Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday/Thursday, Nov. 4-5

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  1. 1.

    Lapassionara

    Thanks again, AL, for all you do with this in formation.

    does anyone know how to find a county’s positivity rate? I have gone my county health department website, but cannot find it there,

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    Denmark plans to cull up to 17 million mink, the country’s entire population, after reports that the animals could pass a coronavirus mutation to humans. The announcement came from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a press conference, and there are currently no published scientific reports on the mutation or its effects.

    The virus has been found at over 200 mink farms in Denmark, which produces most of the world’s mink fur. Over a million animals were already culled on Danish farms in October. This summer, about 100,000 mink were culled in Spain after similar outbreaks. Outbreaks on mink farms in Utah killed thousands of animals.

    Denmark’s announcement comes after 12 people in the country were found to be infected with a type of the novel coronavirus that had also been found on mink farms.… Source

  3. 3.

    Bruce K

    Greece is locking down on Saturday morning for three weeks, until November 30. The daily case numbers have gone up ten-fold in the last month, from 229 on October 4 to 2,646 on November 4. Spare capacity in ICUs is declining, nearly gone in the north. Retail stores will be closed, travel between regions is banned, and specific permission (via text message or paper forms) will be required to leave homes.

    Some hoax, huh?

  4. 4.

    Rusty

    A lame dunk Trump is not only going to let the epidemic keep spiralling up here, but take down the infrastructure we need to fight back to control.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,009 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 36,434 cases. He reports six deaths for a total of 277 deaths — 0.8% of the cumulative reported total, 1.07% of resolved cases.

    Meanwhile, 839 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 25,654 patients recovered — 70.1% of the cumulative reported total.

    Five new clusters were identified today: Danau in KL, Sutera and Ria-30 in Sabah, Tamar in Selangor, and Intan in Penang.

    1,000 new cases are from local infection. Sabah has 564 cases: 102 in older clusters, 15 in Sutera cluster, two in Ria-30 cluster, 254 close-contact screenings, and 191 other screenings. Selangor has 177 cases: 82 in older clusters, one in Tamar cluster, 53 close-contact screenings, three persons back from high-risk zones in Sabah, one SARI screening, and 37 other screenings. Labuan has 92 cases: 31 in existing clusters, 43 close-contact screenings, and 18 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 90 cases: 71 in existing clusters, 16 close-contact screening, and three other screenings.

    Penang has 36 cases: 31 in existing clusters, three in Intan cluster, and two other screenings. Sarawak has six cases: four in existing clusters, and two other screenings. Kedah has seven cases, all in existing clusters. KL has 14 cases: two in older clusters, four in Danau cluster, three close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Putrajaya has one case, in other screening. Johore has two cases: a  close-contact screening, and one other screening. Kelantan two cases, both close-contact screenings. Perak has six cases: two in existing clusters, and four other screenings. Melaka has five cases, all in existing clusters.

    Perlis, Kelantan, Terengganu, and Pahang reported no new cases today.

    Nine new cases are imported, involving four Malaysians and five non-Malaysians. They arrived from India (two), Kazakhstan, Indonesia, South Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico, and Cambodia.

    10,503 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 78 are in ICU, of whom 28 are on ventilators.

    The six deaths today include two non-Malaysians. All but one were reported in Sabah. They are a 61-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and heart failure; a 62-year-old man with hypertension, stroke, and tuberculosis; a 54-year-old man with hypertension; a 72-year-old man with with diabetes, hypertension, and kidney stones; an 80-year-old man with with diabetes, hypertension, gout and limb paralysis; and a 92-year-old woman.

  6. 6.

    John S.

    @Rusty: And he has the approval of 69 million Americans who voted for more death and destruction.

    Many of them are personally going to see their wishes fulfilled.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    It’s the first day of Lockdown 2: You Mean The Hoax Was True!?!? in England and just by looking out of my front window I can see that all of the carve outs, exemptions and general atmosphere of “Well if it’s not going to apply to them why should it apply to me?” this shitty Government has fostered has led to zero reduction in traffic or general footfall. It might change as the weeks go by but right now, you wouldn’t know anything was different.

    Makes you proud to be British English Northern a culturally Narnian exile.

  9. 9.

    Zzyzx

    King County (where Seattle is) has been insanely consistent throughout this. Since March, a good day has been around 50 new cases and a bad one has been in the low 200 range. Last week had two days over 300 which was scary but we went back down to our normal range. Yesterday had over 500.

  10. 10.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 8 new domestic confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic, under isolation) and 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all are traced close contacts already under quarantine), all at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region. There are now 72 confirmed cases (including 8 in serious condition) and 339 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang. Kashgar is finishing up the 4th round of mass screening of all residents. It seems that the testing of close contacts under quarantine happens at the same time as the mass screenings, except mass screening of the general population utilizes sample pooling, while the close contacts are tested on an individual basis. This is why every few days there is a lump of new asymptomatic cases, they represent the number of people who developed detectable amount of virus between rounds of mass screening.

    During the 1st wave in China in Jan. – Mar., there were several outbreaks in correction facilities, one of the worst was in Rencheng Prison in Shandong Province, where 207 inmates and staff were infected. A Chinese court in the province has just concluded the proceedings against several being held responsible: deputy chief of Shandong Province’s Bureau of Corrections, Warden and Deputy Warden of Rencheng Prison, and 2 correction officers. One of the correction officers lied about hosting an acquaintance from Wuhan in late Jan., who turned out to be an infected case that in turn infected the officer. The other officer entered the Prison under lock down while having symptoms, and failed to report the symptoms. The prisons leadership failed to implement epidemic control measures and continued to allow the inmates to congregate and socialize across zones and floors. The deputy chief of the provincial Bureau of Corrections was the leader of the COVID-19 prevention task force for the prisons system the province. All accused pled guilty of criminal negligence, sentencing is scheduled to a later date. Chinese criminal justice system being what it is, particularly in cases deemed politically sensitive, the outcomes cannot be assumed to be just (for example, why did the chief of the Bureau of Corrections get off light), but it is a measure of accountability. It is also a signaling exercise to the rest of the Party/State bureaucracy, and the population, that COVID-19 prevention remains of the highest priority to the CCP regime.

    Yesterday, China reported 20 new imported confirmed cases and 22 imported asymptomatic cases and 3 new imported suspect case:

    * Shanghai Municipality – 8 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Argentina (via Germany), France and the UK, a Polish national coming from Poland (via Helsinki), an Afghan national coming fro Pakistan (via the UAE), a Spanish national coming from the UAE, a South Korean national coming from Mexico (via the US), and a Dutch national coming from the Netherlands; 2 suspect cases, no information released
    * Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 4 confirmed case (2 previously asymptomatic), the 2 new cases are Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan; 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar
    * Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Spain and 1 from Belgium; 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese National returning from Italy (via Belgium)
    * Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 2 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    * Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 2 confirmed (1 previously suspect) and 1 suspect cases, no information released
    * Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Sweden (via Copenhagen), the case apparently was symptomatic with COVID-19 and tested positive in Sweden in mid-Oct., self-medicated and seemingly recovered and tested negative twice in late Oct. in Sweden before heading to China on 11/3, but tested positive upon entry and has been clinically diagnosed as a confirmed case
    * Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Tanzania
    * Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia
    * Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines, and 1 each from the UAE and South Korea
    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines and 1 from the UAE
    * Wuhan in Hubei Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Indian nationals coming from India (one the same charter flight I mentioned yesterday, which had previously found 4 confirmed and 19 asymptomatic cases)
    * Beihai Port in Guangxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, an Indian crew member off a cargo ship
    * Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the US (via Seoul-Inchon)
    * Not sure where is the last imported asymptomatic case located

    In light of the surging 2nd wave in Europe, China is once again suspending long term multi-entry visas and residence permits, starting from the UK. Anyone with special circumstances that need to enter China has to apply for special visas at the Chinese embassy. Expect this policy to be rolled out across nationals with rapidly escalating situations.

    Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 7 new cases, 1 from local transmission, source of infection not identified.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Lapassionara: Missouri Dashboard, County page.

    It’s a bit fucked up. They put up the positivity rate for STL county at 10.11%. But that is by the “state method” as opposed to the “CDC method” and I haven’t bothered diving into the details enough to figure out the difference. I just watch the trends.

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science

    Irresponsible, koala-having bastards!

    Hehe, “by putting faith in science” “Please God, let this experiment work!”

  13. 13.

    Butter emails

    Have to love that framing. Whoever wins has to tackle Coronavirus. How about let’s tackle it now instead of waiting until January.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tony Jay:

    Malaysia’s PM has also been flailing about, though not in quite the same way. Muhyiddin Yassin’s problem is that he faces a fight to stay in his job, against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who’s been claiming he has more support in Parliament than Muhyiddin. Last week, Muhyiddin had an audience with His Majesty the Agong, wherein he recommended that His Majesty declare a state of emergency to deal with Covid-19: suspension of the Constitution, plenary powers granted to the PM and cabinet. Surprisingly, the Agong turned him down, which is like the Queen telling BoJo to sod off back to No. 10. The National Palace statement on the audience even said an emergency wasn’t needed.

    This week, Muhyiddin demanded — in a Facebook post, of all places — that the Covid-safe standard operating procedures for sports and social activities be tightened up because of the current third wave of infections. As terrible as the numbers look, they are in fact not attributable to sports and social activities; the Health Ministry’s advice to the National Security Council is that the cause is infected illegal immigrants from the Philippines and Indonesia coming in via Sabah’s long coastline. For which the obvious solution is improved border enforcement and better protocols for handling immigration detainees, and that’s already being done.

    It does seem to me that Muhyiddin has been trying to look more proactive, more prime ministerial, in a crisis whose management has largely been well-handled by others, namely the Heath Ministry and the National Security Council.

  15. 15.

    BC in Illinois

    With regard to the mask-wearing, social distancing Archbishop, may I refer him to Matthew 4:7.

    • “Don’t tempt the Lord your God.”
    • “Don’t put the Lord, your God, to the test.”
    • “Don’t try me, Buster.”
  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Butter emails:

    How about let’s tackle it now instead of waiting until January. 

    Look at you – wanting Dump and his traitorous band of motherfucking mobsters to start working for the people.

  17. 17.

    Sloane Ranger

    Like Tony Jay, I’m not seeing much difference between yesterday and today and, despite my work having been partially done already thanks to AL, I will cover yesterday’s figures for the UK.

    There were 25,177 new cases yesterday, a massive explosion of @5000 cases from the day before. The figures for all home nations are up. By home nation,

    England – 21,863 (up @4500)

    Northern Ireland – 679 (up @100)

    Scotland – 1433 (up @400)

    Wales – 1202 (up @100).

    The latest R rate is estimated at between 1.1 to 1.3 with a daily growth infection rate of 2-4%. This is actually a reduction from the previous figure.

    Deaths – There were 492 new deaths yesterday, an increase of 100 from the day before. 388 in England, 10 in Northern Ireland, 50 in Scotland and 44 in Wales. Those are massive death figures for Scotland and Wales, given their populations.

    Testing – 265,024 tests were processed out of a capacity of 526,367. Mentioning something from YY_Sima Qian a few days ago, it seems a bit pointless increasing capacity if it’s not used. Hopefully we will see processing figures improve.

    Hospitalisations – There were 12,320 people in hospital as of 2nd November and 1142 people on ventilators on the 3rd. Both increasing.

    That’s all really. My MP, Peter Bone was one of 38 backbenchers who voted against the 2nd lockdown but, with Opposition support, the government won handily with 516 to 38. Oh! And I had a home delivery from my supermarket yesterday and they left the security lock on the whisky bottle. fortunately, I found a video online showing how to remove it with everyday kitchen utensils, so I didn’t have to go to the supermarket to get it removed. It was fairly simple. Doesn’t seem any point having the lock if it’s that easy.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    @Butter emails:

    When Trump said nobody would be talking about Covid, Covid, Covid on November 4, he meant it. It’s obviously not true, but he did really mean to say every word of his transparent lie

  20. 20.

    The Fat White Duchess

    @BC in Illinois:  Nitpick: a Patriarch isn’t an Archbishop. More like a Pope, though each Orthodox Christian national church has its own Patriarch and the more-or-less united Orthodox churches have no single leader. (At least one of the national churches—Egyptian/Coptic, IIRC—does refer to its patriarch as Pope.)

  21. 21.

    Tony Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Wow, getting slapped down by a constitutional monarch certainly is indicative of a serious level of institutional weakness as well as being a honking warning sign that either your people don’t know how to do basic prep work or, more ominously, the people who should have warned you in advance it wouldn’t fly allowed you to embarrass yourself to make a point.

    It’s the kind of thing that would never happen over here, at least not to a Conservative PM. I still maintain that Johnson’s slothful failure to address the Coronavirus Pandemic properly is partially due to his (well founded) expectation that he, as a Conservative PM and a figurehead for very well-funded interests) exists within a comfortable buffer-zone of Media bias so thick that he’d have to do something really and truly outrageous (like shooting a man on Regent’s Street or raising taxes on the super-rich by a few pennies) before they’d start judging him on his record. He knows he can get away with it because he always has. Makes a lazy buffoon even lazier.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    The military has had 58,968 cases of the coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to the Pentagon’s cumulative case chart posted online. About 755 service members have been hospitalized and 39,012 have recovered.

    Am I crazy?  If I subtract 39,012 (recovered) from 58,968 (cases), that leaves 20,000 military members dead from COVID.  Am I missing something?  Why don’t they say that?  (or maybe they did in the article, but it seems it should have been in the tweet)

  24. 24.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Tony Jay:

    It’s the first day of Lockdown 2: You Mean The Hoax Was True!?!? in England

    And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!

  27. 27.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Sloane Ranger: Still no advertising campaign to encourage people to take advantage of the increased testing capacity, or mandate regular screening of high risk essential workers? Makes me think the  planned increase to 1M by year’s end is more of a PR exercise…

    Alas, Trump and the GOP would not even fake the effort.

  28. 28.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Amir Khalid: Sabah seems to be oscillating around the previous high level of infection rates again. Why is the lock down not having a more significant impact? Is compliance not high enough, or more clusters are being seeded by continued flow of illegal migrants from the Philippines and Indonesia?

  29. 29.

    Sloane Ranger

    @YY_Sima Qian: 

    Still no advertising campaign to encourage people to take advantage of the increased testing capacity, or mandate regular screening of high risk essential workers? Makes me think the planned increase to 1M by year’s end is more of a PR exercise…

    No advertising effort as far as I can see, I don’t watch a lot of TV but there’s nothing on the radio or online.

    There is a push about some super duper DIY test which will allow people to test themselves regularly. They are trialling/planning to trial it on Merseyside. Tony Jay may know more on this if he’s still around.

    You’re not the first person to suggest the 1 million target was PR. If memory serves, and its not as good as it used to be, I think that target was scaled back from 2 million.

  32. 32.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @WaterGirl: 10 months into the pandemic, over 20K US military personnel being active cases (755 hospitalized + the balance that are presumably asymptomatic or mild) suggest case load in the US armed forces is surging along with the civilian population. Asymptomatic only take approximately 3 weeks on average to test negative and are deemed recovered.

  33. 33.

    YY_Sima Qian

    The news out of Denmark about the mutation from minks spooked me when I first read about it earlier today. The mutations seems to induce weaker human antibody response, which throws the efficacy of current vaccines under development into questions.

    That is why it is a very bad idea to allow COVID-19 to burn through the population, even less vulnerable population. More hosts (human and animal), means more opportunities for mutation. Hopefully that particular strain is better adapted to minks, and is thus now less well suited to humans (though its predecessor obvious infected minks from humans), so less infectious. However, Denmark is not the only nation with a large mink farming industry, significant outbreaks among in the mink population, but has been the most energetic in response. The Netherlands and Belgium somewhat less so, and Poland and the US has not done much at all.

  34. 34.

    Jay

    Day 9 of Quarantine, Isolation now.
    Tested positive yesterday, ( results, test was Sunday),
    Temp 103,
    Pulse 110,
    Oxy, 56.

    Gonna check my oxy every hour for a while, my normal is 95/96, and I know that “not make it to hospital” is in the 40’s.

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    Thanks, Anne L for putting this data together every day.

    This is my main source of world wide Trump Plague information. Without it I would be more ignorant than I already am.

  36. 36.

    VOR

    @Amir Khalid:  If we are lucky, Trump will simply ignore COVID until his term is up. I doubt we are that lucky so I expect outright malevolence. He’s already had it so he’s immune, or at least he keeps claiming at rallies.

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