Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Second rate reporter says what?

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Consistently wrong since 2002

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The lights are all blinking red.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

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

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Not much of an outbreak, by our debased standards:

… A total of 17 new local cases were reported for Oct. 19, up from nine a day earlier, data from the National Health Commission (NHC) showed on Wednesday.

The new cases were reported in eight cities and administrative divisions, more than four for Oct. 18, the bulk of which were in northern and northwestern China. Three separate cases were also reported in recent days in the south and southwest of China.

Among the cases was one in the capital city Beijing, which is busy gearing up for its hosting of the 2022 Winter Games in February, where officials vowed stringent efforts against the virus…

The city of Jiayuguan in northwestern Gansu province even launched its second round of city-wide testing after an initial round yielded no positive results, following reports that some of those with cases recently visited the city.

Officials have not disclosed how those with cases reported on Monday and Tuesday contracted the virus, but tentative signs indicated there might be multiple sources of the virus across China, which could complicate the country’s efforts to seek zero infections…

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY:

    Monroe County web site says 136 new cases yesterday.
    In very small print on a different web page it says the 68.1% fully vaccinated are eligible Monroe County residents ages 12 and up.

    NYSDOH says 122 new cases yesterday.
    I’m not going to assume that we’ve turned the corner on Delta; we’ve had drops like this before and then had the new cases spike back up around 250+ again.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    This is a story about how 98.5% of students in San Diego attended school today

    People who oppose liberal policies can never be portrayed as outliers, much less cranks.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    @Baud: Oliver Willis made that point on Twitter the other day using the lack of coverage of anti-Iraq War protests as an example. He noted that most people supported the war, but opposition to it was exponentially higher than opposition to vaccine mandates. And yet the cranks get wall-to-wall coverage.

  8. 8.

    MagdaInBlack

    Here in Chicago we have the head of the police union telling police to defy the mandate. I haven’t checked this mornings news on that feud.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 5,516 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,407,382 cases. It also reports 69 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,062 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.21% of resolved cases.

    Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.88.

    609 confirmed cases are in ICU, 280 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 9,401 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,297,289 patients recovered – 95.4% of the cumulative reported total.

    Four new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,699 clusters. 614 clusters are currently active; 5,085 clusters are now inactive.

    5,502 new cases today are local infections. 14 new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 134,684 doses of vaccine on 19th October: 14,744 first doses, 118,575 second doses, and 1,365 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 48,181,111 doses administered: 25,256,025 first doses, 23,052,952 second doses, and 32,121 booster doses. 77.3% of the population have received their first dose, while 70.6% are now fully vaccinated.

  13. 13.

    Ken

    Conservatives have hailed Delta’s vaccination policy – except it is basically Biden’s plus a $200-per-month penalty.

    “It’s that element of punishment that we find attractive.”

  14. 14.

    debbie

    NPR just ran a piece where they asked a bunch of schoolchildren (maybe first or second grade) what they thought about masks. None liked them (foggy glasses, dad doesn’t like them, can’t see faces, etc.), but not one of them was refusing to wear them. Imagine! //

  15. 15.

    lowtechcyclist

    A panel said Jair Bolsonaro should be charged with crimes against humanity over Brazil’s pandemic response.

    And if Bolsonaro, why not Trump?

  17. 17.

    lowtechcyclist

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Here in Chicago we have the head of the police union telling police to defy the mandate. I haven’t checked this mornings news on that feud.

    The police unions’ behavior are the tell that our problems with the police go way beyond ‘a few bad apples.’

  19. 19.

    lowtechcyclist

    NOW – Seattle Fire and Police, discharged for noncompliance with the vaccine mandate, turn in their boots at the city hall.

    Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

  21. 21.

    MomSense

    @debbie:

    I keep thinking back to the days when parents forced their kids to wear headgear.  That was 1000% worse than a cloth or paper mask.

  22. 22.

    New Deal democrat

    The Columbus Day weekend anomalies won’t be completely out of the weekly averages until tomorrow, but today for the first time the US as a whole had fewer than 50% of the cases at Delta’s peak – but still over 80,000, a horrific number. Of all places, only VT is still on the increase, joined by TX and ID. Many other States are flat.

    Worth noting that one year ago, the winter wave had already begun. If present trends continue, we will be lower YoY in two weeks.

    It’s worth paying particular attention to tiny Rhoda Island. It has 70% fully vaccinated, another 7% partially vaccinated, and probably about 37.5% already infected (assuming 2.2x confirmed cases). That probably amounts to over 75% of the population largely immune, and another 10% with some resistance. There’s a very good chance, especially after age 5-12 vaccinations start, that it arrives at what endemic COVID looks like first.

  26. 26.

    Mousebumples

    NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) tweeted at 7:54 PM on Tue, Oct 19, 2021:

    “First of all, you don’t get the vaccine for yourself. You get it for other people.”

    Chuck weighs in on Kyrie Irving’s situation with the Brooklyn Nets. #NBAonTNT https://t.co/bLrPbuRQkp

    (https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/1450626417071308800?t=ykJwh0tuRtI9fSRu35r_-Q&s=03)

    I’m pretty sure all of the NBA on TNT crew is vaccinated, given that they’re in close proximity to each other and unmasked, but it was nice to hear them speak positively about why everyone should get the vaccine

    Eta – Go Bucks!

  29. 29.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: It’s where they exiled Valerie Harper after the Hundred Days in which she temporarily reconquered the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

  32. 32.

    Matt McIrvin

    @New Deal democrat: Cases are flat or rising in many parts of Massachusetts, though statewide numbers still don’t show a rise. Looks to me like the big wave in VT and NH has been spilling southward. There was a spike up in weekly averages yesterday that I think was just another delayed reporting effect of a long weekend, but the trends aren’t that comforting.

  33. 33.

    Geminid

    I wonder how anti-vaccers are treated in Russia. I’m not implying that we should emulate Putin. But I’m curious.

  37. 37.

    Chief Oshkosh

    NYPD cops being aggressively anti-mask. I guess there’s just a certain lawless element that needs to be put down like dogs, amirite? /s…?

  39. 39.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Chief Oshkosh: If you think about it, police claim the right to shoot anyone they want in public places for any reason–why not claim the right to do the same thing with viruses?

  41. 41.

    New Deal democrat

    @Matt McIrvin:

    “the trends aren’t that comforting.”

    Agreed. 80,000 cases and 1700 deaths a day, and not declining very much in the last couple of weeks, is not good. OTOH, at least it’s not rising.

  44. 44.

    Scout211

    On Monday, California bragged that we were the only US state in the moderate tier (yellow), along with Puerto Rico.  By Tuesday, we were back with a few other states in the substantial tier (orange).

    California has done extremely well lately, but mainly because the areas of high population have established strong mask and vaccine mandates.  It seems sometimes that the fact that strong mask mandates and vaccine mandates and passports reduce the spread is lost on the freedom loving crowd.

    One fast food restaurant in San Francisco,  IN-N-Out Burger, refused to comply with the local rule that vaccine cards were required for indoor dining.  The health department warned them that they were not in compliance and on Thursday, shut them down.

    The Fisherman’s Wharf location has since reopened but indoor dining is unavailable, a spokesperson for In-N-Out told SFGATE. Though the restaurant had posted signage informing customers of local guidelines — which requires people to show proof of vaccination before dining indoors since August, per the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Safer Return Together health order — In-N-Out’s Chief Legal and Business Officer Arnie Wensinger said the restaurant should not have to enforce those policies.

    “After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every Customer, then act as enforcement personnel by barring entry for any Customers without the proper documentation,” read a statement from Wensinger.

    “As a Company, In-N-Out Burger strongly believes in the highest form of customer service and to us that means serving all Customers who visit us and making all Customers feel welcome. We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” he continued.

    Big talk for a fast food chain in a city with one of the lowest rates of COVID in the nation for the very reason you are taking this ridiculous stand, In-N-Out Burger.  But the drive-through is still doing well, I am sure.

  46. 46.

    Kay

    Shoe memorials :

    Viewers are forced to consider the events that forced the shoes and their wearer apart, transforming an otherwise ordinary object into a signifier of trauma.

    Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios (1992-1997) places empty shoes in indoor spaces in memory of disappeared individuals in Colombia.

    The sheer size of the space that is covered by cloth shoes at the Najing memorial (pictured below) helps to give visitors a sense of the scale of the trauma that took place during the Japanese invasion of Jiangsu Province.

    The exaggerated drama these people enagage in is just insufferable. Me, me, me. All day, every day.

  48. 48.

    Soprano2

    I heard a story on NPR this morning about school boards and a school board election. One of the anti-mask candidates said she was running because the school board didn’t listen to them. No, lady, they listened but you lost! Their definition of “listening” is “we get our way”. *rolleyes* They had on a Republican pollster who said Republican women in the suburbs were upset by all the division and yelling, which doesn’t seem to bode well for the anti-mask assholes.

  49. 49.

    matt

    Correcting John King a little bit: he means, “I have MS and I’m immunocompromised because I’m taking immunosuppressant drugs.” Here’s hoping for better targeted treatments.

  50. 50.

    Sloane Ranger

    Tuesday in the UK we had 43,738 new cases. The rolling 7-day average has risen by 16.1%. Some experts are claiming we might be seeing the number of new cases plateauing, but say we will need a few more days data before they can say for sure. New cases by nation,

    England – 36,712 (down 2761)

    Northern Ireland – 1367 (up 276)

    Scotland – 2459 (up 265)

    Wales – 3200 (down 3198 (but Monday’s figures would have been artificially inflated by Wales not reporting on Saturday’s and Sunday office closures)).

    Deaths – There were 223 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is up by 14.6%. This is a big increase and can be explained, at least in part, by catching up after the weekend office closures. 189 deaths were in England, 8 in Northern Ireland, 24 in Scotland and 2 in Wales.

    Testing – 911,550 tests took place on Monday, 18 October. The rolling 7-day average was up by 0.1%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 866,613.

    Hospitalisations – There were 7749 people in hospital and 823 on ventilators on Monday, 18 October. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 10% as of 15 October.

    Vaccinations – As of Monday, 18 October, 49,462,425 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 45,400,990 had had 2. In percentage terms, this means that 86% of all UK residents aged 12+ had had 1 shot by that date and 78.9% had had 2.

    General – Kwasi Kwarteng, the Cabinet member responsible for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, has said that there are no plans to re-introduce anti-COVID precautions at this time, despite the plea from the NHS. He did, however, urge everyone to get the booster shot. Apparently the Tory strategy of waiting for until the horse has bolted before closing the stable door is still in place. The NHS is under pressure during the winter at the best of times due to flu, pneumonia etc. What will happen with fewer staff and those that remain exhausted after the last 18 months is anyone’s guess – but I doubt it will be pleasant.

    I suspect that, once crisis point is reached, Boris et al will bestir themselves and will be forced to have a lockdown. I said at the time, we should have kept mandatory mask wearing indoors and on public transport at the very least, but that would have spoilt the feelgood feeling that Boris wanted.

  51. 51.

    stinger

    Got my Pfizer booster yesterday — I’m all boosted up!  Mildly sore arm this morning, just as was the case with the first two shots.  Henry sticker, s’il vous plait.  ?

  52. 52.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 10/19 China reported 17 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 8 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.

    • Ejina Banner in Alxa League reported 5 new domestic confirmed cases, all staff at a restaurant frequented by the tour group that tested positive at Xi’an in Shaanxi. 1 township has been elevated to Medium Risk.
    • Erenhot in Xilingol League reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases, 2 found from mass screening of residential compounds under lock down & 1 a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 10/13. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases there. 2 communities are at Medium Risk.

    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic). There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed cases in the city, all members of the tour group that had recently traveled through Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.

    Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.

    • Wuzhong reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, tourist who had been traveling through Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.
    • Yinchuan did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, a person who had traveled w/ the tour group w/ the positive cases at Xi’an through Inner Mongolia & Gansu.

    Lanzhou in Gansu Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (1 mild & 3 moderate) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 5 are members of a tour group that had traveled through Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia & parts of Gansu, & had eaten at the restaurant in Ejina Banner w/ the cluster (at the same time as the group that tested positive at Xi’an in Shaanxi), the other case is a traced close contact. 2 residential compounds are at Medium Risk.

    Zunyi in Guizhou Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (moderate), a person who had returned from travel across Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.

    Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a person who had slept in adjacent bunk as the confirmed case reported by Yinchuan in Ningxia.

    Changsha in Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, a person who had recently returned from travel across Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.

    Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Ruili, found via screening of persons under centralized quarantine) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (at Mangshi, both found via screening of persons under lockdown or quarantine. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 11 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.

    At Fujian Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 29 active domestic confirmed cases remaining (2 at Putian & 27 at Xiamen) in the province.

    At Heilongjiang Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (all at Harbin) & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases (both at Suihua) remaining.

    At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.

    At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.

    Imported Cases    

    On 10/19, China reported 13 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 18 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 7 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Serbia (1 each via Amsterdam Schiphol & Vienna) & 1 each from Israel, Mauritania (via Paris CdG), Russia, the Ukraine (via Germany) & Singapore
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a foreign national coming from Turkey; 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chineses national returning from Saudi Arabia
    • Dongguan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Singapore; 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Malaysia; off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from the Bahamas, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou 
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic)
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, 
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 6 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 coming from Russia  1 from Taiwan
    • Guangxi “Autonomous” Region (location not specified) – 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Mengla County in Sipsong Panna Prefecture, Yunnan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national coming from Canada

    Overall in China, 39 confirmed cases recovered (33 imported), 18 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (17 imported) & 4 was reclassified as confirmed case (3 imported), & 1,994 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 505 active confirmed cases in the country (437 imported), 1 in serious condition (imported), 356 active asymptomatic cases (339 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 21,291 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 10/19, 2,236.226M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 2.13M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 10/20 Hong Kong reported 4 new positive cases, both imported (from Indonesia, the Philippines & Singapore, all had been fully vaccinated).

  53. 53.

    O. Felix Culpa

    White House unveils vaccination plan for children ages 5-11 (WaPo)

    This is pending FDA approval, which should happen in the next few weeks.

    White House officials said they have secured enough doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the country’s 28 million children in that age group.

    “Today the Biden Administration is announcing a plan to ensure that, if a vaccine is authorized for children ages 5-11, it is quickly distributed and made conveniently and equitably available to families across the country,” the White House said in a statement.

  54. 54.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Speaking of disease, we just had something tear threw work.  One person after another got ill for a few days and the COVID tests came back negative. This is with most of us with 20ft of distance from each other, mask on all the time, everyone fully vaccinated and the rest of the stuff.

  55. 55.

    mrmoshpotato

    The senator leading a congressional probe into Brazil’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with homicide for alleged government errors that led to the deaths of thousands.

    Now do the US!

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    JUST IN: @JimInhofe calls on @SecDef to suspend DOD’s vaccine mandate.

    Jim needs a snowball right between the eyes – hard.

  58. 58.

    YY_Sima Qian

    So far on 10/20 a few more positive cases have been reported by various jurisdictions in China:

    Yinchuan in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic positive case, found at screening during hospital intake, epidemiological investigation determined that person had shared the same space the same time w/ the domestic confirmed case reported there on 10/18

    Wuzhong in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic positive cases, both close contacts of the domestic confirmed case reported there on 10/19, & all 3 had traveled to Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia. In fact, they had eaten at the same restaurant w/ the outbreak, as had the tour groups that tested positive at Xi’an in Shaanxi & Lanzhou in Gansu.

    Xingtai in Hebei Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, found via contact tracing. Both had recently traveled from Beijing, & are relatives of the domestic confirmed case reported there on 10/19.

    Bayanhot Township in Alxa Left Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic positive case, found via mass screening of all residents, a truck driver who has been hauling freight to and from Ejina Banner.

    Lanzhou in Gansu Province reported 3 new domestic positive cases, all traced close contacts of the tour group reported there on 10/19.

    Zhangye in Gansu Province reported 1 new domestic positive case, a traced close contact of the tour group reported at Lanzhou on 10/19.

    All of the cases will be included in tomorrow’s data dump, & classified as confirmed or asymptomatic.

    I disagree w/ Reuters’ analysis. The vast majority of the recent cases in China are part of transmission chains that appear to have emanated from Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia, most of whom have been established as close contacts of other cases, w/ 22 directly connected to one restaurant at Ejina Banner. It is unknown whether the small cluster at Erenhot in Inner Mongolia is connected to Ejina Banner (Xilingol League is adjacent to Alxa League, though both are very large & relatively sparsely populated). Ejina Banner borders Mongolia, & the Populus euphratica forest scenic area in particular is 1.5 hrs driving from the border. It is conceivable that the outbreak originated from some kind of breach at the border. It is a pretty remote area, so border controls & COVID-19 management may have been less well managed. Fortunately, Ejina Banner sees much less tourist flow, even during peak Autumn season, than Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province (which accelerated the outbreak that spanned most of China in Jul. & Aug., originating from a breach at Nanjing Airpot).

    The only other ongoing outbreak in China is at land border crossings w/ Myanmar in Yunnan Province. There has been a relatively large number of imported positive cases at these border crossings over the past several months. Apparently 10s of thousands of Chinese nationals had been working across the border in Myanmar, engaged in nefarious endeavors such as tele-fraud, smuggling & narcotics trafficking. Many had smuggled themselves into Myanmar 1 – 2 yrs ago. Jurisdictions across China issued edicts requiring these Chinese nationals to return & turn themselves in, or have their residential permits (hukous) revoked. This precipitated a mass migration back to China through these land border crossings, having to stay in poorly managed quarantine hotels on the Myanmar side for 14 days before they can cross. Now that Yunnan is reporting very few imported positive cases now, most who would return perhaps have done so.

    Regular screening of all residents at the border crossing areas, workers at quarantine facilities & people who otherwise work in close proximity to the border and/or arrivals from Myanmar, has been uncovering a small trickle of domestic positive cases. There has been no indication that COVID-19 has spread outside of the border crossings.

    The outbreak at Fujian & Heilongjiang are well on the way to be eliminated, & the cluster at Horgos in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region has already been eliminated.

  59. 59.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,768 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 7.1%. There were 26 new deaths reported (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends). ICU bed occupancy numbers are 51, up five from yesterday while hospitalisations are 890, up 21.

    There were approximately 4,500 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Tuesday) with about 60% of these being first vaccinations. 91.8% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.4% are fully vaccinated. 74.2% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.1% from yesterday. 48.8% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.6% from yesterday.

    There were about 27,000 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday with a total of just under 371,000 boosters to date.

  61. 61.

    J R in WV

    @MomSense: ​
     

    I keep thinking back to the days when parents forced their kids to wear headgear. That was 1000% worse than a cloth or paper mask.

    But what is “headgear” please? Baseball caps? Foul weather gear? I am Lost here….

  62. 62.

    Bill Arnold

    Does anyone know of a airline tracker, that tracks anti-SARS-CoV-2-spread measures taken by the various airlines? E.g.

    • Are flight crews entirely vaccinated and masked?
    • Are all employees that interact F2F with travelers vaccinated and masked?
    • Are all passengers required to be vaccinated and wear masks with a clear policy of a flight ban, and possibly arrest, for refusal to protect others by refusing to wear a mask, and a perma-ban if proof of lying about vaccination status is found?  (I’m OK if somebody lies saying that they’re not vaccinated if they actually are vaccinated.)
    • That absolutely includes air marshals and anyone breathing in the shared-air cabin.

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