Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The willow is too close to the house.

“woke” is the new caravan.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

In my day, never was longer.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Republicans in disarray!

The revolution will be supervised.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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  3. 3.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY yesterday:

    New cases = 177. Deaths at 1069
    Positivity at 2.2%
    323 in the hospital, 74 in the ICU
    40% hospital beds available, 35% ICU beds available

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    I have been trying to get a vaccination appointment for weeks. Reading stories, following every link, signing up for notifications.

    I went to order some groceries.
    Get to the website, and they have, click on here for the pharmacy and vaccine information. I do it, thinking that I am going to get the same

    ” just sign up and you will be notified ” that I got at CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.

    I just got an appointment for THIS THURSDAY!!??

  6. 6.

    Gvg

    Lasko is Arizona. Glad she isn’t Florida, although we are bad in different ways, I can’t imagine a GOP rep saying that here…I am hoping deSantos loses in 2022. I can’t judge because I haven’t seen the appeal for any republican in 15 years. They are all so toxic.
    I have seen Covid vaccination people at my local grocery store. They didn’t seem busy yet.

  8. 8.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 2/14 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Hebei Province

    Hebei Provincial Health Commission reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 1 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 153 domestic confirmed cases (134 moderate and 19 mild) & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province:

    • At Xingtai, there are currently 21 domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Shijiazhuang reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at the epicenter village of the epicenter township in Gaocheng District. The case was placed under nominal home quarantine on 1/3, at the outset of the outbreak, and was placed under centralized quarantine on 1/10, with all the other residents from villages with concentrated outbreaks. The case had tested negative on RT-PCR multiple times throughout, and negative on antibodies once. The case developed a fever on 2/13 and was sent to hospital via negative pressure ambulance. It is not clear whether the case had been released from centralized quarantine before developing symptoms, and whether the case was infected before, during or after centralized quarantine. I recall that centralized quarantine at Shijiazhuang has been 21 days, followed by another 7 days of at home observation. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. Currently, there are 132 confirmed cases & 9 asymptomatic cases. Gaocheng District remains at Medium Risk.

     

    Heilongjiang Province

    Heilongjiang Provincial Health Commission reported that 33 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 27 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 92 domestic confirmed (62 moderate and 30 mild) & 93 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.:

    • At Suihua, 19 confirmed cases recovered & 15 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 64 domestic confirmed & 61 domestic asymptomatic cases there. Wangkui County remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Harbin, 14 domestic confirmed case recovered & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 28 domestic confirmed & 32 asymptomatic cases there. 3 sub-districts remain at High Risk. 1 sub-district, 1 township & 1 village were re-designated from Medium Risk to Low Risk. 3 sub-districts &1 townships remain at Medium Risk.

     

    Jilin Province 

    Jilin Provincial Heath Commission reported that 12 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 108 domestic confirmed (2 critical, 6 serious, 73 moderate and 27 mild) & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases:

    • At Songyuan, there are 2 domestic confirmed cases there.
    • At Tonghua, 12 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 83 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 village, 9 buildings & 13 residential compounds were re-designated from High Risk to Low Risk. 3 buildings & 13 residential compounds within Dongchang District remain at High Risk.
    • At Changchun, there are currently 23 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. The Medium Risk township has been re-designated as Low Risk.

     

    Imported Cases

    On 2/14 China reported 8 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Zambia (via Nairobi) & Bahrain (via Muscat); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the DRC (via Nairobi) & Mexico (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Mozambique; 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Mozambique & South Africa
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Bangladesh; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the UAE; both off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the US, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Niger (via Paris CdG)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Guinea (via Paris CdG)
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Pakistan, off a flight diverted from Beijing
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Algeria & Egypt, and an Egyptian national coming from Egypt
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Egypt

     

    Overall in China, 61 confirmed cases recovered, 39 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation and 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,615 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 637 active confirmed cases in the country (236 imported), 11 are in critical/serious condition (3 imported), 396 asymptomatic cases (283 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 10,129 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    On 2/15 Hong Kong reported 9 new cases, 5 imported (from Indonesia, the Philippines, India & Poland) & 4 domestic (3 of whom do not yet have source of infection identified).

  9. 9.

    Chyron HR

    ‘This strain is in blue states’: Ron DeSantis blows off coronavirus mutations in Florida

    “I know last time we said the virus would only kill Democrats and ni**ers, but this time the virus will DEFINITELY only kill Democrats and ni**ers!”

  15. 15.

    Central Planning

    I just got my in-laws (in their 80s) registered. Appointment is about 5 weeks out, but at least they are in. Monroe County, NY has the shittiest registration website. Ugh.

  16. 16.

    Mary G

    @rikyrah: Hurray! ?

    It is a shock when you’ve been clicking and clicking and suddenly there it is.

    The OC continues to improve rapidly; finally we have 15% ICU beds available. CA vaccination counts are a mess. We now have a second super site in the parking lot of a university so things are progressing.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,176 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 266,445 cases. He also reports 10 new deaths today for a cumulative total of 975 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.44% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 47,135 active and contagious cases; 260 are in ICU, 112 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 4,521 patients recovered and were discharged, over twice as many as tested positive today, for a cumulative total of 218,335 patients recovered – 81.9% of the cumulative reported total.

    13 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Kepong, Jalan Tropicana, Jalan Bursa, Jalan Tiga Belas, and Jalan Cheras in Selangor; Jalan Baru and Persiaran Mutiara building site in Penang; Jalan Jinjang in Kuala Lumpur; Jalan Senai Utama in Johor; Teknologi Lot 6 in Melaka; Guntong Dalam and Pengkalan Teras in Terengganu; and Tembok Tapah in Perak.

    Pengkalan Teras is a community cluster. Tembok Tapah is a prison cluster. Jalan Cheras is a high-risk group cluster. The rest are all workplace clusters.

    2,175 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 910 cases: 107 in older clusters; 42 in Jalan Kepong, Jalan Tropicana, Jalan Bursa, Jalan Tiga Belas, and Jalan Cheras clusters, 575 close-contact screenings; and 186 other screenings. Johor reports 269 cases: 33 in older clusters, 131 in Jalan Senai Utama cluster, 61 close-contact screenings; and 44 other screenings. Sarawak reports 246 cases: 36 in existing clusters, 41 close-contact screenings; and 169 other screenings.

    Kula Lumpur reports 181 local cases: 40 in older clusters, 12 in Jalan Jinjang cluster, 56 close-contact screenings; and 73 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 145 cases: 26 in existing clusters, 58 close-contact screenings, and 55 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 97 cases: 26 in existing clusters, 52 close-contact screenings, and 19 other screenings. Penang reports 91 cases: 18 in older clusters; 25 in Jalan Baru and Persiaran Mutiara building site clusters, 20 close-contact screenings; and 28 other screenings. Perak reports 83 cases: 60 in older clusters, four in Tembok Tapah cluster, 14 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Terengganu reports 53 cases: four in older clusters; 19 in Guntong Dalam and Pengkalan Teras clusters, nine close-contact screenings; and 21 other screenings. Kedah reports 33 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and 112 other screenings. Kelantan reports 31 cases: eight in existing clusters, 17 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings.

    Pahang reports 15 cases: one in an existing cluster, 11 close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Melaka reports 14 cases: six in existing clusters, six close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. And Putrajaya reports seven cases: four close-contact screenings, and three other screenings.

    Labuan and Perlis report no new cases today.

    One new case is imported, in Kuala Lumpur.

    The deaths reported today are a 57-year-old woman in Sabah with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and asthma; a 65-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and stroke; a 71-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; a 71-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes, hypertension,chronic kidney disease, heart disease, and chronic obstructive airway disease; a 96-year-old woman in Selangor with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and breast cancer; a 69-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; an 88-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes and hypertension; an 85-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension, heart disease, and Henoch-Schönlein purpura; a 66-year-old man in Johor with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; and a 91-year-old woman in Perak with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and dyslipidaemia.

  21. 21.

    Platonicspoof

    Not the biggest millstone around her neck, but the Raw Story page with the DeSantis story also happens to have a different story about Noem possibly mixing personal and official use of state aircraft:

    In the Mount Rushmore State, all this would not be just an ethics lapse; state law forbids the use of a state-owned aircraft for anything other than state business. There are no exceptions, and the law mandates fines of ten times the cost of the flight for a plane’s misuse.

  23. 23.

    Mousebumples

    @rikyrah: congrats!

    In related news, Wisconsin has just started having Walgreens (and probably other community pharmacies) help with COVID vaccination.

    It was great to see positive stories from my former coworkers on Facebook. Everyone getting the shots seemed to be so excited to finally get their first Fauci ouchie. ?

  25. 25.

    DanielsBob

    After nearly a month of waiting for my county health department to tell me I could get vaccinated there I decided to explore other options. Last Friday I went to the CVS website, answered all the eligibility questions, chose the location closest to me (six miles), was given option of Saturday or Monday for an appointment, chose time…”vaccine not available at this location”. Profanity ensued. Tried five more times with different choices of day and time with same result. More profanity. Deep breath and tried again. Success! Got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at 2pm Saturday. Minor pain at the injection site yesterday, no pain this morning. Be persistent.

  26. 26.

    Matt McIrvin

    I’m going to get a COVID test today in preparation for knee surgery, but it’ll be a very long time before I’m eligible for vaccination. My in-laws only got theirs because they do volunteer work with people over 75.

    At least the rate of vaccination has spun up a bit in MA and I have some faith that I’ll be able to get mine before the fall.

  27. 27.

    NeenerNeener

    Thanks to Central Planning for the alert that Monroe County has a sign up website. I found it and got signed up for April 2nd, now that they’re accepting appointments from folks taking immunosuppressants. I’m hoping the snow will be over by then.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterday in the UK we had 10,972 new cases. This is a decrease of approx. 2300 from the day before and a reduction of 28.1% in the rolling 7-day average. Caution should, as always, be exercised with weekend figures. New cases by nation,

    England – 9499 (down @2200)

    Northern Ireland – 176 (down @120)

    Scotland – 903 (down 5)

    Wales – 394 (down 6).

    Deaths – There were 258 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 25.5% in the rolling 7-day average. New deaths by nation, England – 228, Northern Ireland – 11, Scotland – 4 and Wales – 15.

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated.

    Vaccinations – As of 13 February, 15,062,189 people had received the 1st dose of a vaccine and 537,715 their 2nd dose.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    I don’t want to jinx it, but MCO 2.0 (as the media here are calling the current movement control order status) appears to be working; the daily new-cases number is trending down from the peak of 5,725 on 29th January. And the state of Selangor is below 1,000 new cases for the first time in weeks.

  30. 30.

    PaulB

    As always, thank you for these posts, Ms. Laurie. Your efforts have been incredible and are very much appreciated. Another couple of stories today:

    “The Associated Press collaborated with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab on a nine-month investigation to identify the people and organizations behind some of the most viral misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus. Their claims were explosive. Their evidence was weak. These are the superspreaders.”

    And perhaps the biggest superspreader of all: “But it was China — not Russia – that took the lead in spreading foreign disinformation about COVID-19’s origins, as it came under attack for its early handling of the outbreak.”

  32. 32.

    Jean

    Here in VA, Chesterfield County, it’s nearly impossible to find an opening at Bon Secours Hospital (Richmond or Hampton), CVS, or Walgreens.  Tomorrow, the new state-wide registration begins where all the local health department registrations will be migrated.  We will be able to verify that we’re registered there.  One friend drove 5 hours to a CVS to get vaccinated when that location was the only one that had ONE opening.  It’s beyond frustrating and I am in 1B.  Compared to others’ stories, the rollout and appointment process seems bad to me.  I get that it’s a supply/demand problem, but it seems less complicated in other places.  I especially feel bad for people who do not have computer access or, if they do, do not understand how to register, search, etc.

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    @raven:  It does seem that if you have the time and ability and keep at it, you can get the shot, but not everyone can sit at their computer and click and click and click, especially the essential workers, who should be close to first up.

  34. 34.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    @prostratedragon: 
    We’re working hard to overcome the morons (i.e., Republicans, like Lesko) here in AZ. We’ve got 5 of 9 US House Reps as Dem (been that way for several election cycles), and now both US Senators. And of course, we went for Biden (if just barely).

    Lesko the bigot Republican (but I repeat myself) represents some suburbs and rural areas west of Phoenix, including the retirement towns of Sun City and Youngtown (hah!) and others that are the sorts of places people outside the state often imagine when they think of AZ. After spending some years mucking around in our legislature, she replaced long-time GOP congressman Trent Franks in ’18 when that asshole had to resign over sexual harassment charges by some on his staff. That was a big shock to everyone (not).

    Fortunately, in regards to her wholly unsurprising statement referenced here about Hispanics and vaccines, she hasn’t a damn thing to do with our vaccination program here.

  36. 36.

    StringOnAStick

    Oregon is still at 80+ and have teachers priority first so kids can get back in school.  I have a suspicion that blue states plus how pissed tRump was about Portland is how we’ve had less vaccine in the pipeline to here in the earliest period, just as we can all suspect that had he won another term, blue states and areas would have gotten none and red states would be rolling in extra doses.

  38. 38.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Rep. Lesko: Hispanic people are ‘very good workers’ — but shouldn’t get vaccines.

    As I predicted, the fucking mico-second the Upper Classes start to feel safe they will look for excuses not to vaccinate everyone else.

  39. 39.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: “they will look for excuses not to vaccinate everyone else”

    Which, of course, is not how this works, like, at all.

    Plus, as a side note, Rep Lesko is not any kind of Upper Class, she’s a bootlicking servant of that group. She’s essentially a low-rent version of Trump: fucked up personal life and operating shady businesses (her first husband went to jail for fraud, they were later both sued and filed bankruptcies involving their business in construction). She’s a member of the Freedumb Caucus, which represented the lowest fascist level in Congress till the Q psychos showed up. Likely to continue getting re-elected in her district for the foreseeable — the reactionary authoritarian ethno-nationalism (aka, American-style fascism) is strong with the wypipo on the west side here, particularly with the geriatric assholes in Sun City. She pretty accurately represents them, actually.

  41. 41.

    Malovich

    Of course DeSantis thinks it’s a Blue state problem, he sure as fuck won’t admit it’s in his state or a problem there. Alternate Reality! I Win! You Lose!

    So, Florida, what’s it like being governed by a five-year-old that didn’t pass the marshmellow test?

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    Suzanne

    @rikyrah: Debbie Lesko is from Arizona, where a lot of undocumented workers live, and I will note that the level of professionalism I experienced from every tradesman and -woman I worked with there was ten times as high as I am experiencing here, which is full of unionized white dudes who will not even return your phone calls and act like working for you is a favor they do for you, rather than a paying job.

    I hope it isn’t racist to say that immigrants, documented or otherwise, get the job done.

  44. 44.

    Suzanne

    @Spinoza Is My Co-pilot: I moved from TEMPE/Chandler to Pittsburgh last year, and FUCK I will say that the work culture in the construction trades is totally different here compared to AZ/NV/SoCal. People here are lazy in comparison.

  46. 46.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    @Suzanne: 

    I live in Chandler now, whaddya know about that!?

    I grew up WWC in Cleveland (most of the working adults — mostly dads, some moms even 50-60 years ago — were factory workers or in a trade craft). I moved to AZ 40 years ago as a young, newly-married man just starting a family, working in building construction and engineering, where I spent the rest of my career till retiring recently.

    The pipefitters here would joke specifically about fitters from Cleveland being lazy (particularly when work here would be in a boom cycle and travelers would come in from all over to work out of a hiring hall). Generally true or not (I hate to think this accurately reflected the work ethic of several of my childhood friends’ dads who worked in that trade) I have to say the one fitter I know personally still working in Cleveland (son of a family friend) fits this caricature all too well.

    And Debbie Lesko wouldn’t last one day doing the typical work the Hispanic people she’d deny vaccinations do all their lives. She’s an especially despicable fucking fascist, and that’s saying something.

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