Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

No one could have predicted…

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    197 new cases
    4624 active cases – teens and 30s have the most cases
    Now at 1249 deaths
    3% test positivity
    221 people hospitalized, 46 in the ICU

    50.7% with at least one vaccination – this has slowed to a crawl
    39.7% totally vaccinated

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    A good deal of the progress in California is LA County which went to the least restrictive limitations on activity(Yellow) yesterday.  We’re at 0.7% test positivity and hospitalizations are under 400.

  4. 4.

    Matt McIrvin

    My cousin got COVID and ended up in the hospital just a few weeks ago. My own city is still a red zone (we had a new outbreak in April), I’m not fully vaccinated yet and my kid is not vaccinated at all. Anyone saying I won’t pretend this is over because I “love lockdown” can go screw themselves.

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/4 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 31 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. The last 2 Medium Risk communities were re-designated as Low Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/3 4 China reported 7 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases, 6 imported suspect cases:

    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), both Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria (via Germany); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Canada & Myanmar
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Japanese national coming from Japan; 2 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from the US & a Filipino crew member off a cargo ship with last port of call at the Philippines
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 1 confirmed case, off a flight diverted from Beijing, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Malaysia & Indonesia, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 1 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, all Filipino crew members off a cargo ship with last port of call in Singapore
    • Nanning in Guangxi Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Shanghai Municipality – 6 suspect cases, no information released

     

    Overall in China, 13 confirmed cases recovered, 14 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 825 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 319 active confirmed cases in the country (288 imported), 5 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 323 asymptomatic cases (315 imported), 11 suspect cases (all imported). 6,420 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/4, 284.595M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.69M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/5, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, 3 imported (all from Nepal) & 3 domestic (1 of whom does not yet have source of infection identified). 2 of the new domestic cases are foreign domestic workers.

  6. 6.

    Ramalama

    Since Canada still doesn’t have production facilities up and running (unlike the UK which started from zero just like Canada at the outset of the pandemic), we have to wait 4 months in between Jab #1 and Jab #2.

    I bit the bullet and got the Astra Zeneca shot. And proceeded to barf like 8 times in more than 48 hours, along with chills, fever, and other pleasantries. A woman, also in the Quebec province, died from blood clots after she received the AZ shot. Coink? Uncertain. The nurse who administered my shot told me that having had Covid already in the timeframe of the shot meant that I don’t have to get shot #2.

    But I’m sitting on each day afterwards, hoping for the best until I get to Day 20 when apparently I don’t have to worry about clots. Dreading with eagerness for August. Jab or no jab?

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    Charli Carpenter

    @charlicarpenter

    I’m more than 48 hours past my second shot and I can report that I have experienced a series of serious side effects: hope, joy, relief, peace of mind and incandescent gratitude!

    This is wonderful! ???

  8. 8.

    Cermet

    @Ramalama: You are a few orders of magnitude more likely to die from a car accident than get blood clots. AS for covid, again, that is many orders of more likely to kill you than a blood clot. Try to think logically. You are now are far and away safer from death or serious long-term illness then you were before the shot.

  9. 9.

    germy

    It’s that time of year again.  School board elections:

     Ben Riehlman, who is seeking his first term on the Burnt Hills school board, in a candidate statement effectively called for abolishing all health precautions in place in the school district and argued the measures have done more harm than good to students.

    “Students look like infirmed hostages: daily temperature checks, segregated cubicles, masked faces and no physical contact. This is abhorrent and wrong,” he said in the statement. “Fear-mongering politicians, abetted by media propagandists, are perpetuating this lunacy. There are many things to be feared in life, but COVID is not one.”

    Riehlman, who works as technology teacher to special education students at Madison-Oneida BOCES and is married with two children, argued that children should be taught to be resilient and to weigh risks, making the case that the restrictions in schools teach kids “to be afraid of a very survivable virus.” He said local communities – “not feckless state leaders” – should make decisions about what’s best for their local schools.

     

    “Let’s return to the Old Normal,” he concluded in his candidate statement. “Re-open society and re-open schools fully. No preconditions, no social distancing, no masking and no more irrational fear.”

    https://dailygazette.com/2021/05/04/contested-school-board-races-across-capital-region-offer-voters-choice/

  10. 10.

    Princess

    I expect “love lockdown” stuff from Carlson, but it’s also coming from people at The Atlantic and Nate Silver, and it’s nonsense. I don’t know one vaxxed person who hasn’t changed their life in some small way post vaccination — getting a haircut, or seeing doctors or whatever. Even the most (I would say) paranoid person I know who went way further than was rational in seclusion, has changed her lifestyle now. Also: I still wear a mask outdoors most of the time not because I think I need to for safety, or because I “love lockdown” but so others around me will feel more comfortable and won’t have to worry I’m a science-denying idiot.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    Ah, yeah.  Other countries can require COVID-19 passports.  Other countries have every right to tell Dump-humping anti-vaxxer assholes to get fucked.

  12. 12.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Ramalama: Sorry to hear you got so sick. That’s got to be rough.

    My impression is that the vast majority of experts on this say you should get the second shot even if you got COVID. It’s not clear how infection-induced immunity relates to vaccine-induced immunity. Mild cases particularly might not induce as strong an immune response as the vaccines do. Even so, I occasionally hear about doctors and nurses telling some people not to get the second shot; it’s a bit odd.

  14. 14.

    lowtechcyclist

    It’s not about me being ok with it or not. If I want to travel internationally over the next few years, I’m going to have to have one. Nothing US politicians or talk show hosts say or do will change that.

    Yeppers.  As I’ve said before, there will be ‘vaccine passports’ because well-off people who want to travel abroad again will demand them, and the government listens (way more than it should, in general) to that class of people.

  15. 15.

    satby

    @mrmoshpotato: The most dedicated anti-vaxxer covid denialists  will proudly tell you there’s no need to go to other countries, this one has so much to see and is so much better anyway. Also the same people who get outraged at having to “press 1 for English”.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 3,744 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 424,376 cases. He also reports 17 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,591 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.41% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 32,939 active and contagious cases; 328 are in ICU, 185 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,304 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 389,846 patients recovered – 91.86% of the cumulative reported total.

    20 new clusters were reported today: Kampung Padang Lalang and Kampung Paya Ular in Kelantan; Jalan Sawit, Tanjung Kibong, Sungai Mas, and Mongkos in Sarawak; Sri Manjalara, Jalan Yaacob Latif, and Jalan Damai Bakti in Kuala Lumpur; Persiaran Layar Perak, Jalan Dato Onn, and Jalan Kukup in Johor; Taman Pertama in Perak; Kopitiam Machap Baru in Melaka; Mutiara Bentong, Tanah Putih Baru, and Mahkota Height in Pahang; and Taman Medan, Persiaran Setia Prima, and Seruling Dua Belas in Selangor.

    Kampung Paya Ular, Mongkos, Sungai Mas, Jalan Dato Onn, Tanah Putih Baru, and Mahkota Height are community clusters. Taman Medan, Persiaran Setia Prima, and Jalan Yaacob Latif are education cluster at Ministry of Education schools. Jalan Kukup is an education cluster at a non-Ministry school. Seruling Dua Belas and Jalan Damai Bakti are religious clusters. The rest are workplace clusters.

    3,737 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,546 local cases: 74 in older clusters; nine in Persiaran Setia Prima, Seruling Dua Belas, and Taman Medan clusters; 968 close-contact screenings; and 495 other screenings. Kelantan reports 480 cases: 68 in older clusters, two in Kampung Padang Lalang and Kampung Paya Ular clusters, 329 close-contact screenings, and 81 other screenings. Sarawak reports 418 local cases: 76 in older clusters; five in Jalan Sawit, Sungai Mas, Tanjong Kibong, and Mongkos clusters; 227 close-contact screenings; and 110 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 312 local cases: 23 in Jalan Damai Bakti, Jalan Yaacob Latif, and Sri Manjalara clusters; 185 close-contact screenings; and 104 other screenings. Johor reports 292 cases: 56 in older clusters; 18 in Jalan Dato Onn, Jalan Kukup, and Persiaran Layar Perak clusters; 145 close-contact screenings; and 73 other screenings.

    Penang reports 195 cases: six in existing clusters, 80 close-contact screenings, and 109 other screenings. Kedah reports 124 cases: 42 in existing clusters, 50 close-contact screenings, and 32 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 76 cases: 13 in existing clusters, 43 close-contact screenings, and 20 other screenings. Terengganu reports 73 cases: 65 in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Perak reports 65 cases: eight in older clusters, two in Taman Pertama cluster, 39 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 50 cases: nine in existing clusters, 26 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings. Pahang reports 49 cases: 21 in older clusters; 17 in Mahkota Height, Mutiara Bentong, and Tanah Putih Baru clusters; seven close-contact screenings; and four other screenings. Melaka reports 42 local cases: 10 in older clusters, 13 in Kopitiam Machap Baru cluster, 12 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 11 cases: five close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Labuan reports three local cases: two in existing clusters, and one close-contact screening. And Perlis reports one case, found in other screening.

    Seven new cases today are imported: two in Selangor, two in Labuan, one in Kuala Lumpur, one in Sarawak, and one in Melaka.

    The deaths reported today are a 68-year-old woman in Selangor, DOA with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 66-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; a 42-year-old man in Kelantan with hypertension and obesity; a 48-year-old woman in Sarawak diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 62-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; a 72-year-old man in Perak with hypertension; a 66-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; a 58-year-old man in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and tuberculosis; a 68-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity, and chronic kidney disease; a 71-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 64-year-old man in Perak with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and chronic kidney disease; an 82-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and heart disease; a 69-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes; a 46-year-old woman in Selangor with heart disease and stroke; an 84-year-old man in Johor wth hypertension and chronic kidney disease; and an 82-year-old woman in Negeri Sembilan, DOA with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia.

  17. 17.

    schrodingers_cat

    India’s reported numbers are off at least by a factor of 10. Worst culprits of data fudging are the BJP ruled states. Ordinary citizens and journalists are trying to set the record straight  by going to crematoriums  and burial grounds, and collating all the relevant obituaries in local papers

  18. 18.

    Ruff the dog

    Gonna make sure I have a FYFeelings mask when I travel through red states next month.

    Or a god and guns mask, watch their heads explode.

  19. 19.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ruff the dog:

    Gonna make sure I have a FYFeelings mask when I travel through red states next month.

    That would be perfect.

    The Lord isn’t going to be so thoughtful as to have someone come up to me in public and ask me to remove my mask because it’s making them feel uncomfortable.  Because I would so relish that moment.

  20. 20.

    Sloane Ranger

    Tuesday in the UK we had 1946 new reported cases. This is a 13.2% decrease in our rolling 7-day average but the after effects of the Monday Bank Holiday may still be with us. New reported cases by home nation,

    England -1659 (up 206)

    Northern Ireland – 83 (up 19)

    Scotland – 139 (up 7)

    Wales – 65 (no cases reported on Bank Holiday Monday.)

    Deaths – There were 4 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 37% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, England – 3, Wales – 1 and none in either Northern Ireland and Scotland.

    Testing – On Monday 3 May a total of 1,069,724 tests were conducted. This is a reduction in the 7-day rolling average of 10.5%. As of this date, the PCR testing capacity estimated by labs was 660,759.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated.

    Vaccinations – As of 3 May, a total of 34,667,904 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 15,630,007 had received both. In percentage terms this means that, as of that date, 65.8% of all adults in the UK had received 1 jab and 29.7% were fully vaccinated.

  21. 21.

    Searcher

    Over/under on that red state / blue state vaccination discrepancy being turned into a conspiracy/Biden “scandal”?

  22. 22.

    Soprano2

    Here’s the latest Covid fuckery the MO state legislature is engaging in. They want to make health orders illegal unless there are disease outbreaks of “significantly greater prevalence” than other areas, which if applied to Covid would have meant MO would have been like India. These people are INSANE. They are showing in no uncertain terms that they care more about money than people’s lives. https://www.ky3.com/2021/05/04/missouri-house-votes-against-virus-rules-for-businesses/

  23. 23.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — the numbers today are probably artificially low due to data flow problems from testing sites but 85 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported with zero deaths. The test positivity rate is 0.8%. This is still a solid downward trend in terms of cases and deaths assuming the data problems did not distort the results too much.

     

    Vaccinations continue — I happened to be passing my local vaccination super-centre earlier today and there was a steady flow of people entering and leaving the premises which I regard as a good sign. PHS reports 13,000 first vaccinations and 25,800 second vaccinations in the past 24 hours (all currently approved vaccines in the UK are two-dose formulations).

     

    The UK government has announced it is making plans for a booster jab programme starting in September to try and improve the immunity levels of people over 50. This is in anticipation of a third wave of COVID-19 infections that the epidemiologists think will hit the UK during the winter, compounded mainly by variant versions of the disease. The details are still being worked on at the moment but the government is ordering large numbers of extra doses of various vaccines for future delivery. One option being considered is to give anyone treated with, say, the AstraZeneca vaccine this spring a booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna or possibly the Novavax vaccine if it’s approved by then. The thinking is that this hybrid approach will boost the recipient’s immune system to respond better to more variants of the virus if they are infected. This theory has still to be tested and proven to work though.

  24. 24.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Searcher:

    Over/under on that red state / blue state vaccination discrepancy being turned into a conspiracy/Biden “scandal”?

    Someone will probably try, but it would be a challenge.  Once you’re outside the cities these days, there’s a shit-ton of evidence of plenty of vaccines with hardly anyone coming in to get vaccinated.

    In our 66% GQP exurban county, my wife got her second Pfizer shot yesterday evening.  Only one other person was there to get vaccinated the whole time she was there.

  25. 25.

    Scout211

    Interesting piece of news from near my locality:

    https://www.kcra.com/article/bar-owner-accused-selling-fake-covid-19-vaccination-cards-san-joaquin-county/36334698

    CLEMENTS, Calif. —

    A bar owner was arrested in connection with selling fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said Tuesday.

    Luke Blehm, a spokesperson with ABC, told KCRA 3 the agency launched an undercover operation after receiving complaints that fake vaccine cards were being made at The Old Corner Saloon in Clements. Agents succeeded in purchasing several of these cards from the owner and a bartender in April.

    Blehm said bar owner Todd Anderson is facing charges of falsifying medical records with forging public seals, along with several counts of identity theft.

    “Falsifying medical documents and also on the cards there are several agency seals on them, and that is illegal to falsify a seal of an agency or an entity, which makes that identify theft. And also there’s a section — forgery section — with forging a seal,” Blehm said.

  26. 26.

    Soprano2

    I just saw on Twitter that CVS announced that they would do walk-in vaccinations nationwide at their pharmacies. C’mon, WalMart and Walgreens and Target and HyVee and all the rest, let’s make it easy for people to get vaccinated while they’re there so my manager can get vaccinated!!!

  27. 27.

    Ramalama

    @Cermet:

     Try to think logically.

    I did. Which is why I got the shot. I have to wait 4 months, per Canada because there are no production facilities here.

    I am nervous but those are emotions. Humans have emotions. And there was just so much vomit with round 1.

  28. 28.

    Ramalama

    @Matt McIrvin: Are you in the US? Is that where you’ve heard the odd ‘don’t need to take shot #2’ talk?

    I’m trying to follow what the official word is with Health Canada. Or Health Canadia as my siblings call it. Right now they’re all focused on some hot spot breakouts in Ontario and Alberta.

    I’ll likely take shot #2. I felt damned when I was diagnosed with Covid19. Like the nurse called me up told me some stuff to do and not do, and said to me, “Good luck.” Which was the loneliest feeling I’ve ever had. I’m not going through it again. Even though I was so so careful (think I got infected through an open window in the car). Not careful enough.

  29. 29.

    Chris T.

    @Searcher:

    Over/under on that red state / blue state vaccination discrepancy being turned into a conspiracy/Biden “scandal”?

    Idea: spread a new conspiracy theory!  Tell the GQPers that the Blue States are getting the real vaccine and the red-staters need to demand the real vaccine!

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