    We need to keep hammering away at the idea that 200,000 deaths is 50,000 Benghazhi’s. FIFTY FUCKING THOUSAND OF THEM!!

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    Lacuna Synechdoche

    She threw a corona party too.

    The Daily Beast via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    A bar crawl in Germany may cost a 26-year-old from Florida 10 years in a German jail for partying despite showing coronavirus symptoms, thus infecting at least 23 people and exposing more than 710, the Daily Mail reports. Yasmin Adli worked at a U.S. military vacation lodge in Germany and was waiting for her COVID-19 test results after a vacation in Greece, where she reportedly partied several nights with a sore throat. At the same time that Adli allegedly told her employer that she was too sick to work, she allegedly went to several bars where she kissed several different employees.

    “I’d like to take the time now to thank everyone for coming to my rona party and to apologize for the current circumstances, I did not know I had the rona when we went out Tuesday but I take full responsibility in not self isolating whilst having a cold,” she wrote in a group text message to friends, according to the Daily Mail. The Edelweiss Lodge and Resort has closed for two weeks after 25 staff members contracted the virus. Adli faces “criminal liability for willful and dangerous bodily harm,” which can range from six months to 10 years in jail, according to lawyer Arndt Kempgens.

    She threw a corona party too.

    No wonder people hate Americans. The one thing even worse than this display of irresponsibility, arrogance, ignorance, privilege, and exceptionalism, is how typically fucking American it all is.

    We should be quarantined from the rest of the world for the next five years.

     

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    Lacuna Synechdoche

    @Amir Khalid:

    Re Andy Slavitt’s tweets: it’s hard to see any hope of controlling the pandemic in the US with that extent of refusal to comply.

    In retrospect – with approx. 40% of Americans proudly, querulously, dismissively, and consistently following the lead of Fox News, OANN, InfoWars, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, and Combover Caligula – there never was much hope of controlling the pandemic in the US.

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    @Lacuna Synechdoche:

    No wonder people hate Americans. The one thing even worse than this display of irresponsibility, arrogance, ignorance, privilege, and exceptionalism, is how typically fucking American it all is.

    It’s not just Americans. But I do hope this woman gets some jail time.

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