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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

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

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 / COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday / Thursday, July 21-22

COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday / Thursday, July 21-22

by Anne Laurie|  July 22, 20216:24 am| 37 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19, Foreign Affairs

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday / Thursday, July 21-22

(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)

Biden at the CNN town hall: "It's real simple. We have a pandemic for those who haven't gotten a vaccination. It's that basic. That simple."

— Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) July 22, 2021

"They're not promising me any specific date, but my expectation, talking to the scientists…is that sometime, maybe in the beginning of the school year, at the end of August, beginning of Sep, Oct, you'll get a final approval" from FDA on vaccines, Biden says.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 22, 2021


Covid cases triple in the US within 2 weeks amid misinformation & declining vaccination rates https://t.co/SQ5CVVYM9A via @medical_xpress

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 21, 2021

COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. have risen by 15% in 2 days https://t.co/YDZSbYO7l7 pic.twitter.com/WgamiFXu4T

— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) July 22, 2021

The US had +44,232 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, the highest number since May 7, bringing the total closer to 35.1 million. The 7-day moving average rose to 38,113 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/1kwlPjPT0O

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 21, 2021

The country’s months-long decline in coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations bottomed out in late June.

But the spread of variants has pushed rates back up, especially in states with low vaccination rates. https://t.co/lUzPHg5zGx

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 21, 2021

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Send vaccines where people want and need them: Developing nations https://t.co/QaKpqNfkLX via @medical_xpress

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 21, 2021

Images of bodies burning in open-air pyres during the peak of the pandemic in India horrified the world, but in the last two weeks Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar have surpassed India’s peak per capita death rate as a new COVID-19 wave hits Southeast Asia. https://t.co/jAofazq8Cz

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 22, 2021

The city is expected to test 8m residents of the city after 9 airport workers contract COVID-19. https://t.co/5ClFryXggC

— Yanzhong Huang (@YanzhongHuang) July 21, 2021

ridiculously effective and i again beg you to demand full statistical context before doomtweeting https://t.co/xbHEioNV6e

— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 21, 2021

India's daily COVID-19 cases rise by 41,383 https://t.co/JqjGMPpWRL pic.twitter.com/Y5WaVj57oJ

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

The jungle-trekking Covid vaccinators helping to protect remote Indian villages. https://t.co/34fSSZu6Kp

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 22, 2021

As Indonesia mulls easing lockdown, WHO urges tougher restrictions https://t.co/UCJvTlHSSt pic.twitter.com/24RyjJmRkM

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

Delta variant taking hold of Indonesia's Papua as hospitals near capacity https://t.co/6kgn9YAbvm pic.twitter.com/gcaYwfbUzm

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

Thailand reports daily record of 13,655 coronavirus cases https://t.co/3q47zX6yXj pic.twitter.com/FZNQLlVkEX

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

Two days ahead of the #Olympics, Tokyo’s COVID-19 infections have surged to a six-month high. Experts noted that cases among younger, unvaccinated people are sharply rising as Japan’s inoculation drive loses steam.https://t.co/Al5lvCvjfe

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 21, 2021

South Korea reported another daily record of COVID-19 cases as it struggles to tame its worst-ever wave of outbreaks amid rising infections nationwide fueled by the more contagious Delta variant https://t.co/E2O4Gq2cjp by @HeeShin pic.twitter.com/3qWrKrk0Is

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

COVID-19 cases in Australia spiked again, despite a weeks-long lockdown, with authorities warning that infections would rise more and take a toll on the economy https://t.co/kHBm7L27Oz by @renjujose and @byronkaye pic.twitter.com/EQaTdMKqKm

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

The United States is continuing to share as many safe and effective vaccines around the world as possible. We are glad to announce that through @gavi and in close partnership with the @_AfricanUnion, today the U.S. provided 151,200 COVID-19 vaccines to Burkina Faso. pic.twitter.com/jDWy80Coxf

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) July 21, 2021

Pfizer says a South African firm will begin producing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first time that the vaccine will be produced in Africa. The Biovac Institute in Cape Town will manufacture the vaccine for distribution across the continent. https://t.co/gZJrmNH1f4

— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) July 21, 2021

Some 800 Ugandans were given water instead of Covid shots in fraud scheme https://t.co/PHwD75exEr via @markets

— Rosalind Mathieson (@RosMathieson) July 21, 2021

The #COVID19 pandemic has further exposed the challenges of vaccine nationalism, and the need to expand manufacturing in the Global South. Great interview with @AfricaCDC Director @JNkengasong on how Africa can manufacture more of its own vaccines: https://t.co/J4anW16j8p

— Seth Berkley (@GaviSeth) July 19, 2021

Peru arrests state hospital workers for charging COVID-19 patients $21,000 per bed https://t.co/KBuTHFfUZw pic.twitter.com/SccejCl4NV

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

Brazil sees 54,517 new coronavirus cases, 1,424 deaths https://t.co/uwBbTIQmfI pic.twitter.com/slKmz4mPMQ

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 22, 2021

YouTube removes Brazil President Bolsonaro videos for Covid misinformation https://t.co/eqSVl5OfMC

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 22, 2021

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I’m concerned about the accelerating number of children with COVID19 in pediatric intensive care units PICUs in areas where vaccinations are low and delta is accelerating. https://t.co/zEJlKDyGKY

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) July 21, 2021


Sure, eleven kids isn’t much, exactly, but… if I knew a teen / tweener whose parents were ‘vaxx-hesitant’, I’d be trying to smuggle the kid into a vaxx clinic showing them this story:

Arkansas Children’s Hospital reported 11 confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday along with several more suspected.

“About half of those are critically ill. They’re in our ICU requiring ventilator support or really have COVID-pneumonia,” said Dr. Rick Barr, Chief Clinical Officer at Arkansas Children’s…

“Previously most of the children that were admitted were incidentally found to be COVID positive,” Barr said. “They weren’t admitted because they had COVID. They were admitted for some other reason. Now we’re seeing more and more children that are admitted because of their COVID infection. That’s the primary reason for their hospital admission.”

The most serious cases are those who are adolescents or “tweens.”…

The hospital has not admitted a child that has been vaccinated…

Dr. Barr says they are seeing a few hospitalizations but not serious reactions in the younger age groups of babies and toddlers between the ages of one to three, but those instances are usually COVID paired with another virus like RSV.

“Young kids don’t seem to be as seriously ill when they do get infected,” he said.

The ivermectin Covid scandal shows how vulnerable science is to fraud. The anti-parasitic rose in popularity after a *retracted* report showed a huge reduction in deaths. But the data were not only false, some of it was plagiarized from unrelated research https://t.co/tfzureZNhw pic.twitter.com/jP1vWu2h6g

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 21, 2021

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More than 91 million live in US counties with high Covid-19 infections. It's time to reset and put masks back on, experts sayhttps://t.co/R4iRxqWz8N

— Lydia Maria Fanfan (@LydiaMFanfan) July 21, 2021

This is terrific

I said a month ago that healthcare organizations would eventually have to do this.

Now that American Hospital Association has said as much

There is no excuse

Health workers should be vaccinated if they want to work in a healthcare setting https://t.co/NOzRWg2jok

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) July 22, 2021

#1 in COVID hospitalizations right now:
Joplin, Mo.
1 out of every 1,333 residents in the hospital w/COVID, per NYT stats.

About *9X* the national average. So, yeah, it can get a lot worse.

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) July 22, 2021

Republicans must be seeing gates-of-hell COVID polling numbers among suburban women.

— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 22, 2021

Huh. Eric Clapton is still alive.

I had no idea… https://t.co/Zcs5fWC4nP

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 22, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Ryan

    July 22, 2021 at 6:51 am

    Hey Rich Lowry, how’s that take aging?
    ‘Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?’
    ‘Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?’ | National Review

  2. 2.

    p.a.

    July 22, 2021 at 6:55 am

    How long before the scum at fox news, who have been sabotaging covid response from day 1 until this week, attack Biden for donating covid vac to the developing world instead of saving it for their imbecilic, refusenik viewers?

  3. 3.

    JR

    July 22, 2021 at 6:56 am

    That cartoon makes no sense, the DJIA is up 15% YTD.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    July 22, 2021 at 6:58 am

    Slowhand is a silly old git who doesn’t understand why his audiences need to be vaccinated against Covid. It is always a sad day when a personal hero, like he is to so many, disappoints his admirers.

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2021 at 7:01 am

    @p.a.:

    How long before the scum at fox news, who have been sabotaging covid response from day 1 until this week, attack Biden for donating covid vac to the developing world instead of saving it for their imbecilic, refusenik viewers?

    What time does their morning show, A Blonde With Two Skidmarks, start?

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    July 22, 2021 at 7:02 am

    From the linked story about ivermectin,

    That conclusion started to fall apart when Lawrence took on a medical school assignment that had him look deeper into the paper. First, he found evidence of plagiarism, with entire paragraphs lifted from press releases and websites, according to The Guardian.

    Lawrence also found that the raw data, which are available online for purchase, contradicted the study on several occasions. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist from the University of Wollongong in Australia, also highlighted some of those discrepancies in a Medium post.

    “For example, the study reports getting ethical approval and beginning on the 8th of June, 2020, but in the data file uploaded by the authors onto the website of the preprint fully 1/3 of the people who died from COVID-19 were already dead when the researchers started to recruit their patients,” Meyerowitz-Katz wrote.

    I didn’t know IRBs accepted Ouija boards as a method of obtaining patient consent.

  7. 7.

    MattF

    July 22, 2021 at 7:02 am

    I think the Frum quote nails it. Polling suburban women will likely show jump-off-the-cliff numbers. And the men will follow.

  8. 8.

    p.a.

    July 22, 2021 at 7:02 am

    Went for my yearly checkup bloodwork yesterday & when the phlebotomist asked for my card I gave her my proof-of-vaccine card.  She laughed and said no, I need your insurance card but thank you.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2021 at 7:03 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    It is always a sad day when a personal hero, like he is to so many, disappoints his admirers.

    And it’s for such a stupid, stupid reason.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    July 22, 2021 at 7:06 am

    I’m starting to think suburban women actually love their children.

  11. 11.

    prostratedragon

    July 22, 2021 at 7:11 am

    Maybe it wasn’t the covid, but then again maybe it was. By Nelson Sargento of Brazil, “Samba agoniza mas não morre [Samba Suffers But Does Not Die]”

  12. 12.

    Ryan

    July 22, 2021 at 7:14 am

    @dmsilev: So, were the dead people recruited to be the control group?

  13. 13.

    Suzanne

    July 22, 2021 at 7:22 am

    @MattF: The GOP is smart enough to realize that low-class Trump trash are not enough to win elections, especially if they get COVID and their numbers decline. And they aren’t aspirational, which means they won’t attract new people to the coalition.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2021 at 7:23 am

    @Ryan:

    So, were the dead people recruited to be the control group? 

    “If you consent to this study, don’t say anything.”

  15. 15.

    The Thin Black Duke

    July 22, 2021 at 7:24 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Clapton has been problematic for a long time, unfortunately. I liked SRV better, thankfully.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    July 22, 2021 at 7:29 am

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 13,034 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 964,918 cases. He also reports 134 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 7,574 deaths — 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.92% of resolved cases.

    Malaysia’s nationwide R0 as of yesterday was 1.09. The state with the highest R0 was Terengganu with 1.31. 11 other states and federal territories had an R0 over 1.

    There are currently 142,051 active and contagious cases; 938 are in ICU, 459 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 8,436 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 815,293 patients recovered – 84.49% of the cumulative reported total.

    32 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,361 clusters. 946 clusters are currently active; 2,415 clusters are now inactive.

    13,009 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 6,042 local cases: 199 in clusters, 3,859 close-contact screenings, and 1,984 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,603 local cases: 309in clusters, 666 close-contact screenings, and 628 other screenings.

    Johor reports 787 local cases: 319 in clusters, 320 close-contact screenings, and 148 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 706 local cases: 89 in clusters, 441 close-contact screenings, and 176 other screenings. Kedah reports 701 cases: 96 in clusters, 446 close-contact screenings, and 159 other screenings.

    Sarawak reports 643 local cases: 288 in clusters, 305 close-contact screenings, and 50 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 497 cases: 118 in clusters, 240 close-contact screenings, and 139 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 391 cases: 151 in clusters, 136 close-contact screenings, and 104 other screenings. Penang reports 371 cases: 81 in clusters, 155 close-contact screenings, and 135 other screenings. Melaka reports 353 cases:112 in clusters, 167 close-contact screenings, and 74 other screenings.

    Perak reports 284 cases: 64 in clusters, 130 close-contact screenings, and 90 other screenings. Pahang reports 261 cases: 93 in clusters, 115 close-contact screenings, and 53 other screenings. Kelantan reports 240 cases: 154 in clusters, 51 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 100 cases: 16 in clusters, 68 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings.

    Labuan reports 24 cases: two in clusters, 16 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Perlis reports six cases: five close-contact screenings and one other screening.

    25 new cases today are imported: eight in Kuala Lumpur, seven in Selangor, five in Negeri Sembilan, four in Johor, and one in Sarawak.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 446,052 doses of vaccine on 21st July: 282,980 first doses and 163,072 second doses. As of yesterday, the cumulative total is 15,517,866 doses administered: 10,584,885 first doses and 4,932,981 second doses. 15.1% of the population have received their second dose.

  17. 17.

    YY_Sima Qian

    July 22, 2021 at 7:31 am

    On 7/21 China reported 12 new domestic confirmed & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild, a Chinese national, at Ruili, Dehong Prefecture). 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 82 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 1 village at Ruili & 1 village at Longchuan County remain Medium Risk.

    Nanjing in Jiangsu Province has reported 11 new domestic confirmed & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all group staff or custodians at the airport there. 2 residential compounds & 4 villages in Jiangning District, where the airport is located, have been elevated to Medium Risk. There are currently 2 residential compounds, 2 communities & 6 villages at Medium Risk. ~ 1.5M residents (~ 77% of all residents) in the Jiangning District have been swabbed. The entire city will be tested in the coming days.

    Imported Cases

    On 7/21, China reported 38 new imported confirmed cases, 11 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 20 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar via land border crossing; 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Laos & 1 from Thailand, all via land border crossing w/ Laos
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Sri Lanka
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 5 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 1 Chinese national each returning from the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol), Malaysia, Myanmar, Kuwait & Panama (via Paris CdG); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Panama (via Paris CdG)
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national coming from Mozambique
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Niger; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Malaysia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 5 confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 3 Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar & 1 each from Germany & the Ukraine (via Frankfurt); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Germany
    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Djibouti (via Addis Ababa) & Canada; 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Tajikistan (via Tashkent, off a flight diverted from Beijing) & Japan
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the US
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released 

    Overall in China, 14 confirmed cases recovered, 7 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 8 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 317 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 638 active confirmed cases in the country (545 imported), 16 in serious condition (13 imported), 456 asymptomatic cases (441 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 8,577 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 7/21, 1,491.605M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 13.121M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 7/22, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported (from the US).

  18. 18.

    rikyrah

    July 22, 2021 at 7:46 am

    His videos are so funny. Part one

     

    https://twitter.com/LeaundraRoss/status/1418042983539163140?s=19

  19. 19.

    rikyrah

    July 22, 2021 at 7:49 am

    @rikyrah:

    His videos are funny, part two

     

    https://twitter.com/epitomee/status/1418017446473072640?s=19

  20. 20.

    Tony Jay

    July 22, 2021 at 7:54 am

    Following the UK Government’s decision to delay restrictions on travel to and from India back in April, mainly because Johnson was desperate for a shitty trade deal with Modi’s regime and didn’t want to spoil his own plans for a week-long jolly around the former Raj, the so-called Delta variant was allowed unfettered access to the UK and has since become the market-leader for off the shelf Covid infections, outstripping its competitors and establishing a commanding presence in the organs of consumers of all ages and income brackets.

    As a result of the UK Government’s decision to end all restrictions on the spread and transmission of the Delta variant on the 19th of July the number of cases in Great Britain, which were already sky-rocketing, have had a Bezos-shaped booster shoved up their collective bung-hole and are currently sling-shotting thrice around the Sun in pursuit of a measurable percentage of light-speed, all of which is putting unbearable pressure on the already hollowed-out National Heath Service and dooming tens of thousands of people to a lonely, terrifying death in the name of corporate profit and political cowardice.

    So it should come as no surprise whatsoever to even casual observers of modern Britain’s collapse into a third-rate parody of late 18th century Überwald with Steampunk affectations that the Infotainment industry which we’re expected to pretend are actually a functional Press and National News broadcaster (they’re not, we don’t) have chosen to cover this Valles Marineris-sized abdication of basic Governmental responsibility by concentrating on the ‘problem’ of huge numbers of people with the Covid App (which informs you if you’ve been in contact with another App user who has tested positive) being ‘pinged’ and therefore having to self-isolate for ten days. But not the good kind of concentration that would inform people that there is a massive pandemic out there that we could use some common-sense restrictions to begin getting under control. Oh no, that’s not their business model. Instead, we’re getting breathless wanking about the ‘Pingademic‘ (yes, that’s the level of adult supervision that characterises our ‘News’) being the cause of empty shelves and staff shortages. You’d almost be given to think that the Infotainers have been given an editorial narrative to follow in which the Covid App has gone Scooby-Do Skynet and declared an inconvenience war on Britain’s struggling economy, one that can only be solved by everyone deleting the App before it gets into our Photos and starts sending random dick-pics to everyone in our Contacts (oh, that’s a good excuse, excuse me a moment…) instead of framing it around the true story that COVID INFECTIONS ARE EXPLODING IN NUMBER AND THE APP IS DOING WHAT IT’S FUCKING WELL SUPPOSED TO DO, YOU MORONIC KNOBJOUSTERS!!!

    Meanwhile, Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition have responded to this gilt-edged opportunity to claw back some credibility in the polling by… glugging on the bleach bottle in search of a massive purging of centre-left members and handing a veto on future membership and candidate selection to Britain’s less-discreet version of A.I.P.A.C. Because they have no intention of competing at the next Election, preferring to strip the Party down to its name and some basic infrastructure so it can be sold off to half a dozen wealthy donors and staffed by zero-hour drones in time to give the disillusioned Tory voters of Lesser Brexitannia-under-the-Wold a comfortably non-radical place to rest their weary white bums in 2030 or thereabouts. Good luck with that, fuckers. Eventually the message will get through that this is soooooo not 1994, but by then the nation’s second Party will probably be some kind of expanded Green/Red Alliance and the ‘Labour Party’ will be nipping at the heels of the Lib-Dems for the odd seat around the M25 commuter belt.

    This country is fucked. Please lay a single red rose on our corpse as we sink beneath the waves.

  21. 21.

    rikyrah

    July 22, 2021 at 7:55 am

    Uh huh ?

     

    Tony (@fishnbaja1) tweeted at 9:42 PM on Wed, Jul 21, 2021:
    I’m more cynical than you.

    I think they are seeing more white voters being adversely affected by covid19 than people of color.

    And the midterms are almost upon us.

    And that frightened them.

    Southern bleach is going to go the way that toilet paper went last year.
    (https://twitter.com/fishnbaja1/status/1418038661782773765?s=03)

  22. 22.

    Soprano2

    July 22, 2021 at 8:16 am

    @rikyrah: I agree with this take. Just like they mostly ceased caring about Covid once they thought it was going to mostly kill non-white people in liberal places, now that they see that it’s mostly killing white people in conservative areas suddenly they care about Covid. I also think it’s true that their numbers with suburban women are tanking even more than they were before.

    I heard my mostly-useless rep Billy Long (R-Mostly Useless) on NPR this morning talking about about the Covid vaccine, how he had been vaccinated, and how he encourages everyone to get vaccinated. He said the vaccine shouldn’t be a partisan issue, then ruined it by stating (incorrectly) that Democrats didn’t trust it when Trump was president. Of course that wasn’t our concern – it was that Trump would pressure the FDA into approval before the vaccines were proven safe and effective. Anyhow, this is literally the first time I’ve seen or heard ANYTHING from him about vaccination. He has not been out in his district encouraging all of his constituents to get vaccinated. Some enterprising reporter needs to suss out what has happened to turn all the Republicans in the opposite direction from where they were going just a few days ago.

  23. 23.

    Betty

    July 22, 2021 at 8:32 am

    @Tony Jay: Now that is a depressing picture. Extending deepest sympathies to a country once respected around the world.

  24. 24.

    dr. bloor

    July 22, 2021 at 8:50 am

    @Amir Khalid: At this late date, no one should be surprised that a guy with such a long-standing track record of being a racist loon is antivax.

  25. 25.

    Betsy

    July 22, 2021 at 8:55 am

    So. My brother just flew up to see a dear relative one last time who is in hospice care at home.  His vaxed kid was at camp last week, an adult who was there has tested positive, he was with kid for days after kid came back, now he can’t visit relative.  Fucking covidiots.

  26. 26.

    eclare

    July 22, 2021 at 8:57 am

    @Tony Jay:  Pingademic?  Wow.

  27. 27.

    eclare

    July 22, 2021 at 9:00 am

    @Betsy:  Oh how tragic!  These selfish assholes.

  28. 28.

    charon

    July 22, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @Soprano2:

     

    Some enterprising reporter needs to suss out what has happened to turn all the Republicans in the opposite direction from where they were going just a few days ago

    Sudden realization they have been on the bad side of vaccine controversy, because of recent stories all over national media of overwhelmed hospitals in MO, AR, FL, AL – places with low vaccination rates and almost all patients not vaccinated..

  29. 29.

    Tony Jay

    July 22, 2021 at 9:07 am

    @eclare:

    I know. It’s like the News produced by the Teletubbies.

  30. 30.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    July 22, 2021 at 9:13 am

    “Dog bites man, Clapton still an ignorant asshole, all this tonight with sports and weather, I’m Jill Newslady…”

  31. 31.

    Tony Jay

    July 22, 2021 at 9:18 am

    @Betty:

    This is what Britain is now. A failed state with a corrupt political class and a misinformed populace more interested in who is fucking who on Love Island than who is fucking them and their children out of a future worth living in.

    I’m grumpy because I’m back in the bloody office today and I am catastrophically not happy about it.

  32. 32.

    Robert Sneddon

    July 22, 2021 at 9:33 am

    Scotland — 1,825 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 22 deaths (the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 reported in one day for several months). Test positivity rate is 6.0%. 58 people are in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19, up about ten or so from yesterday. If hospitalisations continue to rise we may see a change of plans by the Scottish government who had intended to reduce social restrictions to virtually zero on the 8th of August.

    There were about 20,5000 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday, mostly second doses. That makes 68.0% of the adult population fully vaccinated with 89.3% having received at least one dose (21.3% difference). It looks more and more that Scotland will not achieve 90% first-dose by the end of this month.

  33. 33.

    Geoduck

    July 22, 2021 at 10:48 am

    @JR: The market suffered a bad one-day plunge. Sometimes that’s all it takes.

  34. 34.

    Miss Bianca

    July 22, 2021 at 10:50 am

    @Amir Khalid: He’s never been a hero to me. Except for his work with Cream, which I found truly ground-breaking and original (and how much of that was due to the influences of Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker?), I have always found Clapton’s guitar-playing so derivative of the blues players he worshipped as to be stale and uninteresting. And then the racist/anti-vax BS on top of it all.

    In other news, Malaysia’s COVID death numbers look appalling. Have you been able to get your first/second shot yet? I forget exactly what point you are at in the vaccination scrum.

  35. 35.

    Shana

    July 22, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    Looking at Secretary Blinken’s tweet with the picture of the crate of vaccines plastered with US flag stickers and USAID stickers and imagining if TFG had done that it would have had his name plastered all over instead. Not that he’d do it anyway.

  36. 36.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    July 22, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    The Daily Beast via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Eric Clapton announced Wednesday that he would not play concerts at venues where proof of vaccination against the coronavirus would be required.

    Keeping in mind that Clapton’s two most famous songs are, chronologically, about a) wanting to sleep with his best friend’s wife, and b) being a coke addict, I have to ask: Does this guy ever stop being an asshole?

  37. 37.

    barbequebob

    July 22, 2021 at 2:14 pm

    @Lacuna Synecdoche:  I too think Clapton is wrong on this, but FWIW “Cocaine” was written by JJ Cale.

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