Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

No Justins, No Peace

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Let’s finish the job.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Republicans in disarray!

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

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

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday / Saturday, March 19-20

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 3/19 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 3/19 China reported 4 new imported confirmed cases, 8 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect cases:

    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Djibouti (via Istanbul), off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Turkey
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Chad
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Niger & Côte d’Ivoire (both via Paris CdG)
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Italy
    • Yunnan Province (locating not specified) – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar (via land border crossing)
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Uzbekistan, off a flight diverted from Beijing
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 suspect case, no information released

     

    Overall in China, 6 confirmed cases recovered, 9 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 465 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 162 active confirmed cases in the country (160 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 250 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 4 suspect cases (all imported). 3,423 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    On 3/20 Hong Kong reported 8 new cases, 1 imported & 7 domestic (1 of whom does not yet have source of infection identified).

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    My heart breaks about everything that I read about Brazil.

    WE would be Brazil if Dolt45 has won??

    The vaccine would be nowhere in sight.

     

    Thanks for this daily post…you are a treasure

  3. 3.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    New cases = 114
    Deaths at 1194 now, up from 1188

    1.6% positivity

    27.8% vaccinated with at least 1 shot
    102,936 people fully vaccinated
    206,659 people with at least 1 jab

    We don’t seem to have figured out how to keep people from dying from covid around here.

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    North Korea has sealed off its borders as part of stringent anti-pandemic reporting measures.

    FTFT because we all know the powers that be in NK couldn’t give a rat’s ass about their citizens, but their image is another matter all together.

  5. 5.

    Catherine D.

    Cornell has moved back to “yellow” status because idiot students have been idiots. 78 new positives in the last week with only 4 of those faculty and staff. Sigh!

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,671 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 331,713 cases. He also reports four new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,229 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 14,442 active and contagious cases; 161 are in ICU, 64 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,585 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 316,042 patients recovered – 95.28% of the cumulative reported total.

    Four new clusters were reported today: Teluk Air Tawar in Penang; Perindustrian Pekan Nenas in Johor; Tanjung Genting in Sarawak; and Pulau Pisang in Perak.

    Teluk Air Tawar and Perindustrian Pekan Nenas are workplace clusters. Tanjung Genting and Pulau Pisang are community clusters.

    1,669 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 652 cases: 213 in existing clusters, 283 close-contact screenings, and 156 other screenings. Penang reports 328 cases: 213 in older clusters, two in Teluk Air Tawar cluster, 70 close-contact screenings, and 43 other screenings.

    Sarawak reports 154 cases: 25 in older clusters, three in Tanjung Genting cluster, 84 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings. Johor reports 130 cases: 16 in older clusters, 39 in Perindustrian Pekan Nanas cluster, 43 close-contact screenings, and 32 other screenings. Sabah reports 102 cases: one in an existing cluster, 43 close-contact screenings, and 58 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 76 local cases: one in an existing cluster, 44 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings. Kelantan reports 63 cases: 25 in existing clusters, 21 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings. Kedah reports 46 cases: 18 in existing clusters, 12 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Perak reports 37 cases: 16 in older clusters, four in Pulau Pisang cluster, nine close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Teregnnanu reports 32 cases: 27 in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 25 cases: six in existing clusters, 14 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.

    Melaka reports 18 cases: seven in existing clusters, eight close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Pahang reports three cases: two in existing clusters, and one other screening. And Labuan reports three cases, all found in other screening.

    Perlis and Putrajaya report no new cases today.

    Two new cases today are imported, both in Kuala Lumpur.

    The deaths reported today are a 47-year-old woman in Sabah with glioblastoma multiforme; an 83-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; a 74-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; and a 68-year-old man in Kedah with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, hypercholesterolaemia, and stroke.

  7. 7.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Fascinating paper on molecular dating and epidemiological simulation of the initial outbreak mechanic, especially the simulation results that show COVID-19 petering out before reaching pandemic proportions two thirds of time, and > 95% of time when in rural setting. That might explain why the initial outbreak was detected at Wuhan, rather than some rural community where zoonotic cross-over is more likely to have occurred, and relatively far away from the bar populations that are presumed to host the ancestor virus. Seeding in southern and souther western Chinese cities could have occurred, but they might have petered out.

    It does not jive with the reports of retroactively confirmed cases around the world in Oct. – Nov. 2019, though, but might explain why these seedlings failed to spark major outbreaks.

    The warning in the conclusion is absolutely correct. The world’s epidemic surveillance systems were grafters agains the next SARS or MERS, or reemergence of Ebola, or tracking influenza. With COVID-19, by the time surveillance picks it up, it is already a major outbreak. Furthermore, surveillance turned out to be much weaker than thought outside of E/SE Asia.

  8. 8.

    Soapdish

    Great. An article all the people who were sick in January 2020 and insist they *definitely* had COVID will point to and say, “Seeeeeee!!!”

  9. 9.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Amazing what getting rid of that useless daughter fucker did to managine the pandemic. I seriously thought it was so bad that even with a perfect response from the government under Biden it would take tell July to get the pandemic down to this level.

    And Boris getting vaccinated, he had Covid, or this a gesture to show the public it’s safe?

  10. 10.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @rikyrah: Look how  they are trying to do rewrite DeSantis failure as a success too. If Trump had won not only would the death toll be threw the roof but they would be praising it.

  11. 11.

    different-church-lady

    35.6 doses per 100 people, enough to cover 18.1% of the population.

    Am I missing something, or did they revise how percentages are calculated?

  12. 12.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

     

    And Boris getting vaccinated, he had Covid, or this a gesture to show the public it’s safe?

    It’s certainly a gesture to reassure people that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe but it’s also in line with UK guidance to have the jab even if you’ve had COVID-19 since immunity declines over time. BoJo’s age cohort are now being called up for vaccination so…

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    @sab: yeah, maybe that’s it, and the J&J  is single dose, so it doesn’t just multiply /divide evenly by 2. So he must be using “cover” to mean fully vaccinated.

  15. 15.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: ​
     

    And Boris getting vaccinated, he had Covid, or this a gesture to show the public it’s safe?

    Both. Having had COVID-19 is no guarantee someone won’t get it again, especially now the SARS-COV-2 variants are becoming more widespread so getting vaccinated almost nine months after he was hospitalised with the disease is worthwhile for him personally.

    The UK government has been pushing hard for everyone who gets offered the vaccination to take it and of course it’s free. Having Boris and all the prominent High Heid Yins inoculated with the press around helps convince some of the waverers and that’s all to the good.

    The next part of the vaccination process in the UK is going to be concentrating on getting second doses distributed — the two vaccines in use here are both two-dose protocols (Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca) and there are millions of people who had their first dose of vaccine more than two months ago. Personally I had my first dose of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine more than five weeks ago and I’m still waiting for an appointment for my second dose. Whether I run up to the announced 12-week limit around the beginning of May or I get my second dose earlier than that is as yet unknown.

  16. 16.

    prostratedragon

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: In addition to what the LATimes article says, the excess mortality graph from Kieran Healy shows there could be a larger undercount in Florida compared to its favorite whipping boys, e.g. California. Of course, this is the guy who has been pursing a vendetta against a data scientist who tried to publish more accurate numbers.

  18. 18.

    Edmund Dantes

    @OzarkHillbilly: seems about par for the course for the GOP way of handling the pandemic in the United States.

    Kushner and Trump with it’s a blue state problem we can use to our advantage. The cooking of the books everywhere by GOP politicians (even throw Cuomo in here but he was always gop curious).

  19. 19.

    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterday in the UK, we had 4802 new cases.This is a reduction of 1050 from the day before and an 8.7% decrease in the rolling 7-day average. This is good news, I was beginning to get worried as we’d had four days with increases in case numbers. Hopefully, it’s not an anomaly. New cases by nation,

    England – 3809 (down @1040)

    Northern Ireland – 137 (down 32)

    Scotland – 655 (up 31)

    Wales – 201 (down @90).

    Deaths – There were 101 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 36.8%. Deaths by nation, England – 81, Northern Ireland – 3, Scotland – 8 and Wales – 9.

    Testing – 1,437,257 tests were conducted on Thursday, 18 March. This is an increase of 5.9% in the rolling 7-day average. The estimated lab testing capacity for Thursday was 764,492.

    Hospitalisations – On Wednesday, 17 March, 6544 people were in hospital and 879 people were on ventilators on Thursday, 18th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 23.2% as of 14th March.

    Vaccinations – As of 18 March a total of 26,263,732 had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 2,011,070 had received both shots. As of this date 49.9% of over 18’s had received 1 shot and 3.8% both shots.

  21. 21.

    eachother

    The roll of Dr. Doom is taken.  And the Dr. called it right.

    I say see.  There were unmistakably more flu cases in January 2020 than I could make sense of.  All around.

    And now, all around there are Covid cases increasing and tried and tired mitigations spreading internationally.  We have been warned repeatedly.  History and epidemiology replicating itself.

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