Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

T R E 4 5 O N

I really should read my own blog.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Come on, man.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Monday / Tuesday, March 22-23

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  2. 2.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    New cases = 91
    Deaths at 1194 now

    1.7% positivity

    29.6% vaccinated with at least 1 shot
    107,619 people fully vaccinated
    219,630 people with at least 1 jab

    The new case numbers are starting to improve  again. Here’s hoping they continue to go down.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    I preregistered for the vaccine last week (when the option first became available), and yesterday, the first day FL opened eligibility to people in my age group, I got a call to set up an appointment on 3/30! I’m psyched, BUT: the person I talked to said I’d get a follow up email after the call that would tell me where to go to get the shot, and 12 hours later, it still hasn’t arrived.

    The preregistration form had all my contact info, but the caller asked me for all that info again. I’m hoping she just screwed up entering the email and they’ll contact me again via text or whatever. There’s no place I can call to follow up. Arrrgh!

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    OC numbers still going down – 102 new cases, one death. Hospitalizations continue to drop. Four sites have super pod vaccinations, up from one when I got mine, plus pharmacies, clinics, mobile units for homeless. More than 400,000 people have been fully vaccinated with Moderna or Pfizer, 22,000 plus with J&J. Another 335,000 plus have had their first shot of a two step vaccine.

    ETA: they say they are still getting short supplies of shots and have the medical people to administer more and the people who want to have one, so if there is a big surge in supply we’ll use it. It’s so encouraging.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    @p.a.: Republicans are throwing money at the effort even though they have no candidate but Darrell Issa, who is to say the least, very unpopular. The LAT had a big article over the weekend about how the right wing in the OC is making a comeback, to which I call bullshit. It’s totally astroturfed, with the same people showing up from all over SoCal.

  9. 9.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 3/22 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 3/22 China reported 9 new imported confirmed cases, 14 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Zambia (via Addis Ababa) & 1 from France, & a foreign national coming from Turkey; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Malaysia & the UAE, & a foreign national coming from the US
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Djibouti (via Istanbul), off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Sudan (via Frankfurt)
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the US
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Egypt
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar (via land border crossing)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, a Spanish national coming from Spain, no information released for the other case, yet 
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released 
    • Lanzhou in Gansu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Russia

     

    Overall in China, 12 confirmed cases recovered, 11 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation &  1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 238 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 158 active confirmed cases in the country (156 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 237 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 3,181 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    On 3/23 Hong Kong reported 12 new cases, 8 imported & 4 domestic (1 of whom does not yet have source of infection identified).

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,384 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 335,540 cases. He also reports six new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,244 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 14,454 active and contagious cases; 148 are in ICU, 62 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,058 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 319,842 patients recovered – 95.32% of the cumulative reported total.

    Three new clusters were reported today: Balakong Jaya Dua in Selangor, Jalan Indah Gemilang in Johor, and Teknologi Bukit Minyak in Penang. All are workplace clusters.

    1,375 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 623 local cases: 348 in older clusters, 27 in Balakong Jaya Dua cluster, 182 close-contact screenings, and 66 other screenings.

    Johor reports 160 local cases: 41 in older clusters, 73 in Jalan Indah Gemilang Satu cluster, 21 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Sarawak reports 140 cases: 20 in existing clusters, 85 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Penang reports 100 cases: two in older clusters, 28 in Teknologi Bukit Minyak cluster, 39 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 65 cases: 21 in existing clusters, 31 close-contact screenings, and 13 other screenings. Kula Lumpur reports 61 local cases: one in an existing cluster, 34 close-contact screenings, and 26 other screenings. Sabah reports 60 cases: one in an existing cluster, 31 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings. Kedah reports 51 cases: 24 in existing clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings. Melaka reports 45 cases: 43 in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Pahang reports 38 cases: 29 in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and four other screenings.

    Labuan reports 11 local cases: six in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 10 cases: four in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Terengganu reports seven cases: four in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and two other screenings. And Perak reports four cases: two in existing clusters, and two other screenings.

    Perlis and Putrajaya report no new cases today.

    Nine new cases today are imported: three in Kuala Lumpur, three in Labuan, two in Selangor, and one in Johor.

    The deaths reported today are a 56-year-old woman in Kelantan with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; an 81-year-old woman in Johor with diabetes; an 85-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension and heart disease; a 72-year-old man in Sarawak with heart disease, stroke, and intestinal cancer; an 84-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; and a 69-year-old woman in Sarawak, DOA with no co-morbidities listed.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    If you have a BMI 25 or larger, you qualify for a vaccine in GA.   Because of HIPA A laws, they can’t pry though.    Today Kemp is suppose to open it up to everyone.

  12. 12.

    debbie

    I was surprised when I got my second shot yesterday that it was only half as crowded as it had been for the first. I don’t know whether it was timing or decreasing interest in being vaccinated.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    The state says more than 28,000 people arrived in the islands this past Saturday, nearly matching the pre-pandemic average for March.

    The Spring Break surge is the highest one-day total since the pandemic began.

    It’s especially noticeable in Waikiki where the beaches are looking like they used to – packed.

    Officials are also hearing complaints about visitors not wearing masks. Source

    Renewed gladness that I don’t live on Oahu.

  14. 14.

    Mousebumples

    @Betty Cracker:

    1) My Walgreens registration info took over 12 hours to arrive – and that was earlier this month.

    2) Technologically speaking, i would be unsurprised if they had a database the sent out the emails starting at end of day. Depending on how many emails need to go out, it might take more time to arrive.

    3) if it’s not there by the weekend, I’d suggest trying to find a Facebook page for Florida Covid shots. You’re unlikely to be the only person with this issue, and others may have figured out who to call or where to go.

    Good luck!

  17. 17.

    lowtechcyclist

    Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you’ve been vaccinated

    I’ll go ahead and get Shot #2 this weekend anyway.

    I loved those donuts when I was seventeen (especially when they were hot off the machine!) – but that was half a century ago.  My tastes have changed a bit since then.

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    rikyrah

    After seeing that insanity in Florida this weekend with those Spring Break folk… should have taken the J and J vaccine for 18-27 year olds with NO UNDERLYING CONDITIONS. They want to be phucking insane ? , they should not be carriers against the rest of us

  21. 21.

    rikyrah

    I know that I have said it before, but I appreciate the reports from outside of the United States. During 2020, they helped keep me sane- reassurance that good government DOES make a difference.

  22. 22.

    Falling Diphthong

    Not gonna lie, on reading the Krispy Kreme thing yesterday–a few hours after my first Moderna shot–I looked up Krispy Kreme on google maps. Because gosh darn, I felt like a celebratory doughnut. None anywhere near me (I am deep in Dunkin territory) and not worth any effort to go out of my way here. If there were one on the nearest corner, though, I’d totally have gone to get a doughnut.

    I think the pearl clutching on this is beyond ridiculous–no one was eating a perfect diet (whatever this would be) before the siren song of saving 80 cents a day on glazed doughnuts lured them off the path of righteousness. Making it “per day for the year” is a nod to the problem of enforcing any limited offer–it means people who got vaccinated in the past three months are not left out; people can get a celebratory doughnut for their vaccination and then when they take their teenagers and then with their mom for hers.

  23. 23.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 5342 new cases. This is an increase of 40 from Sunday, but a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 4.7%. New cases by nation,

    England – 4746 (up @290)

    Northern Ireland – 87 (down 38)

    Scotland – 359 (down @ 173)

    Wales – 150 (down 46).

    Deaths – There were 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 41.5% in the rolling 7-day average.Deaths by nation, England – 16, Northern Ireland – 1, none in Scotland or Wales.

    Testing – A total of 1,893,830 tests were conducted on Sunday, 21 March. This is an increase of 4.4% in the rolling 7-day average. The estimated testing capacity of the labs, as reported on Thursday, 18 March, was 764,492.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated.

    Vaccinations – As of 21 March, a total of 27,997,976 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 2,281,384 had received both shots. This means that 53.2% of adults (aged 18 and over) have received the 1st shot and 4.3% have received both shots.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    @rikyrah

    You might find this story of interest.

    Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better.

    A surprising new analysis found that states such as South Carolina and Florida that raced ahead of others to offer the vaccine to ever-larger groups of people have vaccinated smaller shares of their population than those that moved more slowly and methodically, such as Hawaii and Connecticut. Source

  26. 26.

    Soprano2

    I saw in our weekly management team minutes that 21.5% of City employees have been fully vaccinated. That percentage should go way up by the middle of April, after a bunch of us get our second shots. I hope most people come back to the office once we’ve all had the chance to be vaccinated – I personally hate all this remote work!

    I heard that my county had 8 new cases on the latest day they report, which is the first time that number has been in single digits since sometime last summer. Here at least all the numbers are trending in the right direction; I figure by the end of April we’ll enter the “yellow” phase of reopening, when some capacity restrictions will be eased. The key is getting 25% of the population fully vaccinated; right now we’re at 11.83%. Progress, slow but steady. I hope it continues.

  27. 27.

    Soprano2

    @NotMax: Well, what that article doesn’t tell you about Missouri is that those idiots had big mass vaccination events out in the middle of the boonies where there wasn’t much demand, which is a big reason for the problems. I guarantee that if they had been held near or in St. Louis or Kansas City or Springfield or Columbia, there wouldn’t have been any problem filling those appointments. Many people suspect our governor was rewarding the parts of the state that voted for Republicans and punishing the parts that didn’t, especially because of how stupid is it to provide 1,500 does of vaccine to areas where many fewer  eligible people lived! Plus, I wish they would still go to where the workers are – go to WalMart, go to Target, go to grocery stores and vaccinate those workers! Don’t make it so hard for them to get the shot.

  28. 28.

    Cameron

    @Betty Cracker: It really is a mess down here.  I just happened to get lucky and got hold of CVS within a couple days of their beginning Florida distribution.  I’d been waiting (and applying) for months before that.

  30. 30.

    dnfree

    @p.a.: at least by us (Illinois), they do not say which shots if it’s Moderna or Pfizer (two required). It’s what they have on hand when your first appointment comes up.  Sometimes the same site is administering first shots of both the same day.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    @ET

    Why anyone would voluntarily put a lump of KK’s greasy, tasteless slodge with a hole in the middle into their mouth eludes understanding.

  33. 33.

    The Pale Scot

    @NotMax:

    greasy, tasteless slodge

    Back in the day they were pretty good, then they changed the recipe. Getting a minute old KK in Penn station at 6am, walking into work on a KK&coffee buzz ready to start work. Good times.

  34. 34.

    Burnspbesq

    @rikyrah:

    Would have been a smart move for South Padre Island as well, but noooooooo … Texas will get another surge in new cases in two weeks.

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