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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    We got a huge head start on the vaccine, and we’re going to be the idiots who stall out at 60% coverage because we hate each other.

    More like a bunch of Trump trash want to “own the libs” by keeping this pandemic going because they’re assholes.

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    trying to get a guy killed because he asked you to wear a mask

    Yeah, basically. Also, un-fucking-believable! What a stupid, stupid hill for Trump-humping trash to possibly, quite literally, die on.

  3. 3.

    Kirk Spencer

    The thing about Texas that gets me isn’t so much the governor as it is the number of people who think he’s been dragging his feet. They want him to ban masks except in specific circumstances. (Local knowledge, dunno if your going to find that on the record somewhere.)

  4. 4.

    terben

    In Australia, except for Victoria, (see above) life continues in a pseudo-normal manner. 12 new cases, 10 in quarantine and 2 cases in Victoria related to the current outbreak.

    The slow rollout of vaccines continues as the federal and various State governments argue with each other about who is responsible for the failure.In my state, SA, people aged 40-49 are now able to get the Pfizer vaccine from today. This has, naturally, sparked envy and complaints from the older cohort.

    With Astra-Zenica, you have to wait 12 weeks between jabs, while it’s only 3 weeks if you have the Pfizer. ‘Why should THEY be fully vaccinated before we are?’ Unbelievable!!!! Old people, like me, should just fuck off and die!!​

  5. 5.

    Matt McIrvin

    DeSantis has completely halted all state reporting of COVID information in Florida, hasn’t he? So he doesn’t care how many people die there– nobody will ever know. He can just let it roll at this point. I suspect that’s the future here– we’ll have an invisible fourth or fifth wave in red states that will be statistically suppressed. Maybe it leaks into the blue states to cause political damage there.

  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    Basically we’re going to go from a situation where I can’t go anywhere because it’s dangerous, to one where I can’t go anywhere because it would be immoral to patronize these assholes who are turning their own states into a giant Jonestown.

  7. 7.

    Ian R

    I agree with that last tweet only if no staff have to be exposed to those assholes. Use a tug to pull it out to sea, then let it drift.

  9. 9.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    32 new cases – 65.6% were people under 40, including 10 children between 0 and 19. Children under 10, people in their 30s and people in their 60s had the highest number of cases at 6 each.

    Deaths now at 1309.

    1.2% test positivity

    103 people in the hospital, 26 people in the ICU

    57.8% have had at least 1 shot
    51.5% are totally vaccinated

    This would all look great if 6 more people hadn’t died since last week.

  10. 10.

    Soprano2

    Amanda Marcotte says conservatives don’t want to get vaccinated because we want them to do it, and that we should quit caring about them getting vaccinated and instead concentrate on underserved populations that want to get vacced. Also, they want Biden to fail in the 70% vacced by July 4th goal. How dumb is it to want to die or get really sick to “own the libs”? I say they should announce that we’re sending all the vaccine from red states where they don’t want it to Mexico, Central America and Africa. They’ll all start yelling about how dare Biden send their vaccine to “those foreigners “.

  11. 11.

    satby

    @Soprano2:

    I say they should announce that we’re sending all the vaccine from red states where they don’t want it to Mexico, Central America and Africa. They’ll all start yelling about how dare Biden send their vaccine to “those foreigners “.

    Considering the racism that powers their every move, they might be gratified that we would send “dangerous vaccines” to those places.

  12. 12.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Soprano2:

    and that we should quit caring about them getting vaccinated and instead concentrate on underserved populations that want to get vacced.

    I have semi-selfish reasons to agree–I strongly suspect there are a lot of the latter category here in the Merrimack Valley; lots of primarily Spanish-speaking people who want to get vaccinated in the abstract, but have worries about missing work, whether they’ll get socked with some kind of bill and any risks of interacting with the state. The state actually is trying to push pretty hard, I saw a little piece of that when I went to get my daughter her shot, but the crowd there (well, it wasn’t much of a crowd, honestly) was still kind of disturbingly white given where the place was.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,566 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 627,652 cases. He also reports 76 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 3,536 deaths — 0.56% of the cumulative reported total, 0.65% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 82,797 active and contagious cases; 903 are in ICU, 458 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 6,962 patients recovered and were discharged – 1,396 more than today’s new-cases number — for a cumulative total of 541,319 patients recovered – 86.25% of the cumulative reported total.

    24 new clusters were reported today.

    5,562 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,522 local cases: 67 in clusters, 1,097 close-contact screenings, and 358 other screenings. Sarawak reports 707 cases: 143 in clusters, 437 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 505 cases: 210 in clusters, 137 close-contact screenings, and 158 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 464 local cases: 79 in clusters, 264 close-contact screenings, and 121 other screenings. Johor reports reports 456 cases: 123 in clusters, 206 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 350 cases: 166 in clusters, 135 close-contact screenings, and 49 other screenings. Melaka reports 314 cases: 151 in clusters, 140 close-contact screenings, and 23 other screenings.

    Perak reports 225 cases: 68 in clusters, 49 close-contact screenings, and 108 other screenings. Kelantan reports 204 cases: 13 in clusters, 141 close-contact screenings, and 50 other screenings.

    Labuan reports 191 cases: 58 in clusters, 62 close-contact screenings, and 71 other screenings. Penang reports 185 cases: 67 in clusters, 64 close-contact screenings, and 54 other screenings. Pahang reports 157 cases: 82 in clusters, 70 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Kedah reports 148 cases: 21 in clusters, 97 close-contact screenings, and 30 other screenings. Terengganu reports 106 cases: 24 in clusters, 55 close-contact screenings, and 27 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 27 cases: eight in clusters, 17 close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Perlis reports one case, a close-contact screening.

    Four new cases today are imported: two in Selangor and two in Kuala Lumpur.

  15. 15.

    Cameron

    @Matt McIrvin: I thought they stopped daily reporting but were still doing weekly reporting.  Even with that, they’re probably lying.  Got my shots and intend to keep masking up right through flu season.  I don’t trust DeSantis or the state legislature as far as I can throw them.

  16. 16.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 5683 new cases. This is an increase of 52.9% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 4913 (up 508)

    Northern Ireland – 54 (down 15)

    Scotland – 641 (down 134)

    Wales – 75 (down 17).

    Deaths – There was 1 death within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 1.7% in the rolling 7-day average. The death occurred in Wales.

    Testing – 1,242,068 tests were administered on Sunday, 6 June. This is a decrease of 4.4% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs on that date was 568,938.

    Hospitalisations – not updated since last Thursday.

    Vaccinations – As of 6 June, 40,460,576 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 27,921,294 have had both. In percentage terms this means that, as of this date, 76.8% of adults have had 1 shot and 53% were fully vaccinated.

  17. 17.

    Princess

    Florida is the last place I would travel right now. And a cruise with vaccines optional is the last thing I would do. You’d have to be insane. Imagine the low life anti-vaxxing bums it would attract. Not only will the whole thing become a petri dish, you’ll have to sit near nothing but assholes all the time.

  18. 18.

    germy

    So in two hours I’ll be visiting our local grocery store.  I got my second pfizer over four weeks ago.

    Do I really need to wear a mask in the store?

    I’ve been masking up everywhere indoors after being fully vaccinated.  How much longer is this necessary?

    (Last time I was in the store I saw some people masked, some without masks.  And the cashier was unmasked.)

  19. 19.

    germy

    Surreal TV moment as six-stroke leader Jon Rahm learns he tested positive for COVID and Jim Nantz tries to make sense of it without knowing what Rahm’s been told pic.twitter.com/WvD6LmAlxs— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 5, 202

    All he had to do is get a vaccine.  Instead, he threw away some big potential prize money.

  20. 20.

    Matt McIrvin

    @germy: Honestly, from a personal safety perspective, you probably don’t need to mask up, though I suppose it depends on the situation. I’m still doing it, but that’s partly because there is still more COVID in my town than in surrounding areas–if I lived in one of the places where there are single digits of cases per week I might start to consider it absurd.

    (Also, my daughter is not at the two-week mark yet and if I wear a mask it makes it socially easier for her to do it.)

  21. 21.

    germy

    @Matt McIrvin:

    That’s the thing, though.

    I feel  like “Yay, I’m fully vaccinated, I don’t have to worry anymore!”

    But then I think “There’s all sorts of variants floating around.  I live in upstate NY where a bunch of people are still unvaccinated.  Maybe I’ll still catch the virus.”

    I don’t want even a mild case of that shit.

  22. 22.

    Mary G

    The OC only reported 19 new cases today, a new low. Of course, weekend, but still joyful. Only 8 people in ICU.

  23. 23.

    trnc

    @debbie: Ohio announced yesterday there are 200,000 vaccine doses that will expire in two weeks. Such a waste.

    Only 2100 people vaccinated there yesterday, their lowest day since the lootery (not a typo) began.

  24. 24.

    trnc

    @germy: All he had to do is get a vaccine. Instead, he threw away some big potential prize money.

    From what I’ve seen, he’s ok with that and there are a ton of people mad with the tournament for, you know, enforcing their own rules. Not even sure any of them would change their minds if he winds up infecting his baby.

  25. 25.

    Soprano2

    @germy:  I’ve been masking up everywhere indoors after being fully vaccinated. How much longer is this necessary?

    Dr. Fauci said on Maddow last Friday that it is not necessary for fully vaccinated people to wear masks in most situations. The vaccine protects you and others around you from Covid much, much better than the face mask ever did. I think a lot of people like the visual reassurance of a mask, plus we’ve learned that it helps single out the assholes, but that’s no longer true anymore.

  26. 26.

    Soprano2

    @Princess:And a cruise with vaccines optional is the last thing I would do. You’d have to be insane.

    Put all the vaccinated on one ship, and the unvaccinated on another, with all the crew fully vaccinated. It’s a natural experiment the unvaccinated shouldn’t object to since after all they say Covid isn’t any worse than a cold.

  27. 27.

    Soprano2

    @germy:All he had to do is get a vaccine.  Instead, he threw away some big potential prize money.

    He had gotten vaccinated, I think with the J&J, but it had been less than a week when he was diagnosed with Covid. He just didn’t get the shot quickly enough. I met a man who was diagnosed with Covid two days after he got his first shot!

  28. 28.

    Soprano2

    @germy: I don’t want even a mild case of that shit.

    Well, then you’d better plan on staying in your house away from others for the rest of your life, because Covid is here to stay. If you did happen to catch it – unlikely, but not impossible – you’d have either an asymptomatic case or a mild one. I read a statistic that out of 101 million fully vaccinated people, 996 ended up in the hospital – and more than 300 of those were there for reasons other than just Covid! Your chance of serious illness or death is vanishingly small if you’re fully vaxxed.

  29. 29.

    Matt McIrvin

    @germy: I’d say, look at the numbers. Your state probably publishes county-by-county data or something like it. Severity of cases depends on the level of exposure, and I figure the vaccine will probably turn what would have been a mild case into no detectable infection at all. If there’s enough COVID around for it to be a danger worth considering even for vaccinated people, you’d see it in the reported cases; you’d be in a screaming hotspot.

  30. 30.

    Matt McIrvin

    I was mildly alarmed at 7-day case averages visibly ticking up for both my state and for the US, but it looks like that’s just an artifact of Memorial Day weekend (but not the subsequent backlog) falling out of the averaging window. If the holiday weekend caused a surge we won’t see it for a couple of weeks.

  31. 31.

    Zzyzx

    I still mask but that’s because it’s Seattle culture to do so. We have 70% of the adult population fully vaccinated and still everyone masks up at stores.

  32. 32.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 6/7 China reported 19 new domestic confirmed (9 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Guangdong Province reported 19 new domestic confirmed (9 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 confirmed case recovered.

    • Guangzhou reported 14 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic). Of the 10 new cases 9 are at Liwan District & 1 at Panyu District. 7 of the new confirmed cases & are traced close contacts, the remainder were identified via mass screening of individuals deemed at risk. 1 residential compound was elevated to Medium Risk. There are 2 sub-districts at High Risk, as well as 7 residential compounds at Medium Risk.
    • Zhanjiang reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a person who had traveled from Guangzhou. 1 residential compound was elevated to Medium Risk.
    • Maoming did not reported any new domestic positive cases.
    • Foshan reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic). 3 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Shenzhen reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic), 2 at Longgang District & 1 at Yantian District. 

    Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are 3 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases at Yingkou.

    In Yunnan Province, 1 domestic confirmed case recovered, there currently are 3 domestic confirmed cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 6/7 China reported 14 new imported confirmed cases, 16 imported asymptomatic cases&:

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Qatar (via Amsterdam Schiphol), Cambodia & Zambia (via Dubai); 5 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Burundi (via Nairobi), Djibouti (via Dubai), the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol), Cambodia & the US
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 coming from the DRC & 1 from Cameroon, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, “ coming from France, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 2 confirmed cases, off a flight diverted from Beijing, no further information released
    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, a Chinese national returning from the the UK (via Germany) & a Japanese national coming from Japan
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases, a Chinese national returning from the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol) & a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan; 1 asymptomatic case, a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Sweden
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Laos via land border crossing
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic)
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Canada
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines; 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 each coming from Cameroon & the Sudan
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Overall in China, 27 confirmed cases recovered, 8 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 12 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 756 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 409 active confirmed cases in the country (291 imported), 10 in serious condition (all domestic), 372 asymptomatic cases (348 imported), 2 suspect case (both imported). 8,695 traced contacts are currently 

    As of 6/7, 794.143M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 16.264M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 6/8, Hong Kong reported 3 new positive cases, all imported (2 from Columbia & 1 from Indonesia).

  33. 33.

    Ken

    @Princess: Not only will the whole thing become a petri dish, you’ll have to sit near nothing but assholes all the time.

    Good news! The cruise industry has returned to its pre-COVID status.

  34. 34.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 695 new cases of COVID-19 and zero deaths reported overnight. The test positivity rate is now 5.0%.

    The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues apace with 48,500 vaccinations carried out yesterday. About 35% of those were first doses.

    General access to vaccination is opening up to people over 30 but there are some concerns about how to contact such folks. The issue is that younger people are more mobile and change addresses more often than older people and they are less likely to be registered with a health provider. The current situation is that the NHS in Scotland searches through their records and sends out vaccination appointment letters to known addresses based on the age of their target audience. There’s some evidence this is already missing many younger people and letters are arriving at rental properties long after the individuals moved out without updating their details with their local GP or other health service office.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    Before I forget: Malaysia’s R0/Rt,averaged over the first week of June, is currently at 0.97, thanks to the downward trnd of the past few days.. A glimmer of hope, but we’ve had these glimmers before.

  36. 36.

    rikyrah

    Is there a reason why we can’t ship the vaccine overseas to our Embassies and get the expats the vaccine that way?

  38. 38.

    rikyrah

    @germy:

    I honestly don’t know why the mask is so bothersome. You’ll be in the store, maybe, what, 45 minutes to the most? What’s hard about wearing a mask?

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    @germy:

     

    All he had to do is get a vaccine.  Instead, he threw away some big potential prize money.

     

    That’s all.

    Get the phucking vaccine.

  40. 40.

    rikyrah

    @Soprano2:

     

    Put all the vaccinated on one ship, and the unvaccinated on another, with all the crew fully vaccinated. It’s a natural experiment the unvaccinated shouldn’t object to since after all they say Covid isn’t any worse than a cold.

     

    I see it that way too. If you don’t want to prove vaccination, onto a separate ship you go.

  41. 41.

    germy

    @rikyrah:

    I have no problem wearing a mask.  I’ve been wearing them since this whole pandemic started.  My wife made me about five of them.  They all have multiple layers and fit perfectly, very comfortable.

    I was just wondering if it was still necessary for my safety, and for the safety of others, since I’ve been fully vaccinated for over a month now.

  42. 42.

    dnfree

    @germy: I’ve been fully vaccinated since March, and I’m still wearing my mask in stores. It’s not that hard for me because I’m still not going to stores that often.  I’m not eating inside restaurants yet, either.  95% effective is an overall population number. I might be 100% protected or 0% protected. And not all those maskless people are vaccinated.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    It would not surprise me at all to find that – in states like TX and FL – they are perfectly content to let people die of COVID because it’s the black and brown and poor people who are most at risk.

    To them, those people dying is a feature, not a bug.

    Disgusting.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    @charon:   But that puts everyone else at risk.  There is no non-peeing part of the pool.

    Soprano2, if I am reading correctly, believes that COVID is not a big deal because the symptoms will be mild.  Mild symptoms does not mean that you can’t get long COVID, which makes even a “mild” case a big fucking deal.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    @germy:

    All he had to do is get a vaccine.  Instead, he threw away some big potential prize money. 

    Yup.  What a dumbass.

  48. 48.

    sab

    @WaterGirl: My stepson’s fiance got desperately sick in Feb 2020. No testing then. A cold that got severe. She recovered, but she has been coughing her lungs out every morning for more than a year. Some mornings they considered the emergency room. She has no insurance, so she has been trouping onward.

    Post Moderna vaccine, all symptoms gone.

  49. 49.

    Soprano2

    @dnfree:  I might be 100% protected or 0% protected.

    I’m almost certain that you aren’t 0% protected if you’re fully vaccinated with any of the three vaccines we’re using in the U.S. You’re exaggerating.

  50. 50.

    Soprano2

    @WaterGirl: What I’m saying is that if you want to make sure you NEVER get Covid, then you’d better resign yourself to staying in your house and away from all people you don’t know forever, because that’s what I think will be necessary to make sure you NEVER contract Covid. It’s way too prevalent in the world, and in the U.S., to completely avoid it. Even if you’re only around fully vaccinated people, there would be a small chance you could catch it, if one of them had it. I for one am not willing to stay isolated in my house forever, never going around anyone in a group without a face mask on, in order to never contract Covid again. I don’t think most people are willing to live like that forever either. There are all kinds of risks in the world that we accept without even thinking about them – you could be driving somewhere today and be killed by another driver. Most people don’t avoid ever being in a car because there’s a chance something like that could happen. That’s what I’m saying. I haven’t seen anything that shows that fully vaccinated people can get long covid, although I’m not saying it’s not possible.

    I am not saying long Covid isn’t a big deal, either. I’m also saying that Covid isn’t a big deal IF YOU CONTRACT IT EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE FULLY VACCINATED. When 996 out of 101 million fully vaccinated people are shown to get sick enough to be hospitalized, and over 300 of those had other things with Covid, I think it’s a risk I for one am willing to take.

  51. 51.

    rikyrah

    @WaterGirl:

    It would not surprise me at all to find that – in states like TX and FL – they are perfectly content to let people die of COVID because it’s the black and brown and poor people who are most at risk.

    To them, those people dying is a feature, not a bug.

     

    Will only remind you that the OPEN UP THE ECONOMY IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC began once the stats came out that it was disproportionately killing non-White people.

  52. 52.

    rikyrah

    @sab:

    My stepson’s fiance got desperately sick in Feb 2020. No testing then. A cold that got severe. She recovered, but she has been coughing her lungs out every morning for more than a year. Some mornings they considered the emergency room. She has no insurance, so she has been trouping onward.

    Post Moderna vaccine, all symptoms gone.

     

    wow.

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