Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

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Big-named musicians including Annie Lennox, Ed Sheeran and Sir Mick Jagger will join with Bollywood stars to raise funds for Covid relief work in India.

A virtual fundraising event entitled We For India: Saving Lives will take place on Sunday 15 August, in both London and Mumbai, it was announced on Monday.

The three-hour event, ran by social impact enterprise The World We Want, will be livestreamed over Facebook.

It will feature more than 80 Indian performers such as composer AR Rahman.

Nile Rodgers, Sister Sledge, Jay Shetty and Nancy Ajram will also take part in the event…

Proceeds from the event, where Lennox will perform alongside her daughter Lola, will be used to help provide ventilators, oxygen concentrators and ICU units, as well as essential medicines.

They will also go towards supporting the staffing of vaccination centres, and helping those who have been thrust into poverty by the virus.

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY web site says 117 new cases on 8/9, 4% test positivity.

    The NYS Dept of Health web site says 106 new cases in Monroe County on 8/9.

    I have no idea why they don’t match, might be a timing issue.

    Still at 1351 deaths for the county. I don’t think we’ve had an increase in the death count in the last 2 weeks. I hope I didn’t just jinx it.

    59.1% of people are fully vaccinated.

  2. 2.

    p.a.

    Numerators and denominators are, apparently, inherently anti-conservative.
    Intellectual and moral bankruptcy in the service of political power morphing into supporter-homicide would be delicious except it’s not just supporters?.

  3. 3.

    sab

    I am marrried to an older white guy that I love and respect, but I am really very much done with the old maskless white guys shoving up behind me in the grocery, drugstore, hardware store because they feel so entitled that science and epidemiology doesn’t enter their world view.

    Six feet social distancing is back out of fashion. I am a small woman. Back to wearing spike heels in the grocery and using my cart behind me as a battering ram to keeps these guys from ramming themselves into my personal space. Sigh.

  4. 4.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 8/9 China reported 108 new domestic confirmed cases (37 previously asymptomatic) & 20 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 6 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 51 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 3 site at Ruili & 1 village at Longchuan County remain at Medium Risk.

    Jiangsu Province reported 50 new domestic confirmed cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 615 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Nanjing report 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both moderate), both are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic confirmed case recovered. 10 mild cases worsened to moderation conditions. There currently are 207 domestic confirmed (48 mild & 159 moderate) cases in the city. The Lukou Sub-District remains at High Risk. 18 sites are curently at Medium Risk.
    • Yangzhou reported 48 new domestic confirmed cases (12 mild, 35 moderate & 1 serious). 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 393 domestic confirmed (72 mild, 289 moderate, 26 serious & 6 critical) cases in the city. 1 village has been elevated to High Risk. 2 sites are currently at High Risk. 85 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Huai’an there currently are 12 confirmed cases in the city, all members of the group that had gone to Zhangjiajie. 10 sites remain at Medium Risk.
    • At Suqian, there currently are 3 domestic confirmed cases (all moderate) there, 2 of whom are traced to the outbreak in Nanjing. A residential compound has been re-designated as Low Risk. A dormitory remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Wuxi, there currently is 1 domestic asymptomatic case in the city, a person involved in processing incoming visitors/returnees from overseas & not connected to the Delta Variant outbreak from Nanjing.

     

    Hunan Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases. There are currently are 91 domestic confirmed (including 4 serious) & 18 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • At Changde there currently are 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all had ridden on the super-spreading boat cruise.
    • At Xiangtan there currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all having been on the super-spreading boat cruise at Changde on 7/24. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Changsha there currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 2 had ridden on the super-spreading boat cruise at Changde on 7/24 & 3 from transmission chains related to 2 of the domestic confirmed cases reported by Beijing. 3 sites remain at Medium Risk.
    • At Yiyang there currently are 3 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic case in the city, all traced close contact of domestic confirmed cases reported by Beijing. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Zhuzhou there currently are 29 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 7 had gone on the super spreading cruise & rest are their close contacts. 7 sites remain at Medium Risk.
    • Zhangjiajie reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases, no details released, yet. There currently are 53 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 areas & 1 community remain at High Risk. 11 sub-districts remain at Medium Risk.
    • At Xiangxi Prefecture there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, both close contacts of the party from Huai’an. 1 village & 1 residential compound remain at Medium Risk.

     

    Henan Province reported 37 new domestic confirmed (all previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 127 domestic confirmed & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Zhengzhou reported 35 new domestic confirmed (all previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. The currently are 116 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, the vast majority of whom are staff, patients & caretakers at the #6 Hospital, & their close contacts. 1 sub-district remains at High Risk. 30 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Shangqiu, there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, both connected to the nosocomial outbreak at Zhengzhou. 2 residential compounds, 1 community & a shopping mall remain at Medium Risk.
    • Zhumadian reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. The new domestic positive case was a person who had returned from Wuhan on 8/3, last tested negative on 8/6. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 2 connected to the nosocomial outbreak at Zhengzhou & 1 w/ there outbreak in Wuhan. 5 villages have been elevated to High Risk. 4 sites remain at Medium Risk.
    • Kaifeng reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic). There currently are 6 domestic confirmed cases, all connected to the nosocomial outbreak at Zhengzhou. 7 villages have been elevated to High Risk. 1 county remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Anyang there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case, a person who had visited #6 Hospital in Zhengzhou on 7/28.
    • At Xuchang there is 1 domestic confirmed case, who was discharged from the #6 Hospital in Zhengzhou on 7/22.

     

    Hubei Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed & 18 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 55 domestic confirmed & 63 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Huanggang reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 positive case had stayed in the same building & same unit as 2 confirmed cases (workers at the construction site w/ outbreak) while in Wuhan from 7/29 – 7/31, the other 3 are traced close contacts of said case. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 4 connected to the group from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on company outing & 4 travel to the secondary outbreak at construction site in Wuhan. 1 township has been elevated to Medium Risk. 2 township are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Jingzhou, there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, both connected to the group on company outing from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province. 1 area remains at Medium Risk.
    • Jingmen reported 10 new domestic confirmed (6 mild & 4 moderate) & 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 18 domestic confirmed (12 mild & 6 moderate) & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. Of the 30 domestic positive cases, 21 are workers at a local construction site (in eluding their close contacts, 4 index cases being workers who had traveled from the construction site at Wuhan w/ the outbreak one 7/30) & 9 are residents of the compound where the index case lived. 1 sub-district remains at Medium Risk.
    • Wuhan reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 6 are traceable to the construction site outbreak, or to the party from Huai’an at Jingzhou high speed rail station, & 1 who returned from Zhengzhou in Henan Province on 7/28. 6 cases have already been under centralized quarantine & 1 was found from mass screening. There currently are 33 domestic confirmed & 40 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all but 1 traceable to transmission chains sparked by 2 separate cases that were at Jingzhou high speed rail station on 7/27 as the party from Huai’an. 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Ezhou there currently are 4 domestic asymptomatic cases, all connected to the construction site outbreak at Wuhan.
    • At Xianning there currently is 1 domestic asymptomatic case, connected to the construction site outbreak at Wuhan, already under centralized quarantine since 8/3.

     

    At Beijing Municipality there currently are 8 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all connected to the outbreak at Zhangjiajie in late Jul. 2 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.

    At Hulun Buir in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region there currently is 1 new domestic confirmed case (at Hailar), who had stayed at the same floor in same hotel at the same time as the confirmed case reported by Yinchuan. 1 residential compound has been elevated to Medium Risk.

    At Haikou in Hainan Province there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, a person who had crossed paths w/ the party from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on company outing at Jingzhou high speed rail station & a worker at the airport. The two are unlikely to be connected. 1 township & an industrial park have been elevated to Medium Risk. 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.

    I have removed the other locations w/ case or small family clusters, even if there are still active domestic cases there, as these places have not had new domestic positive cases for nearly 14 days.

    Imported Cases

    On 8/9, China reported 35 new imported confirmed cases, 18 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 11 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar; 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Shanghai Municipality – 9 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Russia & the US, 1 each from the UK (via Helsinki) & Sri Lanka, an Armenian national coming from Armenia (via Vienna), a Russian national coming from Russia, & a US national coming from the US
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 7 confirmed case, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar & 1 each from Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Uganda & the UAE; 8 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Myanmar & the UAE, & 1 each from the Philippines, South Africa, Nigeria (via Nairobi) & Uganda (via Nairobi)
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese national returning from Saudi Arabia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic), both coming from the Philippines
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Serbia (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Ningde in Fujian Province – 1 suspect case, a crew member off a cargo ship w/ last port of call in the Philippines
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), ; 2 asymptomatic cases, 
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, 
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

     

    Overall in China, 44 confirmed cases recovered, 25 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 43 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 2,488 individuals were released  from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,702 active confirmed cases in the country (720 imported), 54 in serious condition (14 imported), 501 asymptomatic cases (387 imported), 2 suspect cases (1 imported). 49,980 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 8/9, 1,795.049M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 12.524M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 8/10, Hong Kong reported 4 new positive cases, all imported (from France, Germany, Thailand & the US).

  5. 5.

    Tony Jay

    I am a small woman. Back to wearing spike heels in the grocery

    I’m a short but expanding man and I never stopped. Prince showed us the way!

  6. 6.

    sab

    7 year old grand-daughter going to school finally this Fall. She needs it. She is so far behind on socializing if not school work. We are terrified.

    I phucking hate the unvaxxed. I know one with MS I will give a pass, but I hate the rest of them.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    Just a quick note, following on from a couple of days ago when I said that My Significant Other was so very, very full of woeful lurginess that she was convinced she must have picked up Co-Co from some thoughtless plague-rat. Test came back, she’s negative.

    So she really is just full of Summer snotiness and all the fatigued exhaustion that comes with it. We’ve had to cancel a trip to The Ivy Asia restaurant in Manchester (gutted) that was going to be free because we do a Secret Diner thing and can claim everything back. Boooooooo! Hisssssss!

    That said. It’s not Covid. Thumbs are partially up.

  8. 8.

    lowtechcyclist

    Wall Street Journal:

    Vaccinated Americans are drawing sharper lines around who they choose to spend time with amid rising Covid-19 cases, while the unvaccinated are growing testy over being excluded and feeling judged

    If they’re feeling testy about being excluded and feeling judged, they can GET THE DAMN SHOT. That’s all it takes. Just 20 minutes at your local pharmacy, and 15 minutes of that is the time they make you wait around afterwards to make sure you’re not having a bad reaction.

    Life is full of problems. Few are this easy to solve.

  9. 9.

    currants

    @AL, thank you so much for these threads. They have been a source of information, reassurance, and sometimes even calm for this past year and a half plus. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the work you’ve been doing.

  10. 10.

    sab

    @Tony Jay: Not Covid. wishing her well.

    We have a sick indoor cat with a respiratory infection. Having a hard time convincing spouse she doesn’t have Covid. How could she have got it? All the other diseases we live with and deal with are still out there. Let’s not go nuts.

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @lowtechcyclist: Feeling judged, eh? And it bothers them? Something tells me it never bothered them when they were judging other people. Besides, we’re always being judged and always judging others.

    They’re just whining about feeling less than equal.

  17. 17.

    satby

    Facebook just reminded me that today is my friend NitIn in India’s birthday. Unfortunately, he passed away from covid last May. He would have been 39 today.

    Millions of families suffering like his, and the entitled idiots in this country blow it all off.

  18. 18.

    sab

    We had thunderstorms all night, so the pets are extremely edgy.

    Thought I would calm Ponyo Pitbull by pretending I was back asleep.

    Silly girl thought I passed out. She stood on my chest and liked my face until I “came to.” Silly girl. Good dog.

  19. 19.

    tom

    The thing that infuriates me about anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers is that they make it all about them. Cancer isn’t contagious, so if you have it, it sucks to be you, but you won’t pass it on. Comparing cancer to COVID, as Matt Walsh, is stupid for that reason.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    ?

    People who claim to have “done the research” and found out the truth about vaccines tried to storm the BBC today but instead managed to try to break into a building that hasn’t been the BBC building since 2013. Perhaps that should tell you about the quality of their research.
    t.co/BrvMMvjSbR

    — Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 9, 2021

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    @sab:

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    Yeah, could be a lot worse, but it’s not, so I’m keeping my grumbling to a bare minimum. Adequately grateful, but still keeping the grumping muscles exercised.

  23. 23.

    oldster

    I got my shots months ago. It took me very little time, and I never regretted it.

    Who is cowering?

  24. 24.

    debbie

    @satby:

    And millions more families who refuse to take COVID seriously. Last night, I was remembering the stories my parents and grandparents told me about the days of polio before Salk and Sabin. Their fear of this invisible enemy and what it could do to their children. The newsreels of iron lungs and stumbling children that freaked the bejesus out of everyone. I think that’s the answer. News reports blur out faces of patients for privacy concerns. That needs to stop. People need to see the real consequences of this disease. Statistics are cold and uncaring; photos of suffering are not.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    This is Republican Texas Rep. Travis Clarty.

    He tested positive for Covid 10 days ago and is still symptomatic. But today he showed up to vote at the Texas Capitol just so Republicans can try to break quorum and pass their voter suppression bill. (Pic via @jordan_vondy)
    pic.twitter.com/KbrqsMbc8t

    — Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) August 10, 2021

    Unmasked, of course!

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @sab:

    I say, how very dare you doubt my veracity.

    Once I have finished liberating this small, Mexican village from Narco-brigands, delivered breech-birth twins in the back of a small cargo plane, and denied the latest begging request from the Nobel committee to name their Prize for being ‘ruggedly handsome with a hint of danger’ after me, I will be free to deal with you, madam!

  29. 29.

    Chetan Murthy

    @debbie: A while back, over at LG&M somebody found a tweet from one of these covidiot jamokes, wherein he listed the # of iron lungs in use in the 50s, and other stats about how many children were stricken with polio.  In support of the proposition that polio wasn’t so bad.  It took a while for commenters (including me) to realize that the guy wasn’t joking (a search of his timeline showed that he was a serious covidiot antivaxxer) and in fact was totally serious.

    A death cult, these imbeciles.  A death cult.

  30. 30.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Tony Jay:

    Speaking of expanding, I finally sat through the BBC interview with Andrew.

    1. I have a huge crush on his inquisitor. Wonder if she’d be down for some tawdry affair?

    2. It would be a sheer joy to drag his mumbling ass through a deposition. What makes the “men” in his class believe they’re brilliant or charming?

  31. 31.

    Tony Jay

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Geniuses, aren’t they? In their defence, the character bios they were sent via their acting agencies were very clear on motivation and sticking to the approved terminology in public interactions, not so much on turning up at the right location location shooting.

    Maybe they should speak to their agents.

  32. 32.

    eclare

    @debbie:  I’ve been saying for months there needs to be video of someone being intubated spread far and wide.  It is a violent procedure.  There is a reason drs sedate you first.

  33. 33.

    Lapassionara

    @debbie: I remember those days and those photos. I understand the patient privacy issue, but nothing communicates the dreadful consequences of a serious disease like a photo of someone needing help to breathe. Better yet, a video.

  36. 36.

    sab

    @Tony Jay: And my American pitbull will be free to deal with you, Sir.

    (American pitbulls are smaller, less stocky and friendlier than staffordshire terrier type pitbulls.)

  37. 37.

    MagdaInBlack

    Heard Thom Hartmann refer to the trumpenfolk as ” Trumps neurological tribe of psychopaths.”  Seemed the best description I’d heard.

  38. 38.

    Tony Jay

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Emily Maitlis? She’d break you. OTOH, she works for the modern BBC, so ‘tawdry’ is well in her wheelbase.

    As to Andy Windsor and his lifetime of getting away with it. Privilege. Protection. Position. There’s an entire hereditary industry of shield-carriers and spit-wipers dedicated to making sure that gobshites of his bloodline don’t have to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous responsibility like the mere plebs beneath their brogued feet. This time, though, he made the mistake of being too close to a weak-point in the charade when ‘events’ happened.

    Oh, how we benefit from being a Monarchy. Let me count the ways…

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 19,991 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,299,767 cases. He also reports 201 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 11,162 deaths — 0.86% of the cumulative reported total, 1.04% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 230,762 active and contagious cases; 1,096 are in ICU, 570 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 16,258 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,057,843 patients recovered – 81.39% of the cumulative reported total.

    29 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 4,003 clusters. 1,238 clusters are currently active; 2,765 clusters are now inactive.

    All 19,991 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 7,338 cases: 236 in clusters, 3,663 close-contact screenings, and 3,439 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 2,374 cases: 403 in clusters, 975 close-contact screenings, and 996 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 1,830 cases: 110 in clusters, 1,088 close-contact screenings, and 632 other screenings. Sabah reports 1,383 cases: 111 in clusters, 749 close-contact screenings, and 523 other screenings. Johor reports 1,344 cases: 184 in clusters, 881 close-contact screenings, and 279 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,030 cases: 155 in clusters, 658 close-contact screenings, and 217 other screenings.

    Perak reports 953 cases: 176 in clusters, 438 close-contact screenings, and 339 other screenings.

    Sarawak reports 836 cases: 413 in clusters, 290 close-contact screenings, and 133 other screenings.

    Penang reports 743 cases: 41 in clusters, 339 close-contact screenings, and 363 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 578 cases: 108 in clusters, 264 close-contact screenings, and 206 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 564 cases: 33 in clusters, 296 close-contact screenings, and 235 other screenings. Pahang reports 539 cases: 64 in clusters, 374 close-contact screenings, and 101 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 378 cases: 51 in clusters, 266 close-contact screenings, and 61 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 76 cases: 61 close-contact screenings and 15 other screenings. Perlis reports 24 cases: one in a cluster, 16 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings. Labuan reports one case, found in other screening.

    No new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 465,793 doses of vaccine on 9th August: 187,495 first doses and 278,298 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 25,008,230 doses administered: 15,959,596 first doses and 9,048,634 second doses. 48.9% of the population have received their first dose, while 26.9% are now fully vaccinated.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @rikyrah:

    Exactly.  We are judging them because their decision to not get vaccinated means they do not care about anyone else or how their actions might cause harm.  You can’t be friends with someone like that.

  44. 44.

    sab

    @NetheadJay: He is a her. Granddaughter named her after an anime character that is a goldfish that wants to be a little girl. Fits her to a tee.

    ETA : One of the Best Dog Evers

  45. 45.

    Tony Jay

    @sab:

    All ‘dealing with’ with be by registered mail. I’m a delicate sort. Let the Postman take the risks, that’s what I say 8-)

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    As of yesterday, Nebraska has stopped requiring reporting of Covid data. Of the state’s 93 counties, 82 are now unknowns. On Friday, we reported our highest one-day total of new cases since January. As cases spread from the Gulf Coast to the Great Plains, we’re blindfolded.

    Conservatives make a big deal about personal responsibility and the right of individuals to make their own decisions about wearing masks, getting vaccinated, etc.

    But you cannot even pretend to make an informed decision when information is deliberately withheld.

    The GOP Death Cult doubles down in endangering its own citizens.

  48. 48.

    Tony Jay

    @raven:

    You’ll be “buggering” this and “flipping” that before you know it.

    When you start calling people “Me Ol’ China”, that’s when you seek professional help.

  49. 49.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    @Brachiator: This has been the conservative MO for decades. Remember when they didn’t want food labeling? Blind choice is their thing. It’s potentially crippling or deadly with COVID but hey, choice.

  50. 50.

    sab

    @Tony Jay: Well that is awkward. I am not sure my dog can read. Cunning Brit

    Have you challenged her to a duel? ( we have been reading a lot of 18th century historical fiction.)  To be fair, she has no thumbs or hands, and also too she is a seven year old girl.

  51. 51.

    Nicole

    I was listening yesterday to an episode of the podcast Fever Dreams and one of the hosts mentioned he lurks in on some anti-vax sites.  I was comforted to hear him relate that a lot of these “BUT MAH FREEDUM” posters cave and say they’ll “have to get the shot” very quickly after their jobs announce it’ll be required.

  52. 52.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Tony Jay:

    Her level of control was nothing short of miraculous. How she resisted laughing and pointing at him for his dissembling bullshit, I have no idea.

  53. 53.

    NetheadJay

    @sab: Ah her, should’ve realized from the character. I’m a big Studio Ghibli fan and Ponyo is a lovely movie. Good job by granddaughter with the naming.

  61. 61.

    Spanky

    So if vaccinated ol’ me had a serious accident in Atlanta, they’d be ping ponging me around trying to find an ER that wasn’t full up with unvaccinated rubes? Fuck that noise.

    Something seriously needs to change in the triaging protocols. You got covid and not vaxxed? Back of the line.

  64. 64.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    I’ll go so far as to say this: people who can’t get vaccinated, for medical reasons or lack of access, I’ll avoid, for my safety and theirs, but I won’t judge.

    People who can get vaccinated but refuse? I will absolutely judge and shun them and feel no remorse or pity, except for their victims that they infect along the way.

  67. 67.

    sab

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Should be interesting when the remaining rural hospitals get hit with the uninsured or underinsured costs of the unvaccinated who ( surprise! surprise!) got Delta Covid.

  70. 70.

    MomSense

    @Spanky:

    Seriously.  They don’t believe the doctors and scientists about the vaccine but they go to that same community of doctors and scientists to save their lives?

  75. 75.

    debbie

    @Spanky:

    I’m hoping after full approval that insurance companies refuse to cover the unvaxed or charge an extra premium like they do for smokers.

  76. 76.

    Soprano2

    The hospital called and said my mom’s breathing is slowing. She went on hospice yesterday. I’m on my way there now.

  77. 77.

    rikyrah

     

    Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) tweeted at 10:32 PM on Mon, Aug 09, 2021:
    Today, the 5 most vaccinated states (14M people) had

    580 people in hospital, 12 deaths

    In the 5 least vaccinated states (16M people)?

    6,600 hospitalized, 104 deaths

    Per capita , least vaccinated states have

    10X hospitalizations and 7X deaths

    So yeah, vaccines are working
    (twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1424936700044881921?s=03)

  79. 79.

    Spanky

    @debbie: They don’t care about insurance consequences until they’re stuck with the bill, and I’m still left in the back of the ambulance as they try to find an ER before I bleed out.

    Nope. No bed for you if you can’t prove vaccination.

  80. 80.

    New Deal democrat

    Some good news: as I referenced a day or two ago, there is evidence that Delta’s growth is decelerating in several of the earliest-hit States, namely Missouri and Arkansas; and growth has virtually stopped in Nevada and Utah. Dr. Scott Gottlieb has now made the same point:

    mobile.twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1423026281390686213

    Since these States turned up several weeks earlier than the rest, this is evidence that nationally Delta may have burned through the dry tinder by Labor Day.

    Bad news: Florida’s cases are up another 50%, to over 27,000/day.
    Further bad news: Nebraska has decided that COVID is so over that it has completely stopped reporting.
    International bad news: ‘Freedom Day’ in the U.K. turned out to mean “freedom for Delta to infect some more dry tinder” as cases have turned back up.

    Quandary: some real expert needs to reply to Dr. Eric Topol’s interview, in which he claims that vaccinations have had virtually no effect on infections. I caught him in one really basic math error*, but I would like to see the Israeli study he references addressed.

    *On deaths vs. cases: there is no reason to expect the death rate to be significantly lower vs. cases as it was last winter *among the unvaccinated.* Last winter just before vaccinations the peak of 250,000 cases coincided with about 2,700 deaths (which peaked at 3,500 shortly thereafter), a ratio of roughly 90:1. At the end of June there were 11,300 cases coinciding with about 300 deaths, a ratio of about 28:1. Now we have about 500 deaths against roughly 50,000 cases per day about 2.5 weeks ago, a ratio of 100:1.

    Since the % of people vaccinated in the US has not changed significantly in the last 45 days (especially including seniors, who were already almost 80% vaccinated), there was simply no reason to expect that deaths wouldn’t follow cases up in a similar trajectory.

    Finally, the book “Premonition” makes a major point of how hollowed out the CDC had become even before the pandemic. It has been simply unable to make quick, useful decisions, and in particular completely failing to see the likely behavioral responses to its (in)actions. While it is better under Biden, in addition to the masking debacle – which everyone saw coming – it’s failure to prominently highlight in daily statistics the prevalence of new cases among the unvaccinated vs. vaccinated is a major public communication error. And it’s failure to ramp up random sampling for seroprevalence is leaving us blind on a major determinant of the course of the pandemic.

  85. 85.

    NorthLeft12

    I am more than a little baffled as to how cancelling elective surgeries in Texas, and hiring more nurses is going to actually improve the COVID-19 situation.

    As an engineer, I was always focused on finding the root cause of the problem and dealing with that. Sometimes that was difficult, but in this instance reducing the case load solves virtually every negative impact from the pandemic and has well known and proven methods to accomplish the goal.

    Unfortunately, Abbott is committed to not employing any of those tactics.

  86. 86.

    NetheadJay

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Yeah, that’s where I’m at too. Up here in Scandinavia things have been going pretty well. But yesterday I saw one of the tv stations do a big profile of a dedicated not-gonna-get-vaccinated person and it was all I could do to not go through the roof. And she was healthcare-adjacent to boot.

    Sent it to a couple of family members who are in the healthcare system asking if I was overly harsh in calling her this and this and this. Replies back were even harsher, LOL.

  87. 87.

    sab

    @NorthLeft12: They only have so many hospital beds, doctors and nurses. Covid people are coming in. Either let them die on the front lawn or admit them. Then block everyone else since no beds. This is not actually rocket science. More middleschool math.

  88. 88.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    On the Toronto news they had a guy on who says his feeling are hurt because people are ostracizing him for being anti-vax.

  93. 93.

    Ken

    A real vaccine card (which has the advantage of preventing you from dying!) is free. A fake one costs $400.

    Virtually all modern economic theory: “First we assume humans are rational….”

    Humanity: “Hold my beer.”

  95. 95.

    sab

    @Soprano2: Oh God. I feel for you now. I am so glad you got her to hospice, where they do palliative care not torturing healing. We all eventually die, but it never seems that way to children. This will be hard.

  99. 99.

    Tony Jay

    @stinger:

    Yeah. It’s like tripping up in the gutter but finding a set of unused concert tickets amidst the muck.

    Then realising they’re for Coldplay – Live.

  100. 100.

    Tony Jay

    @Soprano2:

    None of this is going to be pleasant, but you’ll just do the right thing and that’s all there is.

    Really sorry you have to be where you are.

  101. 101.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 1.032 new cases of COVID-19 reported with 11 new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive. Test positivity rate is 6.7%. Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers remain steady.

    Over 18,000 vaccinations were administered in Scotland yesterday (Monday) with about 15% of those vaccinations being first doses. 75.4% of the adult population are now fully vaccinated with another 14.7% having received their initial dose of vaccine.

  102. 102.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Tony Jay:  Tony, I’m so pleased to hear this. I was thinking about you and Mrs TJ last night and wondering how you both were.

    A bummer about the restaurant thing, but maybe later?

  103. 103.

    Anyway

    @Tony Jay:

    Yeah. It’s like tripping up in the gutter but finding a set of unused concert tickets amidst the muck.

    Then realising they’re for Coldplay – Live.

    Bwahaha! Thanks for the laugh, d00d

    (Coldplay h8r here)

  105. 105.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @NorthLeft12: As a fellow engineer, this is a classic phenomenon of slapping on band aids while keeping head in the sand as to the actual root cause, & ignoring the fact that shifts in the underlying issue can easily overwhelm band aids. Surprising how this mentality can still prevail even among engineers, but especially among management, particularly when under high pressure situations.

    During a pandemic, exponential growth will rip through the band aids in a blink.

  106. 106.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 25,161 new cases. This is down about 2000 cases from Sunday but offices may still be catching up after the weekend closures. We’ll know more after 4.00pm today. Anyway the rolling 7-day average is now showing an increase of 5.2%. New cases by nation,

    England – 21,915 (down 2281)

    Northern Ireland – 1031 (down 98)

    Scotland – 851 (down 389) But see Robert Sneddon’s update above

    Wales – 1364 (up 500).

    Deaths – There were 37 deaths yesterday. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 14.8%. 26 deaths were in England, 8 in Northern Ireland and 3 in Wales. None in Scotland.

    Testing – 689,374 tests were administered on Sunday, 8 August. The rolling 7-day average was down by 5.6%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 708,743.

    Hospitalisations – 5608 people were in hospital and 870 were on ventilators on Friday, 6 August. As of 3rd August, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 15.8%.

    Vaccinations – As of Sunday, 8 August, 47,059,639 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 39,551,538 had received both. This means that 89% of all adults in the UK had had 1 shot as of that date and 74.8% were fully vaccinated. Still no sign of 16 and 17 year olds in the published data. Currently, the number of people with 1 shot is going up by 0.1% every couple of days and by 0.3% every day for those who have gotten their 2nd shots.

  108. 108.

    terben

    In Australia today, there were 383 new cases. This brings the cumulative total to 37,009. The number of deaths rose by 4 to 943.
    There are 5334 active cases in the country, with NSW having 5049.
    NSW, where the most serious outbreak is, contributed 360 cases and all 4 deaths to the totals.
    There are 432 hospitalized cases, 62 in ICU and 28 ventilated. For NSW, those numbers are 357/60/28.
    Vaccinations continue at a modest pace, just under 235k for the day. These are split almost evenly between 1st and 2nd doses.​

  110. 110.

    bcw

    Gotta point out that Matthew Yglesias is uniformed when he says “If they invent a cancer vaccine I’m going to take it” There are at least a few “cancer vaccines” already. The HPV vaccine has substantially reduced ovarian cancers because many if not most such cancers are induced by the genetic damage caused by the HPV virus.  Sadly, there is a lot of resistance towards the vaccine since HPV is nominally an STD and since it has to be given before children have any chance of contacting it, parents scream about how their pure child would never do that and refuse the vaccine.  About 80% of unvaccinated adults test positive for HPV.  Hepatitis also induces cancers and can be stopped with vaccination.

  111. 111.

    Ken

    @YY_Sima Qian: During a pandemic, exponential growth will rip through the band aids in a blink.

    Texas governor: “We will double the number of nurses!”

    Virus: “See you in two weeks….”

  113. 113.

    trollhattan

    A repost from yesterday, on another of our unhelpful CA public employee unions coming down on the pro-death side of Covid vaccinations. Of course their workplace has no innate infection risk whatsoever.

    The union representing California state correctional officers plans to fight vaccination requirements for its members, according to a Friday memo.

    The California Correctional Peace Officers Association said in the emailed note to members that it would use “all the tools at its disposal,” including legal appeals and labor negotiations, to fight two recent efforts to mandate vaccinations.

    The union is not contesting a July 26 order from Gov. Gavin Newsom that said most state workers must get vaccinated. That order gave workers an alternative to vaccination by allowing them to get tested regularly and to wear a mask at work.

    A federal overseer of medical care inside California prisons asked a judge on Thursday to require vaccines for everyone coming and going from the prisons, including employees, without the exceptions in Newsom’s prior order.

    On Friday, the state Department of Public Health ordered all employees working at health care facilities to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30.

    The union memo, which CCPOA’s executive council sent in an email to members, said that since most prisons have health care facilities, the requirement would apply to its members. The state’s 34 prisons offer varying degrees of medical care on-grounds.

    On Monday evening, the Public Health Department’s press office said in an email that the most recent order for health care facilities doesn’t apply to correctional health facilities. Those sites remain under Newsom’s order that directs state workers either show proof of vaccination or submit to regular COVID-19 testing.

    The press office’s email said the department plans to issue new guidance for prison health care facilities, adult and senior care facilities and homeless shelters in the future.

    The union plans to ask for the state to halt the Department of Public Health’s order on the grounds it violates the employees’ contract. The union will seek a temporary pause to the order until it can meet and confer with the state over the issue, according to the memo.

    “CCPOA believes both of these orders exceed what is medically necessary to slow and prevent the spread of COVID inside the institutions,” the memo states.
    sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article253378123.html#storylink=cpy

  114. 114.

    Just Chuck

    @bcw: Betting on a pundit’s ignorance almost never loses, but I’ll give Yglesias the benefit of the doubt for a rhetorical flourish.

  115. 115.

    Just Chuck

    @trollhattan: It’s hard to go wrong by taking whatever the police unions say and doing the polar opposite.  Police and prison guard unions need to be dismantled yesterday, or at least forbidden from lobbying.

  116. 116.

    Ruckus

    @lowtechcyclist:

    Life is full of problems. Few are this easy to solve.

    Some seem to want to solve problems by not believing they exist. That of course doesn’t change/fix the problem but it does show that a  segment of the human population really, really doesn’t like the reality of life, otherwise they wouldn’t want to suspend all reality. They think they are in charge of their lives and are going to die proving it. In this case they think that if they will the disease to not bother them it will. They are wrong but their world view is better than the actual world, just ask them.

  118. 118.

    Tony Jay

    @Sloane Ranger:

    Yeah, it’s a right bugger. We’ve done the Ivy Asia before and it was superb. I’d definitely advise eating there if possible. It’s just sooooo hard to get a booking.

    Chips and burgers at home it is. 8-)

  119. 119.

    bluefoot

    @Lapassionara: ​
      Honestly, I don’t think photos or video of people dying from severe COVID will help. As long it’s “those people” who are disproportionately suffering, I don’t think the anti-vax types care. It’s all tribalism now, not rationality.

  120. 120.

    Tony Jay

    @Anyway:

    Coldplay, music to slaughter a roomful of innocents to, knowing in your heart that, in a very real way, it’s a mercy.

  122. 122.

    Matt McIrvin

    My fully-vaxxed kid woke up with a sore throat this morning. All nearby places that do PCR testing were booked solid so I sprung for one of those 15-minute insta-tests, which should be sensitive enough to catch nearly all symptomatic cases. She tested negative.

    Anecdotes suggest to me that there’s some bug going around besides COVID. I heard that some minor respiratory viruses that were suppressed by last winter’s shutdowns are now running rampant off season.

  125. 125.

    Fair Economist

    @Matt McIrvin: Yes, RSV is a big problem in a lot of places. IMO the RSV vaccine, currently reserved for immunity compromised and such, should be freely available to children.

  127. 127.

    J R in WV

    @sab: ​
     

    “liked” should be “licked” Assumed y’all figured that out already.

    You mean the sweet puppy doesn’t like you? Really? ;~)

    Maybe both liked and licked?

  128. 128.

    Glidwrith

    @Fair Economist: Hell, yes you should be vaxed against RSV. Son caught it at 2 years old and suffered through asthma attacks for the rest of his childhood. He has basically grown out of it, but it was a serious danger to his health and costly to treat. Why the everliving hell is it not offered?

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