Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Giving up is unforgivable. ~Joe Biden

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

People are complicated. Love is not.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

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

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

So many bastards, so little time.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates – Friday / Saturday, March 26-27

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  2. 2.

    There go two miscreants

    Thanks once again for doing these updates. This is my first stop of the day! They are very useful to keep tabs on the situation.

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 3/26 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Nanchang in Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, the asymptomatic cases reported on 3/25, a close contact of an imported confirmed case.

    Imported Cases

    On 3/26 China reported 10 new imported confirmed cases, 27 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 6 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese national returning from Ethiopia (1 each via Germany & Austria), & 1 each from Switzerland, Burkina Faso (via France), Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol) & Israel
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 2 confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), both Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia; 5 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria & 1 each from Cambodia & Algeria
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 6 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Cameroon (via Istanbul) & Djibouti (via Istanbul), & 1 each from the Nigeria (via Kigali) & Chad ( via Istanbul)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Sierra Leone (via Nairobi)
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Nigeria (via Istanbul); off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar, via land border crossing
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the Sudan (via Frankfurt) & the UAE (off a flight diverted from Beijing)
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the US
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Yantai Port in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Russian crew member off a cargo ship from Russia
    • Taiyuan in Shanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Poland
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released, yet

     

    Overall in China, 14 confirmed cases recovered, 5 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 244 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 161 active confirmed cases in the country (158 imported), 1 in critical/serious condition (imported), 270 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 4,036 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    On 3/27 Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, all imported. This is the 1st time in 4 months that HK has not registered a domestic case.

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    China National Heath Commission reported that 97.47M doses have been injected as of 3/26. The pace has been 4M+ doses per day in the past 4 days, and is set to increase further, as some cities are just kicking off their vaccination drives.

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    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,199 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 340,642 cases. He also reports two new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,251 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.38% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 14,209 active and contagious cases; 167 are in ICU, 72 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,257 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 325,182 patients recovered – 95.46% of the cumulative reported total.

    Nine new clusters were reported today: Inanam Taipan and Jalan Kastam Baru in Sabah; Jalan Kong Kong in Johor; Bulatan Pandan building site in Kuala Lumpur; Jalan Putra Square in Pahang; Jalan Gridbid, Kampung Baru Hilir, and Jalan Tanjung Kidurong in Sarawak; and Gong Kulim in Kelantan.

    Jalan Gridbid, Kampung Baru Hilir, Jalan Tanjung Kidurong, and Gong Kulim are community clusters. The rest are workplace clusters.

    1,194 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 282 local cases: 28 in existing clusters, 175 close-contact screenings, and 79 other screenings. Sarawak reports 266 local cases: 48 in older clusters; 48 in Jalan Gridbid, Kampung Baru Hilir, and Jalan Tanjung Kidurong clusters; 99 close-contact screenings, and 71 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 138 cases: 39 in older clusters, 20 in Gong Kulim cluster, 37 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings. Penang reports 125 cases: 70 in existing clusters, 37 close-contact screenings, and 18 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 82 local cases: 13 in older clusters, 14 in Bulatan Pandan building site cluster, 41 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings. Johor reports 81 local cases: 17 in older clusters, seven in Jalan Kong Kong cluster, 34 close-contact screenings, and 22 other screenings. Sabah reports 64 cases: 20 in older clusters, six in Inanam Taipan and Jalan Kastam Baru clusters, 21 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 43 cases: 13 in existing clusters, nine close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 36 cases: 25 in existing clusters, eight close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Kedah reports 33 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 17 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Pahang reports 30 cases: two in older clusters, 22 in Jalan Putra Square cluster, one close-contact screening, and five other screenings.

    Perak reports nine cases: three in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Terengganu reports three cases: two close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Labuan reports two cases, both found in other screening. And Putrajaya reports one case, a close-contact screening.

    Perlis reports no new cases today.

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

    The deaths reported today are a 60-year-old man in Sabah, DOA with chronic liver disease; and a 52-year-old man in Penang, DOA with diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

  7. 7.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY yesterday:
    212 new cases, 1200 dead
    1.9% positivity
    32% with at least 1 vaccination
    120,467 totally vaccinated
    237,313 with at least 1 dose

    My sister just had a sore arm from her 2nd Pfizer jab; her husband had aches, chills, low grade fever from the 2nd Moderna that were gone in the morning.​​​​

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Also too, McEnany’s claim that the Biden administration’s “feet” of vaccinating millions of people a day was solely made possible by operation Warp Speed is preposterous. The Former Guy”s administration helped pay for vaccine development, which was already happening anyway. It had little or nothing to do with distributing vaccine doses or organising the logistics of mass vaccination, which was the work of Biden’s people.

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    lowtechcyclist

    Here in Maryland, the 7-day rolling average of daily new cases has gone from 748 to 1064 in the past three weeks. Gov. Hogan announced on March 8th or 9th that, effective March 12, he was lifting all capacity limits on restaurants, bars, and gyms, as well as most other facilities.

    The mask mandate is still in place, but I can’t see that that means anything in a bar or restaurant, since you can’t eat or drink through a mask.

  11. 11.

    Central Planning

    @Amir Khalid: Using her logic, everything is only possible because of TFG.
    just to clarify, is the F “former” or “fucking”? Maybe it needs to be TFFG.

    Also, too: coworker is home from the Covid ward. Got the convalescent plasma when first was admitted, and then Remdisovir course (5 days worth) a couple days later. Total time in: 7 days.

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    Catherine D.

    Cornell’s business school has gone to online only teaching because the MBA students had at least two large St Patrick’s Day parties, indoors and unmasked. I used to work there, and I’m shocked, shocked! that they behaved like stupid arrogant pricks.

  13. 13.

    JAFD

    I once told a young lady

    “I’m not a foot fetishist, but I’m still looking for a sole mate.”

  14. 14.

    Platonicspoof

    I heard a Michigan doctor on a tv report say he thought a significant part of their latest surge was due to more infectious strain(s).

    So I checked U of Minnesota CIDRAP, March 24, report saying similar thing for Minnesota. Sounds like B117 will spread in U.S. as in U.K.:

    Officials from the White House and CDC have said in recent weeks that B117 likely represents 30% of COVID-19 cases in the country, and it will become the dominant strain by April.

     

    More states are reporting increased B117 variant cases, the variant first identified in the United Kingdom that is roughly 50% more transmissible than the original COVID-19 strain.

     

    The link in the first blockquote is to a Forbes article mostly about Covid-19 and pets. Forbes says four free articles. If you want to save one, the above quote is roughly accurate.

    (Forbes article says risk between humans and pets appears to be very low, but since genomic testing in such cases is relatively non-existent, everyone is just guessing.)

  18. 18.

    The Moar You Know

    Post-vaccination era surge is because we are reopening schools. Period. Michigan’s version of the CDC admitted this yesterday.

    I expect San Diego and Southern California to be right back in purple tier within one month because of school reopenings. I also expect both the CDC and most state and county level health officers to deny it’s the cause for months. It’s worth their lives, literally (we just lost one of the two sane school board members to death threats this week, she couldn’t handle it anymore).

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    wvng

    I was told this week, by two 65ish WV republican religious gentlemen who have been very careful throughout the pandemic and have both been vaccinated, that they are hearing that youngish women are refusing to get vaccinated now that it’s opened up for them because they’ve “heard” that it can hurt their reproductive system and keep them from having children. One said that he was told that a doctor was advising caution to this cohort about getting vaccinated because “who knows what harm it might do.”  Given that this is WV, one must assume these are mostly conservative, religious women. This is a serious problem.  Here is info on one of the sources of disinformation.  Lora Shahine, MD, FACOG | REI on Instagram: “Published today “Shortly after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine, there was widespread excitement about the safety and efficacy of these…” 

    I am starting to wonder if the reason WV opened up to 18 and older for vaccinations is that so many in the 65+ were refusing to get jabbed.

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    J R in WV

    No surprise to me that MBA students will disregard pubic safety in order to party. My BsCs degree was based in the business school, and those business students were some stone greedy selfish and ignorant bastards.

    And school wasn’t going to teach them ethics nor morality at all~!!~

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    J R in WV

    @wvng: ​
     

    Being 70, we have both our Moderna shots, and most of our friends circle is also older, and also have their shots. No one I know is declining shots, nor are we dropping our mask wearing.

    And I think it is wonderful for conservative and ignorant folks to not get vaccinated, giving Darwin’s Law a chance to clean up the gene pool. This may sound cruel, but evolution works to improve species, and education appears to have failed miserably in that task.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Friday in the UK we had 6187 new cases. This is a decrease from Thursday’s figure of 6397 but an INCREASE of 6.4% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 5273 (down 13)
    Northern Ireland – 181 (down 2)
    Scotland – 543 (down 158)
    Wales – 190 (down 37).

    Deaths – There were 70 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 28.5%. New deaths by nation, England – 61, Northern Ireland – 0, Scotland – 6 and Wales – 3.

    Testing – 1,275,285 tests were conducted on Thursday, 25 March. This is a decrease of 4% in the rolling 7-day average. The estimated testing capacity of labs was reported as 782,830 on that date.

    Hospitalisations – There were 4852 people in hospital on Wednesday, 24 March and 630 on ventilators on Thursday, 25th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions is down by 21.9%.

    Vaccinations – As of 25th March, a total of 29,316,130 people had received the 1st dose of a vaccine and 3,009,863 people had received both doses. This means that 55.7% of the UK adult (aged 18 and above) have received 1 dose and 5.7% have had both.

    General – Just heard Boris on the radio saying he has seen no data that would prevent the next relaxation in restrictions (due on 29 March) taking place in England. This means that from this date, 6 people from 2 households will be able to meet outdoors. Wales has relaxed some of its restrictions effective today, moving from a Stay Home model to a Stay Local one, with people allowed to travel freely within Wales, stay in self contained accommodation, meet outdoors subject to the “Rule of Six” and outdoor organised sport and recreation activities for the under-18’s allowed to re-start.

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    Served

    Illinois is seeing a steep surge, almost entirely due to Chicago and the suburbs, in the 18-40 demographic. The mayor expanded indoor capacity for bars and restaurants to 50% at the beginning of March, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The increase started the week after St. Patrick’s Day, almost at the exact same time our October surge started (capacity expanded to 40% the first week of October), and is picking up steam as we start to see SPD-related cases. The mayor responded by increasing outdoor capacity, but not decreasing indoor capacity. We are also lagging in vaccine distribution.

    There is a very frustrating habit among our local leaders of acting helpless and speaking about the increases in cases like they are observing a distant planet through a telescope, and being very slow to take action.

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    JaneE

    Eligibility in CA is supposed to jump on the 1st and then be open to all over 16 by the 15th.  BUT, whether or not you can actually get the vaccine will depend on supplies and that will vary.  Kaiser is planning to offer the vaccine at more of its clinics and will be expanding the partnership vaccine locations they participate in.  Just don’t even try to make an appointment until you are actually eligible, they will not give you one unless you are eligible.  The state is supposed to get some large shipments of J&J any day now, and that will give them a lot more flexibility.  Some of the counties are already working on more mobile vaccine distribution, hitting homeless or shut ins or just people without easy transportation to big centers.  How well it works remains to be seen.

    And the cases are trending up in places – whether overconfidence or variants or both the numbers are not going down the way we hope, vaccines notwithstanding.

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:

    I like how a man half way around the world knows far more about the US debacle with Covid, brought on by shitforbrains and crew, than one of the people who was a part of the debacle crew. Of course that makes some sense as that entire crew, added all together, knows only shit and doodly squat, and all of their doodly squat is, as most doodly squat turns out to be, totally ignorant self aggrandizement, which is why I can say, with ease and self assurance, that all they know is doodly squat and shit.

  27. 27.

    Ruckus

    @JaneE:

    Overconfidence, a bane of ignorant humans since day one, is assisted by conservative politics, which presumes there is only one way to live and that’s with hate, false pride – based upon stupidity and ignorance.   The last 50+ yrs, the conservative party in this country has worked hard at lowering the bottom for all three of those, and credit where credit is due, have succeeded way beyond their first dreams, in creating a political party that is extreme in it’s quest to be the worst group of humans ever.

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    Another Scott

    I see that my county is at R = 1.04, again moving in the wrong direction.

    I heard parts of a BBC radio show last night, fear-mongering about how everything is horrible (vaccines don’t protect against variants, people are combining variants to make supervariants, nobody will be able to take holidays ever again, nobody knows where the virus came from, etc., etc.) and am now thinking that maybe we need a bit more fear-mongering over here to get people to take this thing seriously.  It’s not over yet.

    (sigh)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    wvng

    @J R in WV:  My wife and I have our two shots (over 65), our daughter got her first one ten days ago (32), everyone in our circle has either gotten shots or are clamoring to get them. Our Hardy County Health Department has been pushing hard, doing great work, and it just floors me that apparently a lot of people outside our circle won’t do it.

  32. 32.

    rikyrah

    Dodger stadium literally closed EARLY yesterday cause they didn’t have enough PEOPLE for the shots they had!!!!!!!! If you qualify under the new guidelines they release each day YOU SHOULD GO. It’s time. You aren’t cutting a line. They are adding conditions cause THEY NEED TO.— Stephanie Mickus (@smickable) March 21, 2021

  33. 33.

    J R in WV

    @Ruckus:

    all they [TFG’s administration and staff] know is doodly squat and shit.

    I doubt that they know doodly squat, as that is more complex than shit.

    I am grudgingly willing to allow that they may know shit, as it often comes out of their mouth.

  34. 34.

    J R in WV

    @wvng:

    …it just floors me that apparently a lot of people outside our circle won’t do it.

    I’m fine with idiots refusing be be vaccinated.

    I just want them prevented from being with other people whom they might infect.

    No eating out, no shopping, no travel anywhere, no going to work, no going to school — quarantined in their residence, provided with food by the government.

    And the food can be what is served at the local jail, not fresh trout with asparagus. Gruel. Porridge. Spam. etc.

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