Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

He really is that stupid.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Bark louder, little dog.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Democrats are back in array!

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    288 new cases – yikes!
    4459 active cases
    1244 deaths
    3% test positivity
    215 people hospitalized, 45 people in the ICU

    49.6% with at least 1 vaccination

    37.8% totally vaccinated

  2. 2.

    RandomMonster

    I’m fully vaccinated but dang I wish someone had offered me free beer and pot.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    @RandomMonster: Son is also fully vaccinated and he’s going to take me out today for a beer and appetizers this afternoon.    Even though we’ll sit outside on the patio, it will be my first time eating out, since this started.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    Got my 2nd vaccination on Wednesday. Felt like hammered shit yesterday, so my immune system is in great working order! May 13 is my Freedom Day.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    @rikyrah:

    While both right wing governments are incompetent ane put their political interests over public health, as far as I recall, India’s government didn’t openly sneer at the idea of controlling the virus the way Bolsonaro did.  India mostly declared victory too soon. Small comfort to the people, of course.

  7. 7.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 4/29 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation, at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 41 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. 2 communities were re-designated from High Risk to Medium Risk & 1 community was re-designated from Medium Risk to Low Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 4/29 China reported 13 new imported confirmed cases, 19 imported asymptomatic cases, 3 imported suspect case:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 7 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Guinea (via Paris CdG) & Ethiopia (1 via Germany), & 1 each from Mali (via Paris CdG), Mauritania (via Paris CdG), & a Malaysian national coming from Malaysia; 2 suspect cases, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Iraq & the DRC; 7 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Malaysia & 1 each returning from Qatar (via Colombo), Iraq, Tanzania & Cambodia
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Iraq & 1 from Myanmar; all off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Taiyuan in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from Poland
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, citing from Japan; 1 asymptomatic case, no information released 
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia
    • Hainan Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed case,
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol) & 1 from Egypt
    • Chongqing Municipality – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 coming from India & 1 from Nepal
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Nigeria 
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 1 suspect case, off a flight diverted from Beijing, no further information released

     

    Overall in China, 9 confirmed cases recovered, 23 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 413 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 328 active confirmed cases in the country (287 imported), 3 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 324 asymptomatic cases (315 imported), 10 suspect cases (all imported). 6,602 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 4/29, 253.463M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 9,558M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 4/30, Hong Kong reported 4 new cases, 2 imported & 2 domestic (1 does not have source of infection identified).

  8. 8.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Laurie Garrett:

    Vaccinated? ✅
    14 days since last dose? ✅
    Outdoors? ✅
    No crowds around? ✅

    Yay — go mask-free.

    In Manhattan, there’s always someone around.

    Anyway, I just got my second shot (Pfizer) on Tuesday. Which means I’ll be considered fully vaccinated circa May 10 or 11.

    Once I reach the point of being fully vaccinated, I’ll take that as meaning that I can finally go back to wearing a single blue triple-layer surgical mask when I go out, instead of double-masking with a KN95 on top of it all the time.

    Yay?

  10. 10.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @RandomMonster: ​

    I’m fully vaccinated but dang I wish someone had offered me free beer and pot.

    You got the free (as in unsold and gathering dust in a warehouse) MS Windows Phone from Bill Gates for tracking you though, right?

  12. 12.

    evap

    I went for a run yesterday without wearing a mask, freedom!   I did have a mask clutched in my sweaty hand the whole time, I guess it was a security blanket.  Or maybe in case I encountered a big crowd… in the park  at 7 am…  on a weekday…???

  15. 15.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    NYT via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    The Covid crisis in Latin America is taking an alarming turn for the worse. Last week, Latin America accounted for 35% of all coronavirus deaths in the world, despite having just 8% of the global population.

    And yet that’s still better than we were doing back when we had 25% of all the coronavirus cases and deaths, with despite having only 4% of the global population.

  16. 16.

    debbie

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Here, we can get a Krispy Kreme doughnut every day for the rest of the year when we show our vaccination card. If they were nearby, I wouldn’t be above getting one now and then.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: 40 years ago I lived right across the street from a family owned donut shop (World’s Fair Donuts) that made the best donuts in STL. They ruined me. Krispy Kreme are a cheap knock off in comparison.

    Sadly (or not depending on how one looks at it) I can’t eat donuts anymore, they f with my blood sugar something awful.

  22. 22.

    MagdaInBlack

    @MomSense: I was good for 2 days, then it nailed me the 3rd and 4th. I missed work last Monday, I was so damned fatigued. I don’t care, I’m ready for the 2nd shot May 20 ?

  24. 24.

    Matt McIrvin

    @debbie: Trump came within several thousand votes or a few screwed-up legislatures of getting reelected in spite of everything. I try not to underestimate the ability of people to vote for their own extermination.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    @evap:

    The other night my son and I took the dog for a walk without our masks and the few times we saw other people, we didn’t like the feeling of being without our masks.  Here in Maine you don’t have to wear masks outside even if you aren’t vaccinated.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Oh, for sure, but they’re tied to my childhood: Going with my father to the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop/restaurant at 11pm on Saturday and buying a dozen for Sunday morning.

    I can’t remember how long it’s been since I’ve had any kind of doughnut…

  29. 29.

    Robert Sneddon

    @MomSense: I got my second vaccination (AstraZeneca) here in Scotland on Wednesday lunchtime. I felt fine apart from a sore arm until Thursday evening when I got chills and stuffy head and a general lurgi. Right now, local time Friday noon, after a restless night of sleep and the consumption of significant amounts of paracetamol I’m feeling a lot better but I’m still not 100%.

     

    The UK government is starting to plan for booster vaccinations in the autumn, possibly a single dose of a different vaccine for each person to try and cover all the bases. They’ve ordered 60 million doses of Pfizer for this project.

     

    The scientists (who are being listened to by the High Heid Yins) think there will be another surge in cases later this year here in the UK as variant versions of COVID-19 spread and cause sickness in previously-vaccinated individuals. I hope they’re wrong or at least the surge will not be very large but they know more about this than I do. When and if the booster jabs are scheduled you betcha I’ll be there, sleeve rolled up and ready to get vaccinated yet again.

  31. 31.

    Matt McIrvin

    FWIW, I’m now 9 days past the first Moderna shot and haven’t had the weird delayed resurgence of arm pain and redness that many people have reported. But at least 3 people I follow on Twitter did get that, all from the Moderna. It’s no big deal though it sounds like it was pretty itchy for one of them.

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    @Betty Cracker: Spousal Unit & I get our second shots on May 10.

    I’m thinking of celebrating by visiting our favorite local nursery — outdoors! with full masking / distancing protocols in place!  And it’s a weekday afternoon! — to pick out pansies, allysum & lobelias, which will probably be gone by Memorial Day weekend.

    I can get new soil & fertilizer delivered no-contact, but it’s a little much to ask the nursery workers to pick out my annuals.

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: I wasn’t aware the rich needed an excuse for denying shit to people. I thought that was the whole reason some got rich to begin with.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 3,788 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 408,713 cases. He also reports 14 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,506 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.40% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 29,227 active and contagious cases; 328 are in ICU, 161 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,640 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 377,980 patients recovered – 92.48% of the cumulative reported total.

    17 new clusters were reported today: Nanga Tajam, Sungai Ranan, Sungai Ngungun, Air Padang, and Jalan Agama in Sarawak; Kampung Bergosong in Sabah; Kampung Hilir Alor Gajah in Melaka; Kemayang in Kelantan; Jalan Taming Dua and Jalan Wau in Selangor; Perusahaan Baru Dua and Jalan Todak building site in Penang; Chersonese in Perak; Jalan Dataran in Negeri Sembilan; Taman Bukit Hijau in Kuala Lumpur; and Pagar Rimba and Jalan Sultanah in Johor.

    Nanga Tajam, Sungai Ranan, Sungai Ngungun, Kampung Bergosong, and Kampung Hilir Alor Gajah are community clusters. Jalan Wau and Chersonese are education clusters at Ministry of Education schools. Jalan Agama and Jalan Dataran are education clusters at other schools. Kemayang, Jalan Taming Dua, Air Padang, Perusahaan Baru Dua, and Jalan Todak building site are workplace clusters. Taman Bukit Hijau is a high-risk group cluster. Pagar Rimba is a prison cluster. Jalan Sultanah is a religious cluster.

    3,786 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,265 cases: 11 in older clusters, 39 in Jalan Taming Dua and Jalan Wau clusters, 980 close-contact screenings, and 235 other screenings. Sarawak reports 760 cases: 47 in older clusters; 60 in Nanga Tajam, Sungai Ranan, Sungai Ngungun, Air Padang, and Jalan Agama clusters; 574 close-contact screenings; and 79 other screenings.
    Kelantan reports 464 cases: 126 in older clusters, six in Kemayang cluster, 261 close-contact screenings, and 71 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 253 local cases: six in older clusters, 10 in Taman Bukit Hijau cluster, 141 close-contact screenings, and 96 other screenings. Penang reports 250 cases: four in older clusters, 95 in Perusahaan Baru Dua and Jalan Todak building site clusters, 76 close-contact screenings, and 75 other screenings.

    Johor reports 160 cases: 48 in older clusters, 15 in Jalan Sultanah and Pagar Rimba clusters, 64 close-contact screenings, and 33 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 136 cases: 16 in older clusters, 88 in Jalan Dataran cluster, 25 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings. Kedah also reports 136 cases: 99 in existing clusters, 22 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings. Perak reports 118 cases: 32 in older clusters, nine in Chersonese cluster, 52 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 89 cases: nine in older clusters, nine in Kampung Bergosong cluster, 49 close-contact screenings, and 22 other screenings. Melaka reports 55 cases: nine in older clusters, 11 in Kampung Hilir Alor Gajah cluster, 19 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Pahang reports 54 cases: 17 in existing clusters, 21 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Terengganu reports 37 cases: 14 in existing clusters, 17 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings.

    Perlis reports five cases, all in existing clusters. Putrajaya reports two cases, both found in other screening. And Labuan also reports two cases, both found in other screening.

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

    The deaths reported today are a 69-year-old man in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, gout, and chronic kidney disease; a 97-year-old woman in Johor with hypertension; a 63-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and heart disease; an 86-year-old woman in Selangor with no co-morbidities listed; a 40-year-old woman in Selangor with hypothyroidism; a 63-year-old woman in Selamngor with dyslipidaemia, liver disease, and cancer; a 33-year-old woman im Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and obesity; a 77-year-old man in Selangor, DOA with heart disease; an 84-year-old woman with hypertension and dyslipidaemia; a 61-year-old man in Sarawak, DOA with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; an 83-year-old woman in Negeri Sembilan with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; a 48-year-old man in Johor with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; and a 66-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Selangor, DOA with diabetes and hypertension.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    In all seriousness, you would be wrong.  They actually invest good money in getting smart people to come up with excuses for what they want to do.

    The absence of an excuse is not an insurmountable barrier, but they prefer having one by a wide margin.

  36. 36.

    Matt McIrvin

    @MomSense: On my walks outside I’ve sometimes taken my mask off when no one else is around, but I keep it handy.

    In spite of official state mandates, in this town we were already evolving toward a situation in which nobody wears masks outside except in dense areas. It seems to me like the new CDC guidelines inspired a lot of people to just ditch them except in places where there are specifically signs telling them to mask up.

    I do wonder whether it was a good idea. Massachusetts’ case rate had been dropping from the peak of the relatively modest spring wave but now it seems like that drop has stalled. It’s as if there’s a threshold we hit at which people stop being scared enough to suppress the spread of the virus, and that threshold keeps rising. And at this point the bulk of the spread is being done by young people who still haven’t gotten vaccinated (if they even can get vaccinated), so the fact that more than half the state has a shot isn’t cutting into this much.

    (It does seem to be keeping the deaths down, though. It may be we get to a situation where COVID is just perpetually endemic here and people treat it as a flu, because the unvaccinated spreaders are young enough that they don’t die much. Too bad about the long COVID. School mandates might help eventually.)

  37. 37.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: Modi is much more competent as a politician than the last R president and can bring his murderous intentions to fruition better.

  38. 38.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Baud:  Isn’t that why all the sound and furry over “Cancel Culture”, that the filthy prols are daring to shout down the  excuses?

  39. 39.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Baud:

    @schrodingers_cat:

    My impression is that Modi’s megalomaniacal, callous, ruthless, cruel, incompetent in governance, but cunning in politics and still understands reality (though tries to create his own reality through manipulation of media). Balsonaro is megalomaniacal, callous, ruthless, cruel, incompetent in governance, but not as cunning in politics and utterly detached from reality.

  42. 42.

    Betty Cracker

    @mrmoshpotato: Hope you’re all better now! I feel 100% fine today, apart from a little residual arm soreness. I slept for 15 or so hours yesterday, which is very unlike me! What a holiday it must have been for the mister!  :)

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Betty Cracker:

    Hope you’re all better now! 

    I’m feeling better, but keeping an eye on any weirdness for the next couple weeks.  Teeth-chattering chills in the middle of the night for a bit was something!

  44. 44.

    nevsky42

    5 days past the second Moderna shot and excited about having home poker games again, which hasn’t happened in the last 15 months.  The circle I most regularly attended attracts a wide political spectrum which, sadly, includes people who won’t be getting the vaccine soon for various reasons (libertarian/conservative/”health”), so I’ll probably need to start from scratch and start hosting myself…

  46. 46.

    Betty Cracker

    @MomSense: Ugh, hope it all resolves today and that you’re 100% soon. I felt terrible late Wednesday night and all day yesterday, but I feel really good so far today.

  48. 48.

    Ken

    @OzarkHillbilly: @Baud: Besides, it’s not moral hazard when corporations do it, it’s the natural workings of the free market.  And it seems to me, from the commercials and promotions I see, that a lot of corporations have decided that their revenues are only going to get back to normal if everyone gets vaccinated.

  49. 49.

    Chris T.

    @Betty Cracker:

    Got my 2nd vaccination on Wednesday.

    Me too: was supposed to be Thursday but the pharmacy called me in a day early to try to use up a Pfizer bottle.

    Felt like hammered shit yesterday, so my immune system is in great working order! May 13 is my Freedom Day.

    For whatever reason, my headache and other symptoms waited until last night / this morning. Overall not too bad though… metaphorical fingers crossed!

  51. 51.

    Sloane Ranger

    Thursday in the UK we had 2445 new cases. This is a decline in the rolling 7-day average of 8.6%. cases by nation,

    England – 2103 (up 374)
    Northern Ireland – 95 (down 3)
    Scotland – 178 (down 26)
    Wales – 69 (up 34).

    Deaths – There were 22 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an INCREASE in the rolling 7-day average of 0.6%. New deaths by nation, England – 15, Scotland – 5, Wales – 2 and none in Northern Ireland.

    Testing – 1,360,719 tests were conducted on Wednesday, 28 April. This is an increase of 0.6% in the rolling 7-day average. The testing capacity estimated by labs on that date was 661,228.

    Hospitalisations – On Tuesday, 27 April there were 1553 people in hospital and there were 208 people on ventilators on Wednesday, 28th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions as of 25 April was down by 15.6%.

    Vaccinations – As of 28 April a total of 34,094,048 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 14,043,961 had received both shots. In percentage terms this means that 64.7% of all adults in the UK have had 1 dose and 26.7% were fully vaccinated.

  52. 52.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — the information about COVID-19 in the past 24 hours in Scotland is updated at 2:00 p.m. local time. There were 191 new cases of COVID-19 reported and zero deaths. The test positivity rate is 1.1%. There were just over 5,000 first vaccinations and over 40,000 second vaccinations.

     

    There will be delays to the reporting over the weekend as it’s a holiday on Monday so “real” numbers will only be available on Wednesday or thereabouts. It’s still looking good now the daily number of new cases is staying consistently below 200. We are opening up a bit though and this may push the case numbers up again if we’re not careful.

  53. 53.

    Geoduck

    I had almost no reaction at all my Pfizer shots. I almost wish there had been a little more, a sign that something was actually happening.

    And the brief mention of bad news brings to mind this quote from Douglas Adams:

    Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special rules. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news, but they didn’t work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn’t really any point in being there.

  55. 55.

    Dan B

    The little town of Republic in NE WA just 30 miles south of BC in Pine covered low mountains had a superspreader “defying lockdiwn” event at the Eagles clubhouse.  95 people contracted Covid, almost 10% of the population of the town.  People were transported to hospitals in Spokane and elsewhere.

    When the new variants arrive this may be all too common since people have heard that Covid is over.  It’s not over.  What they’ve heard is the governor has eased restrictions so it must be over, right?  Right!

    Inslee, please stop “easing”.  Set a date for any easing.  Make it three or more weeks after a benchmark, tough benchmark.  State that lockdiwn will be immeduate and severe if there are any violations or increased cases.

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