Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

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

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Trump should be leading, not lying.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday / Saturday, April 16-17

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 4/16 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases all in Yunnan Province. 1 domestic confirmed recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There are currently 80 domestic confirmed & 17 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province.

    • Ruili in Dehong Prefecture 1 new domestic confirmed case (moderate), a Burmese national and a traced close contact already under quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There are currently 80 domestic confirmed & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 3 communities remain at High Risk. 3 residential compounds, 1 factory & 2 villages remain at Medium Risk.
    • Gengma County in Lincang City did not report any new positive cases. There is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there.

    Imported Cases

    On 4/16 China reported 14 new imported confirmed cases, 19 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Thailand, Russia & the US
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Malaysia, Bangladesh & Tanzania (via Iatanbul); 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia, Chad (via Cairo) & Nigeria (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese & 3 Japanese nationals coming from Japan
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from France & Lithuania (via Warsaw); 1 asymptomatic case, a Polish national coming from Poland
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Algeria
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the UAE & Kazakhstan (via Tashkent); 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Uzbekistan
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from Indonesia & Cameroon
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 7 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals each returning from the Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol) & the US, & 1 from Hungary (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Nanning in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from overseas, no further information released

     

    Overall in China, 5 confirmed cases recovered, 10 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 437 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 309 active confirmed cases in the country (229 imported), 4 in critical/serious condition (3 imported), 326 asymptomatic cases (309 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 10,628 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 4/16, 187.368M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 3.842M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 4/17, Hong Kong reported 18 new cases, 10 imported & 8 domestic (6 of whom do not have sources of infection identified).

  3. 3.

    Cermet

    Look’s like China’s virus vaccine doesn’t work so well in a country (Chile) that can’t impose extreme police state control on its population. Hope the Chinese medical experts determine a better vaccine mix to enable their original vaccine to perform a good bit better – then it will be a helpful in aiding the control of covid-19. Hope Sputnik doesn’t turn out to have similar issues. More inexpensive and easier to process/store vaccines would be essential to controlling this pandemic.

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    Thanks for the info.

    The building where I work is offering shots. By next week, Everyone on my floor will have had their first shot ??????

    Even the previous skeptics have signed up

    I hope that this is inching us closer to employers requiring Vaccinations

  5. 5.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    234 new cases
    3659 active cases currently

    3.2% test positivity now.

    12 more deaths…now at 1223

    43.9% have had at least 1 vaccination

    31.03% totally vaccinated

    I just heard from my niece in South Carolina. She’s  in food service and can’t find time to get vaccinated because she’s working so many hours. Ugh…..

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,331 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 372,859 cases. He also reports five new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,370 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 19,094 active and contagious cases; 225 are in ICU, 92 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,882 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 352,395 patients recovered – 94.51% of the cumulative reported total.

    Eight new clusters were reported today: Jalan Ding Lik Kwong, in Sarawak; Jalan Damai Tawau and Bukit Quoin in Sabah; Jalan Wawasan Lima in Johor; Jalan Maktab in Selangor; and Seri Kuantan in Pahang.

    Jalan Ding Lik Kwong, Jalan Damai Tawau, Bukit Quoin, and Jalan Wawasan Lima are workplace clusters. Ulu Balingian, Jalan Disa, and Jalan Maktab are education clusters at Ministry of Education schools. Seri Kuantan is a community cluster.

    2,319 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 750 local cases: 36 in older clusters, four in Jalan Maktab cluster, 583 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings. Sarawak reports 512 cases: 50 in older clusters; 117 in Jalan Disa, Jalan Ding Lik Kwong, and Ulu Balingian clusters; 222 close-contact screenings; and 123 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 241 local cases: five in existing clusters, 149 close-contact screenings, and 87 other screenings. Kelantan reports 225 cases: 65 in existing clusters, 128 close-contact screenings, and 32 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 163 cases: 62 in older clusters, 10 in Bukit Quion and Jalan Damai Tawau clusters, 62 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings. Penang reports 116 cases: 29 in existing clusters, 35 close-contact screenings, and 52 other screenings. Johor reports 100 cases: 37 in older clusters, six in Jalan Wawasan Lima cluster, 39 close-contact screenings, and 18 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 89 cases: 63 in existing clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Kedaj reports 45 cases: 15 in existing clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Perak reports 42 cases: 28 in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings. Pahang reports 20 cases: three in older clusters, five in Seri Kuantan cluster, three close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings.

    Melaka reports nine cases: two in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Putrajaya reports four cases: one in an existing cluster, and three close-contact screenings. Labuan reports two cases: one in an existing cluster, and one other screening. And Perlis reports one case, a close-contact screening.

    Terengganu reports no new cases today.

    12 new cases today are imported: 11 in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Selangor.

    The deaths reported today are a 78-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and obesity; a 76-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 61-year-old man in Sabah with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and heart disease; an 85-year-old woman in Sabah with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; and a 68-year-old woman in Sarawak with heart disease.

  9. 9.

    Taken4Granite

    @Amir Khalid: And almost certainly not enforceable.

    But the notice is useful, in the sense that it warns prospective customers that the owner/manager is a nut and that they should seriously consider taking their business elsewhere.

  10. 10.

    MomSense

    This morning my youngest and I are driving about an hour and a half north to get his pfirst Pfizer.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    The thing about right-wingers..

     

    Their Orange Savior is VACCINATED.

    Did it in secret.

    I agree with Chelsea Clinton-

    Publish the photo of him getting VACCINATED

  14. 14.

    WereBear

    @rikyrah:

    Publish the photo of him getting VACCINATED


    Problem is, nothing works with Wingnuts. Reality doesn’t exist, so they just rearrange the Tupperware that has sealed away all cognitive dissonance and call it good.

  16. 16.

    The Golux

    Is anyone else seeing all of the tweets unformatted on this page? Happening here on both Chrome and Firefox.

  17. 17.

    Fair Economist

    @Cermet: The fundamental problem with China’s vaccine is that it’s not good enough to lower R0 below 1 even if most of the population is vaccinated. So everybody is going to end up getting it, and restrictions need to stay in place until almost everybody is vaccinated. There will still be a nontrivial amount of deaths then – it doesn’t absolutely stop deaths, unlike the mRNA vaccines, which I don’t think have had one death among the fully vaccinated.

    Unfortunately because of our large antivaxxer contingent I think we’ll also see a population sweep in the end as well in spite of the incredibly good results of the mRNA vaccines.

  18. 18.

    There go two miscreants

    @The Golux: Yes, Win10 FF. Just get the text and links, even after a refresh. Didn’t bother me as the pix included with most tweets are useless. If it looks interesting I just click the link.

  22. 22.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 210 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed today, 2 deaths. The test positivity rate is 1.2%.

    The trend downwards in cases and spread of this disease here in Scotland and the UK in general is looking promising. I’d hope it’s being driven by the vaccination numbers and not the improving weather which, it seems, drove down the numbers last year after the first initial peak of cases and deaths. We’ll see.

     

    Vaccinations in Scotland continue but at a reduced rate. We were told supplies of vaccines would be somewhat variable through April. We’re still managing about 40,000 vaccinations a day typically with more and more of them being second-dose vaccinations. At the moment all three authorised vaccines are two-dose (Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca). The one-shot J&J vaccine has still not been approved by the UK authorities but it’s likely another 2-shot candidate vaccine, Novavax will get approval soon after third-stage trials were reported a few weeks ago. The UK government has pre-ordered 60 million Novavax doses and most of it would be made in the UK.

  23. 23.

    Suzanne

    Our cases here are still going the wrong way. I’ve been looking for some predictive models for the state or region with no luck.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:

    As if you’d really want to go in a place like that if you had 2 or more brain cells to talk to each other.

    And….

    Is the name of that place,

    The Death Bar

    or

    Ignorant Foodstuffs

    or

    Join Us In Death?

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