Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Second rate reporter says what?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The willow is too close to the house.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

White supremacy is terrorism.

We still have time to mess this up!

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Tuesday/Wednesday, Nov. 3-4

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  3. 3.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    The price of lockdown has been *huge* psychologically and economically and socially, and the desire to be free from lockdown – even at the cost of death – is greater than people realize.

    The simpler explanation is, it’s America and Americans in general won’t do simple things like exercise or watching what they eat for the good of their own heath. I got to wonder how many people think Trump getting the virus, then getting drugged to hell and gone was the way to do it, rather than think Trump was total idiot for exposing himself like that.

    After today I am more of, ok you all voted for death, well then let’s open all the bars, sports stadiums and theaters and go for it until you all hand enough pain.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    I got my flu shot too, and it looks like I just won’t do anything anywhere near other people for another year or so.

    The new flareups in Europe bother me a lot, because they seemed to have their act together., esp. with the mask wearing What happened? What was the entry point for the new infections?

  5. 5.

    Jack Canuck

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: That one caught my eye too – my reaction was “the US hasn’t DONE a lockdown!” Certainly not nationally, though maybe what, say, New York did could qualify maybe. But as far as I’m aware (and I freely admit that I may have missed something) nowhere in the US has even gone as far as Melbourne did, and certainly nowhere near the Spanish or Italian examples in their worst-hit regions.

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    When your base votes R regardless of death, theirs or anyone else’s, we have to neutralize the cheating, because “dead from the neck up” is also a category.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,032 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 35,425 cases. He reports eight deaths, a new record, for a total of 271 deaths — 0.8% of the cumulative reported total, 1.08% of resolved cases.

    Meanwhile, 820 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 24,815 patients recovered — 70.1% of the cumulative reported total.

    Six new clusters were identified today: Sandakan Prison, Dialysis, and Sepanggar clusters in Sabah; Aero clusters in Selangor; Lengkuk cluster in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan; and Gading cluster in Putrajaya.

    1,029 new cases are from local infection. Sabah has 646 cases: 46 in older clusters, 34 in Sandakan Prison cluster, 20 in Dialysis cluster, six in Sepanggar cluster, 367 close-contact screenings, and 179 other screenings. Selangor has 231 cases: 153 in older clusters, two in the Aero cluster, 40 close-contact screenings, one person back from a high-risk zone in Sabah, one SARI screening, and 34 other screenings. Labuan has 28 cases: six in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 44 cases: 20 in older clusters, 16 in the Lengkuk cluster, one close-contact screening, and seven other screenings.

    Penang has 23 cases: 21 in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Sarawak has nine cases: six in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and two other screenings. Kedah has 25 cases: 23 in existing clusters, and two other screenings. KL has seven cases: three in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Putrajaya has four cases: three in the Gading cluster, and one close-contact screening. Johore has one case, a  close-contact screening. Kelantan two cases, both close-contact screeninga. And Terengganu has three cases, all in existing clusters.

    Perlis, Melaka, and Pahang reported no new cases today.

    Three new cases are imported, all non-Malaysians, arriving from Singapore, India, and the Philippines.

    10,339 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 82 are in ICU, of whom 27 are on ventilators.

    The eight deaths today, all reported in Sabah, are an 83-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension and stroke; a 63-year-old man with chronic lung disease; a 79-year-old man with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and kidney failure; a 64-year-old man with hypertension and dyslipidaemia; a 56-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and kidney failure; a 63-year-old man chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; a 60-year-old non-Malaysian woman with diabetes, hypertension and heart failure; and a 70-year-old non-Malaysian man with stroke.

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    Mary G

    @CaseyL: Also a lot of family get togethers of 15-20 people who had dearly missed each other and got overconfident that they could kiss, hug, and eat out of communal dishes indoors. Only takes one asymptomatic kid to infect 6 or 7 people in that scenario. AKA Thanksgiving & Christmas here.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    @Jay:

    Here, bars and clubs have been ordered closed since the initial lockdown was declared in mid-March. They remain closed because it’s not safe to let them open. But every day, the Royal Malaysian Police bust a few places for operating illegally.

  13. 13.

    Morfydd

    The Robert Koch Institute site is down, but have a static notice reporting 17,214 new cases in the last 24 hours.  (Yes, that’s about 10x since the last time I posted a few weeks ago.  Joy.)

    We went into “lockdown” on Monday, which means mostly that restaurants, leisure, and personal care businesses are closed.  Also, people may only gather between two households, up to 10 people total.    More detail here:  https://www.thelocal.de/20201029/explained-what-germanys-november-shutdown-means-for-you

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    YY_Sima Qian

    A.L., amazing that you are keeping this up today of all days. Does it count as an election respite thread?

    Anyway, update from China:

    Yesterday, China reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic, under isolation) and 116 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all are traced close contacts already under quarantine), all at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region. I am surprised that so many asymptomatic cases are still being found. Yesterday was the 10th day since the 1st case in the outbreak was reported on 10/24, and 4 sub-townships in Shufu County has been under lock down since then. The epicenter of the outbreak being a factory with a workforce primarily of young women may mean most of the cases have longer incubation periods. There are now 64 confirmed cases (including 8 in serious condition) and 345 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang.

    Yesterday, China reported 15 new imported confirmed cases and 12 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 new imported suspect case:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Argentina (via Schipol), a Hungarian national coming from Hungary (via Switzerland) and a French national coming fro France (via Switzerland); 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from from Benin, Turkey and the UAE; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from  the UAE, and 1 each returning from Bangladesh and the Philippines
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from the UAE
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed case (2 previously asymptomatic), 2 Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan and 1 from Algeria; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Pakistan and Egypt
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously suspect), no information released
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from the UAE and the Philippines
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia (via Baku); 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Italy (via Brussels)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    The 4 confirmed and 19 asymptomatic cases reported by Wuhan in Hubei Province on 11/2 were not Chinese nationals returning from India, but Indian nationals coming from the country on a charter flight. No further information has been released. Curious what would bring a sizable group of Indian nationals to Wuhan on a charter. Among the cases is a family cluster. India does not have a consulate in Wuhan to restaff.

    Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 3 new cases, 2 from local transmission, both with source of infection identified. 

  15. 15.

    Sloane Ranger

    Didn’t think people would be interested in this today but was proved wrong. Here is the view from the UK. We had 20,018 new cases yesterday, up just over 1000 from the day before, but case numbers are beginning to show a slight downwards trend across all home nations. Cases by home nation,

    England – 17330 (up 1500 or so)

    Northern Ireland – 570 (up @80)

    Scotland – 999 (up @50)

    Wales – 1119 (down @400)

    Deaths – There were 397 new deaths yesterday, with 1126 deaths with COVID on the Death Certificate as of Friday, 23 October. New deaths were 359 in England, 6 in Northern Ireland, 28 in Scotland and 4 in Wales. The trendline on the Dashboard shows a levelling off but at a high level.

    Testing – 207,817 tests were processed yesterday out of a capacity of 521,016.

    Hospitalisations – 11,458 were in hospital nationwide as of Sunday, 1st November and 1075 were on ventilators as of Monday, 2 November. Numbers of hospitalisations are increasing in all home nations bar Northern Ireland where there is a slight decrease.

    General – As of 29th October the number of people with a positive test per 100,000 of the population during the preceding week were, in ascending order,

    Scotland – 149.8

    England – 226.4

    Wales – 289.2

    Northern Ireland – 301.1.

    That’s all today.

  16. 16.

    Quinerly

    I have been awake over 24 hrs. I have to say this. Donald Trump was not a fluke in 2016. There is something deeply wrong with this country. No matter who ran against Trump in 2020 that person would have lost. I truly think Covid will be the reason Biden wins, if he wins.

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Jack Canuck: If varied a lot by state, Cal we did a pretty serious lock down. I think the fact that the press uses the word lock down for silly stuff like “wear a mask”  and not just, everyone but essential workers stay home, in their minds their state was shut down for three months.

    Americans, as I said.

    Same shit happen with the Spanish Flue.

  18. 18.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Sab: Well that’s already happening now in the Midwest. After a fucking six month warning.

    In a sane rational world,  everyone wears a mask and thinks are ok, but most of us don’t live there so this shit happens. The reason why the West Coast is doing good is because of AIDs, no one wanted to stick a condom on their dick until enough people died that everyone became terrified their dicks were going to fall off for humping the wrong person.  Now it’s easy for them to slap a mask on their face.

  19. 19.

    charon

    @Quinerly:

    I truly think Covid will be the reason Biden wins, if he wins.

    I think Covid is what made this thing close. People want to go back to work and play, Biden might spoil their fun with lockdowns and closing bars or whatever

     

    That’s what all those polls saying Trump is “better on the economy” mean.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    SARSCoV2 ‘superspreading’ events play outsized role in overall disease transmission

    Rated True by the Anyone With Two Brain Cells To Rub Together Institute

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    After today I am more of, ok you all voted for death, well then let’s open all the bars, sports stadiums and theaters and go for it until you all hand enough pain. 

    Horrible idea (I know you’re not serious) but I totally feel you on the “Fine!  Get the virus, you selfish fuckers!” attitude.

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