Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Republicans in disarray!

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

How stupid are these people?

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

This fight is for everything.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Monday / Tuesday, Aug. 23-24

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY: 126 new cases on 8/22/21.
    Deaths still at 1357.
    60% of the county is fully vaccinated and 63.9% had at least 1 shot.
    Over the last week we had 97 cases in children under 10,
    118 cases in children between 10 and 19, 207 cases in 20 year olds and 177 cases in 30 year olds. Ages 40-49. 50-59 and 60-69 averaged 110 cases each last week.

    Monroe County has 145 COVID cases in hospitals and 30 in the ICU.

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 8/23 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed cases (0 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 35 active domestic confirmed cases there. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 1 Medium Risk village has been re-designated as Low Risk. 1 village at Ruili remains at Medium Risk. 

    Jiangsu Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 38 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 531 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • At Nanjing 3 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 127 active domestic confirmed (23 mild & 104 moderate) cases in the city.
    • At Yangzhou 25 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 393 active domestic confirmed (61 mild, 331 moderate & 1 serious) cases in the city, though more than half are actually being treated in Nanjing. 1 township remains at High Risk. 23 zones/sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Huai’an there currently are 6 active confirmed cases in the city.
    • At Wuxi, there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.

    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.

    • At Changde there currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • At Xiangtan there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • At Changsha There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • At Yiyang there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.
    • At Zhuzhou 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 27 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • Zhangjiajie did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 65 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sub-districts remain at Medium Risk.
    • At Xiangxi Prefecture there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case.

    Henan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 120 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Zhengzhou did not report any new domestic positive cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 94 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 7 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Shangqiu reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 8/13. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 2 sites remain at High Risk & 2 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
    • At Zhumadian, there currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. All areas in the city are now at Low Risk.
    • At Kaifeng there currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases. The High Risk village has been re-designated as Medium Risk. 7 villages are currently at Medium Risk.

    Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 82 active domestic confirmed (36 mild, 45 moderate & 1 serious) & 60 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • At Huanggang there currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases. The Medium Risk township has been re-designated as Low Risk.
    • At Jingzhou, there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • At Jingmen there are currently 41 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 sub-district & 1 township remain at Medium Risk.
    • At Wuhan 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 34 active domestic confirmed & 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 sub-district & 1 residential compound have been re-designated as Low Risk. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • At Ezhou there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases.
    • At Xianning there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case.

    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 34 new imported confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 9 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 9 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Thailand, 2 from the US, & 1 each from Japan, the UAE & the UK (via Helsinki), & an Algerian national coming from Algeria (via Germany); 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 8 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Myanmar, the Philippines & Bangladesh, & 1 each from the UAE & Kenya; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Bangladesh & 1 each from the Philippines & Myanmar
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Ghana, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang Province – 7 confirmed cases, all crew members off a cargo ship w/ last port of call in Montenegro
    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 4 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar & 1 from Laos; 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic), 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Egypt
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Japan
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Nigeria (via Frankfurt)
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released 

    Overall in China, 96 confirmed cases recovered (46 imported), 20 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (19 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 2,426 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,634 active confirmed cases in the country (722 imported), 19 in serious condition (8 imported), 491 active asymptomatic cases (405 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 35,246 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 8/22, 1,961.893M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 14.939M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 8/23, Hong Kong reported 7 new positive cases (all asymptomatic), all imported (from Indonesia, the Philippines & the UAE, 4 of whom had been fully vaccinated). 

  4. 4.

    WereBear

    @soapdish:

    Frankly I’m surprised I’d hadn’t heard “Gestapelosi” before.


    Agreed. Then again, they have put shackles on their brains with delusional thinking. As a result, they are not that bright.

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    The video of the bat brain cells being demolished is scary.

    Glad for Imm and the Immp that Rice’s outbreak was a false alarm!

  6. 6.

    New Deal democrat

    Sorry, but I am going to disagree with the post’s take on the comparison between South Dakota and Vermont -at least as to cases. The right way to measure this is on a per capita basis. Further, the 200% increase in cases for South Dakota started with a very low number and so is distorted (e.g., an increase from 1 to 3 is 200%, while an increase from 100 to 180 is only 40%)

    On July 28, both SD and VT had a weekly average of 4.5 new cases per 100,000 per day. As of yesterday, South Dakota had an average of 27.4. And Vermont had 25. Very similar trajectories.

    A separate but more important trend: fully 1/3 of all States + DC now show flat or declining new cases over the past 7 days.

    Sent from my iPad

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 20,837 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,593,602 cases. He also reports 211 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 14,553 deaths — 0.91% of the cumulative reported total, 1.09% of resolved cases.

    As of yesterday, the seven-day running average of Malaysia’s nationwide Rt was 1.01.

    There are currently 262,713 active and contagious cases; 1,063 are in ICU, 511 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 18,613 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,316,336 patients recovered – 82.60% of the cumulative reported total.

    34 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 4,506 clusters. 1,446 clusters are currently active; 3,060 clusters are now inactive.

    20,815 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 4,631 local cases: 361 in clusters, 2,312 close-contact screenings, and 1,958 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 3,376 cases: 164 in clusters, 2,094 close-contact screenings, and 1,118 other screenings.

    Penang reports 2,054 cases: 274 in clusters, 684 close-contact screenings, and 1,096 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 1,772 cases: 31 in clusters, 1,152 close-contact screenings, and 589 other screenings. Johor reports 1,743 cases: 338 in clusters, 897 close-contact screenings, and 508 other screenings. Sarawak reports 1,543 cases: 356 in clusters, 819 close-contact screenings, and 368 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 1,422 cases: 106 in clusters, 975 close-contact screenings, and 341 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,280 local cases: 19 in clusters, 508 close-contact screenings, and 753 other screenings. Perak reports 1,242 cases: 132 in clusters, 496 close-contact screenings, and 614 other screenings.

    Pahang reports 521 cases: 80 in clusters, 346 close-contact screenings, and 95 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 396 cases: 108 in clusters, 111 close-contact screenings, and 177 other screenings. Terengganu reports 383 cases: 37 in clusters, 266 close-contact screenings, and 80 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 347 local cases: 19 in clusters, 139 close-contact screenings, and 189 other screenings.

    Perlis reports 74 cases: 29 in clusters, 20 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 27 cases: 17 close-contact screenings and 10 other screenings. Labuan reports four cases: three close-contact screenings and one other screening.

    22 new cases today are imported: 14 in Selangor, fout in Kuala Lumpur, and four in Negeri Sembilan.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 396,578 doses of vaccine on 23rd August. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 31,792,363 doses administered: 18.4 million first doses and 13.3 million second doses. 56.6% of the population have received their first dose, while 40.8% are now fully vaccinated.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    Mayor of Lake Ozark openly (per FB) requesting ivermectin for his very sick friend (cant link).  Openly, publically asking, despite the FDA’s very overt “GTFOH” stance on its use in humans.

    These people are absurd.  There’s literally no fake cure they wont endorse…

  10. 10.

    New Deal democrat

    @New Deal democrat:

    Ok here is hospitalization data for the last 2 weeks for both SD and VT:
    Source – https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-covid-19-hospitalization-rates-august-2.html

    South Dakota

    14-day change: 86 percent increase

    Hospitalizations per 100,000 people: 7

    Vermont

    14-day change: 425 percent increase

    Hospitalizations per 100,000 people: 3

    Per my prior comment, I would ignore the rate of increase, because of the small numbers involved. Focus just on the per capita number.

    Only 3 other States – MA, ME, and NH – have hospitalization rates lower than SD.

  11. 11.

    satby

    @Punchy: Not only asking, but saying he will try to smuggle it in to give to his sick friend in the hospital. And asking for people to “pray that the doctors and nurses do the right thing” and allow his friend to take it.

    Insane.

  16. 16.

    Sloane Ranger

    Monday in the UK we had 31,914 new cases. This is an increase of 13.4% in the rolling 7-day average and some cases may not have been included due to the weekend office closures. New cases by nation,

    England -24,158 (down 1794)

    Northern Ireland – 1320 (down 165)

    Scotland – 3189 (up 1)

    Wales – 3247 (up 1621 but probably some of these cases relate to them not reporting on Saturdays.)

    Deaths – There were 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday but, again, remember weekend office closures means there is a delay in reporting. This is an increase of 12.3% in the rolling 7-day average. 29 deaths were in England, 9 in Northern Ireland and 2 in Wales. No deaths in Scotland.

    Testing – 679,665 tests were conducted on Sunday, 22 August. The rolling 7-day average for testing is down 2.6%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 722,898.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated.

    Vaccinations – As of Sunday, 22 August, 47,690,741 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 41,810,753 had had both. This means that, as of this date, 87.7% of all UK residents aged 16+ had had 1 shot and 76.9% were fully vaccinated. Just heard that 3 in 10 people aged under 30 are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated. To some extent this can be explained by the fact they were the last group vaccinations were rolled out to so many will be waiting for their 2nd jab, but there is some evidence that a lot of younger people aren’t getting their 1st jab, because they think they are at low risk of getting sick, as was suggested even by experts at the start of the pandemic. The issue seems to be that, once people get an idea fixed in their mind, it cannot be removed, even by new evidence and new expert advice. Makes you wonder about the accuracy of the term “Homo Sapiens”.

    Personal – If anyone is interested, my PCR test came back as negative so I’m out and about again.

  17. 17.

    New Deal democrat

    @charon: Thanks, good to see the NYT (I refuse to register) and 91-divoc are showing the same thing.

     

    i do agree that Sturgis is the absolute acid test of whether SD stumbled into something close to herd immunity.

  18. 18.

    randy khan

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chevron is adopting a vaccine mandate for some employees.  (Not people at the gas stations, since those are franchises, not owned by the company.)

  20. 20.

    Ken

    @rikyrah: Phucking crazy

    And heading to a place where they have people who can officially determine that.  Not that I think we’ll be hearing “After the subject became violent and was subdued by hospital security, I ordered him held for a three-day psychiatric evaluation” but it’s nice to imagine.

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    @New Deal democrat:

    Sorry, but I am going to disagree with the post’s take on the comparison between South Dakota and Vermont -at least as to cases. The right way to measure this is on a per capita basis. Further, the 200% increase in cases for South Dakota started with a very low number and so is distorted (e.g., an increase from 1 to 3 is 200%, while an increase from 100 to 180 is only 40%)

    Totally agree with your take on this.

    Also, I wish that the CDC would have tried to track and follow up with Sturgis rally attendees. Maybe they are able to do some of this. Follow them for 10 to 12 weeks. Test them. See how many travel out of state.

  22. 22.

    Ken

    I was hoping for mention of Radley Balko‘s genius plan:

    • Set aside ~15 million Pfizer vaccines
    • Give them a weird new name like Hydroxyiverzinc
    • Send to doctors, veterinarians, acupuncturists, etc.
    • Viral marketing campaign calling Hydroxyiverzinc “the secret COVID cure the government doesn’t what you to know about!
  23. 23.

    New Deal democrat

    @charon:  Again, the big problem with citing %age increases is when they start off with a very low number.* In this case, it is also complicated by the fact that SD was only reporting once a week until 13 days ago, so during a rising trend the count from 14 days ago would be a big undercount. To get the best comparison, you have to use one of the days on which SD was actually posting its weekly update. That would be either July 28 or August 4 to predate Sturgis.

    *ETA: And in this case, before Sturgis SD had the lowest rate of infections per capita of any State in the Union, so even a small absolute increase would give you a big %age increase.

  26. 26.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 4,323 new cases of COVID-19 reported, a significant increase with ten new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive. Test positivity rate is 14.5%, trending upwards. Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers are only slightly up — 43 ICU beds occupied and 364 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 under 18,000 vaccinations were administered in Scotland yesterday (Monday) with just over 15% of those vaccinations being first doses. 80.6% of the 18+ adult population are now fully vaccinated with another 10.3% having received their initial dose of vaccine. 16 and 17 year olds are now at 40.6% first dose and 8.3% second dose.

    Speculation on my part — we’re seeing a significant increase in positive test results here in Scotland now that a lot of restrictions on social distancing, capacity limits for hospitality venues and so on have been removed and the football season has started with full occupancy of the stadiums being permitted. However we’re not seeing a corresponding big upswing in hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy. This is, I think, due to the relatively high vaccination rate in Scotland and the UK generally, with over 95% of adults over the age of 40 being fully vaccinated now. People are catching this disease and testing positive for it but for a lot of these breakthrough cases it’s a “bad flu” which they’re dealing with by staying at home and suffering rather than filling hospital beds. This may be the start of the “Living with COVID” period of this epidemic.

  27. 27.

    H.E.Wolf

    @soapdish: ​Frankly I’m surprised I’d hadn’t heard “Gestapelosi” before.

     
    Limbaugh and his loathsome ilk coined “Feminazi” decades ago. This new epithet is likewise from the sexist and antisemitic slime pit. :-p

  29. 29.

    smith

    @New Deal democrat:  This is complicated by the fact that SD, though red, is not a really low-vax state. They are currently 32nd in the % of population with at least one shot, at 55.2%. On the other hand, Meade County, where Sturgis is located, currently has an infection rate of 68.8/100k, a positivity rate of 33.8%, and a vax rate of 27.9% with at least one shot, so make of that what you will.

  30. 30.

    smith

    @New Deal democrat: I disagree. Looking through the data to generate hypotheses is a time-honored tradition. The problem comes if you state mistaking those hypotheses for  conclusions.

  32. 32.

    marklar

    I’ve heard that after taking ivermectin, people suffering from COVID will be Okey-Donkey.

    I’ll be here all week.

  33. 33.

    New Deal democrat

    @smith: I understand your point.

     

    I will just counter with the fact that in a pandemic with exponential movements, by the time you have the data needed for scientifically acceptable conclusions, the pandemic has already wreaked havoc. So hypothesizing on the fly with not the best data sets is the only real possibility in real time.

  34. 34.

    StringOnAStick

    It should be understood that most of the people who attended the Sturgis rally are not from SD!  They went there, reports of 500,000 to 600,000 attendees, mingled without masks and likely had a very low vaccination rate, and then went back to where they came from, no doubt bringing Delta with them.  The infection rate shown for SD is for the local residents; what about all the visitors who have now dispersed back to their homes all over the US?

  36. 36.

    Ken

    @StringOnAStick: I do admit to some admiration for the people handling logistics for Sturgis. It can’t be easy to nearly double a state’s population, or more concretely increase a town’s population by a factor of nearly 100.

  37. 37.

    quakerinabasement

    @Ken:

    Haven’t you heard? Pelosi and the other elites only pretended to get the Pfizer vaccine. They secretly got Hydroxyiverzinc and that’s why they don’t get sick. They keep it a secret because it’s the real antidote from the Wuhan lab and there’s not enough to go around! They only give it to illegal immigrants who register to vote.

  39. 39.

    Yutsano

    Please note that I did not have Jerry Jones on the side of the good guys here.

    Jerry Jones on why he's so adamant about COVID-19 vaccine: "Everyone has a right to make their own decisions regarding their health & their body…until your decision as to yourself impacts negatively many others."We have got to check ‘I’ at the door & go forward with ‘we’." pic.twitter.com/82CHEwxbDd— Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) August 24, 2021

  41. 41.

    Dan B

    @rikyrah: Drew Comments is fine, better than fine!  He’s brains, brawn, funny, witty, and generally 5 stars+ in so many categories.  Puts a true smile on my face.

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