Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

This fight is for everything.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Let there be snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

I really should read my own blog.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

We still have time to mess this up!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday / Saturday, July 9-10

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Cynic that I am, I suspect Skip church, and also the Sunday buffet afterwards… is not advice that will be heeded:

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  1. 1.

    sab

    Took my dog to vet today (foot injury.) I came in with mask. Everyone there scrambled in their pockets for their masks. I said ” Don’t bother. I am vaxed. It just seemed like good manners.” That is my current approach.

  2. 2.

    Tony Jay

    I for one am overjoyed that the UK has a Government so dedicated to sharing the Corona virus fairly and equitably across the entire British population that they are willing to risk their popularity by stripping away all of the red-tape and legal roadblocks separating us from mass infection.

    (National) Socialism in action, folks. It’s the future

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 7/9 China reported 7 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (2 moderate & 5 mild, 5 Burmese & 2 Chinese nationals) & 3 asymptomatic (1 Burmese & 2 Chinese nationals) cases, all found via mass screening, all at Jiegao sub-district in Ruili, Dehong Prefecture. There currently are 38 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community remains at Medium Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 7/9, China reported 19 new imported confirmed cases, 13 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 6 confirmed cases, 2 Taiwanese residents coming from Taiwan, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the UK & 1 each from Japan & Cambodia; 2 suspect cases, no information released
    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 4 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Thailand
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan, off a flight diverted from Beijing
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, a Chinese & a Polish nationals returning from Poland
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar; 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Iraq & Bangladesh
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from India
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Hefei in An huiProvince – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Cambodia

    Overall in China, 16 confirmed cases recovered, 15 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,025 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 461 active confirmed cases in the country (417 imported), 4 in serious condition (all imported), 480 asymptomatic cases (471 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 7,689 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 7/9, 1,365.463M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 11.237M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 7/10, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported (from the UK).

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    While some restrictions eased this week, Hawaii bars are frustrated that government is still prohibiting them from selling alcohol during their most profitable hours.

    For most bars, the majority of sales are made between midnight and 2 a.m.
    [snip]
    “We want to be able to maximize our hours,” said owner Brandon Reid. “Maybe 80% of our income is generated in those four hours (between midnight and 2 a.m) on the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).” Source

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    Got my vaccine passport straightened out on the Excelsior site for NY. Now, need to do the same for Mr WereBear.

    Likewise, I wear my mask inside and then decide whether to take it off, or not. Spaces like my favorite coffee shop, which has always enforced a mask policy and is a haven of liberals, can be enjoyed more easily than the grocery store, which could be anyone.

    We do have an influx of visitors, as usual for this area, but mostly NY or adjoining states.

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    JeanneT

    I ventured out to a movie matinée yesterday – low attendance time, so social distancing was doable.  I seemed to be the only person wearing a mask in the entire building.  Perhaps I was the only one in the building that has contact with children under 12?  Perhaps everyone in the building was vaccinated?

    Nah, I don’t think so.  I enjoyed the movie but won’t go again until we get to 70% vaccinated in Kent County (MI).

  8. 8.

    JPL

    @JeanneT: Fulton Cty is 52 percent vaccinated, but compared to the rest of the state, that’s high.   GA won’t come close to 70 percent.    For me wearing a mask is the easy part.

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    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports another record high of 9,353 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 827,191 cases. He also reports 87 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 6,067 deaths — 0.73% of the cumulative reported total, 0.82% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 84,021 active and contagious cases; 959 are in ICU, 451 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,910 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 737,103 patients recovered – 89.11% of the cumulative reported total.

    29 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,058 clusters. 870 clusters are currently active; 2,188 clusters are now inactive.

    9,342 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 4,272 local cases: 605 in clusters, 2,173 close-contact screenings, and 1,494 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,396 local cases: 407 in clusters, 639 close-contact screenings, and 350 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 835 cases: 650 in clusters, 113 close-contact screenings, and 72 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 638 cases: 170 in clusters, 291 close-contact screenings, and 177 other screenings.

    Johor reports 399 cases: 226 in clusters, 110 close-contact screenings, and 63 other screenings. Kedah reports 364 cases: 116 in clusters, 151 close-contact screenings, and 97 other screenings. Sarawak reports 352 cases: 133 in clusters, 160 close-contact screenings, and 59 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 251 cases: 76 in clusters, 55 close-contact screenings, and 120 other screenings. Pahang reports 247 cases: 117 in clusters, 86 close-contact screenings, and 44 other screenings.

    Penang reports 176 local cases: 42 in clusters, 69 close-contact screenings, and 65 other screenings. Perak reports 145 cases: 69 in clusters, 42 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 89 cases: 43 in clusters, 26 close-contact screenings, and 20 other screenings. Labuan reports 85 cases: 13 in clusters, 46 close-contact screenings, and 26 other screenings. Terengganu reports 50 cases: five in clusters, 39 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 39 cases: 28 close-contact screenings and 11 other screenings. Perlis reports four cases, all close-contact screenings.

    11 new cases today are imported: five in Selangor, four in Penang, and two in Kuala Lumpur.

  10. 10.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Tony Jay:  The Government of Englandshire is totally aware that the population of Englandshire are not going to keep on doing what they’ve been recommended or instructed to do to limit the spread of this disease and there aren’t enough police to enforce any lawful rules in significant numbers. There is no Army Group Steiner to call on in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A meetings so Boris’s Boys have taken the sensible decision to lead rather than follow or be trampled underfoot.
    I blame football supporters myself, they have no self-control or regard for their fellow citizens — Scotland’s current flare-up of case numbers can be laid mainly at the feet of triumphant woad-encrusted tribalists wearing their opponents flayed skins returning from the plague pits of Wemberleyyyy! a couple of weeks ago. In that regard I understand there’s another footie-related superspreader event happening today in Englandshire, I wonder what the resulting body count will be.​

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    WereBear

    I think part of COVID 19’s success at infiltrating is because it’s not one of those dramatic illnesses. No one’s head is exploding. Slowly suffocating in an ICU is hidden from view. People recover looking much the same as before: long COVID is one of those invisible illnesses.

    One the one hand, I’m glad it’s not any more deadly than it is. On the other, I wonder how much of an impact it would make. Something like Ebola is much more dangerous and fearsome: but then our well-known Republican Death Cult would create more violence?

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    New Deal democrat

    Four of the top 5 States in the US – AR, MO, FL, and LA – now clearly on exponential paths, close to the rates of last summer’s wave, and should be at last summer’s peak within a week. Five more states about one week behind. US has joined UK death rate in rising.

    Some modest “relative” good news: NV has not made a new high in infection in over a week, and WY has not meaningfully risen in several weeks. In WY’s case it might be because of sparse population. NV is more interesting: are its urban residents becoming cautious again? The US cycled between periods of complacency and pains all last year. Could it be happening again in the unvaccinated States?

  13. 13.

    Geminid

    Sometimes I listen to the morning show on WSVA out of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Thursday, the host and and a local reporter had a conversation about Covid. The host spoke of the efficacy of vaccines, and recounted a doctor’s exlaination the now all of his Covid patients that had serious cases, some requiring a ventilator, were unvaccinated. The reporter then commented on the near absence of influenza this year, and credited masking and social distancing protocols. The host chimed in to say that his wife still wore a mask in public spaces and had not caught a cold, but he was less careful, and had caught two.

    This was congenial, fact based advocacy. WSVA’s audience is predominately rural, small “c” conservative, and I think the morning team judged that more explicit arguments might not be as effective. Their station’s local and state reporting on Covid has been consistent and thorough, and I think a lot of the listeners have benefited from it.

    Early in the pandemic, Harrisonburg and Rockingham County had a high incidence of Covid on account of the many cases among workers at large poultry processing  plants. Many of these workers are immigrants, and I’ve noticed that when WSVA runs “We’re hiring” ads for local processors, the English language ad is followed by the same ad in Spanish.

  14. 14.

    Jay

    @WereBear:

    Covid is an “elegant” virus,

    Ebola for example, kills too quickly to be wide spread, kills graphically, and isn’t aerosolized, it requires close contact.

    And then, Covid is sneaky, ( super-spreaders, agysymtomatic, children, the young).

  15. 15.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Robert Sneddon: I think there is some truth in what you say and the same will probably be true for all British national governments but I do think that keeping the mask mandate in place for indoor activities and for using public transport, even if everything else was ditched, would be an acceptable compromise for most people, particularly given the steep rise in case numbers.

    The problem is that pressure from the Tory Party paymasters about lost PROFITS is increasing with every day that passes and that’s making the Cabinet nervous and the backbenchers restive. They want the appearance of a return to normality to get people out and spending again. Also, it’s summer and a lot of people want their week/fortnight of sun, sea and (if possible) sangria – they’ve been vaccinated after all and to hell with everyone else!

    Now to Friday’s figures from the UK where we had 35,707 new cases yesterday, which is a 30.7% increase in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 31,231 (up 2810)

    Northern Ireland – 605 (down 22)

    Scotland – 3216 (up 414)

    Wales – 655 (down 46).

    Deaths – There were 29 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 43.1% in the rolling 7-day average. 22 deaths were in England, 6 in Scotland and 1 in Wales.

    Testing – 1,114,234 tests were administered on Thursday 8 July. This is an increase of 3.6% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs was 614,384.

    Hospitalisations – On Thursday 8 July there were 2731 people in hospital and 417 people on ventilators. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions had increased by 55.9% as of 5 July. The numbers are creeping up but nothing like as sharply as we’ve seen previously.

    Vaccinations – As of 8 July, 45,697,875 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 34,374,246 had had both. In percentage terms this means that 86.8% of all adults in the UK had had 1 shot and 65.3% were fully vaccinated.

    General – The government is considering not requiring medical staff who get pinged as having been in contact with a COVID positive person to self isolate as the increase in case numbers and subsequent increase in medical and nursing staff self-isolating has led to staffing shortages affecting hospitals’ ability to treat patients.

  16. 16.

    Matt McIrvin

    I encountered a new way to massage COVID statistics (from the UK) today on Twitter: divide new COVID deaths by COVID cases for the vaccinated, divide new COVID deaths by COVID cases for the unvaccinated, point out that the mortality rate for the vaccinated infected is actually higher!

    (hint as to what’s really going on here: vaccination coverage for the very elderly in the UK is extremely high; new cases were mostly among the unvaxxed young)

  17. 17.

    Zzyzx

    I went out last night for the first time since March 2020. On the pro side, Seattle is 80% vaccinated among eligible residents and we’re down to like a dozen new cases a day. On the con, Covid is scary!

    I think the risk/benefit ratio in places with a large majority vaccinated has reached the point for me right now where I’m willing to do things, but that could change in a few months.

  18. 18.

    Matt McIrvin

    @New Deal democrat: I personally think most of the US, including New England, is now on an exponential path–it’s just that the exponential is still small in most of these states. In a month or two it won’t be.

    Torn as to whether I should go back to a hard personal lockdown or not. It’d be hard to sell to my family–the situation around here is fairly individually safe for most vaccinated people, it’s just a question of whether one wants to bring the probability of infection so low as to guarantee one is not part of the problem. A tiny rising exponential is still a rising exponential.

    Currently still leaning on the side of “live your life but mask up indoors”. That’s behavior others might be more likely to imitate, too.

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    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,190 new cases of COVID-19 reported and seven new deaths, test positivity rate of 9.0%. ICU bed occupancy 42, still increasing but slowly. The Delta variant represents nearly all of the new cases being reported.

    26,000 vaccinations were carried out in Scotland yesterday, about one-third first-dose and two-thirds second-dose as usual. This brings the percentages of the adult population to 87.9% first-dose and 64.3% fully vaccinated. I’m expecting the first-dose number to top out at about 95% or so and then the main efforts will be switched to getting the followup second doses into arms ASAP.

    One figure that’s not usually mentioned in most press reports is the number of doses allocated by the UK government to the various Public Health establishments week by week. This allocation is determined by delivery schedules from the various vaccine manufacturers and it is the ultimate bottleneck in terms of getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible. From what I’ve seen, Public Health Scotland tries to maintain a buffer of about 500,000 doses between allocation and needles-in-arms. Right now that’s about three weeks of vaccinations at the current tempo so at the moment they’ve got enough doses allocated (but not necessarily delivered) to complete the first-dose program if they continue at this rate.

  22. 22.

    They Call Me Blue

    @Zzyzx:  We’re North of Seattle, in Snohomish County. Our zip code has the 3rd highest vaccination rate in the county and my wife and I are getting more comfortable venturing out. Enjoyed happy hour on the patio of a local pan-latin restaurant yesterday. Not ready to eat indoors yet, and we still wear masks when indoors in public places, but the sense of moving towards normalcy is a good thing. Hopefully the vax-hesitent don’t screw things up for the rest of us over the next few months.

  25. 25.

    Feathers

    @WereBear: The news video from Italy and Spain of overflowing hospital corridors shocked so many people into awareness. I am certain that future analysis of why so much of America will find the lack of TV reporting from inside the overwhelmed hospitals as a major factor. HIPPA and patient privacy is good, but this is a situation where it was actively harmful. Reporters standing outside the hospitals fed into the “fake news” lies. It also provided justification for hospitals and nursing homes covering up how bad the crisis was.
    We definitely need an updating of public health reporting laws and how they should interact with patient privacy.

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