Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I was promised a recession.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

This really is a full service blog.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Monday / Tuesday, June 14-15

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Vermont deserves kudos! But as a side note, while it’s not a wealthy state, its poor / uneducated people are white, which meant a lot less pushback on early, effective assistance from The Usual Suspects…

This would be my mood right now, except I never trusted the expensively-educated upper-middle-class pundits in the first place…

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats: There was no reporting over the weekend.

    Vaccinations in Monroe County:

    58.6% with at least 1 jab
    53.4% totally vaccinated

    New COVID cases:

    22 new cases – 72% of cases are people under 40, including 11 children 0 – 19. Children 0-9 accounted for the highest number of cases.

    .8% test positivity

    Deaths now at 1320. We’re still dying from COVID around here.

  2. 2.

    Derelict

    If Biden were a REAL president like Donald J. Trump, he would have said “All of these deaths are just faked data to make me look bad. It’s how the entire hoax medical industry works!”

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Confused, as the sites which I check show U.S. deaths passed 600,000 nearer the beginning of the month; sitting at over 607,000 when peeked in one minute ago.

  4. 4.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 6/14 China reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Guangdong Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    • Guangzhou reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at the epicenter sub-district in Liwan District, a traced close contract already under centralized quarantine since 6/7. 1 residential compound has been re-designated as Low Risk. 2 sub-districts remain at High Risk, 5 sub-districts & 7 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Zhanjiang did not report any new domestic positive case. 1 residential compound remains Medium Risk.
    • Maoming did not reported any new domestic positive cases.
    • Foshan did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 residential compounds have been redesigned as Low Risk. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • Shenzhen reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a Chinese Customs worker at the Bao’an International Airport & living in Nanshan District. Currently, it is unknown whether the case is connected to the outbreak at the Yantian Port (at the other end of the city). The residential compound the case lives in is under lock down, 87 close contacts have been traced and quarantined.

    Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Wenzhou, a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 6/10, a clerk at a drug store that sold medicine to the imported confirmed case reported on 6/11. There currently are 3 domestic asymptomatic cases at the city.

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

    In Yunnan Province, there currently is 1 domestic confirmed case remaining at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.

    Imported Cases

    On 6/13 China reported 18 new imported confirmed cases, 24 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Russia & the UK (via Helsinki), Guinea (via Paris CdG) & Cambodia, & a Russian national coming from Russia
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Myanmar, Bangladesh & the UAE; 6 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia & 1 each from Bangladesh, the UAE, Côte d’Ivoire (via Dubai) & the DRC (via Nairobi)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from South Africa; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the DRC
    • Zhongshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Zambia (via Dubai); 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the UAE; both off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both coming from Bangladesh, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Indonesia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Huizhou in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Hong Kong via land border crossing at Shenzhen
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Romania (via Amsterdam Schiphol); 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Egypt
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the UAE
    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar via land border crossing
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 each coming from Senegal, Indonesia & Japan
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from the UK; 1 asymptomatic case, from the UAE
    • Xi’an in Shanxi Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan & Canada, off flights diverted from Beijing
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Yingkou Port at Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Jiangsu Province (location not specified) – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Overall in China, 8 confirmed cases recovered, 11 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 730 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 483 active confirmed cases in the country (332 imported), 14 in serious condition (3 imported), 404 asymptomatic cases (382 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 14,588 traced contacts are currently 

    As of 6/13, 904.134M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 11.364M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 6/14, Hong Kong reported 2 new positive case, both imported (both from Indonesia).

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    And so a new chapter commences.

    The Hawai‘i Department of Health’s State Laboratories Division has confirmed the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617.2, also known as the Delta variant in the islands.…
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    The variant was detected in a specimen from an O‘ahu resident, who traveled to Nevada in early May; the Delta variant was reported in Nevada in May. State officials say the person was fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to travel and had a negative SARS-CoV-2 test prior to departing Nevada. The person developed mild symptoms consistent with COVID-19 several days after returning to Hawai‘i and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. a href=”https://mauinow.com/2021/06/14/hawaii-department-of-health-laboratory-detects-delta-variant-in-hawaii/”>Source

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    If I heard it correctly on the radio yesterday, county vaccination rates in rural MO are running 17-37%. It’s going to be an interesting summer. Speaking of interesting summers, it’s already begun:

    Southwest Missouri’s most popular tourist areas are the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Delta variant that is responsible for making India second to the United States in coronavirus cases. All eight counties along a heavily traveled route from Branson to the Lake of the Ozarks are among the 30 local health jurisdictions with the highest rate of newly reported cases so far this month.

    The variant has been identified in lab tests and wastewater monitoring in 18 communities across the state. Not every county where it has appeared in wastewater is showing a surge in cases, but a rapid increase due to the at least in part to the variant is evident both in southwest Missouri and in north-central Missouri, where a surge began in mid-May.

    Local health officials said low vaccination rates are allowing the variant, which accounts for 6 percent of all cases in the U.S., to spread rapidly. Webster County, where only 26 percent of residents are fully vaccinated, has added 97 cases this month through Friday after reporting 106 in May. The variant has been identified in the wastewater from Marshfield, the county seat.

    “The thing that personally keeps me up at night is the responsibility of keeping the 40,000 people in this county alive whether they want it or not,” said Scott Allen, co-administrator of the Webster County Health Unit.

    My neighbors are gonna be the death of us all.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Ripple effect.

    Mall owner Washington Prime Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Sunday, citing the COVID-19 pandemic for making the move necessary.

    The company, which spun off from the nation’s largest mall operator, Simon Property Group in 2014, currently has 102 shopping centers, according to documents filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Washington Prime is based in Columbus, Ohio. Source

    Not something on which I keep close tabs, however this is at least the third owner of malls across the country am aware of which has sought bankruptcy protection during the pandemic.

  8. 8.

    Soprano2

    @OzarkHillbilly: I hate to tell Mr. Allen this, but those people don’t care about staying alive. Branson lifted all restrictions in mid-April in spite of low vaccination rates because of tourism. It’s going to be bad here for unvaccinated people this summer, but they’d rather “own the libs” than get the shot.

  10. 10.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yes. In so much of Trump Country it’s A/C weather. This bodes even worse…

    I was in an online conversation where someone was lamenting that even the pictures of India was not moving their Trump, unvaccinated, neighbors. “Fake news.”

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,419 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 667,876 cases. He also reports 101 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 4,069 deaths — 0.61% of the cumulative reported total, 0.68% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 70,112 active and contagious cases; 922 are in ICU, 450 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 6,831 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 593,695 patients recovered – 88.89% of the cumulative reported total.

    19 new clusters were reported today. Of the cumulative total of 2,513 clusters, 778 are still active.

    5,413 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,994 local cases: 406 in clusters, 1,065 close-contact screenings, and 523 other screenings. Sarawak reports 717 local cases: 172 in clusters, 465 close-contact screenings, and 80 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 647 local cases: 90 in clusters, 337 close-contact screenings, and 220 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 396 cases: 70 in clusters, 258 close-contact screenings, and 68 other screenings.Johor reports 366 cases: 131 in clusters, 165 close-contact screenings, and 70 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 252 cases: 44 in clusters, 141 close-contact screenings, and 67 other screenings. Kelantan reports 245 cases: 48 in clusters, 155 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings. Sabah reports 230 cases: 75 in clusters, 111 close-contact screenings, and 44 other screenings.
    Melaka reports 155 cases: 35 in clusters, 85 close-contact screenings, and xx other screenings. Labuan reports 138 cases: 19 in clusters, 76 close-contact screenings, and 43 other screenings. Penang reports 124 cases: 27 in clusters, 62 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings.

    Perak reports 68 cases: 18 in clusters, 40 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Terengganu reports 43 cases: 42 close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Pahang reports 32 cases: 23 in clusters, four close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports five cases: two close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Perlis reports one case, found in other screening.

    Six new cases today are imported: three in Kuala Lumpur, two in Selangor, one in Sarawak.

    Other news: the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority has approved the Pfizer vaccine for ages 12 and up. NPRA has also approves for emergency use the single-dose vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and China-based CanSino Biologics.

  14. 14.

    sab

    @WereBear: NE Ohio mask usage has fallen drastically.

    I took two cats to vet yesterday. I had my mask on. He came in without a mask, then hastily grabbed for his when he saw mine. I said ” Don’t bother. I am fully vaccinated, but my allergies behave better with a mask.” He said ” Also too the flu.”

    Dobby our new little house demon has finally come up from the basement. I woke up at 4 a.m. with him peeking into our bedroom. When he saw I was awake he started his weird little chirping yowl. So I fed him. I think he is going to be okay here. He will be in the skittish cat category instead of the friendly-as-a-dog category, but that is okay. Currently I treat him as a skittish cat would treat me: trust is earned…slowly.

    ETA: He is only five, and so far most humans he has encountered have treated him badly.

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    @Baud: I am still waiting for Nate Silver to weigh in with analysis of how and why polling in last year’s presidential election was so off the mark. That would be real work, though.

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    I like social interaction. i regard it as essential. we stopped because we are not selfish fucking human beings.

    Amen and thank you, CalmSporting.  And Nate Silver can go fuck himself.

  19. 19.

    sab

    Grocery store has become a problem again as social distancing fades as a norm. No, it is not okay that you are standing so close that you can see the screen as my ( not your) groceries are scanned. I am back to using my cart aggressively ( behind me, not in front, and I can shove it back harder than you push it forward.) Also, I pay in cash, and the harder you push the slower I will count out my money. Urk.

    I come from a family that has developed passive aggression to an art form, but I really hate using it.

  21. 21.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Baud: Sounds like that bit is someone else problem for Nate.  Just the experts are wrong and Nate is smart because he as a graph.

  22. 22.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Finally got my hair cut now I have booth shots. Took me a week to find a place because all the old barbers/salons went to the owners decided dying from the virus wasn’t worth it and retired.  My god, a years worth a hair growth, I hope I never have to go threw that again.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    For the record, we wouldn’t have had to social distance for months on end if Trump had handled the problem correctly at the outset.

  24. 24.

    satby

    the single biggest bolt of lightning is that when it comes to the real showdown i can trust almost none of you because you are soft, solipsistic assholes.

    Yeah, that sad knowledge hit a lot of us the same way.

  25. 25.

    sab

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Me too. My hair in high school was so long I could sit on it. For the last thirty years I have kept it at about three inches. This last year I reaffirmed that that was a good choice. Long hair is a nuisance. Ugly, and takes forever to dry.

  26. 26.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 7742 new cases. This is an increase of 45.5% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 6647 (up 378)

    Northern Ireland – 87 (up 17)

    Scotland – 761 (down 275)

    Wales – 247 (up 132).

    Deaths – There were 3 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 11.9% in the rolling 7-day average. All the deaths were in England.

    Testing – 1,052,222 tests were conducted on Sunday, 13 June. This is an increase of 12.8% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 579,459.

    Hospitalisations – not updated.

    Vaccinations – As of 13 June, 41,698,429 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 29,973,779 had received both. In percentage terms, this means that 79.2% of all adults in the UK had had 1 shot of a vaccine by that date and 56.9% were fully vaccinated.

    General – As expected, Boris has extended the current restrictions (with some minor exceptions) for a further 4 weeks. This is to allow time for more people to be vaccinated and for more data about the Delta variant to be collected. The usual suspects are whining, Tory backbenchers are going on programmes complaining that we can’t cower in our homes forever and nightclub owners are saying that they have lost millions of pounds after preparing for re-opening on 21 June. Maybe they should have exercised some foresight, checked the direction case numbers and deaths were going and realised it was never going to happen?

  27. 27.

    Peale

    @Baud: we all lock ourselves in the mall, 3 million of us die, 40 million of us get sick all at once. Herd immunity achieved in 3 weeks.    We just move on with our lives.

  28. 28.

    WereBear

    @sab: 

    He will be in the skittish cat category instead of the friendly-as-a-dog category, but that is okay.

    Good plan, but then again, we never know!

  29. 29.

    WereBear

    @sab:

    Long hair is a nuisance. Ugly, and takes forever to dry.

    I have found that, as I get older, long hair only looks good when it’s put up. Some people can do that. I have too many nerves in my scalp :)

  30. 30.

    Soprano2

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’m glad he’s fighting, I hope it does some good at the margins. I’m afraid that what it’s going to take is seeing some young people that they know with no pre-existing health conditions die, though. I’ve got a co-worker who claims his doctor told him he didn’t need the shot because he’s young and healthy. I told him he needs a new doctor! That’s what we’re battling in “red” states and “red” areas.

  33. 33.

    sab

    @Soprano2: My stepson’s fiance got sick as a dog from some unidentified respiratory thing in February 2020. She works at a BP in Ohio (convenience store gas station). She has had respiratory issues ever since. Covid vaccine cleared it up. Covid? Who knows. No one was interested in testing her. She is in her mid-thirties and otherwise healthy.

    Trumps bozos deprived us of so much actual health info.

  35. 35.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    If 420 people are dying from COVID during presa conferences, is Pres. Biden’s refusal to meet the press actually a lifesaving measure?

  36. 36.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

     

     

    @Derelict: under the inattentive eye of the Biden-Harris regime, we now have 600,000 dead from the Rona.

  37. 37.

    Tall Tom

    The official COVID-19 USA death count passes 600,000. If you trust the data from https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid , the Excess deaths in 2020 in the US were an additional 560,000 excess deaths in 2020, compared to the average death rate in 2015-2019. Even assuming some of the excess deaths were due to non-COVID reasons, the US COVD-19 real count is well over 1 million.

  38. 38.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 974 new cases of COVID-19 and two new deaths reported, test positivity rate is 5.0%. Hospitalisation and ICU bed occupancy numbers continue to creep up but they are still nothing like the last wave back in late winter and early spring when comparing current new case numbers to that time.

    Vaccination data reporting is undercounted today due to an IT issue but at least 37,000 vaccinations were carried out yesterday, again mostly second-dose treatments. I expect tomorrow’s vaccination numbers to include any missed vaccination reporting from today so it’s likely to be an overcount.

    Other news from Scotland — the First Minister is going to be making a statement in the Scottish Parliament later about the roadmap out of lockdown. It’s expected moves to reduce levels will be delayed for the same reasons given by the PM yesterday regarding the delay to England’s planned re-opening. There is some pressure from the scientific community to actually raise lockdown levels in some places but this may not be politically feasible.

    The first trials for a booster inoculation program are starting at The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow among other locations around the UK. The study group have recruited a number of volunteers of various ages who received standard vaccinations back at the start of the year. The intention is to carry out double-blind testing of various vaccines as boosters, including half-strength single shots (to stretch out supplies) as well as mix-and-matching different vaccines to the ones originally administered and see how this affects antibody levels in the subjects. The preliminary results should be in by September allowing for a rollout of a national booster shot program before winter if the results warrant it, but the trial will run for a full year.

  39. 39.

    Suzanne

    @sab:

    I come from a family that has developed passive aggression to an art form, but I really hate using it. 

    Are we related?!

    I am feeling better somewhat. We are down to fewer than 10 cases per day in Allegheny County. Life in the Democratic Stronghold has its benefits.

    Gotta get the kids. Kids kids kids.

  41. 41.

    Suzanne

    @sab: I am looking forward to the return of BJ meetups! Let’s do it (when we’re suitably less freaked out).

  42. 42.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Finally got my hair cut now I have booth shots. Took me a week to find a place because all the old barbers/salons went to the owners decided dying from the virus wasn’t worth it and retired.  My god, a years worth a hair growth, I hope I never have to go threw that again.

    We made a deal with our regular hairstylist – once every few months, she’d come over to our backyard deck on one of her days off and give haircuts to all three of us.  We’d all wear masks, it would take her about 45 minutes to do the three of us, and I’d pay her $200 cash.

    She liked it because it was a quick $200 that she didn’t have to share with the hair salon she works at, and we liked it because we were getting our hair trimmed before it got totally out of control (my hair’s very curly, and after a few months it looks like a shrubbery gone berserk), and given that our haircuts were much more infrequent, we probably weren’t spending any more money than usual on our hair.

    We might just keep on doing this, at least until cold weather returns.

  43. 43.

    VOR

    @satby: Yep. The past few years have been a wake-up call. 74 million of my fellow citizens saw the mess and damage of the last 4 years, hundreds of thousands needlessly dead, and said “let’s have 4 more years of that”. I can’t trust their judgement. Now we are told to use the Honor system on whether people are vaccinated. How can we do that with people who revere a man with no honor?

  44. 44.

    craigie

    Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are 2 to 3 times more likely than whites to die of the virus.

    I believe this completely explains the responses of the former guy – and Repubs in general – to the pandemic.

  45. 45.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: the solution to the problem of the tobacco spitting superstition besotted old guard in major league baseball actually made matters worse. one need only see the sabrmetric dipshits like silver, jonah keri, joe posnanski, brandon taubman, & michael schur to know.

    funny, too, that all of those mathgeek misogynists would echo the mc kinsey inflected criticisms of mayo pete that the fauxgressive bernie left go on about.

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