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Bark louder, little dog.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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This blog will pay for itself.

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

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday/Thursday, March 10-11

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY yesterday:

    New cases = 115. Now at 1173 deaths, up from 1166.
    Positivity at 1.6%
    158 cases in the hospital, 40 in the ICU
    41% hospital beds available, 37% ICU beds available.

    I managed to score a vaccine appointment at Wegmans next Tuesday, much closer to my home and 2 weeks sooner than my first appointment try.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,647 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 319,364 cases. He also reports nine new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,200 deaths — 0.38% of the cumulative reported total, 0.40% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 17,544 active and contagious cases; 147 are in ICU, 61 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,104 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 300,620 patients recovered – 94.1% of the cumulative reported total.

    Five new clusters were reported today: Teknologi Tenggara and Jalan Masyhur Enam in Johor; Jalan Kenangan building site in Selangor; Machap Umboo Immigration Detention Depot in Melaka; and Jambatan Satu Bombalai in Sabah.

    Jambatan Satu Bombalai is a community cluster. Machap Umboo Immigration Detention Depot is a prison cluster. The rest are workplace clusters.

    1,642 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 711 local cases: 110 in older clusters, 31 in Jalan Kenangan building site cluster, 478 close-contact screenings, and 92 other screenings. Johor reports 168 local cases: 51 in older clusters, 51 in Teknologi Tenggara and Jalan Masyhur Enam clusters, 30 close-contact screenings, and 36 other screenings. Penang reports 169 cases: 107 in existing clusters, 15 close-contact screenings, and 47 other screenings. Sarawak reports 167 local cases: 42 in existing clusters, 94 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 85 local cases: seven in existing clusters, 50 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 79 cases: 73 in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Melaka reports 71 cases: one in an older cluster, 67 in Machap Umboo Immigration Detention Depot cluster, and one case found in other screening. Perak reports 69 cases: 46 in existing clusters, 16 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings. Sabah reports 61 cases: five in older clusters, four in Jambatan Satu Bombalai cluster, 41 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Kelantan reports 28 cases: three in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 18 cases: three in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Pahang reports seven cases: six in existing clusters, and one close-contact screening. Terengganu reports four cases, all close-contact screenings. Putrajaya reports two cases, both close-contact screenings. Perlis reports two cases, both in existing clusters. And Labuan reports one case, found in other screening.

    Five new cases today are imported: two in Johor, one in Kuala Lumpur, one in Selangor, and one in Sarawak.

    The deaths reported today are a 58-year-old woman in Perak with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 64-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, dyslipidaemia, and stroke; a 67-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; a 78-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension and heart disease; a 71-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 73-year-old man in Srlngor with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 75-year-old woman in Johor with diabetes and hypertension; a 48-year-old woman in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; and a 58-year-old woman in Johor, DOA with diabetes.

  4. 4.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 3/10 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 3/10 China reported 11 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from France & 1 each from the UAE, Ethiopia (via Vienna) & North Macedonia (via Vienna)
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 1 Chinese national each returning from Myanmar, Hungary (via Germany) & Mozambique (via Kathmandu); 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Algeria & 1 from Myanmar
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Saudi Arabia; 2 asymptomatic case, 1 Chinese national each returning from Bangladesh & the US
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Mozambique, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Australia
    • Tianjin Municipality – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Chongqing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Nepal

     

    Overall in China, 7 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 235 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 181 active confirmed cases in the country (176 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 247 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 4,751 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    On 3/11 Hong Kong reported 22 new cases, 3 imported (from Indonesia & Belgium) & 19 domestic (3 of whom do not yet have source of infection identified).

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    Weigel needs someone to manage his Twitter account. I’ll do it for 75K per year.

  6. 6.

    lowtechcyclist

    That Daytona motorcycle rally needs a catchy name.

    I nominate “Son of Sturgis”

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    Absent an immediate change in trending data, Brazil will move to occupying the number 2 spot of countries with most reported total cases by next week, leaving India as the new number 3.

  11. 11.

    MagdaInBlack

    Our painter ( body shop ) goes to that Daytona thing every year. I’m pleased to note, not this year.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    The ad is terrific and I do hope that people get vaccinated.   Gov. Kemp thinks that vaccinations will open up to everyone starting on April 1in GA.    Schumer said the same thing in NY a few days ago.    No fools allowed this year, please.   My concern is that as numbers decrease, people will forgo getting vaccinated.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    Was all I could do to restrain myself from screaming at my landlady when she insisted on showing me crap she received in the mail about “hundreds of deaths” and “thousands of cases of serious chronic illness” from the vaccine which are being “covered up.” All from a company which markets so-called health supplements.

    “Look, it’s written by a doctor,” says she.

    “A doctor who is paid by the company to write it,” says I. “They want to scare you into buying their products in place of or as a phony remedy for the vaccine. Just because someone has Dr. by his name doesn’t mean he’s a good doctor.”

    Her second shot was a bit over a month ago and now she’s all upset that she is going to develop some terrible illness from it. I was most forceful in trying to get through to her that she has had no problems or symptoms of any kind over that period and anything that might possibly now show up is not a sign of causation.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Gonna make my first attempt at getting vaccinated today at a mass vaccination site down in Potosi. I say “attempt” because beyond when and where, info of exactly who and what is impossible to get. So I’m just gonna show up and see what happens. At worst they’ll say “No.” and I’ve already got that.

  19. 19.

    cmorenc

    Got my 2nd Pfizer shot Tue morning.  Only side effect was an atypical amount of drowsy fatigue last night, but I’m fine this morning.

  21. 21.

    Matt McIrvin

    @NotMax: Despicable. I feel so sorry for people who haven’t developed strong mental antibodies against this sort of thing.

  23. 23.

    Spanky

    @Catherine D.: I got an email yesterday from my PCP with a link to register (asap) at the county website for both Moderna shots. First one is today, and 2nd is mid-April.

     

    Eta that that email was a bolt from the blue since MD has cut our county’s allotment to give to harder hit areas.

  24. 24.

    Zzyzx

    I’m sure a video of every living president EXCEPT Trump will go a long way towards persuading the vaccine skeptics because it’s not like the Republican party has been replaced by a personality cult.

  25. 25.

    prostratedragon

    Going to get vaccinated.
    Going to do it today.
    Going to get vaccinated ’cause it’s the better way.

  26. 26.

    Quinerly

    Sharing a tip that is working here in Missouri if anyone is having a problem with getting an appt for vaccine with Walmart. The fight for vaccine in St Louis has become the “Hunger Games.” Might work with other Walmarts in other locations.

    “Today I played around with setting my phone’s clock forward to midnight and getting on the Walmart site. I did this for many time zones starting with Auckland, NZ and heading west every few hours or so. I learned a lot about the weirdness that is time zone boundaries, and hit paydirt when I set my phone to Caracas, Venezuela’s time zone. Apparently Walmart loads its appointments (maybe not all) at 10 pm Central Time, but doesn’t recognize it until your phone says it’s midnight. So set your clocks to GMT -4 (Atlantic) and get to bed a little earlier.”

  28. 28.

    VOR

    @NotMax: an in-law who is into QAnon keeps muttering about the vaccine being unproven and who knows what they want to put in your body. Also that COVID is overblown fear mongering. Over 500k dead and still don’t believe it’s real.

  32. 32.

    Quinerly

    @OzarkHillbilly: did you register with the Missouri Navigator?

    I know a lot of folks are driving from St Louis to that site that registered. Also, many driving to be there at the end in hopes of scoring a left over. We were  a vaccine desert in the city/county for the 65-75 yo crowd until this week. It’s getting better since the hospitals are making headway on their lists. Folks here are driving everywhere. I mentioned Sat about driving 4 hrs one way to get a left over, since not to my tier yet. Good luck. I have some lists and a spreadsheet that is helpful re places to look if today does not work out. Let me know.

  33. 33.

    lee

    My wife & I got our first Pfizer Fauci Ouchi yesterday. She has a little soreness in her arm. My arm is really sore and I’m a bit achy all over. A couple of Advil this morning seems to have taken most of the edge off.

    Texas is expanding eligibility to 50+ on Monday. So we technically jumped the line by 5 days.

  36. 36.

    Quinerly

    @rikyrah: great. It’s working here. I joined a FB group (FB being used for good and not evil, as I say) that is crowd sourcing info and helping people. Many young folks have stepped up to help find appts for older people without computers, can’t work the system. As I mentioned, the site inspired me to plan a vaccine hunting weekend in rural areas. Scored Fri at that National Guard event 4 hrs away….left over J&J and moved on to the state park where I was planning to stay for the weekend with JoJo. If Friday hadn’t worked out, I had 2 other events picked out an hr in the other direction from the park on Sat I was going to hit. It worked out for me… The event I hit had 2000 shots. 120 people signed up for them. Ultimately they only gave 200 and something shots.

  37. 37.

    Quinerly

    @rikyrah:

    Here’s a story recounting what people in St Louis are having to do:

    “I traveled from St Louis to Cape Girardeau on March 1 knowing they were having a big event from 9-6 at the Show Me Center. The National Guard (@5:05pm)in the parking lot told me to come back at 5:45. I asked if I could stay and so I parked and got my book out…I watched people trickle in and out until about 5:25. I went into the building and saw some people to my left and the actual sign in to the right. There I was told to wait with the others hoping for a leftover on the left. I was 7th in line. A woman came through counting us and asking us what Tier we were in. I am 64, my husband has already gotten the shot and I was just hoping for an end of the day leftover. She was not encouraging and told everyone there would be less than 10 shots leftover and there was a list of people already who were going to be “ahead of us”. She quietly told me it was unlikely I’d get one. With tears in my eyes I said I had driven 2 hours and I’d wait until they closed to make sure. More people came in behind me. 2 people in line behind me were on that list she had mentioned and they were taken in. Another behind me was taken in…one ahead of me was taken in. At one point I turned around and there were only 2 people behind me. All the others must have been told they would absolutely not get a shot so were told to leave. The couple behind me were taken in and then it was my big moment. She asked if I was my husbands caregiver…OK…yes…and said I could go in. I was blown away and nervous signing in after 6pm…I was teary as the nurse gave me the Moderna shot. It would have been LONG ride back to St Louis if I had not lucked out. The other 4 ahead of me also got in. I would not recommend this as a sure fire way to get the shot but through prayer and perseverance it did work for me. It was nerve wrenching waiting and I had palpitations upon being questioned but I held my place in the leftover line and got it.”

  38. 38.

    Soprano2

    Our city council has come up with a proposed plan for how to end restrictions. Right now we’re at 50% capacity for businesses, masks required except when eating/drinking and a few other relatively rare things, distancing required when possible and no large gatherings inside allowed. At an average of fewer than 40 new cases per day and under 50 cases in the hospital for 28 days as well as 25% of the city’s eligible population being vaccinated (we’re at 19.9% right now, and it’ll really ramp up next week as a huge new tier of people become eligible for vaccination), occupancy restrictions would be removed but the mask requirement would still stay, distancing would be recommended and gatherings of under 500 people would be allowed (with masking). Venues of over 500 would still have only 50% occupancy allowed. At under 20 new cases per day and under 20 people in the hospital with COVID for 28 days, plus 50% of the eligible population vaccinated, restrictions would be removed and the ordinance would expire. The 28 day thing is about two cycles of possible COVID infection. They came up with the plan with guidance from the county health department. I think this is the best we can get down here. I’m just glad our city council has been good throughout the pandemic, with ordinances and plans, and they have resisted the relatively few but loud anti-maskers. We have a City Council election in April, and every office has an anti-masker running. I’m hoping all of those candidates lose.

    My manager at the pub knows our health director, who retired at the end of February to take a new job in St. Louis. She talked to him a couple of weeks ago, and he said it was stressful the past year plus he couldn’t take the death threats anymore! I had no idea our health director was getting death threats, holy cow!

  39. 39.

    Soprano2

    @rikyrah: We would be Brazil if 46 had not won

    God yes, Biden winning probably saved tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of live. Getting the vaccine anywhere in the U.S. would probably be like “Hunger Games”, with him rewarding the red states with more than they want and starving the blue states. He probably would have made the states bid against each other for vaccine, just like he did with PPE, and then steal a bunch of it for his wealthy donors anyway. It would have been a total shitshow.

  41. 41.

    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterday in the UK we had 5926 new cases. This is an increase of 160 from the day before but a decrease of 20.1% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 4863 (down 31)

    Northern Ireland – 147 (down @100)

    Scotland -691 (up @230)

    Wales – 225 (up @60).

    Deaths – There were 190 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 35.4% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, England – 156, Northern Ireland – 8, Scotland – 20 and Wales – 6.

    Testing – 1,374,579 tests were conducted on Tuesday, 9 March.  This is an increase of 58.8% in the rolling 7-day average. The estimated testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 771,932.

    Hospitalisations – On Monday, 8 March there were 9435 people in hospital. There were 1293 people on ventilators on Tuesday, 9 March. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions has decreased by 27.8%.

    Vaccinations – By 9 March, a total of 22,809,829 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 1,254,353 had received both shots.

  42. 42.

    gvg

    @NotMax: I wonder if there is someone you can report that fraudulent ad too. Maybe the state of FDA now that Biden is in charge. Fraudulent ads need to land people in jail anyway even without the Covid.

  43. 43.

    The Moar You Know

    One of those tweets up top mentions school nurses.  Not sure how it works elsewhere, but we don’t have them here. Just one district nurse for a wealthy Southern California school district that covers over 70 square miles.

    But I remember that each school had one when I was a little kid in Northern California.  Is that possible or is my brain lying to me?

  44. 44.

    LivinginExile

    Good.luck Ozark.  We had our second moderna  shot yesterday afternoon.  Man, I feel like shit today.  Every joint and.muscle aches like a bastard.

  45. 45.

    frosty

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’m doing the same as an out-of-stater in Mississippi today. I booked an appointment at a Walmart and haven’t heard back so I have no idea if it will work. We’ll drive over there and see.

  48. 48.

    Ruckus

    @VOR:

    Some people believe what they want to believe. Often that comes right after they decide who they want to believe. And who is rarely someone with real credentials. There is a reason that the concept of snake oil salesman has been around for a very long time, some people seem to like bullshit.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Just got my first shot (Pfizer) at Inova in Fairfax, VA. Now sitting in the post-shot monitoring area.

    The place is jumping but very well organized. My shot-giver said they will do about 2,300-2,700 today.

  50. 50.

    Laura Too

    @Steeplejack (phone): Such awesome news!!! I got J&J yesterday. Last night was tough but this morning I am fine. I am so happy when I see another BJ friend get their shot. I celebrate all of them and revel in Watergirl’s vaccine posts. Such happy news!

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