Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans do not pay their debts.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I was promised a recession.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    On 7/10 China reported 12 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province reported 12 new domestic confirmed (2 moderate & 10 mild, 9 Burmese & 3 Chinese nationals), all found via mass screening, all at Jiegao sub-district in Ruili, Dehong Prefecture. There currently are 40 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community remains at Medium Risk.

    Shaanxi Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Ziyang. The case had returned from Dongguan in Guangdong Province on 7/2, & entered centralized quarantine at Ziyang on 7/4. All close contacts at Ziyang & Dongguan have tested negative so far. Although Dongguan had conducted a couple of rounds of mass screening due to the Delta Variant cluster there in late Jun., there is never 100% participation in these screening campaigns. People who are unemployed or self-employed sometimes forego screening.

    Imported Cases

    On 7/10, China reported 12 new imported confirmed cases, 16 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 4 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Sri Lanka & 1 from Myanmar
    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 2 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese & a Burmese nationals returning from Myanmar; both via land border crossings
    • Shanghai Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan & 1 Chinese national returning from the US & the Netherlands; 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), both are Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia; 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Canada & Egypt 
    • Guang’an in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines; the case had contracted COVID-19 in the Philippines in Apr. & had recovered, arrived at Beijing on 6/1, passed through 28 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative multiple times, upon release from quarantine on 7/1 the case flew to Chongqing & then private car to Guang’an, entered home quarantine
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning fromCanada; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Uzbekistan; both off flights diverted from Beijing
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Thailand; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia & 1 each from Iraq & Cameroon
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia & Tanzania, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Qingyuan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Turkey, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Guangxi Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Jiangsu Province (location not specified) – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released

    Overall in China, 19 confirmed cases recovered, 21 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 559 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 466 active confirmed cases in the country (411 imported), 3 in serious condition (all imported), 475 asymptomatic cases (467 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 7,525 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 7/10, 1,374.162M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.699M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 7/11, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, domestic (a worker at the airport, source of infection unknown).

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    matt the somewhat reasonable

    Conservatives are willing to die for their politics. I wish them all the success in the world.

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    Emmyelle

    Goddam. Saying  that the variants escape neutralization by mRNA vaccines is hugely problematic. Yes they appear to have escaped neutralization by the current Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, but the beauty of these vaccines is that it’s easy-least to re-engineer some vaccines that specifically target new variants. So thanks to the headline and a lot of stupid people, we will have some conclude that future new mRNA vaccines are useless because “Pfizer and Moderna mRNA don’t work against the variants”.

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    Matt McIrvin

    The Delta variant now accounts for more than half of the new coronavirus cases in the United States —52%. Almost all of the new cases — 99.7% —are among people who have not been vaccinated.

    This is such a big difference from the scary numbers on breakthrough infections out of Israel and the UK that it’s actually starting to confuse me.

    All I can think is that it’s a combination of far lower vaccination rates in some parts of the US, and far better blanket testing in those countries that is catching asymptomatic and mild infections in the vaccinated that are going completely undetected here. But I’d think there are, say, enough offices where vaccinated workers are required to get tested (my wife goes to one!) that they’d catch a few that way.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Southwest Missouri health care system is not stable as COVID cases continue to rise, says hospital

    Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) released a ‘hotspot advisory’ for Camden, Morgan, and Miller counties, where the Lake of the Ozarks is. Gov. Mike Parson tweeted Friday the state’s health care system remains stable, but Cox Health in southwest Missouri disagrees.

    “I do not think I would describe it [the state’s health care system] as stable, no,” Usery said. “Our nurses are getting tired of zipping up body bags.”

    Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

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    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 9,105 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 836,296 cases. He also reports 91 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 6,158 deaths — 0.74% of the cumulative reported total, 0.82% of resolved cases.

    As of 10th July, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt was at 1.13. 10 states and federal territories posted an Rt of at least 1.0, led by Putrajaya with 1.2.

    There are currently 87,841 active and contagious cases; 961 are in ICU, 455 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,194 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 742,297 patients recovered – 88.76% of the cumulative reported total.

    19 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,077 clusters. 865 clusters are currently active; 2,212 clusters are now inactive.

    9,087 new cases today are local infections. Selangor alone reports over half of them, 4,682 cases: 438 in clusters, 2,849 close-contact screenings, and 1,395 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,233 local cases: 369 in clusters, 549 close-contact screenings, and 315 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 541 cases: 124 in clusters, 290 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings.

    Johor reports 392 cases: 191 in clusters, 145 close-contact screenings, and 56 other screenings. Kedah reports 382 cases: 85 in clusters, 181 close-contact screenings, and 116 other screenings. Pahang reports 300 cases: 111 in clusters, 147 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 278 cases: 99 in clusters, 126 close-contact screenings, and 53 other screenings.Sabah reports 271 cases: 69 in clusters, 145 close-contact screenings, and 57 other screenings. Sarawak reports 266 local cases: 49 in clusters, 169 close-contact screenings, and 48 other screenings. Penang reports 243 local cases: 125 in clusters, 60 close-contact screenings, and 58 other screenings. Perak reports 207 cases: 99 in clusters, 45 close-contact screenings, and 63 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 150 cases: 68 in clusters, 39 close-contact screenings, and 43 other screenings.

    Labuan reports 54 cases: one in a cluster, 36 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 49 cases: one in a cluster, 42 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Terengganu reports 38 cases: 12 in clusters, 21 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Perlis reports one case, a close-contact screenings.

    18 new cases today are imported: 14 in Kuala Lumpur and four in Sarawak.

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    New Deal democrat

    I would take the article by Delthia Ricks about the epsilon variant with multiple grains of salt. See this much more cautious take:
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/epsilon-variant-covid-california-explainer-b1878909.html

    The epsilon, or California, variant emerged at the end of 2020, but was quickly outcompeted by the Alpha variant. It does not defeat the mRNA vaccines, although it does reduce their effectiveness somewhat.

    While I am at it, take the COVID surge in *all* states with many grains of salt. It appears to be an artifact of no reports on July 4, with higher numbers being reported in the next several days. That artifact won’t go away until the middle of this week.

    That being said, since severe outbreaks are virtually baked into the cake in the unvaccinated States, the main issue becomes whether those outbreaks lead to renewed caution among their populations, or increased vaccinations among the 10% or so who have been dawdling but aren’t rigidly opposed.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @New Deal democrat: ​
      There are two categories of COVID-19 defined by the epidemiological world, “variants of interest” and “variants of concern”. The “interest” ones are stable and replicate easily so they spread within the population, however they may not cause serious illness in many cases. They’re tracked and monitored as they turn up in test samples as they may evolve into something more dangerous in the future.

    “Concern” variants include Delta which are significantly more infectious than the original COVID-19 virus as well as being the cause of serious illness in many sufferers. Delta is now the cause of 99% of new cases reported in the UK proving its infectiousness but serious illnesses and deaths aren’t tracking the case numbers compared to original-version COVID-19 that ran rampant through the population over the winter. They’re still rising in a worrying manner but the slope is a lot flatter, probably due to high vaccination rates compared to earlier times.

    I’d guess that the US will eventually reach the situation where most if not all new cases will be Delta variant as it out-evolves all the other variants. If that happens then expect case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths in the US to start on an upward trend again in a third wave. Again vaccination will suppress the curves but they will still climb significantly.

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    New Deal democrat

    @Robert Sneddon: Agreed, with the exception that I am not so sanguine about the UK’s death rate, which appears to me to be following the exponential rise in infections with about a 5 week delay. Of course, if the exponential increase is at a lower multiple, there will be much more of a divergence in the coming month.

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    Soprano2

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’m sure the officials at Cox and Mercy wish they could gag our ignorant governor. He has no idea what he’s talking about, he just wants people to think Covid isn’t that bad in MO, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. Stupid Parson should have been more responsible about handling Covid. How many GQP voters are dying because he followed Trump’s example?

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    Soprano2

    @New Deal democrat: I think a few will get vaccinated, especially those who have a close friend or loved one die. The rest will not, because their identity is too much tied up in saying Covid isn’t that bad to ever change their minds. They won’t take any precautions either, for the same reason. Tribal identity and denial are powerful.

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    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,048 new cases of COVID-19 reported, zero deaths (note that Registration Offices are closed at weekends so these numbers may be artificially low). Test positivity rate was 11.2%. 40 people were in intensive care in Scotland yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19, up a little again from yesterday.

    Over 24,000 vaccinations were carried out in Scotland yesterday, still running about one-third first-dose and two-thirds second-dose. The reported percentages for adult vaccination are 88.1% first dose with 64.7% having received both doses.

    There are reports in the press that the JCVI is going to be recommending that the Public Health boards should reduce the interval between vaccinations down to four weeks now that nearly nine in ten of the adult population has received their first vaccination. Any such announcement should be made soon.

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    WereBear

    @Soprano2: They can get vaccinated on the sly… and I think many of them will.

    It’s an invisible marker, not like mask wearing. They are hypocrites who cheat.

    So, I expect them to do so.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @New Deal democrat: ​
      Deaths should track serious illness requiring hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy (with a delay) but the death rate in the UK isn’t rising the way it did in the winter when case numbers were about the same as they are today. The interval back then was about two weeks, not five weeks.

    Right now the UK’s COVID-19 death rate per capita is less than the US with significantly more new cases being reported since the middle of May. ICU bed occupancy per capita is also way lower than in the US — some individual US hospitals are reporting more ICU beds in use dealing with COVID-19 patients than in Scotland (pop. 5.6 million) as a whole.

    I put this down to vaccination rates and the possibility that the Delta variant, although it spreads more easily than earlier variants, causes less serious effects in people on average when they do catch it. Remember that an epidemic is statistics.

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    There go two miscreants

    When the holidays come around again, that clove-studded orange in the punchbowl is gonna look a lot different to me.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Opinion: Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covi

    My god, they stole this from the NYT pitchbot.  Yes, binky the dictatorships are doing so well.  Do these dimwits get natural distasters are an esoteric threat to authoritarian governments because it shows their subjects that the authoritarian isn’t all powerful?  There is a reason the enlightenment and the reformation happened after The Black Death.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @Another Scott: Oh yeah, superspreader city here we come. Scotland went through this a few weeks back when the England-Scotland game at Wembley in London attracted tens of thousands of Scottish supporters who flooded into the capital, hung around outside the stadium or packed into pubs to watch the match on TV, celebrated a skin-of-the-teeth draw by congregating in big crowds in the evening, caught COVID-19 and then brought it home in badly-ventilated coaches and crowded train carriages passing the virus from person to person like it was a Tennants supercan. A week later case numbers among young men in Scotland started to tick up noticeably, what a surprise.

     

    Luckily for the US you guys never do anything as stupid as that, do you? The Fourth of July is celebrated in quiet contemplative solitude by individuals, Thanksgiving involves an exchange of heartfelt conversations between distant family members via phone or Facebook and as for sporting events, they are sparsely attended as always. Yeah.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Saturday in the UK we had 32,367 new cases reported. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 30%, but this is a weekend so there will be reporting delays. New cases by nation,

    England – 29,732 (down 1499)

    Northern Ireland – 445 (down 160)

    Scotland – 2190 (down 1026, but see Robert Sneddon’s update)

    Wales – Does not report on Saturday’s).

    Deaths – There were 34 deaths reported yesterday. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 62.7% but usual weekend warnings apply. 26 deaths occurred in England, 1 in Northern Ireland and 7 in Scotland.

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.

    Vaccinations – As of 9 July, 45,786,550 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 34,541,129 had had both. In percentage terms this means that 86.9% of all adults in the UK had received 1 shot and 65.6% were fully vaccinated.

    General – Sajid Javid (our Secretary for Non-Health) has just said on one of our Sunday morning shows that the wearing of face coverings indoors in England would continue to be expected once the restrictions were lifted but there would be no legal mandate requiring them. Not seeing how that works. My guess is that he wasn’t expecting the backlash and this is his way of trying to have his cake and eat it.

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    Bill Arnold

    Why are we paying any breathless attention to Russia’s official COVID-19 statistics? It is quite well established that they are fictional, and suspicions are justified that they are deliberate lies. (The official numbers are used to compare with other countries, so Russia always looks good in numeric comparisons relative to honest countries that have suffered major COVID-19 losses.)
    The Russian COVID-19 death rate in particular is has been understated by a factor of 4, determined by looking at excess deaths numbers, so for example they could be fudging the numbers upwards to be closer to reality, whether or not there are underlying increases. (There probably are underlying increases; Delta plus no on-the-ground compliance with NPIs plus a very low percentage of the population vaccinated is a bad combination. And yeah, V. Putin killed a lot of Russians (and others) by stoking vaccine skepticism with way-premature approval of Sputnik V (which appears to be a good vaccine to be clear).

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    New Deal democrat

    @Soprano2: The Olds were one of TFG’s biggest constituencies, and yet 89% of seniors nationwide have had at lest 1 shot, and 79% are fully vaccinated.

    Fear is a powerful motivator.

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    StringOnAStick

    @Robert Sneddon: We did quiet, stay at home contemplation of July 4, but husband and I are libs.  Plus we don’t care for loud noises and tempting of the wildfire gods.

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    Robert Sneddon

    @StringOnAStick:

      The problem for politicians is they can’t stop this sort of superspreader event from taking place, not without rousing the ire of the population and getting thrown out next election in favour of people who will say “Yeah it’s OK to gather together in large crowds in a time of plague because freedom! and rights! and whatever…”

    All the politicians (lit: of the polis, the people) can do is slap band-aids on the situation and make recommendations and suggestions and enforce laws they can pass as best they can. There’s an old adage they teach officer cadets — “Never give an order you know will not be obeyed”. It’s the same with politicians too.

    Maybe in the early days of this epidemic nearly everyone took it seriously, now they just want it to be over and they will decieve themselves to make that come true.

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    delosgatos

    Argh, idiots using raw VAERS numbers… almost all of those 5K+, upon investigation, are not vax related. MTG is going to be SHOCKED when she learns how many people die within 24-48 hours of bathing.

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    J R in WV

    We have left our house once for entertainment since February 2020 — last May we went to our favorite restaurant for our 50th anniversary for dinner. Oh, yeah, we are fully vaccinated, as are our neighbors, so we went next door for dinner, outdoors some weeks back.

    Otherwise only for medical appointments and necessary errands to purchase needed supplies.

    And we wear masks when we get out of the car. No July 4th celebrations. No baseball games, no parties, nada.​​

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    Jay

    @Sloane Ranger:

    the wearing of face coverings indoors in England would continue to be expected once the restrictions were lifted but there would be no legal mandate requiring them.

    They that here as well, face masking indoors has gone from “mandated”, ( with no penalties), to “recommended”, even for the fully vaxxed.

    As a result, about 30% arn’t wearing masks at all, and of that 30%, 25% ain’t vaxxed. ( less than 30% of the Province are fully vaxxed).

    And about 30% are still morons when it comes to wearing a mask. Social distancing has gone out the window as well.

    We will be in our third wave just in time for school reopenings.

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    Ella in New Mexico

    @Emmyelle: Don’t worry about the Epsilon variant. We have since found the posted info above about immune response to it is NOT true and also it seems to be going away for some reason

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    Chris T.

    @Bill Arnold:

    Why are we paying any breathless attention to Russia’s official COVID-19 statistics?

    Because Vlad the Cad has Republican hearts a-flutter?

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Robert Sneddon: My impression is that Delta is already dominant in much of the US and is mostly driving the big outbreak centered on Branson, Missouri.

    There are sections of the US where vaccine coverage of the elderly is not nearly as high as it is in the UK, so I’d expect the case fatality rate to be higher. Also, these areas tend to have less testing so the cases that are detected tend to be more severe. This should also have the mildly counterintuitive effect of making “breakthrough” infections seem less common, since, being asymptomatic or mild, they will tend to be missed entirely.

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