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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, September 27-28

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    Brachiator

    Parliament’s bars exempt from 10pm coronavirus curfew
    thetimes.co.uk

    What a bunch of fools. Upper crust Brits seem to think that they can maintain their silly little privileges no matter what. This kind of crap obviously undermines national unity and any sense of shared sacrifice.

    Ironically, the lower sorts are kicking back against this hypocrisy. There are stories of people rounding up drinks and having street parties after the pubs close. This is obviously stupid and dangerous behavior, but not unexpected when leadership act like fools.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    “Because there’s no COVID. It’s a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America.”

    These selfish, stupid shitheads…

    ETA – Maybe your Soviet shitpile mobster conman god emperor is the one who wants to destroy the United States of America.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Brachiator: It’s to be expected of lying assholes who also don’t want to be subject to EU tax laws.

    ETA – BoJo should be flipped on his head and used to mop hospital floors.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 115 new cases, for a cumulative reported total of 11,034 cases.

    112 new cases are from local infection. 98 are Malaysians. 14 are non-Malaysians.

    Three are imported cases. (I will update when the Health Ministry tweets out the case breakdown.)

    54 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,889 patients recovered — 89.62% of the cumulative reported total. 1,011 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; eight are in ICU, five of them on respirators.

    No new CoviD-19 deaths were reported today, and the total stands at 134 deaths — 1.22% of the cumulative reported total, 1.34% of resolved cases.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Foreign Minister Hishammudin Hussein was in Sabah over the weekend for the socially distanced and masked statewide elections. He was campaigning with a candidate who later tested positive and is now under a 14-day home quarantine order.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    Limbaugh, Rupert, Roger Ailes et al have completely disconnected a big section of America from reality.

    I just checked Orange County’s numbers, just too busy to do it earlier. Quite a change from the first seven months where I was refreshing some dashboard or another every few minutes.

    We have inched up a bit again, from a couple of days with fewer than 100 new cases to 246 today. Lots of tests reported, so still at 3.1% positive. Not nearly as good as China or Malaysia, but better than 25% in the Midwest. Hospitalizations are way down – only 64 Covid patients in ICU. Capacity is 703 beds county wide in normal times, so lots of room available, which is good.

    Does anybody else feel enraged when Republican politicians show up on TV with masks on? Not Twitler, of course, but McConnell and McCarthy? It seems to have been quietly agreed that it’s a good idea now. They should be required to go without as punishment for downplaying the risks for so long. If Twitler knew and told Bob Woodward, you know they did too.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Misery’s testing is at 11.8% positive. Franklin County- 8%, Crawford Co- 11%, Washington county- 19%.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Brachiator:

    You’ll be amused to learn that the bars on Parliament premises are excused from closing at 10pm because they’re technically workplace canteens*.

    According to a Times story (paywall) by Esther Webber, the bars in parliament are exempt from the rule saying pubs in England must stop selling alcohol at 10pm. She explains:

    Facilities serving alcohol on the parliamentary estate are understood to be exempt from the earlier closing time on the basis that they fall under the description of “a workplace canteen”.

    Asked about the story in her Today interview, the health minister Helen Whately said she did not know if this was true but that, if it was, she did not think it was right for MPs’ bars to be exempt. “We at parliament shouldn’t be sitting around late at night drinking,” she said. “We’ve got a job to do.” But she stressed it was a matter for parliament.

    *cafeterias, in American English.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @Amir Khalid: One detail about the House of Commons is that all-night sittings are not uncommon when problematic or contentious legislation is being debated and, as the Government hopes, passed. For this reason the restaurants and bars can be open late into the morning or even remain open 24 hours a day. It does vary a lot though depending on the workload. It’s also worth pointing out that the HoC especially is a law unto itself, it’s not the Government that sets or regulates its operating practices.

     

    The hospitality facilities in the House and the Lords are not accessible to the general public (except on invitation by a member) so the chances of cross-infection is more limited than in a typical lager-barn (tm Weatherspoons). It would still be a good idea to limit the bars at least to the same opening hours the rest of the country is faced with, for the look of things if nothing else.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Robert Sneddon:

    24-hour cafeterias in Parliament serving food and nonalcoholic beverages to MPs at work in the small hours are obviously needed. But I would agree with the Minister of Health that MPs don’t really need access to 24-hour bars.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 21 new imported confirmed cases and 14 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 10 confirmed case cases, 8 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines, 1 from Nigeria (via Paris) and 1 Jordanian national coming from Turkey (via Moscow)
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 5 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Peru and Nepal; 5 asymptomatic cases, 4 Chinese nationals returning from India and 1 returning from Benin
    • Qingyuan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Iraq and the United Arab Emirates
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia – 3 confirmed cases, no information released
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria; 1 asymptomatic case, a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan 
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines 
    • Taiyuan in Shanxi Province – 1 confirmed, a Chinese national returning from Poland
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Fuzhou in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Russia; the case entered China at Shenzhen on 9/5, went through the 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative twice, was released from quarantine and travel to Luzhou on 9/20 and entered into mandatory home quarantine, and tested positive on 9/28; this is the 4th such case in the past two weeks
    • Chongqing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia

    At Qingdao in Shandong Province, where 2 dock workers were reported asymptomatic cases a few days ago (possibly after handling contaminated frozen imported seafood), a testing campaign continues to make sure no cluster has formed. 234 close contacts are under centralized quarantine, 209 persons have been tested 3 times, 17 have been tested twice, and 8 have been tested once, all results negative. 260 Tier 2 close contacts (of close contacts) are also under centralized quarantine, all have tested negative so far. 213,975 individuals who are casual contacts, community screening of at risk groups, and workers of cold chain logistics have been tested, all results from 213,876 processed tests are negative. 32,341 samples have been collected from working environments and cold chain logistics, all results form the 32,191 processed tests are negative, except for the 51 samples from the contaminated batch.

    Today, Hong Kong reported 10 new cases, 3 from local transmission, all with known sources of transmission.

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    Amir Khalid

    Okay, the Health Ministry has finally tweeted the daily breakdown for new cases.

    112 new cases are from local infection; 98 are Malaysians: 84 cases in Sabah, comprising 46 from the Bangau-Bangau cluster, 25 from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, eight symptomatic persons, two from the Pulau cluster, one from the Buang Sayang cluster, one healthcare worker; 10 cases in Selangor, comprising six from the (new) Jalan Apas cluster and four persons returning from Sabah; one case in Labuan, a close contact of another case; one case in Kedah, from the Sungai cluster; one in Melaka, diagnosed in pre-surgery screening; and one in Terengganu, who had come back from Sabah. 14 are non-Malaysians, all from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster.

    The three imported cases were one Malaysian returning from India, and two non-Malaysians arriving from India.

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    Sloane Ranger

    @Robert Sneddon: While it is true that the Government cannot order either House of Parliament to take in regard to facilities such as bars and cafeterias, this is a massive own goal. Most people don’t understand how either House is administered and will blame the Government. Those who do, will just blame all politicians.

    I think the Speaker Chairs the Committee that oversees the administration of facilities in the Commons, the Whips from all parties need to get on to him pronto and strongly suggest the bars be closed at the same time all other pubs are.

    BTW – I think there is one bar in the Commons that is open to registered Lobby Correspondents without a specific invitation. The British version of access journalism.

    Now for the British figures from yesterday,

    There were 5693 new cases, a reduction from Saturday but this may be due to the weekend issue. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday will tell us.

    England – 4800

    Northern Ireland – 187

    Scotland – 344

    Wales – 362.

    Deaths – 17 deaths recorded. 16 in England and 1 in Scotland.

    Testing – 245,363 tests were processed on Friday, 25th September out of a capacity of 270,965.

    Hospitalisations – The latest nationwide data on admissions is from 16th September. 266 people were admitted to hospital on that date. A total of 1727 were actually in hospital on 24th September and 262 people were on ventilators on Friday, 25th September.

    Today, three more areas in Wales were made subject to enhanced restrictions, Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan. This means that about two thirds of Welsh people are now under some form of added restrictions. If it goes on like this, there will be a nationwide “lockdown” even if the Welsh Government don’t want to call it that.

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    Chris T.

    Rallygoer: “Because there’s no COVID. It’s a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America.”

    These guys should be forced to do scutwork in the hospitals, morgues, and cemeteries.  Let them see, right up close, people who are sick, dying, and dead from the “non-existent” “fake” disease.

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    Amir Khalid

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    The Benteng Lahad Datu cluster is actually seeing a gradual reduction in new cases. My guess is that the illegal immigrants rounded up in Operation Benteng were out and about and spreading, including in places other than Lahad Datu, for some time before they were arrested, which may also account for the other new clusters in the state.

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    bluefoot

    @Chris T.: I agree.  If they don’t “believe in” the pandemic (what does that even mean??), they can dig graves or do trash and biohazard collection.  I wouldn’t want them in care facilities or hospitals since they’d probably spread the virus, but outside with a shovel they can’t do much harm.  Or more harm than they’re doing.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @Amir Khalid: Why limit beverages to being non-alcoholic in the House of Commons and House of Lords facilities? The people who frequent This House and The Other Place are adults, not children or Americans for whom the Demon Rum is to be abhorred. The bars and dining rooms serving alcohol operate in the same manner as any such hospitality setup elsewhere in the UK other than having flexible opening times, that’s all. Even saying that there are special rules for hotels and the like where the bars can stay open all night and continue to serve residents — I’ve white-nighted many a time at conventions when the hotel didn’t close the bar at all until it was time to serve breakfast.

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    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    We need to keep pointing out that 200,000 deaths is 50,000 Benghazi’s, and climbing. That’s the only math MAGAts seem to get.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Robert Sneddon:

    Bars in Parliament are fine by me, but I think it’s only fair that they be subject to the same restrictions as houses of libation elsewhere in your land. By the way, do workplace canteens over there typically sell alcohol?

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    Robert Sneddon

    @Amir Khalid: At least in the UK a works canteen providing on-site catering would require an extra and expensive licence to serve alcohol and generally they don’t do so. Canteens are a rare beast these days though, most factory workers nowadays slope off to the local Greggs and get a hot “steak bake” and a cardboard cup of Throatripper coffee, or they grab stuff from the vending machines operated and serviced by a third-party catering company. Me, I brought my own sandwiches in when I was doing stuff like stewarding or call-centre work.

     

    I’ve done IT support work in executive offices where there was an actual dining-room and catering facilities and alcohol was available in those locations but not to purchase, only to be dispensed.

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    Sloane Ranger

    @Amir Khalid: When I first joined the Metropolitan Police, we had a full service pub at New Scotland Yard. At Christmas you sometimes literally had to step over the “tired and emotional” people lying on the floor. There were also bars at a number of other large office buildings in the Estate. These were closed several years ago by a somewhat puritanical Commissioner.

    Also, at the larger office buildings, there was a cafeteria, which was counter service and didn’t serve alcohol and a waitress service restaurant where you could buy wine with your meal and a liquor afterwards. That was still there when I retired.

    These were remnants of the British/English class system. The restaurants were originally the Officers (Inspectors/Civil Staff equivalents and above) Mess and the cafeteria for the other ranks (PC’s/PS’s/civil Staff equivalents)

    At the Yard there was also a Senior Officers Mess for Commanders and above, but I only went there once, when the Director of Personnel retired and threw a bash.

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    Brachiator

    @Robert Sneddon:

    It’s also worth pointing out that the HoC especially is a law unto itself, it’s not the Government that sets or regulates its operating practices.

    I keep trying to wrap my head around the idea that in some respects, in the UK, the government and Parliament are considered to be separate entities.

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