It’s been a tough day to end a bad week, Australia. But here’s a (somewhat) uplifting story to help with lockdown.
My latest, a welcome departure from tracking covid numbers and lockdown restrictions. https://t.co/PgE0w6ZSA3
— Michael Miller (@MikeMillerDC) August 20, 2021
Sunday just in: +973K doses reported administered over yesterday’s total, including 478K newly vaccinated. In recent weeks millions have reassessed the risk/benefit of getting vaccinated and decided to better protect themselves, their families and their communities. ????
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) August 22, 2021
U.S. administers 361.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines -CDC https://t.co/QgmU8LaPk7 pic.twitter.com/3kPbdQat5x
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Seems like there’s an obvious solution to this problem… https://t.co/aCon0Im9WG
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 23, 2021
I.C.U. beds are nearly full in states where Covid-19 hospitalizations have passed their previous peaks. The health care system is buckling in many parts of the United States https://t.co/ZDdfiGwRCf pic.twitter.com/BKoqnmSc2e
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 23, 2021
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China reports no new local COVID-19 cases for first time since July https://t.co/5pFOOC8NcU pic.twitter.com/gM3DozBX4K
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
India reports 25,072 new coronavirus cases https://t.co/2pPwOm6K9m pic.twitter.com/lDa3ZG78Ko
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Many of the 'success stories" from last year are now struggling with Delta: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan….
How Asia Became a Delta Hot Spot@TMclaughlin3 https://t.co/bVsTmFidjy
— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) August 22, 2021
President Tsai Ing-wen gets vaccinated with Taiwan's first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, giving her personal stamp of approval as the island begins rolling out the shot approved by the health ministry last month https://t.co/HDR7NVxUcw pic.twitter.com/IaGUH09IPH
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
looks like singapore is going to hit another vaccination target pic.twitter.com/q7v1JPytTo
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) August 23, 2021
Indonesia official says vaccines help Jakarta reach 'herd immunity' https://t.co/9JMNOBqTId pic.twitter.com/BfZFKmY6pI
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
… For much of last month, Jakarta was devastated by the outbreak with inundated hospitals, oxygen shortages and COVID-19 patients dying at home, but in recent weeks case numbers have dropped sharply, while vaccination rates have climbed.
On July 12, Jakarta recorded more than 14,600 infections, but by Sunday the figure had fallen to 700.
“Jakarta has entered the green zone and has reached herd immunity,” deputy Jakarta governor Ahmad Rizia Patria told reporters on Sunday.
The deputy governor was referring to high vaccination rates in the capital, where more than 54% of residents are fully vaccinated and most have received one shot.
Nationally, just over 11% of the population have been fully vaccinated since the Southeast Asian nation began its inoculation program this January.
Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia said the deputy governor had misunderstood the concept of herd immunity…
Despite an overall decline in cases nationally, Indonesia still recorded more than 12,000 cases on Sunday, as it continues to battle one of Asia’s worst coronavirus outbreaks.
Since mid-July the country has also recorded more than than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 each day, one of the highest rates globally.
While cases have declined in Jakarta and some parts of Java, the highly contagious Delta continues to surge in other islands, including in parts of Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and remote Papua.
Ex-Indonesian minister jailed for 12 years over COVID-19 graft scandal https://t.co/jym98LstK1 pic.twitter.com/e9DdyfQNha
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
N.Korea develops its own PCR equipment for COVID-19 tests -state media https://t.co/d43lGqahSh pic.twitter.com/2EyUSv7yPC
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Vietnam deploys troops to enforce lockdown in largest city https://t.co/mHWHwKarso pic.twitter.com/QwSmxIU7Gh
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Philippines approves emergency use of Russia's Sputnik Light vaccine https://t.co/cx8yWgIirT pic.twitter.com/BgsBVlqa5h
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
With over half of all Australians stuck in weeks-long lockdowns to curb the highly infectious Delta strain, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country had to move forward and start reducing restrictions as more people became vaccinated https://t.co/2EcLKts1Ug pic.twitter.com/x3whVDA6Ox
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended New Zealand's strict nationwide COVID-19 lockdown by three days while Auckland, the epicenter of the current Delta outbreak, will have restrictions in place at least until Aug. 31 https://t.co/Pd7pPXDKli pic.twitter.com/mtelO00huC
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
New Zealand pandemic strategy in doubt amid Covid Delta variant spread https://t.co/Xhv0LrxfZo
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 22, 2021
All unvaccinated students over the age of 12 in #SaudiArabia will not be allowed to attend school until they are fully vaccinated against the #COVID19, the Ministry of Education announces.https://t.co/TVIRugpMHN
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) August 22, 2021
A third dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has significantly improved protection from infection and serious illness among people aged 60 and older in Israel compared with those who received two shots, findings by the Health Ministry showed https://t.co/hO7OkaEki0 pic.twitter.com/7VcVyWJNhV
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2021
Russia on Monday reported 19,454 new coronavirus cases and 776 pandemic deaths, bringing its totals to 6,766,541 cases and 176,820 deaths https://t.co/Rq1LaTWBER
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) August 23, 2021
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Anybody who understands the physics want to weigh in on this suggestion?
For those whose classrooms don't have adequate ventilation: make your own Corsi / Rosenthal filter box for about 100 bucks.
DM me if you don't have the funds for that and I'll buy you the filters pic.twitter.com/MKotCHKOj1
— Prof. ELF (@EliLevensonFalk) August 22, 2021
The *good* news is that current vaccines are extremely effective at preventing severe disease & death. So yes, get vaccinated!!! You’re protecting your health & helping dampen transmission to others too.
— Prof. Devi Sridhar (@devisridhar) August 22, 2021
In the lab: Scientists have identified an antibody that's highly protective at low doses against a wide range of coronavirus variants. It attaches to a part of the virus that's the same across multiple variants. Little likelihood of resistance at this spot https://t.co/QLj7eaQAbU
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2021
2 Important preprints.
1: in vaccinated HCWs in whom there was a breakthrough, they produced less infectious virus than unvaxxed- caveat I would like to have seen actual viral titres here rather than just culture y/n
2: Vaxxed breakthroughs clear virus faster#VaccinesWork https://t.co/EKNTtBazSC
— Stuart Neil (@stuartjdneil) August 22, 2021
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Looking solely at the polling, Black and Hispanic adults seem to be more in favor of vaccine mandates than the public at large. Certainly they're no less likely to support.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) August 22, 2021
Covid cases are overwhelming the Gulf Coast. Now the region has no ICU beds https://t.co/qTL5onoikD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2021
Florida becomes first US state where the daily deaths in current wave have exceeded previous waves. pic.twitter.com/xK9UK2don8
— Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK) August 22, 2021
Los Angeles Co data shows:
– unvaccinated 18-to-49 year-olds — 25 times more likely to be hospitalized w/#COVID19 than vax'ed
– unvax'ed, over age 50 were nearly 12Xs more likely to be hospitalized & 17Xs more likely to die.https://t.co/J7US7NTa6s— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 23, 2021
When a Staten Island hospital implemented a coronavirus vaccine or testing mandate, some of its staff staged angry protests. Scientists point out that those who refuse vaccines are potentially endangering the lives of their patients. https://t.co/tLxriH28Tz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 23, 2021
A shortage of bus drivers is complicating the start of a new school year already facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and conflicts over masks. Many school districts across the U.S. are offering hiring bonuses, providing the training and increasing pay. https://t.co/CQO8gFCOrN
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2021
And some of us just don't like hanging with the unvaxxed anyway. I can't see myself ever wanting to hang out with the people I'm avoiding now.
— Mike J ?? ?? (@emmeyekayeee) August 22, 2021
This is my hospital. This is my community. Your choices don’t just affect you. pic.twitter.com/NsFHx6n2N7
— Grace Worth (@gracelworth) August 22, 2021
Chris T.
It seems weird to me how that tweet about Auckland having “restrictions in place until [the end of Aug]” shows a picture of … a street in a town outside Wellington. That’s hundreds of miles (OK, “630 kilometers”) away from Auckland.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY: 167 new cases on 8/21/21.
We don’t seem to be improving at all.
NotMax
Stepped away from the statistics for a few days and returned only to discover Georgia now the 50th country to exceed 500k total cases reported.
Baud
I read that as viral titties and thought, who wouldn’t want to see that.
NotMax
Numbers statewide continue to trend the wrong way.
<blockquoteIn Maui County, there is an average of 78 new cases with a 7.0% test positivity rate over 14 days. This marks a 48% increase from Aug. 7 to Aug. 20, 2021. For every 100,000 residents in Maui County, there have been an average of 46.3 newly reported cases per day over the last seven days.
Statewide, there were 392 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Sunday, (343 of them are unvaccinated/ 49 are fully or partially vaccinated), according to Lt. Gov. Josh Green. This is more than double (+138%) the 165 hospitalizations reported more than two weeks ago on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The state’s positivity rate is now at 8.1%. Source
Mary G
Nate Silver is pathetic. He’ll be endorsing Republicans next.
It’s in the FTFNYT – couldn’t find it elsewhere, but this video of coronavirus invading bat brain cells is scary as fuck.
Lapassionara
So “medical freedom” is now a thing? Trying to wrap my mind around the concept. Am I free to not get sick? Or just free to decline treatment if I do get sick?
raven
Rachel Maddow, the top-rated anchor at MSNBC, has renewed her contract with the cable news network, extending her 13-year run for several more years, according to a person briefed on the deal who was not authorized to speak on it publicly.
In addition to hosting her show, Ms. Maddow, 48, will develop new projects with the network’s parent company, NBCUniversal, the person said. Financial terms of the deal could not be learned.
Cermet
Only amerikans could manage to really put the dumb in freedom; especially Florida and TexAss.
Cameron
I’ve pretty much ignored the anti-vax/mask crew,but the story about the little boy in the parking lot has pushed me over the edge. Fuck these degenerates.
rikyrah
Nate needs to stay in his lane?
rikyrah
@Cameron:
I know. This is the nightmare I keep coming back to. People who are genuinely sick, unable to get treatment because of the lying unvaccinated taking up hospital beds??
eclare
Oh that little boy…all because of selfish assholes encouraged by Fox, Republican politicians, etc. I’d like to think at some point karma, Darwin, whatever would take over.
mrmoshpotato
But her emails, you bastards.
YY_Sima Qian
On 8/22 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases (0 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 39 active domestic confirmed cases there. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 2 villages at Ruili remain at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 37 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 564 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There are currently are 100 active domestic confirmed (including 3 serious) & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Henan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There are currently 124 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 84 active domestic confirmed (36 mild, 47 moderate & 1 serious) & 60 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new positive cases (all mild). There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed cases in the city, 5 airport workers & a medical staff at a hospital. 5 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
Alashankou border crossing in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Imported Cases
On 8/22, China reported 21 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 16 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 74 confirmed cases recovered (33 imported), 14 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 2,171 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,695 active confirmed cases in the country (734 imported), 23 in serious condition (10 imported), 507 active asymptomatic cases (420 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 36,707 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/22, 1,946.954M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 11.085M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/23, Hong Kong reported 5 new positive cases (all asymptomatic), all imported (from Indonesia, the Philippines & the UAE, 4 of whom had been fully vaccinated).
Elizabelle
Free those Staten Island medical workers from their jobs.
# Fire their [white] asses.
Enough coddling this selfishness and nihilism masquerading as “Freedom.”
debbie
@eclare:
They are fucking monsters.
Last night, I came across this Twitter thread from a vet. He’s not anti-vax in general, just this one, even after what he and his wife just went through.
He even says the experience has “fucked him up,” but points at all the conflicting medical advice as the real problem. ??♀️ ??♀️
debbie
mrmoshpotato
@Lapassionara:
Yes. I saw it written on poster board held by some assclown in an NYT article. ?
eclare
@debbie: Yet he still took her to the hospital. I’m starting to see “conflicting medical advice from drs” more and more. Can one journo please do their job and follow up with “Which drs are conflicted?”
eclare
@debbie: Awesome. Forwarded on.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Last year, the Kentucky Supreme Court approved the governor’s mitigation measures because they were firmly within powers granted by statute, which had been uncontroversial for years. This year’s general assembly stripped all of those powers because the GOP spreadneck supermajority don’t want nobody telling them what to do.
Predictably, the Kentucky Supreme Court this weekend had no choice but to say “no, Governor, you can’t do anything like that on your own. You have to work with this pack of drawling douchebag car salesmen, flea market stall operators and part-time pastors who get their news from Facebook memes, chain emails and anecdotes overheard at Cracker Barrel.”
Mary G
I read a tweet from a cardiac surgeon in Cleveland who said that a case that needed an aortic dissection in Texas ended up in Cleveland, because Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee hospitals were full.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 17,672 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,572,765 cases. He also reports 174 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 14,342 deaths — 0.91% of the cumulative reported total, 1.09% of resolved cases.
There are currently 260,700 active and contagious cases; 1,040 are in ICU, 502 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 19,053 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,297,723 patients recovered – 82.51% of the cumulative reported total.
30 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 4,472 clusters. 1,439 clusters are currently active; 3,033 clusters are now inactive.
17,664 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 4,316 cases: 88 in clusters, 2,391 close-contact screenings, and 1,837 other screenings.
Sabah reports 2,474 cases: 140 in clusters, 1,609 close-contact screenings, and 725 other screenings.
Kedah reports 1,602 cases: 46 in clusters, 937 close-contact screenings, and 619 other screenings. Sarawak reports 1,534 local cases: 288 in clusters, 876 close-contact screenings, and 370 other screenings.
Penang reports 1,451 cases: 79 in clusters, 600 close-contact screenings, and 772 other screenings. Johor reports 1,366 local cases: 300 in clusters, 624 close-contact screenings, and 442 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,176 cases: 126 in clusters, 812 close-contact screenings, and 238 other screenings.
Perak reports 952 cases: 209 in clusters, 286 close-contact screenings, and 457 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 888 local cases: 469 close-contact screenings and 419 other screenings.
Pahang reports 506 cases: 188 in clusters, 256 close-contact screenings, and 62 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 478 cases: 78 in clusters, 209 close-contact screenings, and 191 other screenings. Terengganu reports 470 cases: 43 in clusters, 324 close-contact screenings, and 103 other screenings.
Melaka reports 363 cases: 80 in clusters, 162 close-contact screenings, and 121 other screenings.
Perlis reports 57 cases: four in clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and 40 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 24 cases: 21 close-contact screenings and three other screenings. Labuan reports seven cases: six close-contact screenings and one other screening.
Eight new cases today are imported: four in Sarawak, three in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Johor.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 441,100 doses of vaccine on 22nd August: 137,555 first doses and 303,545 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 31,281,193 doses administered: 18,258,947 first doses and 13,022,246 second doses. 55.9% of the population have received their first dose, while 39.9% are now fully vaccinated.
Robert Sneddon
@debbie: Just to let you know, if you post a link to someone’s Twitter thread, there are folks like myself who can’t read all of it. Twitter has decided, in its wisdom and future financial interests, to limit the amount of linked posts people who don’t have Twitter accounts can see before they get “sign up to Twitter” pop-ups and no way to read further on in the linked Tweets.
debbie
@Robert Sneddon:
Do you also not see AL’s tweets up top?
eclare
@Mary G: That is scary
Mary G
I read another doctor’s tweet that he had gone to one of his covid patient’s funeral, and the family screamed at him that the doctor had murdered their family member to get government money. He said he has almost always gone to patients’ funerals as a matter of respect, but he will do so no longer.
We are wasting an entire generation of medical professionals who will have severe PTSD and quit working. This wave is different, because vaccines meant these people did not need to get sick enough to need hospitalizations.
satby
@debbie: Follow up to that is a tweet where they say they’ll get vaccinated now. Wait till he sees the bill for being that stupid.
Steeplejack (phone)
@debbie:
The problem doesn’t show up here; it shows up at Twitter.com. When you go there you can see the initial tweet, but you may not be able to see any tweets off that page.
charon
@Robert Sneddon:
Is there some downside to signing up to Twitter?
What is the downside?
debbie
@satby:
His responses to the replies didn’t give me much hope.
satby
@NotMax: We’re on track to exceed our share of deaths from the last pandemic (from the CDC):
debbie
@Steeplejack (phone):
Thanks, had no idea. I read about some thread unroller. Would I be able to find this thread there?
satby
@debbie: And you know what? IDGAF. He can reap what he’s sown.
Dan B
@eclare: Is there a new category of person called “a Medical” or is the category “a confusing Medical”?
My professional marketing guy repeated, annoyingly, that half of people have an I.Q. less than 100. The issue here seems to be that people tryst their friends in their tribe more than certified experts. Social media has weaponized the game of gossip. We will reach a point when social media gets regulated or civilization devolves to a feral state. There’s fear of an authoritarian using regulation to stifle the web but that horse has already left the barn. If legislators and governors can shut down opposing points of view, like Kentucky, Texas, Florida, and beyond we are already in Victor Orban territory.
satby
@debbie: only if someone asked to unroll it and you see that reply from Threadreaderapp, or you ask yourself.
debbie
@satby:
I know! He learned NOTHING!
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@Mary G: Here in Tennessee, we are at 88% occupancy of floor beds—meaning 12%, or 1,371 out of 11,379 floor beds are available—and 92% occupancy of ICU beds, with 170 out of 2,044, or 8% available. I’m not sure how many of those open ICU beds are cardiac ICU beds.
But the percent of our population that is fully vaccinated is now up to 41%! I had to go by my office for something last week & spoke to a woman I’ve worked with for years—her daughter has just been through her second round of COVID, and her grandson, his wife, their child, and his mother-in-law are all sick—she’d begged them to get vaccinated, to no avail.
debbie
@Robert Sneddon:
I don’t post on Twitter, but I’ll check it later and hopefully someone will have requested it be unrolled.
Steeplejack (phone)
@charon:
When you sign up for a Twitter account you give them permission to load a bunch of cookies on your device to track you and strip-mine your personal data. Yes, everybody does it, but some consumers object to it if they just want to read posts on Twitter and not actively participate.
eclare
@a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: Where in TN are you?
evodevo
@Robert Sneddon:
Yes…this…SO annoying….as of last week I can no longer access tweets that I’ve had no trouble reading for years…
Cermet
One thing about the US of stupid – its all about follow the money and as one poster mentioned, wait till all these clowns get their hospital bills; even ones with good health insurance. We will soon hear endless screaming about the ripoff of hospitals, failure of the government to protect these stupid people from these unfair overcharges and then the thugs in congress will be having endless speeches about corrupt hospitals. And these same stupids (those still alive or family members) will vote thug over and over because being stupid is their way of life.
Robert Sneddon
@charon: Is there some downside to signing up to Twitter?
Upsides? I haven’t signed up to Grindr, Tinder, Parler, Gettr and a lot of other wannabe user-monetizing blogsites whose names end with “r” because, well, Twitter led the way. Basically I don’t want to hand over my life and personal history to someone who’s got more money than Croesus because they want even more money.
A friend who swore off being on Twitter for the longest time finally joined because they are a somewhat public figure. For them it was either sign up and get a blue-check mark or have a dozen crazies camp on their name with their own spoof accounts. Me, I’m comfortably anonymous, well as much as anyone who buys from Amazon and posts on top-10,000 blogs all the time can be anonymous. I don’t see I should make it easier for them to de-anonymize me by my own efforts.
Steeplejack (phone)
@debbie:
Here’s the ThreadReader unroll.
debbie
@Steeplejack (phone):
Had someone already requested it, or are you that speedy?
Steeplejack
@evodevo:
What platform/device/browser are you using? People have posted a lot of fixes and workarounds here, and chances are there is one that will work for you.
prostratedragon
@eclare: “conflicting medical advice from drs”
Perhaps, “Well, you can get the shots or just fuck right on off.” Those suggestions would be conflicting.
Steeplejack
@debbie:
Somebody had already requested the unroll—I saw it when I read the thread on Twitter earlier—so I wasn’t speedy about that. I was speedy about going back and retrieving it.
I will say that I generally disapprove of the thread reader apps, because I feel that they infringe on the original Twitter posters’ “rights”—likes, retweets, etc. (and probably views, behind the scenes). And, despite my misgivings about having a Twitter account, I respect them enough to prefer reading the material on Twitter.
eclare
@prostratedragon: Works for me.
prostratedragon
@Steeplejack: I’ve had success with clearing all twitter/mobile.twitter cookies and putting those sites on my blocked list — so far at least (2-3 days).
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Thanks.
mrmoshpotato
@Robert Sneddon:
@evodevo: Launch a browser in incognito/private mode. I use Firefox on my phone for that, and Twitter works as before.
Steeplejack
@debbie:
Additional thought: I am somewhat more accepting of thread readers in the current Twitter blockapalooza.
Platonicspoof
I just saw this Aug. 20, 2021 NYT article, so maybe it’s also new to other commenters:
Now there are shortages of tests which will obviously make tracking cases more difficult.
I had reached my limit of free NYT articles that I usually log in to with my Google account, so I blocked each cookie and then removed each one and refreshed. The new page didn’t even ask me to log in.
MS Edge and Windows 10, so to delete cookies I can click the padlock in the address bar, then “cookies”, then “Block” and “Remove” each cookie. Refresh the page.
ETA: I just clicked the NYT link in my comment and still no message saying I had reached my limit of free articles, nor a request to sign in.
Steeplejack
@prostratedragon:
It’s not a panacea. For example, on my Android phone (Samsung S10e) my preferred browser (the Samsung one) does not offer the ability to delete cookies from individual sites. (Well, it does, but you have to pick them out of a gigantic undifferentiated list; there’s no way to search for, say, “Twi*”.) Other Android browsers do offer that ability, but, given the need to install another browser, I went with Brave, which foiled the Twitter block-mo-tron right out of the box. It was recommended by Another Scott and probably some others.
On big-boy computers (Windows and Mac), there are various workarounds for different browsers, and some apparently don’t need them. Everybody’s mileage varies—who knew?
Sloane Ranger
Sunday in the UK we had 32,253 new reported cases. This is an increase of 13.5% in the rolling 7-day average and probably an undercount due to admin offices being closed over the weekend. New cases by nation,
England – 25,952 (down 1030)
Northern Ireland – 1485 (down 127)
Scotland – 3190 (down 274)
Wales – 1626 (includes cases from Saturday).
Deaths – There were 49 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 8.2% in the rolling 7-day average. 33 deaths were in England, 11 in Northern Ireland and 5 in Wales.
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of Saturday, 21 August, 47,643,064 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 41,688,636 had received both. This means that 87.7% of all UK residents aged 16+ have had 1 shot and 76.7% were fully vaccinated.
The Moar You Know
No reassessment. These adult children with ODD are getting shots because they’ve been told they’ll lose their precious middle-class jobs if they don’t. The stick is working.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@eclare: Nashville. You’re in Memphis, if I recall correctly.
Ken
Congratulations, I guess, to North Korea for developing their own PCR test, over twelve months after the rest of the world had them. Though as a US citizen, I shouldn’t criticize too much, considering our own delay in getting a home-grown test approved, early last year.
I should check the DPRK news twitter to see their reaction.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 3,189 new cases of COVID-19 reported with zero new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends). Test positivity rate is 12.4%. Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers are slightly up — 41 ICU beds occupied and 356 people in hospital with confirmed cases of COVID-19. For comparison with US states, Scotland’s population is about 5.5 million people. There are no specific reports of pediatric hospitalisation numbers.
Just over 18,000 vaccinations were administered in Scotland yesterday (Sunday) with less than 20% of those vaccinations being first doses. 80.3% of the 18+ adult population are now fully vaccinated with another 10.7% having received their initial dose of vaccine. 16 and 17 year olds are now at 39.6% first dose and 8.3% second dose. I estimate about fifteen hundred or so of these younger people are getting vaccinated daily right now, given the percentages reported.
Dagaetch
re tweet threads, you can always just paste the original link into https://threadreaderapp.com/ and get the full thread. Also, if you are using a browser that accepts plugins, there are various cookie and tracker blockers that make the internet a much more pleasant experience, to say nothing of ad blockers. Just sayin’.
Ken
FDA has granted Pfizer full approval.
frosty
@Robert Sneddon: @evodevo:
The advice on here from last week to change your browser settings to block new cookies from Twitter and delete existing ones got rid of the “Sign Up” popup worked for me and returned things to normal. You may be able to search the comments for it.
opiejeanne
@Ken: I just saw that. YAY!!!
Another Scott
Dean Baker at CEPR points us to some reasons to be optimistic about COVID-19 going forward. Denmark and the case for optimism:
We’re not doomed. We can control the virus. We have to keep doing the grunt work of getting people vaccinated (and wearing masks in areas with community spread). Full FDA approval (like Pfizer today) will help. Mandates will help. New treatments will help. Belts and suspenders…
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
StringOnAStick
A friend who works with lots of wing nuts had to approve time off for one crew member to go get a meningitis vaccine as his wife is due with child #1. Friend asked why he was getting this vaccine; because his doctor told him to. Is there anyone around him who has meningitis? No. Is he going to get the Covid vaccine too? Hell no, who knows what’s in it, don’t want Bill Gates tracking me, it’s not a proven vaccine, etc. So our friend asked him if he knew what was in the meningitis vaccine; no but my doctor wants me to get it to protect the new baby. These people are beyond deluded.
Bill Arnold
@Mary G:
Nate Silver has managed to transform himself into, well not exactly an innumerate hack, rather somebody who is confused about scientific/epistemic uncertainty[1] and so does not adequately include epistemic uncertainty in his analyses. All the shifts in scientific understanding of the virus and its spread (e.g. attacking epithelial cells that express ACE2 in many organs in the body (including blood vessels), long COVID, masks, airflow, failings of most antivirals, multiple vaccine efforts almost 100 percent certain to produce one or more good vaccines), were always baked into Reality as possibilities; they had not been described yet, but the possibilities needed to be included in the models.
[1] See also Epistemic humility
Bill Arnold
@Platonicspoof:
There is a plugin called “Cookie Remover” (firefox/chrome, at least) that will do the cookie removal for the current site with one click. Then a site reload (e.g. nytimes) works.
Still haven’t worked out what to do about twitter. Perhaps Firefox needs a “Twitter Container” along with “Facebook Container”. I have one browser I keep logged in to twitter.
For some reason, the twitter behavior on another browser (chrome) on the same machine hasn’t changed. (It has a heavy extensions loadout; perhaps something in those extensions.)