Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Let there be snark.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

T R E 4 5 O N

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 12/1 China reported 53 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 53 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 185 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. 

    • Manzhouli in Hulun Buir reported 53 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 32 of the new domestic positive cases are found via mass screening, 18 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine & 3 from screening of persons under inpatient care at hospitals. There currently are 183 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sub-districts are currently at High Risk. 1 township has been elevated to Medium Risk. 1 township & 3 sub-districts are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Tongliao did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 village is currently at Medium Risk.

    At Heilongjiang Province 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 32 active domestic confirmed (all at Heihe) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases (at Qiqihar) in the province.

    At Shanghai Municipality there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 3 residential compounds remains at Medium Risk.

    At Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.

    At Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.

    At Dalian in Liaoning Province 6 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 6 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 134 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 Medium Risk site was re-designated to Low Risk. 3 sites remain at Medium Risk.

    At Hebei Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 17 active confirmed cases (4 at Shijiazhuang & 13 at Xinji) in the province.

    At Rizhao in Shandong Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.

    At Sichuan Province 2 confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases remaining (2 at Chengdu & 1 at Zigong).

    Chongqing Municipality 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.

    At Henan Province there currently are 63 active domestic confirmed cases remaining (47 at Zhengzhou & 16 at Zhoukou).

    Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 34 active domestic confirmed & 30 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture. 1 zone & 1 village at Ruili remain at Medium Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 12/1, China reported 20 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 12 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Guangxi “Autonomous” Region (location not specified) – 8 confirmed cases, no information released
    • Shanghai Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Germany, Serbia (via Vienna) & the DRC (via Paris CdG); 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Laos
    • Changchun in Jilin Province – 2 confirmed cases, both coining from South Korea
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese nationals returning from Vietnam
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Singapore, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cameroon (via Paris CdG)
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Ethiopia 
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Malawi (via Nairobi), who had arrived at Guangzhou in Guangdong on 11/13, passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative multiple times, upon released from quarantine on 11/28 the case flew back to Xi’an & entered home quarantine, testing positive on 11/30; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Côte d’Ivoire (via Brussels, off a flight diverted from Beijing), Georgia (via Baku) & Japan
    • Beijing Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, non information released
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Nigeria
    • Sanming in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Overall in China, 35 confirmed cases recovered (20 imported), 22 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (15 imported) & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case (imported), & 2,103 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 906 active confirmed cases in the country (415 imported), 7 in serious condition (2 imported), 441 active asymptomatic cases (380 imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 31,646 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 12/1, 2,516.38M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.405M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 12/2, Hong Kong reported 6 new positive cases, all imported.

  2. 2.

    MikefromArlington

    Fauci explaining why would be helpful too.  I.e.  letting it spread rampant increases the chances of mutations, etc

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 5,806 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,644,027 cases. It also reports 49 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 30,474 deaths – 1.15% of the cumulative reported total, 1.18% of resolved cases.

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

    368 confirmed cases are in ICU, 145 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 7,246 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,551,253 patients recovered – 96.5% of the cumulative reported total.

    Six new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,959 clusters. 227 clusters are currently active; 5,732 clusters are now inactive.

    5,795 new cases today are local infections. 11 new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 142,607 doses of vaccine on 1st December: 4,744 first doses, 7,347 second doses, and 130,516 booster doses. As of midnight, the cumulative total is 53,671,277 doses administered: 25,858,982 first doses, 25,411,143 second doses, and 2,590,730 booster doses. 79.2% of the population have received their first dose, while 77.8% are now fully vaccinated.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    Vladimir Putin has called for mutual recognition of coronavirus vaccines to help curtail the pandemic

    I call for this shitstain to admit he fucked around with our elections in 2016, Dump is his fascist, orange bitch, and they will throw themselves into the Sun immediately.

  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    Some early active-virus polio vaccines were actually mildly contagious, and the resulting “contact immunity” helped the vaccination effort along. But I don’t think there’s any evidence that omicron COVID infection confers helpful levels of immunity against other variants, nor is it harmless. So, bad idea.

    There seems to be this really strong cognitive appeal to contrarian “promote the disease to fight the disease” approaches to COVID, to the extent that some people will leap to them without strong evidence. I suppose folk understandings of inoculation point in that direction. But I think it’s also related to the strange will to human sacrifice (particularly among conservatives and libertarians) that I mentioned in the discussion of Dr. Oz. Also to the idea that understanding something counterintuitive to the point of sounding backwards makes you the cleverest person in the room.

  7. 7.

    Barbara

    @mrmoshpotato: I think this is as close as Putin has ever come to admitting failure — that his disinformation campaign to tarnish non-Russian vaccines has boomeranged and he now needs more credible health agencies to  rescue the situation in Russia. I bet he still won’t allow release of transparent data.

  8. 8.

    New Deal democrat

    This is probably the first day since before the Thanksgiving holiday where comparing week over week trends is valid.

    In the US as a whole, the 7 day average was 86,700. Deaths were a little over 900.

    Only 6 States – RI, KS, DE, KY, NJ, and CT – have a higher 7 day average of cases than they did one week ago. Regionally only the South and Northeast Census regions have close to as many cases as they did one week ago. The Midwest and West have substantially fewer.

    We can expect the rebound in the data to last at least 2 more days, as they will be compared with the two holiday weekdays last week. Within about a week, we should get a feel for how many people contracted COVID over Thanksgiving dinner, as they present to doctors and hospitals.

    So far, the data is consistent with an attenuated winter wave, but we really won’t know if it is just a temporary pause or not for another 10 days or so.

    Internationally the EU seems to be stabilizing at a ratio of about 9 cases per capita for every 10 in the U.K., which is still below its Delta peak, and continues to have a relatively low death rate. Canada continues to have an excellent record, with cases having slowly risen in Ontario and Quebec – to levels below any US State except for FL, GA, LA, AL, HI, and also PR. Israel’s decline has ended – at a level equivalent to Canada.

    Canada and Israel show that an EU-style winter wave is not inevitable. In general recent Delta outbreaks seem to blunt renewed impact from colder weather, including in many parts of the US.

  10. 10.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Barbara: I don’t think it’s indifference–I think that’s part of the appeal. Accepting solutions that involve mass death means you’re a steely-eyed pragmatist, not a bleeding-heart softie. Playing with other people’s lives conveys a feeling of power.

    I think accelerationist “heighten the contradictions” politics on the far left has similar motivations. I can even feel some of the emotional pull there.

  11. 11.

    lowtechcyclist

    “I’m enraged…that this pandemic has continued so long.” Listen to these people who are doing everything they can to protect their loved ones + their communities, as they describe their anger + frustration towards those who won’t join that effort.

    I would like to know what the Democratic Party is doing (if anything) to harness this rage.

    Negative partisanship, dammit.  Use it.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @New Deal democrat: Last year, the big post-Thanksgiving spike became visible around December 2-3. But Thanksgiving was one day later, as well, and the COVID variants circulating at the time had a longer latency period. So that may not be a reliable indicator.

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    Robert Sneddon

    The Scottish health authorities are reporting that a tenth verified case of Omicron variant COVID-19 is not connected with the previous cluster of nine other cases detected. Those previous cases were all connected to a single social event a couple of weeks ago. This indicates the Omicron variant is now spreading more widely through the population here. There is still no news of anyone suffering from this variant requiring hospitalisation, two weeks after the initial outbreak.

    It’s likely that most of the people infected with the Omicron variant were vaccinated although the urban area (Glasgow and Lanarkshire) where the outbreak happened in has a lower uptake of vaccines than the rest of the country, in part because of its younger population.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @lowtechcyclist: It’s tricky because in US electoral politics, awareness of cause and effect is very hard to push beyond blaming things on the President. If people are feeling bad, that reflects poorly on Joe Biden, not on anyone else, regardless of who caused it. Yes, that makes many forms of sabotage trivial–when a Democrat is in the White House, Republican politicians can win simply by hurting their own constituents. We saw that during the Great Recession.

  20. 20.

    Central Planning

    Has anyone heard of getting omicron first provides immunity against delta or any other covid variants? Is the long-term bet for covid boosters similar to the flu vaccine where there will be protection for multiple variants, or is it too early to tell?

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    bluegirlfromwyo

    @Barbara: It’s easy. They pat themselves on the backs for “letting us be born” (yes, that is a quote from a wingnut former friend) and, after that, it’s a free for all. If you don’t survive, sucks to be you (aka God’s will).

  22. 22.

    New Deal democrat

    Tidbits on the Omicron front:

    From Trevor Bedford:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1466076807698862080
    “This updated analysis gives a median estimate of the common ancestor to Omicron viruses of Sep 30 with a 95% credible interval of between Sep 9 and Oct 13.

    “I’m now masking spike which has issues of spurious within-Omicron diversity due to amplicon dropout during sequencing.

    “based on wildly divergent spike protein, I’m guessing that immune escape will be substantial and so I still suspect that it’s quite possible that Omicron will show lower intrinsic transmissibility than Delta.”

    Consistent with Bedford’s analysis:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/billcarlosbills/status/1466133320715153412
    “Professor Hotez describes a possible “syndemic,” where omicron fails to unseat delta amongst the unvaccinated, but infects those with waning immunity (either from distant prior infection or vaccination but no booster).”

    To which Dr. Jorge Caballero chimes in:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1466192560733392899
    “If you were in my mentions yesterday telling me I was misinterpreting the data, then surely you understand the significance of amplicon dropout in a region interest [this is the anomalous non-Alpha S-region dropout variant that surged in the U.K. in September and early October].

    “We’ll keep finding earlier cases. Like I said: it’s been circulating under the radar for weeks-to-months. I stand by that statement.”

  24. 24.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Central Planning:

    Has anyone heard of getting omicron first provides immunity against delta or any other covid variants?

    It’s way too early to determine anything like that.

    Is the long-term bet for covid boosters similar to the flu vaccine where there will be protection for multiple variants, or is it too early to tell?

    Also too early, but I would not be surprised for this to be the long-term response to endemic COVID. I know Moderna has been testing combined COVID-flu vaccines, so it stands to reason they could also combine a multivalent COVID shot with a multivalent flu shot and cut down the number of shots.

  25. 25.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    @Matt McIrvin: Don’t underestimate to appeal of the lazy ‘solution’ that allows you to do what you wanted to do anyway, like go back to pre-COVID normal. The GOP are good at coming up with these (cut taxes and it magically fixes the deficit). The fact that these ‘solutions’ never work and make things worse takes time to prove. Even if you can conclusively demonstate their ideas suck, they will keep spinning away to deny and distract.

  26. 26.

    Scout211

    In local news, getting people vaccinated in underserved areas means going to the people.

    Yes, there is still good news out there and progress is still being made getting more people vaccinated. It’s nice to read a positive story, right?

     

    The La Familia Counseling Center in Sacramento is working to encourage vaccinations in area communities with low vaccination rates.

    Wednesday night, around 30 people were vaccinated in just two hours inside Sacramento’s Viva Supermarket thanks to a partnership between the market, La Familia, and UC Davis Health.

    “It’s important to meet our community where they are at,” Mao Vang, a health program manager with La Familia, told KCRA 3. She said convenience is key.

    The center also provided translators on-site to answer people’s questions.

    Wang said Viva Supermarket was chosen for the pop-up site because of its location in a culturally diverse community.

    The market also agreed to provide $50 gift vouchers for groceries to those who decided to roll up their sleeves.

     

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: The thing that gets me, though, is that getting vaccinated really is a lazy solution! It’s so easy! And conservatives are knocking that.

    I’m not completely back to pre-COVID normal, but I got my booster and we went down to New York and went to a couple of shows and a convention and ate in restaurants, and then we went down to Virginia and (after a couple of negative fast-antigen tests) visited my folks for Thanksgiving. We had a great time! I was running some risk of infection, but my main concern was infecting my parents (who were boosted too), and the testing helped allay that. And all that was because of vaccination, and readily available tests, and, in the case of NYC, normalized vaccination checks at public places.

    We might have to back off a bit because of omicron, but I don’t see a return to kind of discipline we had to exercise in spring 2020. It’s not as if most people in the US are advocating a zero-COVID approach.

  28. 28.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County NY:

    Monroe County website says 624 new cases yesterday. The National Guard is being deployed to area hospitals to help out the medical staff.

  29. 29.

    Percysowner

    I totally admire Dr. Fauci for so many reasons. The top of list today is that when the reporter asked if we should let Omicron infect everyone he didn’t say “What kind of IDIOT are you?”,  because I would have said it and I’m sure he was thinking it.

  31. 31.

    jnfr

    Colorado is down from over 3000 cases/day to under 2000 cases. It’s still holding way too high though, and positivity is still over 9%.

  32. 32.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    @Matt McIrvin: You would think vaccination would be the easy solution, but apparently needles are too scary for these big bold Trumpublicans.

  33. 33.

    burnspbesq

    @Barbara:

    The reports of Russians flocking to Serbia to get U.S. vaccines might also have something to do with it.

    *Nobody* trusts Sputnik.

  35. 35.

    JustRuss

    So that article about the surge of Covid deaths in Minnesota never mentions what percentage of the dead or hospitalized is unvaccinated.  Seems like a bit of an oversight.

  36. 36.

    JaneE

    I would really like to see hospitals refuse to treat Covid-19 patients unless they were vaccinated.  That won’t happen, and probably really should not happen but the people who are denying care to others by deliberately choosing to take all the resources in the community for themselves need to have some kind of blowback.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I call for this shitstain to admit he fucked around with our elections in 2016, Dump is his fascist, orange bitch, and they will throw themselves into the Sun immediately.

    I like. I agree.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:

    It’s that they think there is a computer/radio in the shot, that will first show the government what they are thinking, which is never a good thing to know, and because of that will show them to be the massive idiots they know they are, which is obvious because – just read the above.

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