Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Everybody saw this coming.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

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One less very dangerous anti-vaxxer on the loose (Goddess forgive me):

… Jürgen Conings, a 46-year-old shooting instructor, was found dead in a wooded area near the Dutch border.

Conings, who was on a watch-list for suspected extremists, had issued threats, including against the expert who led Belgium’s response to Covid-19…

Virologist Marc Van Ranst, who led the country’s public health response to the pandemic, had to be taken to a safe place along with his family after the man went missing.

“It’s especially a relief for my son that he has been found,” Mr Van Ranst told De Morgen newspaper. “I’ve been [in the safe house] for a little over a month now. And it’s my birthday today, a birthday alone. Anyway, I hope to return to normal life soon.”

In a tweet, he added: “My thoughts go out to the relatives and children of Jürgen Conings. For them this is very sad news, because they lose a father, a relative or a friend.”

Like most countries, Belgium has imposed a number of restrictions, including lockdowns, to curb the spread of Covid-19. With more than 25,000 deaths related to the virus, it has one of the highest rates of deaths per capita in Europe.

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  1. 1.

    Lapassionara

    Thanks, AL. Evidently our state, Misery as OH calls it, now has the highest per capital rate of infections. And our lege has just recently limited the health restrictions that a county can impose on its residents. Because freedom!

  2. 2.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 6/20 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case.

    • Guangzhou did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 1 sub-district remains at High Risk, 3 sub-districts & 4 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Zhanjiang did not report any new domestic positive case. 1 villages remains at Medium Risk.
    • Foshan did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 1 residential compound & 1 residential building are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Shenzhen did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 residential compound remains Medium Risk.
    • Dongguan reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed case reported on 6/18, & has been under centralized quarantine since 6/19. The case is a student at a college, the campus is now under lock down and > 20K students & staff are confined to campus or under home quarantine. A cordon sanitaire has been set up around Mayong Township, where the college is located. 1 residential building remains at Medium Risk.

    This is extremely concerning, as university dormitories in China are very crowded (6 – 8 / room). Young students are socially active, & are often asymptomatic or very mild, a bad combination w/ the Delta variant. We will have to see.

    Imported Cases

    On 6/20, China reported 16 new imported confirmed cases, 19 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed case (2 previously asymptomatic), 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia, the UAE & the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Kenya & the DRC (via Nairobi); 5 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the DRC (via Nairobi), Kenya, South Africa, Thailand & the US
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese national returning from Cambodia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Zhongshan in Guangdong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Gabon (via Istanbul), off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Dongguan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from the UAE, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar via land border crossing
    • Beijing Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Serbia (via Copenhagen)
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a UAE national coming from the UAE
    • Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from the Philippines
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Filipino crew member off a cargo ship w/ last port of call at Australia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Taiwanese resident coming from the Taiwan 
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 each coming from Cameroon & Taiwan; 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Spain
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Egypt; 6 asymptomatic cases, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia & 1 from Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol)

    Overall in China, 8 confirmed cases recovered, 11 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 347 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 519 active confirmed cases in the country (372 imported), 17 in serious condition (7 imported), 462 asymptomatic cases (441 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 17,731 traced contacts are currently  under quarantine.

    As of 6/20, 1,029.223M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 18.734M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 6/21, Hong Kong report led 3 new positive case, all imported (2 from the UK & 1 from Indonesia).

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Well, I received the call from the neighborhood committee this afternoon, informing me that I will need to go under centralized quarantine due to my recent travel to Shenzhen. A car was arranged to pick me up and deliver me to the quarantine hotel, which is a no frills business motel. The driver had his mask under his nose, and the people manning the front desk only wore surgical masks. Clearly, we are viewed as far less risky that people returning from overseas.

    The worst thing is that my room is on the 2nd floor, & the window has been completely blocked (to prevent any Great Escape)! I will not be getting any sun light, so my biological clock will be screwed when I leave centralized quarantine in 12 days. Mobile signal is very weak, but at least Wi-Fi is decent. A WeChat group was created for all the people under quarantine in this hotel. So far, everyone appears to be in good humor. 3 meals will be provided per day, & we can order take out, as well.

    After centralized quarantine, I will need to go under home quarantine for another 14 days. If the Medium Risk areas in Shenzhen are reduced to Low Risk, then our quarantines will be lifted early.

  4. 4.

    otmar

    Update from Austria:

    We reached the “50% of population got the first jab” threshold this weekend. Vienna will open up vacc slots for kids > 12y tomorrow.

    Numbers are quite low, lots of opening steps are planned for the next weeks, though we will keep a high testing regime going. There are internal discussions, as only Vienna has a massive PCR testing regime going, whereas the other provinces use antigen tests as the primary mean. Delta is a big concern.

  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Lapassionara: Was just coming to link to that particular Miserian stupidity:

    Missouri leads nation in COVID cases per 100,000 residents

    Missouri had 10 new COVID cases per 100,000 residents in the past week, a notch above Wyoming and Utah and far ahead of the national average of three, according to the Times.

    Three Missouri counties also made the top 10 list of counties: Polk, near Springfield, had 51 cases per 100,000 residents; Linn and Livingston, in the north-central part of the state, had 48 and 42, respectively.

    The Show-Me State had double the hospitalization rate, 12 per 100,000 residents, as the national average in the past week. Only the District of Columbia fared worse, at 13.

    About 38% of Missourians have been fully vaccinated against the viru

    The Show Me State is gonna show you…

    Parson signs legislation limiting public health orders

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill curbing the power of local officials to issue shutdown orders and other health ordinances Tuesday.

    HB 271, sponsored by Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann, prohibits local officials from issuing public health orders or restrictions leading to the closure of schools, businesses, or places of worship beyond 30 days during a six-month period amid a state of emergency. Those orders could be extended by a majority vote of the local governing body. Outside of an emergency, the limit would be set at 21 days.

    Parson signed the bill into law at the state Capitol Tuesday morning with Wiemann and Senate handler Sen. Sandy Crawford on hand.

    “This legislation I am signing today requires local leaders to be more transparent in their reasoning and accountable for their decisions when it comes to public health orders,” Parson said. “It also prohibits local, publicly funded entities from requiring a vaccine passport in order for residents to use public services, and while we encourage all Missourians to get vaccinated against COVID-19, it is not the government’s job to force them.”

    Because nothing says “FREEDUMB!” like dying.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    and while we encourage all Missourians to get vaccinated against COVID-19, it is not the government’s job to force them.”

    “They are, after all, not pregnant women.”

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    A look back at the person for whom the state capital is named.

    Jefferson […] had opted for inoculation against smallpox in 1766, when he was in his twenties.…
    [snip]
    In 1800, Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse began the first vaccinations in America. Waterhouse, a cofounder of Harvard medical school, had studied medicine in Scotland and later in the Netherlands, where he had shared a room with John Adams. After conducting successful vaccinations on his children and 19 boys in a controlled experiment in Boston, Waterhouse reached out to his former roommate, then President, to expand the vaccination program. Adams was unresponsive, but his Vice-President, Thomas Jefferson, was electrified by the idea.

    The following year, in 1801, Jefferson ascended the presidency, and Waterhouse found in Jefferson a much more cooperative president, who was willing to endorse Waterhouse’s efforts. Jefferson also assisted Waterhouse by providing numerous physicians with the new vaccination from England. Jefferson’s contributions went beyond any executive administrative undertaking. He helped troubleshoot the efficacy of the vaccination by suggesting keeping it cool during transport, thus helping to expand the reach of the vaccination. Moreover, Jefferson personally directed the vaccination of over 200 people at Monticello and surrounding environs, and then began collecting his own vaccine from those who had been inoculated. Rather than awaiting more shipments of the vaccine from England, Jefferson was able to send vaccine to other areas of Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C. Source

  9. 9.

    Soprano2

    @Lapassionara: Because they just love local control – as long as the locality is controlled by Republicans. Otherwise, they think the state legislature should control the local government. ? For some reason they particularly hate the city government in St. Louis.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    My housemate went with two of her sisters to Tijuana yesterday, because one of them needed to see a dentist, and it’s just too expensive here without insurance. They walked in, and had no problem exiting the US side, but the guys on the Mexican side were reluctant to let the two escorts in, saying that sister is an adult and could go to the dentist by herself. They finally got in and when they were done were waved in without any stop for checking anything when they came back several hours later by either country. Thanks Uncle Joe.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    I keep seeing claims in social media that Covid-19 is not so bad, or that it is no worse than the flu, or that it is fake news because they don’t know anyone who got sick from it.

    And then I see stories like this which are just so sad.

    Heidi Ferrer, a television and film writer known for her work on “Dawson’s Creek” and “Wasteland,” died on May 26, her husband Nick Guthe confirmed to Variety. She was 50.

    Ferrer died by suicide after an ongoing battle with long-haul COVID-19. She first contracted the virus in April 2020 and saw her health worsen. By May 2021, she was bedridden due to constant physical pain and suffered from severe neurological tremors, in addition to other symptoms.

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Yeah, they worship at the Free Market altar until the market decides that what they are selling sucks.

  14. 14.

    debbie

    @Lapassionara:

    Thanks for getting me to look up the numbers for Ohio (wish local news had stopped providing them). We’re at 2.4 per 100,000 which is better than I expected, considering all the complaining in local FB groups and other sites.

  15. 15.

    debbie

    I like that idea of unpaid medical leave for those who refuse to get vaccinated. I’ve got a teammate who’s refusing, and this might work to change her mind.

  16. 16.

    Cermet

    Why are we giving f’ing Taiwan vaccine when South America is burning? Taiwan can afford both medical care for its people and can easily lock down and/or trace. All not available for people in SA. This is wrong both on  moral grounds and logic – we will suffer if variants develop from SA.

  18. 18.

    Kay

    Great Discussion About The FBI & CIA’s Relationship With The Mainstream Media
    Tucker Carlson & @ggreenwald Discuss The Liberal Corporate Media Branding Anyone Who Asks Questions Asked About The FBI’s Role On January 6th As A “Conspiracy Theorist”

    The answer is one of Washington’s open secrets. Mr. Carlson, a proud traitor to the elite political class, spends his time when he’s not denouncing the liberal media trading gossip with them. He’s the go-to guy for sometimes-unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump and for coverage of the internal politics of Fox News (not to mention stories about Mr. Carlson himself). I won’t talk here about any off-the-record conversations I may have had with him. But 16 other journalists (none from The Times; it would put my colleagues in a weird position if I asked them) told me on background that he has been, as three of them put it, “a great source.”

  21. 21.

    Spanky

    @WereBear:

    The Republicans must pay for weaponizing stupid. And SOON.

    There’s Delta, and soon there will be Epsilon, Zeta, etc. There is a price for stupidity, and I hope they pay it.

    (Edited to blockquote werebear.)

  22. 22.

    Kay

    A coming book by the Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” includes a moment in which Mr. Carlson sends Mr. Trump’s calls to voice mail after the first presidential debate last fall, when he was criticized for repeatedly interrupting Joe Biden. When Mr. Trump finally reaches the Fox host, the book describes, verbatim, an exchange between the two men that casts Mr. Carlson in a flattering light. (“Everyone says I did a good job,” Mr. Trump tells Mr. Carlson. “I don’t know who told you that was good,” Mr. Carlson says. “It was not good.”) Mr. Bender declined to comment on the sourcing that allowed him to so precisely reconstruct a conversation only two people were privy to.

    Tucker’s such a big shot he sends Trump’s calls to voice mail.
    According to Tucker. Who spends a lot of time contacting his friends in the Liberal Corporate Media promoting himself.

  23. 23.

    Jeffery

    Sitting on my neighbor’s porch yesterday his former neighbor stopped by to chat. He is from Nigeria.  Just finished his cardiology residency.  Said covid was just starting to breakout in Nigeria . Added it is going to be bad.

  24. 24.

    Spanky

    @Kay: So in Tucker’s mind, when he runs for President all of his “friends” in the liberal media will give him all sorts of flattering coverage? Frankly, I wouldn’t bet against that.

  25. 25.

    Barbara

    @YY_Sima Qian:  So sorry to hear this.  I hope you can keep checking in with us.

    @Cermet: While I tend to agree that Latin America should be our biggest priority, there is probably a logistical limit to how many vaccines can be quicly deployed in a given country.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 4,611 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 701,019 cases. He also reports 69 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 4,477 deaths — 0.64% of the cumulative reported total, 0.70% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 62,918 active and contagious cases; 880 are in ICU, 452 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,439 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 633,624 patients recovered – 90.39% of the cumulative reported total.

    22 new clusters were reported today. Of the cumulative total of 2,645 clusters, 844 clusters are still active; 1,801 clusters are now inactive.

    4,603 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,346 cases: 199 in clusters, 719 close-contact screenings, and 428 other screenings. Sarawak reports 680 local cases: 191 in clusters, 408 close-contact screenings, and 81 other screenings.

    Perak reports 453 cases: 405 in clusters, 40 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 437 cases: 82 in clusters, 254 close-contact screenings, and 101 other screenings.

    Johor reports 308 local cases: 130 in clusters, 143 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 310 cases: 36 in clusters, 146 close-contact screenings, and 128 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 219 cases: 110 in clusters, 78 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings. Melaka reports 205 cases: 112 in clusters, 75 close-contact screenings, and 18 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 182 cases: 59 in clusters, 90 close-contact screenings, and 33 other screenings. Sabah reports 166 cases: 56 in clusters, 76 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings. Labuan reports 130 cases: six in clusters, 77 close-contact screenings, and 47 other screenings.

    Penang reports 84 cases: 55 in clusters, six close-contact screenings, and 23 other screenings. Pahang reports 50 cases: 25 in clusters, 20 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 18 cases: four in clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Putrajaya reports 15 cases: 12 close-contact screenings and three other screenings. Perlis reports no new cases today.

    Eight new cases today are imported: six in Johor, two in Sarawak.

    Other news: the Institute of Medical Research has been developing an mRNA vaccine since last November. The original strain of SARS-Cov2 and newer variants are now being cloned, Minister of Health Dr Adham Baba announced. Meanwhile, the vaccine candidate is undergoing pre-clinical testing on animals.

  29. 29.

    Kay

    @Spanky:

    It’s interesting how it’s generational- his father had a media role in the Reagan Administration so he essentially inherited his current career.

    The question Tucker and his co-host Glenn are asking is this: “did the FBI have agents who had infiltrated Right wing groups so therefore knew about January 6th?”

    They imply, well, somewhere in their messy theorizing and Glenn’s bad writing, I think they imply that  the FBI did and this is clear in the charging documents. But it isn’t clear. The “embedded informants” that they see in the charging documents could be rioters who are cooperating with the FBI after the fact. It’s impossible to tell from what we have. Which is why we should have had an investigation, but Republicans blocked it.

    In regular criminal cases there are two kinds of “informants”. There are confidential informants who work with police and there are people who cooperate with police early, but after the fact of the offense. They’re essentially conflating those two groups. It is, as usual, misleading and dishonest but in a specific way- it claims to know something they don’t know.

  30. 30.

    Kay

    @Spanky:

    And if they wanted to follow this, they could. If Tucker wanted to be an actual journalist he could do the work and follow the cases as they plead or go to trial. There are hundreds of them though, so that would involve looking at pleadings in hundreds of cases and reviewing testimony and affidavits – reading A LOT- thousands of pages- and interviewing the people involved. Tucker probably has a huge budget for his shitty show. He wouldn’t even have to do any work himself- he could hire real journalists. They don’t have to “wonder”- they could go nail it down. They’d rather “indict the lamestream media”- it’s easier.

  32. 32.

    Soprano2

    @Baud:They also love business freedom until the business wants to require vaccinations.

    Yep, you’ve got that right! If a business wants to deny their employees a benefit that pays for birth control, they’re all for “business freedom”, but if they want to save lives by requiring vaccination for a deadly disease, no can do! I read that those people in Houston are comparing being required to be vaccinated to keep their job to the Nazis who experimented on Jews. I don’t know why they haven’t been shamed into hiding for making that odious comparison.

  33. 33.

    Soprano2

    @debbie: My employer, a city government, offered all kinds of incentives for people to get vaccinated, yet we have only reached 44% of city employees fully vaccinated. The incentives are going to be stopped at the end of June, including no more special leave time to take off if you get Covid or have to quarantine due to a Covid exposure, and our state and area has the highest per capita percentage of covid cases right now. Some people are going to be upset when they have to take their regular sick pay or vacation, but they had ample opportunity to get vaccinated. It’s so sad, these are all preventable illnesses and deaths at this point.

  34. 34.

    Ken

    @Spanky: There’s Delta, and soon there will be Epsilon, Zeta, etc.

    And there are only 24 Greek letters. I wonder if the hope is that COVID is under control world-wide before we get to the Omega Variant — which has all sorts of connotations, doesn’t it? — or if there are plans to switch to some other alphabet.  Hebrew or Arabic, perhaps, though either will really drive the conspiracy nuts around the bend.

  35. 35.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 1,250 new cases of COVID-19 reported, zero deaths. Test positivity rate is 7.2%, on the rise again. Hospitalisations are reported to be about the same, no significant increase or decrease in numbers. There have been some data reporting problems over the weekend, these figures are tentative and more accurate numbers will be published at 2:00 p.m. local time tomorrow (9:00 a.m. ET in America) here as usual. The UK-wide figures are published here at 4:00 p.m. UK time each day, for anyone that’s interested.

    32,000 vaccinations were reported yesterday (Sunday), a 50:50 split for first and second doses. 81.9% of adults in Scotland have now received their first dose of vaccine with 58.2% having received both doses (all vaccines being administered at the moment in Scotland are two-dose formulations).

    All adults in Scotland who can be contacted have been sent vaccination appointment letters with the aim for everyone to receive at least their first vaccination by the middle of July. There may be problems achieving this since younger adults are more mobile than us crumblies, moving from area to area for work or other reasons and they do not necessarily keep their addresses or General Practitioner registrations up to date. My guess is that some time in early July Public Health Scotland will simply move to offering appointment-free walk-in vaccinations to vacuum up as many of the folks who fell through the bureaucratic cracks in the system. A few places which had high case rates locally are already operating on this basis so it’s not much of a change.

    Personal news — I performed an at-home lateral flow test for COVID-19 today after picking up a free pack of tests from my local pharmacy at the weekend. The test was negative, I didn’t expect a positive result but it was reassuring anyway. Not much to it, the swab-up-my-nose was unpleasant but not painful.

  36. 36.

    Soprano2

    I checked our local Covid dashboard this morning. Back on May 23rd, we had a total of 33 people in the hospital with Covid, and I know that’s not the lowest number we had.  On May 23, the seven-day rolling average of cases was 24.57 and the 7 day case rate per 100,000 was 63.46. Now those numbers are 114, 84.57 and 202 respectively. But they sure are “owning the libs” and showing us “You’re not the boss of me, you can’t make me get vaccinated!”. It’s so dumb, the only people they are “owning’ is themselves. Oh, what’s the fully vaccinated rate you ask – well, on May 23rd it was 36.47%; today, with the addition of the 12-17 year old group since then, it’s 37.35%. I’m starting to wonder if Greene County will even reach a 50% vaccination rate this summer. It’s so terrible, these are all totally preventable illnesses and deaths now.

  38. 38.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Brachiator: My cousin got COVID in April, not long before she would have been able to get vaccinated, and she was in the hospital for just a couple of days but she’s still not OK. Long COVID is no joke.

    What drives me nuts are the people who think they don’t need the vaccine because they exercise/diet and they’re not fat. It seems to have these intense moral overtones for them–that other people just get vaccinated as a crutch because they won’t take care of their bodies. And they will not hear otherwise. They’ve seized on the (correct) idea that being healthy and in good shape improves your chances for riding it out, and magnified it into magical invulnerability. And the idea that vaccination is somehow opposed to exercise and healthy eating is just this strange non sequitur.

  39. 39.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @YY_Sima Qian: that sucks, any way you can ask to be moved to a room with more light?
    Also, why a second 14-day quarantine? Because of those rare infections that take more than 14 days to show up?

  40. 40.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop: I am among the last batch of people to be quarantined at this hotel, we do not have a choice anymore. Then again, I see in the group chat that people in rooms with unblocked windows complain of the smell of dead crawfish (there are three crawfish restaurants downstairs, crawfish being a huge delicacy in Wuhan). I am not sure which is worse.

    I plan to order a plate of steamed crawfish tomorrow for dinner though. At least we can still get delivery (to the lobby, quarantine hotel workers then delivery to the door).

    The additional home quarantine is due to the rare cases of extra long incubations. At least my family can stay with my during my home quarantine, and they would still have freedom of movement during that time. Which kind of defeats the purpose of home quarantine…

  41. 41.

    Chacal Charles Caltrop

    @YY_Sima Qian:  sounds like a bit of COVID security theater. Thanks for your comments, though, American news rarely says anything whatsoever about what’s going on outside the US re COVID, which of course is part of the reason people in this country don’t believe they need to be vaccinated.

  42. 42.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Chacal Charles Caltrop: It is a bit of theater in this case, though home quarantine after centralized quarantine is very rigorously enforced for people come from overseas, or from actual Medium Risk areas in China (not just people with travel history districts with Medium Risk areas, like me).

  43. 43.

    J R in WV

    @YY_Sima Qian: 

    Wishing you the best of luck in your new digs !

    Carryout delivered sounds pretty good, too. Keep in touch as you can. I will confess, slightly over-reacting in this pandemic is not a bad thing in my simple-minded opinion.

  44. 44.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @J R in WV: Thanks! I am more understanding if the authorities are overreacting because they are spooked by the Delta Variant, I am less charitable if they are overreacting to cover their posteriors in advance of the centennial celebration of the founding of the CCP.

    I am pissed at not getting any sun light, but half the people in my quarantine hotel are in the same boat, & I am not sure smelling dead crawfish is better.

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