Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

In my day, never was longer.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Monday / Tuesday, May 10-11

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(Suspect — hope — this is preaching to the converted, but in any case, bravo!)

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Apparently it wasn’t the kids getting sick, or even spreading infection to their parents; it was the newly-freed adults running around and breathing on each other…

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  1. 1.

    Cermet

    Great to see the daily infection rate dropping at a good clip. That is encouraging and proof vaccination works.

  4. 4.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    134 new cases – 62% were people under 40, including 34 children between 0 and 19

    4658 active cases – this has dropped by a few people. I hope they’re still alive.
    1263 COVID deaths since March 2020
    2.9% test positivity

    218 people hospitalized, 51 people in the ICU

    52.1% with at least one vaccination
    44% totally vaccinated

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    The ongoing struggle makes me feel somewhat hopeful that this clear, deadly, danger that must be managed will help undermine the Right Wing in their death cult goal of killing us all.

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    WereBear

    @mrmoshpotato: It’s what I got!

    All through the W years I was stressing out because so many seemed utterly oblivious to the dangers the Republican party kept delving into. Our elastic concept of middle class kept so many in a coma of complacency; seeing their struggles as individual, as the Rs intended.

    At least that fever has been broken.

  9. 9.

    Mousebumples

    Love the LA Care and Nimoy tweet! Very cool combination of pop culture and real life.

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    Mary G

    46 new cases and 0 deaths in the OC. Waiting to see if we get down to the yellow level when the official numbers come out tomorrow. I went to my substitute mom’s for dinner Sunday and it was so nice to hang out in person with her.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 3,973 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 448,457 cases. He also reports 22 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,722 deaths — 0.38% of the cumulative reported total, 0.42% of resolved cases.

    At his joint media conference today with Senior Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Dr Noor Hisham said three of four coronavirus variants of concern had been found in Malaysia: B.1.1.7, B.1.1.7+E484K (British variants), and B.1351 (Soth African variant). Only the Brazilian variant has not been found here, he said.

    Dr Noor Hisham also noted that the majority of cases were now being found in close-contact and other screenings, rather than in clusters, which indicated that Covid-19 was out in the community.

    There are currently 38,499 active and contagious cases; 453 are in ICU, 244 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,848 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 408,236 patients recovered – 91.03% of the cumulative reported total.

    13 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Haji Abdul Aziz, Jalan Utarid Lima, Jalan Sepuluh Industri Miel, Kota Warisan, and Jalan Mempelam in Selangor; Pauh Lima and Banggol Gajah Mati in Kelantan; Jalan Dato Setia and Jalan Lingkaran Ilmu in Johor; Jalan Serkam in Melaka and Johor; Dah Penghulu and Dah Amanjaya in Kedah; and Bako Hilir in Sarawak.

    Jalan Haji Abdul Aziz, Pauh Lima, Jalan Dato Setia, and Dah Penghulu are religious clusters. Jalan Utarid Lima, Jalan Sepuluh Industri Miel, and Jalan Serkam are workplace clusters. Kota Warisan is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education school. Jalan Lingkaran Ilmu is a higher-education cluster. Jalan Mempelam is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education-registered school. Banggol Gajah Mati and Bako Hilir are community clusters. Dah Amanjaya 2 is a high-risk group cluster.

    3,968 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,328 cases: 118 in clusters, 697 close-contact screenings, and 513 other screenings. Sarawak reports 512 cases: 53 in clusters, 353 close-contact screenings, and 106 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 479 local cases: 47 in clusters, 266 close-contact screenings, and 166 other screenings.

    Johor reports 383 local cases: 85 in clusters, 223 close-contact screenings, and 75 other screenings. Kelantan reports 321 cases: 44 in clusters, 214 close-contact screenings, and 63 other screenings.
    Penang reports 187 cases: 15 in clusters, 59 close-contact screenings, and 113 other screenings. Kedah reports 174 cases: 48 in clusters, 84 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings. Perak reports 140 cases: 81 in clusters, 28 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 126 cases: 19 in clusters, 68 close-contact screenings, and 39 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 93 cases: 47 in clusters, 33 close-contact screenings, and 13 other screenings. Pahang reports 85 cases: 26 in clusters, 37 close-contact screenings, and 22 other screenings. Melaka reports 79 cases: 40 in clusters, 25 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings. Sabah reports 50 cases: seven in clusters, 31 close-contact screenings, and one other screening. And Labuan reports three cases, all in clusters.

    Putrajaya reports eight cases: seven close-contact screenings, and 513 other screenings.
    Perlis reports no new cases today.

    Five new cases today are imported: four in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Johor.

    The deaths reported today are a 63-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 74-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; a 77-year-old man in Johor with diabetes and hypertension; a 58-year-old woman in Kelantan with diabetes and hypertension; a 61-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and chronic kidney disease; a 68-year-old man in Johor with hypertension; a 73-year-old man in Selangor with Parkinson’s disease; a 69-year-old woman in Sabah with diabetes and hypertension; a 63-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes; an 83-year-old man in Selangir with hypertension, stroke, and heart disease; a 78-year-old man in Perak with hypertension and heart disease; a 64-year-old woman in Perak with diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and chronic kidney disease; a 63-year-old man in Kedah with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; an 87-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and Parkinson’s disease; a 76-year-old woman in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; an 80-year-old woman in Joor with diabetes and hypertension; a 56-year-old woman in Kelantan, DOA with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; an 85-year-old man in Pahang with diabetes and hypertension; a 74-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, stroke, asthma, and heart disease; a 51-year-old man in Selangor, DOA with no co-morbidities listed; a 31-year-old woman in Selagor with diabetes and erebral palsy; and a 67-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes.

  12. 12.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 2357 new cases. This is an INCREASE in the rolling 7-day average of 3.1%. Hopefully, just a blip, we’ll see over the next few days. New cases by nation,

    England – 2009 (up 591)

    Northern Ireland – 76 (down 22)

    Scotland – 168 (down 32)

    Wales – 104 (up 50).

    Deaths – There were 4 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 33.3% in the rolling 7-day average.. All 4 deaths were in Wales.

    Testing – A total of 1,322,338 tests were administered on Sunday, 9 May. This is an increase of 8.9% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs on this date was 648,153.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated since 6 May.

    Vaccinations – As of 9 May, a total of 35,472,295 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 17,856,550 had got both. In percentage terms this means that 67.3% of all adults in the UK have had 1 shot of a vaccine and 33.9% were fully vaccinated.

    General – Boris Johnson announced yesterday that there would be a further relaxation of restrictions in England from this coming Monday. Among other things, this means that people will be able to go to a cinema, drink indoors in pubs and meet in larger groups outdoors. Social distancing remains in place as a general rule but there has been some relaxation in requirements in mask wearing for schoolchildren. He added a warning that the virus was still out there and people should be careful about exercising any of these new found freedoms. Given the rise in the rolling 7-day average for case counts I hope this is not a mistake. OTOH, a friend of mine, who spent her working life in Public Health, told me that if the vaccination programme is working, she expected to see a rise in cases when restrictions were relaxed but this would not be coupled with a rise in hospitalisations or deaths. We’ll see.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/10 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered, at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 23 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/10 China reported 14 new imported confirmed cases, 25 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Germany, the UK (via Germany), Russia & Israel
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 4 confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 3 Chinese nationals returning from Egypt & 1 from Nepal; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the US
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Ukraine (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released 
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, 1 Chinese national returning from Jordan (via Dubai); 7 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from the UAE & 1 each from Bangladesh,  Cambodia, Saudi Arabia & the Ukraine (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Iraq & 2 from Chad, all off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Indian nationals returning from India
    • Chongqing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Nepal
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Nigeria (via Frankfurt); 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Serbia (via Frankfurt) & 1 from Pakistan
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released 
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Germany

     

    Overall in China, 10 confirmed cases recovered, 22 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 642 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 302 active confirmed cases in the country (279 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 318 asymptomatic cases (312 imported), 2 suspect case (imported). 5,848 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/10, 332.964M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.657M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/11, Hong Kong reported 1 new case, 1 imported (from Indonesia).

  15. 15.

    Ken

    We can deal with endemic. Measles, rubella, influenza, polio (grrr… so close), et cetera are all endemic, and manageable with vaccines.  But I agree with the sentiment in this XKCD.

  16. 16.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — the numbers today were delayed by network problems but they’re now available.

    238 new cases of COVID-19 were reported with again zero deaths. The test positivity rate remains at around 1.7%. There were about 40,000 vaccinations carried out, mostly second vaccinations.

     

    Tomorrow the National Records of Scotland (NRS) will release their weekly report of death certificates which mention COVID-19 as a contributory cause of death. This number is always greater than the daily PHS figure since that only represents the number of people who have died having been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the previous 28 days.

     

    The move to reopen Scotland continues with a relaxation of the lockdown rules beginning next Monday 17th May. The exception is the Moray region in the north of Scotland which is still showing a distressingly high number of cases. It is responsible for about 10% of all COVID-19 cases in Scotland over the past week despite having only 2% of Scotland’s population. For this reason Moray will stay in partial lockdown for at least another two weeks and maybe more.

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    Currawong

    I have a question about what will happen when everyone who wants a vaccination in the US has had one.

    After that point, if an unvaccinated person falls sick and is hospitalised, will their health insurance cover the hospital costs? Why would they pay when they can just say, you have this virus through choice so it’s not our problem?

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