Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Tuesday / Wednesday, Sept. 21-22

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If you’re so smart, how come you aren’t rich, like us?…

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German politicians expressed shock on Tuesday over the killing of a 20-year old petrol station worker after an argument about a face mask and said that coronavirus deniers who are willing to use violence will not be tolerated.

The killing on Saturday evening in the western town of Idar-Oberstein has hit the national headlines as it is one of the only such cases linked to COVID-19 restrictions…

The suspect later gave himself up at a police station, saying the coronavirus measures were causing him stress, said Furhmann. He is being detained.

The killing took place a week before a federal election in which the far-right AfD has tried to woo voters with an anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine campaign. The party, on around 11% in polls, harbours many coronavirus deniers.

On Tuesday, politicians responded to messages circulating on social media from far-right groups and so-called ‘Querdenker’ (lateral thinkers) who deny the coronavirus which showed sympathy towards the killer…

Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht said it was disgusting how the killing had been misused to fuel hatred.

“The state must counter the radicalisation of coronavirus deniers who are willing to use violence with all possible means,” she said.


(apart from President Bolsonaro, of course)

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sigh…

I hope Yglesias is wrong, but I wouldn’t bet on it:

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Blame it on those wily ChiComs!

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY:

    Monroe County web site: 200 new cases, 4.4% test positivity.

    Things aren’t looking any better yet.

  2. 2.

    sab

    I have a niece who is a pediatric ICU nurse. She also has two kids in private school. She says the worst mask and vaxxine denying people she knows are the richest parents in her kids’ private school. They really don’t believe that nad thimgs can happen to them.

  4. 4.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    SYDNEY — Angry mobs swarmed Australia’s second-most-populous city, Melbourne, for a second straight day on Tuesday, after officials halted all nonessential building work in the city following a violent demonstration against vaccine mandates for the construction industry a day earlier.

    I was watching Australian news last night and they had on a Torie against the mandate and the anchor blew her up demonstrating construction workers working in close quarters without wearing masks and data showing the outbreak of Delta within the occupation and how it was being then re-transmitted to the overall community and all the Torie could muster was that the media was being mean to mask-deniers.

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    modern conservatism = pandering to the worst elements to recruit shock troops to pass tax cuts

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    on that “German politicians expressed shock on Tuesday over the killing of a 20-year old petrol station worker” story, yesterday’s Guardian story had this little factoid:

    The suspect had entered the Aral petrol station at around 7.45pm on Saturday and picked up a six-pack of beer. CCTV footage shows a mask tucked into the back of the man’s trousers.

    He just couldn’t take anymore I guess.

  7. 7.

    raven

    Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who was dropped after her conspiracy theories even embarrassed Rudy Giuliani, has come up with what could be her most reckless nonsense to date. Speaking to the pro-Trump pastor Andrew Wommack, Powell came right out and accused Democrats of murdering someone in some ill-conceived attempt to prevent Georgia from carrying out an audit of Joe Biden’s victory in the state. “I think what we’re dealing with here is pervasive and very, very dark,” Powell said. “They are willing to kill people à la Kelly Loeffler’s aide in Georgia, who was suddenly blown up in his car on the way to a rally for her. He happened to be dating Gov. Kemp’s daughter. Gov. Kemp was considering, I think, at that point, a signature audit.” Powell’s claim is, as has come to be expected, a fabrication. Harrison Deal, a campaign staffer for Loeffler, died in a three-vehicle accident last December. An Atlanta man was later charged with second-degree homicide by vehicle.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Shazzbot. Minor coding fix.

    From Tuesday,

    Today, Gov. Mark Gordon activated the Wyoming National Guard to provide hospital assistance in response to the surge in hospitalized patients across the state.

    There are approximately 200 people with COVID-19 in Wyoming hospitals today, which is near the peak number the state has seen during the pandemic. Source

    With hospitals across Montana struggling to accomodate a renewed surge in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, Gov. Greg Gianforte said Tuesday he is assigning National Guard members to aid beleaguered staff at facilities in Billings, Helena, Butte, Missoula and Bozeman.

    Seventy guard members, on top of 17 who have already been assigned, will be in place as soon as this weekend in response to requests for assistance, the governor’s office said. They will be able to help hospital staff with non-medical work in intensive care units, data entry, COVID-19 testing and environmental services, or cleaning.
    [snip]
    As of Tuesday, Montana had 9,976 active COVID-19 cases, according to the state’s official data, with 377 patients currently hospitalized. Multiple Montana hospitals have said in recent weeks that the renewed surge is forcing them to consider rationing medical services and supplies.… Source

  9. 9.

    topclimber

    The good news/bad news in the North Carolina story is that barely 1% of the company’s health care workers are vaccine holdouts, but that with our health care system under such strain, every lost body counts.

  12. 12.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 9/21 China reported 16 new domestic confirmed cases & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Fujian Province reporter 13 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 418 active domestic confirmed cases & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases.

    • Putian reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 197 active domestic confirmed cases (85 mild, 110 moderate & 2 critical); 193 at the epicenter Xianyou County, 3 at Xiuyu District & 1 at Licheng District) & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases (all at Xianyou County) in the city. 4,687 F1 & 8,816 F2 close contacts have been traced & placed under quarantine. Fengting Township at Xianyou County is currently at High Risk. 4 zones, 1 residential building, 1 school, 1 community & 7 villages aren currently at Medium Risk, all at Xianyou County.
    • Quanzhou did not report any domestic positive cases. As of 12 PM on 9/21, 960 F1 & 4,740 F2 close contacts have been traced placed under quarantine. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed cases (1 serious) in the city. 1 zone & 1 village have been elevated to Medium Risk. 4 villages & 1 zone are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Xiamen reported 11 new domestic confirmed cases (6 are traced close contacts & 5 from mass screening). There currently are 194 active domestic confirmed cases in the city (4 serious, 173 in the epicenter Tong’an District, 9 at Si’ming District, 8 at Haicang & 4 at Huli District). 1 village & 1 community have been elevated to High Risk. 3 communities & 1 village are currently at High Risk. 1 residential compound has been elevated too Medium Risk. 3 villages, 1 zone & 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Zhangzhou did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 community is currently at Medium Risk

    Harbin in Heilongjiang Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases, all at Bayan County. The 1st case was found during voluntary testing at a hospital & the other 2 are traced close contacts. The latter 2 cases are persons who had returned from the Philippines, but they hand entered China on 8/3, passed through 14 days of centralized quarantine at Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, traveled back to Harbin on 8/18 & entered 14 days of home quarantine, which ended on 9/1. It is virtually impossible for these 2 cases to be the index cases who brought in infection from the Philippines. The 1st case had traveled form Ji’an in Jiangxi Province to Harbin on 9/7 (via Nanchang in Jiangxi Province), who has no reported COVID-19 outbreak. The 3 cases had traveled extensively across all of Harbin over the past 14 days. On 9/22, 5 additional confirmed cases have been identified, 4 at Bayan County & 1 at Nangang District. All schools in the city have shifted to remote instruction, all persons leaving Harbin need to have negative RT-PCR test report within 48 hrs. All public & entertainment venues have been shut. The city has commenced mass screening of all residents. 2 residential compounds have been elevated to Medium Risk.

    Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.

    At Hunan Province 2 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Zhangjiajie

    At Henan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed cases.

    • At Zhengzhou the last domestic confirmed case recovered.
    • At Shangqiu there currently are 8 active domestic confirmed cases.

    At Hubei Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both mild) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Jingmen.

    At Shanghai Municipality there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 9/21, China reported 25 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 9 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:

    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 13 confirmed cases, 12 Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar & 1 from Laos; 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Myanmar & Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Shanghai Municipality – 6 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the DRC (via Paris CdG & the US, a Chinese crew member off a cargo ship w/ last port of call in Malaysia, a Sri Lankan national coming from Sri Lanka, a Spanish national coming from Spain, & a US national coming from Germany; 2 suspect cases, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Iran; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Thailand, the UK & the US
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Peru, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Egypt
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from Japan
    • Putian in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national coming from Indonesia; the case had arrived at Fuzhou on 9/2, passed the 14 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative multiple times, upon release from quarantine on 9/18 the case was transferred to Putian & entered home quarantine, testing positive on 9/21
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from the UK
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese nationals returning from France

    Overall in China, 37 confirmed cases recovered (34 imported), 14 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases (both imported), & 797 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 984 active confirmed cases in the country (532 imported), 14 in serious condition (5 imported), 342 active asymptomatic cases (333 imported), 4 suspect case (all imported). 16,770 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 9/21, 2,182.604M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.618M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 9/22, Hong Kong did not issue any reports, due to Mid-Autumn Festival.

  15. 15.

    debbie

    I’m looking forward to the freakout when insurers actually stop covering the unvaccinated COVID costs. I think money is the only way to get to these fools.

  16. 16.

    Wvng

    I had to be at my bank in deep red WV yesterday for CD business. The door into the bank had a big sign saying masks required, also ” if you won’t wear a mask use the drive in window.” It initially seemed that customers were doing it, until it became obvious that most were not. Just not doing it. Coming into a place of business where every employee was masked, and just not masking, some for long periods as they met with staff. Simply breathtaking entitled assholery. The bank manager is an old friend; we asked why making wasn’t being enforced and he said out of concern for how people might react. So we had to sit there for 30 minutes waiting for our turn to do time sensitive in a county on fire with covid cases, and the mostly vaccinated staff deal with this every day. A couple are out, sick, now, with covid.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    Speaking of Brazil, 99-year-old aunt there was visited at home (her city funds that program) to receive a booster shot of Sinovac. From what little I’ve heard anecdotally she had virtually no reaction to the first shot earlier this year but has experienced debiliating reaction to the booster.

  19. 19.

    NorthLeft12

    That last tweet on the page……imagine living in a country where the government denies the existence of the pandemic.
    Hmmmmmm, makes you think, eh?

  25. 25.

    Betty

    @raven: And Pennsylvania’s goofball Republicans think it isn’t a problem if they release voters’ private information to her. Incredible.

  26. 26.

    Cermet

    What the Tenn state is recommending is so over the top and literally insanity I realize that only republicans could ever say such an outrageous and beyond immoral idea. Or another typical day for that death cult.

  27. 27.

    Jay

    @Wvng:

    I enforce masking in my area of the store. I’ll do it in other areas of the store if called on, ( and yes, I get called on, alot).

    While it is a lot to ask of a retail employee, it’s my, my coworkers and other customers health and safety.

    And when push comes to shove, it’s a cathartic release of my trapped inner rage at the morons.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 15,759 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,127,934 cases. It also reports 334 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 24,078 deaths – 1.12% of the cumulative reported total, 1.24% of resolved cases.

    Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.95.

    882 confirmed active and contagious cases are in ICU, 393 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 19,702 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,917,088 patients recovered – 89.5% of the cumulative reported total.

    26 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,354 clusters. 1,306 clusters are currently active; 4,048 clusters are now inactive.

    14,985 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 2,411 local cases: 87 in clusters, 1,165 close-contact screenings, and 1,159 other screenings.

    Johor reports 1,880 cases: 119 in clusters, 947 close-contact screenings, and 814 other screenings. Sarawak reports 1,711 local cases: 42 in clusters, 922 close-contact screenings, and 747 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,573 cases: 57 in clusters, 1,056 close-contact screenings, and 460 other screenings.

    Perak reports 1,490 cases: 297 in clusters, 607 close-contact screenings, and 586 other screenings. Penang reports 1,224 cases: 36 in clusters, 358 close-contact screenings, and 830 other screenings. Sabah reports 1,199 cases: 720 close-contact screenings and 479 other screenings. Kedah reports 1,007 cases: 17 in clusters, 590 close-contact screenings, and 400 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 852 cases: nine in clusters, 691 close-contact screenings, and 152 other screenings.

    Pahang reports 688 cases: 190 in clusters, 399 close-contact screenings, and 99 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 337 local cases: 15 in clusters, 139 close-contact screenings, and 183 other screenings. Melaka reports 313 cases: 45 in clusters, 101 close-contact screenings, and 167 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 170 cases: 85 close-contact screenings and 85 other screenings.

    Perlis reports 97 cases: 51 close-contact screenings and 46 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 30 cases: 19 close-contact screenings and 11 other screenings. Labuan reports three cases: one close-contact screening and two other screenings.

    Five new cases today are imported: three in Selangor, one in Sarawak, and one in Kuala Lumpur.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 261,255 doses of vaccine on 20th September: 123,414 first doses and 137,841 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 40,925,929 doses administered: 22,223,652 first doses and 18,786,636 second doses. 68.0% of the population have received their first dose, while 57.5% are now fully vaccinated.

  30. 30.

    Sloane Ranger

    Tuesday in the UK we had 31,564 new cases. This is a decrease of 5.7% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 24,973 (down 1932)

    Northern Ireland – 1145 (up 125)

    Scotland – 2870 (down 47)

    Wales – 2576 (down 2682).

    Deaths – There were 203 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 4.8% in the rolling 7-day average. 174 deaths were in England, 4 in Northern Ireland, 18 in Scotland and 7 in Wales.

    Testing – 984,065 tests took place on Monday, 20 September. This is a decrease in the 7-day average of 10.8%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 875,340.

    Hospitalisations – As of Monday, 20 September, there were 7731 people in hospital and 982 people on ventilators. As of 16 September, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 11.6%.

    Vaccinations – As of Monday, 20 September, 48,617,703 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 44,512,572 had received both. This means that 89.4% of UK residents aged 16+ had had 1 shot by that date and 81.9% were fully vaccinated.

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    @debbie:

    Why hasn’t she been disbarred yet? 

    Disbarred and given a mandatory psych evaluation.

    When even Ghouliani thinks you’re nuts…

  34. 34.

    RSA

    The Tennessee state government now recommends vaccinated residents be denied access to monoclonal antibody treatment to preserve supplies for those who are unwilling to get vaccinated and remain most vulnerable by their own choice.

    To me this seems a bad decision in a few ways. It’s a policy based on categories rather than individuals, and this specific categorization many anti-vaxxers have resisted all along. (“My vaccination status doesn’t matter–just give me the medical treatment I demand.”) Does it work in the other direction as well, with resources like ICU beds being denied to unvaccinated people so that they are reserved for accident victims, say? Not that I’ve read. Last, it’s an obvious moral hazard, giving some people an advantage for doing the wrong thing.

  35. 35.

    sab

    My spouse, who reads the BJ blog but not the comments (!!??!!??!) is absolutely raving about the Family Guy clip. I  personally find Stewie to be abhorrent, and I only like Brian because he is a dog. But spouse is raving.

  36. 36.

    sab

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: My brother is a RWNJ in Marin. He actually held public office until he didn’t run again. So even Marin has RWNJs. But he never went anti-science. He has solar panels on his roof. But he misses his years in Texas. He is a proud Republican (he says people who call him RINOs only joined the party with Reagan and are actually Dixiecrats.)

    People are complicated, but their politics are not.

  37. 37.

    Ken

    @sab: The clip is OK, although it’s a little alarming hearing the explanation from Stewie, since he would be more likely to genetically engineer a virus and use it to take over the world.

  38. 38.

    PST

    @sab: I’m no Family Guy fan, and I haven’t watched one minute of it in years, but I enjoyed and admired the clip. Obviously it isn’t going to change any hard-core anti-vaxxer minds, but if it is the explanation that prods a few on-the-fence procrastinators then I say well done.

  39. 39.

    Joe Falco

    @sab:

    (he says people who call him RINOs only joined the party with Reagan and are actually Dixiecrats.)

    I’d call it a fair assessment. There are plenty of Georgia elected officials that are Republican-come-lately and were previously Democrats back when being a Democrat was the most politically advantageous position to be.

  40. 40.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @sab:  The whole idea that Cal, or even the SF Bay Area is this monolith of liberals is pretty much nonsense. What is different is a lot of California conservatives are pragmatists and not blinded by the Right,

    But more to my original point, the NYT sure as hell isn’t going to interview your brother in Marin why he got vaccinated when they have an unemployed plumber in Ohio who sees space lizards on TV.

  41. 41.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 3,598 new cases reported today. The technical issues with some COVID-19 case reporting over the weekend seems to have been dealt with. The test positivity rate is 7.8%. There were 31 new deaths reported overnight (this number may have been affected by the previous problems in data reporting). ICU bed occupancy numbers are 82, down 12 from yesterday while hospitalisations are 1,107, down 31.

    There were just over 4,700 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Tuesday) with about 50% of these being first vaccinations. 91.2% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 83.8% are fully vaccinated. 69.8% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.2% from yesterday. It’s likely that most 16-17 year olds will be getting vaccinated at the weekends since they are generally at school Mon-Fri, ditto for the newly-accessioned 12-15 year old age group.

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