If suing people who make medical decisions we morally disagree with is on the table, how long until I can get my $10,000 from folks who refuse to be vaccinated?
— A.J. Bauer (@ajbauer) September 1, 2021
The US administered 836,000 vaccine shots today, bringing the total to 372 million, or 112.1 doses per 100 people. The 7-day moving average declined slightly to 910,000 shots per day. pic.twitter.com/qaPEBp2llK
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 3, 2021
War on Covid: Biden pledges $2.7 billion to help create an ‘arsenal of vaccines for the world’ https://t.co/q3rqH52V23
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 3, 2021
The US, once near the lead, has fallen noticeably behind the UK, EU, Canada, China, and even Cuba in the percentage of population vaccinated against COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/abrVjvcRgT
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 3, 2021
The US has entered the 4th wave of the #COVID19 pandemic. As the vaccination campaign lags and the contagious #DeltaVariant spreads, cases & hospitalizations are at their highest since last winter. https://t.co/EOxEj4xZZw
— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) September 2, 2021
The US had +186,407 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total to over 40.3 million. The 7-day moving average rose to 164,608 new cases per day, its highest level since January 27. pic.twitter.com/iWKcrDRHtF
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 3, 2021
One more reason to get vaccinated: Coming down with #COVID19 could wipe out your savings. https://t.co/Uk6ug3MTzh
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 2, 2021
New hospital admissions in the US due to COVID are down -1.7% from a week ago, suggesting they may possibly have peaked. pic.twitter.com/scxUWaKWSv
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 3, 2021
US Coronavirus: More than 500,000 children tested positive for Covid-19 in 3 weeks. Experts say school mask mandates are needed – CNNhttps://t.co/YZ0rjSrLxh
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) September 2, 2021
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Over the next 2 months COVAX expects to have access to almost twice as many Covid-19 vaccine doses as it did over the first 8 months of this year.https://t.co/0MJVRttO9x pic.twitter.com/JBtGYXFTwc
— Josh Michaud (@joshmich) September 2, 2021
China’s three biggest airlines have all said tight curbs on overseas flights could last through the first half of 2022. The news could spell trouble for tourism businesses around the region, where Chinese travellers play a huge role https://t.co/rQiFQZ30Af pic.twitter.com/OPdsBdFDPa
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
Japan considering easing some COVID-19 emergency restrictions – media https://t.co/w9sdgl98UH pic.twitter.com/ruO94wEwVj
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
S.Korea extends distancing curbs ahead of thanksgiving holiday https://t.co/NajPn142VA pic.twitter.com/8BhdHRbWe0
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
'Living with COVID-19' – Vietnam's biggest city proposes economic restart https://t.co/ZZRlWaaNx5 pic.twitter.com/m3ZWggoAeQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
Philippines approves emergency use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for 12-17 year olds https://t.co/SuolpaJfKB pic.twitter.com/6Y8unwrO5d
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
Australia has secured 4 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in a swap deal with Britain, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as he looks to convince states and territories to stick to a national COVID-19 reopening plan https://t.co/UxgvjQIREh pic.twitter.com/zRBdWIw45P
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
New Zealand sees success in curbing Delta outbreak as new cases plunge https://t.co/6TGV7sBtkP pic.twitter.com/rUwZIXGUCj
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
Russia on Friday reported 18,856 new coronavirus cases and 799 deathshttps://t.co/XyRBi2Zb9J
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 3, 2021
Children are going back to school across Europe with hopes of a return to pre-pandemic normality, but most countries still have some student and staff requirements for masks, social distancing and vaccinations. https://t.co/DdrhA1hvZH
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) September 3, 2021
Hundreds of Greek health care workers, accompanied by ambulances with sirens blaring, marched through central Athens to protest regulations mandating coronavirus vaccines for anyone working in their sector. https://t.co/u4bubTK5KJ
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) September 2, 2021
The state governments in the German south have taken care of that: at a certain hospitalization rate, a "Lockdown for the unvaccinated" will kick in. Already from now on, unvaccinated folk won't be eligible for financial support if they are quarantined for COVID.
— Jürgen "jkr" Kraus (@jkr_on_the_web) September 2, 2021
'All the vaccines produced at @aspenpharma will stay in Africa and will be distributed to Africa,' says Strive Masiyiwa after @JNJNews #COVIDVaccine deal to send vaccines from South Africa to Europe is called off https://t.co/jJpmGHL5fR
— Kerry Cullinan (@kerrycullinan11) September 2, 2021
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Another Hidden Covid Risk: Lingering kidney problems.
In a study of veterans, Covid survivors were 35% more likely than other patients to have long-term kidney damage or declines in kidney function https://t.co/jss7IzkAWy— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 2, 2021
This study shows how policies in congregate settings affect Covid rates in wider communities.
-Stopping visits at nursing homes reduced county rates by 7.3%
-Closing schools reduced county rates by 4.3%
-State-wide mask mandates reduced rates by 2.5%https://t.co/jZmJDx89j3— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) September 2, 2021
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3 Southern states are newly leading the US pandemic and currently have more new cases/100,000 people than any country of the world pic.twitter.com/Ininki9Xrx
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 2, 2021
Oregon COVID-19 vaccinations on rise with help from community groups https://t.co/3SAvpTktIX
— Laura Gunderson (@LGunderson) September 3, 2021
Hawaii is facing an oxygen shortage and a record surge in Covid cases. Medical authorities are asking people to postpone elective surgeries. The state’s 223 ICU beds have dwindled to only 16 available https://t.co/t8vuRXjcQz
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 2, 2021
Meantime, we hit another milestone yesterday, September 1: Number of Texans now hospitalized with COVID-19 has matched our previous peak from January. The difference this time: most of these new hospitalizations preventable through vaccination. Deaths climbing too… pic.twitter.com/OdHbwQSE6i
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) September 2, 2021
ICYMI: Ivermectin is a POISON. It kills parasites — *not* viruses! — and if you’re not careful about dosages, it’ll kill you, too. It chews up the lining of your intestines, damages your attempting-to-detoxify liver, even causes neurological damage & blindness. That’s why the human formulations are prescription-only. Attempting to calibrate the correct dosage for a 180lb human of a paste intended for an 800lb ungulate is *not* recommended!
"Nationwide, poison control centers saw a 5-fold increase for #ivermectin calls in July compared to pre-#pandemic. High doses can lead to an overdose…nausea, vomiting, diarrhea…decreased consciousness, hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death."https://t.co/VWmFphZCPc
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 2, 2021
We DO know what happens if you take it at high doses long term it makes you shit your guts inside out AAAAAAAIUUUFGG pic.twitter.com/OcCS6zWMw3
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) September 2, 2021
More sub-optimal medical news from Texas…
Apparently in Texas now hospitals legally can’t forbid visitors on the covid ward amd it’s going great (from nursing subreddit) pic.twitter.com/6uac5YIYqP
— your friend (@debdrens) September 2, 2021
germy
COVID-19: New ‘Mu variant’ from Colombia could be vaccine resistant – WHO
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/covid-19-new-mu-variant-from-colombia-could-be-vaccine-resistant-who-678428
YY_Sima Qian
On 9/2 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 1 village has been elevated to Medium Risk. 1 community & 3 villages at Ruili are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province did not report any new positive confirmed cases. 23 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 76 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently are 79 active domestic confirmed (including 1 serious) & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Henan Province did not report any new domestic positive case. 8 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 64 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 7 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 58 active domestic confirmed (25 mild & 33 moderate) & 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed cases in the city, 7 from the airport cluster & 2 from the hospital cluster. 2 residential compound was re-designated as Low Risk. 2 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 9/2, China reported 28 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 22 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 70 confirmed cases recovered (23 imported), 20 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case (imported), & 1,848 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 935 active confirmed cases in the country (620 imported), 2 in serious condition (1 imported), 433 active asymptomatic cases (378 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 17,000 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/2, 2,084.65M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.222M doses in the past 24 hrs. By 8/28, 889M individuals have been fully vaccinated, or ~ 71% of the entire population, w/ Beijing leading the way at 95.41% coverage of all adults > 18 y.o.
On 9/3, Hong Kong report 4 new positive cases, all imported (all from the Philippines, all had been fully vaccinated).
lowtechcyclist
You’d think the visitor in that last tweet could have been charged with assaulting the patient, or reckless endangerment, or something along those lines. If I’d been in the room, I’d probably have tackled the visitor.
satby
@lowtechcyclist: forget it. It’s Texas.
germy
The less close contact, the better. PPE or no PPE.
OzarkHillbilly
I guess Covid isn’t afraid at all to mess with Texas.
mrmoshpotato
And what about financially caving in the faces of the entire murderous GOP? What about that traitorous, orange shitstain who told people to inject disinfectant and shove a lightbulb up their asses?
mrmoshpotato
Good news! No vaccines needed on the Sun.
debbie
@lowtechcyclist:
Best thing for the staff would be to say nothing about masks. Let the assholes get sick and die. At this point, we need to rely on natural selection to get us out of this mess.
debbie
A school board member here was censured and forced to make a public apology after tweeting that mask mandates were equal to the Holocaust. How much of a snowflake does someone have to be to think that? And how the hell did he get on a school board? These people are greater threats to children than COVID.
(The board’s town has a sizable Jewish population.)
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY website: 192 new cases on 9/2, 4.4% test positivity.
NYS Dept of Health says 190 new cases for Monroe County on 9/2.
I’m going to be cutting my own hair (badly) for awhile longer, I guess.
mrmoshpotato
Who’s making blood money hand over fist from pushing this insanity? I can’t think of any other reason.
mrmoshpotato
@germy: I hope Kurt Eichenwald is taking a break from the news as a matter of self-care.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: The darkly humorous thing is there’s nothing natural about the selection here.
Idiots are making themselves the low-hanging fruit.
germy
@satby:
I was so confident two weeks after my second pfizer shot. I saw Dr. Fauci on TV and he said “If you’re fully vaccinated, the pandemic is essentially over for you.”
I stopped wearing my mask in stores. I stopped worrying. I even figured enough people would eventually come around and we’d beat this thing.
Now my confidence is evaporating. I’m eligible for a booster in December. I hope they make it sooner.
germy
@mrmoshpotato:
I had to stop reading him a long time ago.
satby
@germy: I had to work in close contact (much shorter than 6 feet) with members of the public for most of the pandemic before vaccines were even available and I’m a fat 66 year old with asthma. Masks, handwashing, and being careful not to touch your face can go a long way toward protecting even unvaxxed people, as most of the rest of the world has been doing*. With a vax, all of the above is even more effective, and now preliminary studies are showing long covid is less of a risk in vaccinated folks who get a breakthrough infection. Vaccinated people really do have less to worry about, so keep masking and the other precautions during high transmission and feel better about your lower risk.
Edit: *Never caught it yet, knock on wood.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Who gains is whatever entity it is that wishes to see this country divided, and they’re doing a fine job of it.
Eta: and of course, the usual assortment of grifters.
p.a.
I hate people (self included) who half-ass projects: HanniCarlsIngraham keep obliquely pushing toxic treatments when they could be going right for the jugular (as it were) by pushing out-and-out fatal substances. Dear tRumpists: don’t half-ass this!
germy
@satby:
Thank you.
MagdaInBlack
@satby: Same here, including ” knock on wood.”
mrmoshpotato
@p.a.: COVID is no match for a cyanide/arsenic one-two punch.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 19,378 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,805,382 cases. It also reports 330 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 17,521 deaths — 0.97% of the cumulative reported total, 1.13% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.97.
There are currently 259,189 active and contagious cases; 975 are in ICU, 463 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 22,399 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,528,672 patients recovered – 84.67% of the cumulative reported total.
34 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 4,838 clusters. 1,476 clusters are currently active; 3,362 clusters are now inactive.
19,364 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 3,603 local cases: 158 in clusters, 1,956 close-contact screenings, and 1,489 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 2,462 local cases: 230 in clusters, 1,371 close-contact screenings, and 861 other screenings. Sabah reports 2,404 cases: 65 in clusters, 1,393 close-contact screenings, and 946 other screenings. Johor reports 2,331 cases: 763 in clusters, 983 close-contact screenings, and 585 other screenings.
Penang reports 1,726 cases: 201 in clusters, 514 close-contact screenings, and 1,011 other screenings. Kedah reports 1,470 cases: nine in clusters, 965 close-contact screenings, and 496 other screenings. Perak reports 1,389 cases: 143 in clusters, 653 close-contact screenings, and 593 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,356 cases: 71 in clusters, 931 close-contact screenings, and 354 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 740 cases: three in clusters, 400 close-contact screenings, and 337 other screenings.
Pahang reports 559 cases: 106 in clusters, 357 close-contact screenings, and 96 other screenings. Terengganu reports 532 cases: 14 in clusters, 437 close-contact screenings, and 81 other screenings.
Melaka reports 398 local cases: 145 in clusters, 155 close-contact screenings, and 98 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 269 local cases: 24 in clusters, 135 close-contact screenings, and 110 other screenings.
Perlis reports 80 cases: four in clusters, 38 close-contact screenings, and 38 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 41 cases: 29 close-contact screenings and 12 other screenings. Labuan reports four cases, all from other screening.
14 new cases today are imported: 10 in Selangor, two in Sarawak, one in Melaka, and one in Negeri Sembilan.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 369,280 doses of vaccine on 2nd September: 283,096 first doses and 209,354 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 35,519,754 doses administered: 20,115,233 first doses and 15,2429,300 second doses. 61.6% of the population have received their first dose, while 47.2% are now fully vaccinated.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
How is Malaysia reacting to the shotput controversy?
sab
@debbie: Family I know: mom won’t give teenager permission to be vaxxed. Teenager goes to school without max mandate, and most kids don’t mask, but teenager does. First week of school teenager is sent home with rest of her class for covid quarantine. Teenager’s baby brother catches covid and is in ICU on a ventilator. Teenager is still at home alone, quarantined but untested, with wracking cough, while parents are busy at hospital with baby brother. Teenager blames herself ( not mom) for making baby brother sick.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
As far as I’m concerned, those Greek antivax healthcare workers can take a knife and a corkscrew and go fuck themselves. The fourth wave has been the worst yet for new cases, and reduced deaths are probably only due to it hitting younger people. The Government’s been telling the antivax healthcare workers that they can come off unpaid suspension once they get their first shot.
I’m sorry, but my reserves of sympathy are exhausted, and my rage is boiling over to fill that void.
sab
@debbie: We really are not careful enough about who we elect to school boards. I think it is one of the most important positions, and people mostly have no idea who is running.
debbie
@sab:
Genuinely sad. Hope the teenager and baby recover.
Ken
You’re a much better person than I am. I would have left the room and waited for the code alarm.
debbie
@sab:
Yeah, it’s not just in Texas anymore. //
MomSense
@mrmoshpotato:
I LOLd. Oh god what is wrong with me? I’m cheering death at this point.
For those wishing for an all natural alternative, there’s some kind of snake venom that is showing promise. And fuck the scientists who could render it non-lethal. Just go for the straight venom like god intended!
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
Bauer’s got a good idea, but I don’t think it’s the deciderers that the Corrupt SCOTUS allowed to be sued — it’s the people who provide help and support to the would-be patients. So, by extension (or analogy?), it’s people like Cucker Tar-Swanson who should get sued. And Greg Abbott and DeathSantis (for signing measures or issuing orders designed to prevent people from getting/transmitting COVID) who should get sued.
I assume Tucker can afford to fight off 100 lawsuits, but Abbott and DeathSantis? Probably not.
ETA: Yeah, I realize Abbott and DeathSantis are probably protected by eminent domain, or stare decisis, or I-before-E-except-after-C, or whatever the correct term is for government officials being protected. Still, persons should try to sue them.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
It sucks that Muhammad Ziyad was disqualified and stripped of a gold medal for showing up three minutes late to the attendance call. But the judges ruled he didn’t have a good enough excuse, and rules is rules. So while there was some online petulance directed at the Ukrainian team that lodged the protest, people here aren’t really that upset.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
The news here was playing it up as a real controversy. I guess they just did their research ok Twitter as they do with domestic stories.
sab
@debbie: Also too, mom is a nursing home worker.
Ken
@Baud: Or, deprived of their Afghanistan toy, the news is hoping to foment a Malaysian invasion of Ukraine.
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: This is all so stupid. We have 3, 3!, vaccines in the States…
And as for “It’s a hoax! The entire world just hates my orange god!” I’ve been done with that garbage.
charon
School is open in FL
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1433522845511045123
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1433134944398848008
LiminalOwl
I’m scheduled for the booster shot this morning!
I’ve also had to get an ADA exemption from seeing clients in person. (The agency for which I work mandated last spring that we see in person any clients who wanted it, insisting that masks and distancing were sufficient protection and that we were absolutely forbidden to discriminate against unvaccinated clients.). I’m over 60, with underlying conditions, and immunosuppressed.
Emmyelle
I’m just going to say that if I find out in 10 years that some annoying health issue I have is the result of the COVID vaccine, I won’t give a fuck. Because I will still be alive and I will, I hope, not be suffering from the long term health impacts of ACTUAL COVID.
I’m so tired of trying to reason with idiots.
Ken
@charon: Scroll down a bit in his tweet thread, and there’s a graph of cases broken out by age range. There’s been a slight decline in every group except the under 12 and 12-19 set, which increased.
Note that this might be affected by Florida’s reporting, which gives lower numbers for the most recent couple of weeks which are later revised upward (and it’s always been upward, since they started this method).
germy
@LiminalOwl:
I thought boosters weren’t approved until the end of Sept. ?
Tony Gerace
@debbie: It’s a disgrace. People like this idiot got on the school board because a lot of people like him came out to vote for him. The sad truth is that these psychopaths accurately represent their constiuents.
LiminalOwl
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Yeah.
At the moment, my rage is directed at the Fraternal Order of Police head (can’t find his name or location now) supporting the large percentage of unvaccinated cops who are protesting vaccine mandates. He said that police are used to giving orders, not taking them, and therefore should not be forced to vax themselves.
Any cop who can’t take orders… well, that’s the more general problem, isn’t it?
SFAW
@Ken:
Maybe I’m just being provincial, but I would take any numbers provided by Florida with a ton of salt. I seem to remember they fucked with the case numbers during much of 2020, so I’m assuming they’re still under-reporting.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
It’s a tenet of Newswriting 101: always play up the controversy, no matter how tiny it really is.
sab
@LiminalOwl: A friend of my husband’s is a retired cop who worked his way up from bottom to near the top. He says it’s a very big problem. Partly generational- as local government got more strapped for cash they gave up control over a lot of decisions to the police union in lieu of pay raises. Partly the younger ones coming out of the military don’t take orders.
Peale
@germy: I don’t think Mu will turn out to be anything. If it were some kind of superbug that’s antibody resistant, and it’s been around since at least January, we’d see it in the case numbers by now. Looking at Colombia, where it’s 30+% of all cases, it’s not behaving like an out of control spreader. Once the country started vaccine, case numbers went down. If it were antibody resistant that wouldn’t happen.
my 2 cents.
Joe Falco
In a sign that maybe not all GOP governors want to follow the DeSantis model of leadership, Georgia governor Kemp ordered state offices closed today to encourage state employees to get vaccinated if they haven’t already.
https://www.wrbl.com/news/georgia-news/state-offices-to-close-september-3-with-aims-of-encouraging-georgians-to-get-vaccinated/
WaterGirl
@LiminalOwl:
Double good for you!
WaterGirl
@germy: Boosters have already approved for people who are immunocompromised.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — There were 6,711 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday with ten new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive. Test positivity rate is 12.1%. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 60, up five from yesterday while hospitalisations are up 29 to 624.
There were just over 13,000 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Thursday) with about 25% of them first-doses. This brings the total in the adult (18+) population to 91.2% first-dose and 83.3% fully vaccinated. The first-dose vaccination rate for 16 and 17-year-olds is now 52.0%, an impressive achievement over the past three weeks of open access to vaccination to that part of the population. The bad news is that vaccination of the 18-40 age range has stalled out pretty much with very few new first-doses being reported.
evodevo
@debbie:
(The board’s town has a sizable Jewish population.)
That is probably the ONLY reason he was forced to apologize…if it had been my small KY town, no one would have objected except us outnumbered libruls…
Miss Bianca
@sab: You’d think the younger ones coming out of the military would be *used to* taking orders. Oh, well – suddenly no one’s the boss of them in civilian life?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@sab: sounds like an off-broadway version of the conways
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Ken: they should team up to invade russia over the downed jet airliner
WereBear
@satby: Thanks, your comments about dealing with trying conditions was very cheering.
In my case, my husband’s even greater health conditions are always a worry that I’ll bring it home to him.
Even though we are both vaccinated.
The Moar You Know
@debbie: A school board member here in my lovely suburb of San Diego, the one with some of the dumbest voters ever (and we’re firmly blue) not only started an anti-masking pressure group for “student’s rights” but is funneling funding from the GOP to it. He’s a psychopath…and yet I would not bet a dime on his chances of being defeated next cycle.
topclimber
@germy: No reflection on you, and thanks for posting, but this looks like an evidence-free article.
Sloane Ranger
Thursday in the UK we had 38,154 new cases. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 1%. New cases by nation,
England – 28,686 (up 3963)
Northern Ireland – 793 (down 679)
Scotland – 6400 (up 230 but see Robert Sneddon’s update above)
Wales – 2275 (down 1053).
Deaths – There were 178 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 0.9% in the rolling 7-day average. 144 deaths were in England, 12 in Northern Ireland, 17 in Scotland and 5 in Wales.
Testing – 1,027,203 tests took place on Wednesday 1 September. This is an increase of 10.5% and is probably attributable to many schools in England re-starting after the summer break. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 718,865.
Hospitalisations – On Wednesday, 1 September, there were 7596 people in hospital and 1030 on ventilators. As of 29 August, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 5%.
Vaccinations – As of Wednesday, 1 September, 48,131,996 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 43,023,372 had had both. This means that, as of this date, 88.6% of all people in the UK aged 16+ had had 1 shot and 79.2% were fully vaccinated. The debate about booster shots continues here and it is likely that England will authorise for the most vulnerable but not for otherwise healthy adults (definitions of these terms awaited).
The Moar You Know
@Miss Bianca: I work with about 60% former military. More than half of them are awesome. They all, however, have the skill to be able to say “sir yes sir” and then do whatever the fuck they want anyway if that’s needful, which seems to be the main skill people leave the military with. It’s a valuable skill to that person, but not necessarily to the chain of command, or in civilian life, management.
However, a distinct and small minority of these guys are straight-up fucking insubordinate. They’ll never do it to your face, they know better than that, but they’ll just keep fucking off and up until they finally cross a line with a customer and need to be fired. I know these tend to correlate 1 to 1 with the out-and-out Trumpers, and I suspect that most of them, after washing out in the contractor community, end up being cops.
LiminalOwl
@germy: The CDC just approved (ir at least recommended) them for people with underlying conditions, and I got a message from my primary care yesterday saying get one ASAP.
LiminalOwl
@WaterGirl: thanks! Right now I’m waiting for bureaucracy to straigten things out—apparently my second shot was not entered into the computer records back in March. Will keep you posted if I succeed
LiminalOwl
@The Moar You Know: Very interesting. (…but stupid? Yes!) Thank you.
I wonder how many of them, if too incompetent to become cops, end up in TSA? Way back when the first wave of vets was returning from Bush 2’s Afghanistan Adventure, the TSA filled up with them from what I was hearing
Fair Economist
When people write about “so and so variant” may be resistant to vaccination they are ALWAYS missing most of immunity. Those studies are always just measuring neutralizing antibody affinity. It’s relatively easy for viruses to develop resistance to neutralizing antibodies. BUT immunity is not a one-trick pony. There are many other mechanisms, including complement lysis and 2 different kinds of T-cell immunity, all of which are far more resistant to viral escape than neutralizing antibodies. Vaccines will still provide lots of protection against Mu, or any other variant that’s going to come alone any time in our lifetimes.
J R in WV
@sab:
See, as a vet, that’s crazy. In the military, you take orders ALL THe TIME from your unit’s senior staff. Sometimes those are really stupid or crazy orders, also, too. Destructive orders from an incompetent boob from the piney woods. Been there, followed the orders.
Boob tried to write me up after he caused expensive damage, had ordered me to shut up when I tried to warn him. Fortunately everyone on deck heard him scream “Shut up!!” at me when I yelled “Look behind you!”. Then the crane Boob was lowering hit the ventilator motor housing behind him.
lowtechcyclist
@debbie:
Counties, as a governmental unit, really kinda suck IMHO. They’re too big for most residents to actually know the people who are running for county-level positions, and too small to get decent news coverage, especially in an era where local newspapers have been dying left and right for years. And depending on the county, the races for school board, county council, sheriff, etc. may be officially nonpartisan, in which case you don’t even have that clue to work with.
So can be really hard even for fairly engaged people to figure out which of these clowns is any good.
IdahoGoatGirl
I wonder how many people have gone to the feed store and found that the shelves of ivermectin paste are empty but look Ivomec Plus! Plus has to be better, right? Ivomec Plus and the other generic brands have an extra drug included in order to kill liver flukes, which are not killed with regular ivermectin. They might bypass it cause it is injectable, but a quick google search will show that lots of us livestock types use the injectable, orally. I never use the Plus version on any of my animals unless I am pretty certain there are liver flukes that need killing. Oh.. then there is Zimecterin Gold which is ivermectin with an added drug to kill tapeworms. There are also the pour-on versions. This is why all this stuff is prescription for people and most likely will now have to be prescription for livestock after all this mess.