If you’re wondering what difference a booster makes. pic.twitter.com/QZ1VokzR4T
— Chise ???? (@sailorrooscout) March 9, 2022
Uncertainty looms over Biden’s Covid plan after aid is dropped from the spending bill. The $15.6 billion emergency aid package was stripped of money for Covid amid disputes over how to pay for it, injecting uncertainty into the pandemic response plan https://t.co/Y4ZcCKbJKj
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 10, 2022
… With Republicans blocking new spending on the pandemic, Democrats had agreed to take the emergency aid from existing programs — including $7 billion that states had been counting on for their own pandemic responses. That led governors to protest, rank-and-file lawmakers to balk and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to plan on passing the coronavirus funding package separately, a risky move given Republican opposition to new federal spending in the evenly divided Senate.
White House officials say the money is desperately needed to continue to secure supplies of essential treatments for Covid-19 and to develop next-generation vaccines. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, laid out the administration’s predicament in dire terms at a news briefing last week.
By May, she said, the current supply of monoclonal antibody drugs used to treat Covid will “stock out.” By July, the administration will run out of another antibody drug, Evusheld, that was recently authorized to prevent Covid in people with immune deficiencies. Money is needed this month, she said, to contract with drug makers so there is no gap in deliveries.
“Let me be very clear,” Ms. Psaki said. “This is an urgent request.”…
Public health experts, many of whom expect a new coronavirus variant to emerge at some point, were aghast at Wednesday’s developments. They worried that the rapid decline in coronavirus cases was giving rise to a false sense of security on Capitol Hill.
New virus cases in the United States have plunged in recent weeks, but about 1,500 Americans are still dying from the virus each day on average.
“Hopefully this is a procedural action, because if not, this is playing with infectious-disease fire,” said Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota…
Almost half of 500 million COVID tests offered for free by government still unclaimed https://t.co/x4zRK1BNz0 via @CBSNews
— Arthur Caplan (@ArthurCaplan) March 9, 2022
How did this many deaths become normal? The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded Covid deaths without the shock that such a tragedy should provoke. Why? Ed Yong's story in the Atlantic is a must-read https://t.co/CsfkmLTrnL
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 10, 2022
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“This Friday marks two years since we said that the global spread of #covid19 could be characterised as a pandemic”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser.
“Two years later, more than 6 million people have died."— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 9, 2022
From a long thread:
"@WHO is concerned that several countries are drastically reducing testing. This inhibits our ability to see where the virus is, how it's spreading, and how it's evolving”, says @drtedros.
"Testing remains a vital tool in our fight against the pandemic"— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 9, 2022
“Those refugees fleeing are not going to drive numbers up in Europe”, says @DrMikeRyan. "Europe has plenty COVID as it stands and it's got to deal with that and Ukrainian refugees are not going to change the dial on that."
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 9, 2022
Mainland China reported 402 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections with confirmed symptoms for March. 9, official data showed on Thursday, nearly doubling from the daily count a day earlier. https://t.co/ST4tT9YJKj
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 10, 2022
China is tackling a COVID-19 spike with selective lockdowns and other measures that appear to slightly ease its draconian “zero tolerance” strategy. The 402 latest cases are quadruple what the mainland had a week ago. https://t.co/Lo6fnFvMMZ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 10, 2022
Hong Kong health authorities reported on Wednesday 25,991 new COVID-19 cases confirmed with nucleic acid tests and an additional 32,776 confirmed via rapid antigen tests (RATs). https://t.co/MThnWvBMYa
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong leader plans to reopen city after controlling latest COVID outbreak https://t.co/5QzCTGoS7z pic.twitter.com/er4Lb4GyZO
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
Malaysia to reopen borders from April with quarantine waiver https://t.co/Lt5lm2nzjn pic.twitter.com/aq4CijNrFR
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
The Czech Republic will drop most mask requirements, except for on public transport or in health or social care facilities, from March 14, as it winds down COVID-19 restrictions, Health Minister Vlastimil Valek said on Wednesday. https://t.co/uD6sh2uIms
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 10, 2022
COVID prevalence rising among over-55s in England – study https://t.co/oVljkqmJnp pic.twitter.com/uWtwcel1Gt
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
This represents phenomenal progress, folks.
The immunity wall in England has now led to Covid carrying (slightly) *less* fatality risk than seasonal fluhttps://t.co/bNZ1j1MFMs @FT @jburnmurdoch @mroliverbarnes pic.twitter.com/vPWxMHznSP— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 10, 2022
That's even the case for people of advanced age pic.twitter.com/7d6JBpE8Be
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 10, 2022
South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare strikes deal with Johnson & Johnson to package, sell and distribute the American group's COVID vaccines under the Aspenovax brand in Africa https://t.co/PsYNppck6M pic.twitter.com/8n9XLwpRJe
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
Chart: Africa's Vaccination Status | Statistahttps://t.co/jBMJDsIGdI pic.twitter.com/LuAffihbyU
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) March 9, 2022
The pandemic is disproportionately affecting the Americas & it's too soon regionally to relax public health measures, WHO says. Home to <13% of the world’s population the region had 63% of new global cases Jan & Feb & 2.6M of Covid's total 6M global deaths https://t.co/QAszDOYlzX
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 10, 2022
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The Nat'l Institutes of Health is launching a clinical trial to study allergic reactions to mRNA vaccines. Trial aimed at examining rare but possibly serious systemic reactions. Study will enroll ~100 people, age 16-69 w/ an allergic reaction to a 1st dose https://t.co/795jlzWkeN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
Pfizer said on Wednesday it has begun a mid-to-late-stage study of its antiviral COVID-19 pill for non-hospitalized children aged 6-17 years who are at high risk of developing severe illness. https://t.co/5m9XnCNFJS
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Wastewater sampling reveals the #omicron subvariant BA.2 is doubling in NY, just as mandates are lifting. Wastewater surveillance provides the canary in the coal mine. It can signal the growing prevalence of a highly mutated variant before an outbreak occurs https://t.co/tdkXxRSAVV pic.twitter.com/bmloETSFmN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
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Pummeled by the pandemic, at least 40% of rural U.S. hospitals are in danger of shutting down (via @bpolitics) https://t.co/BYvIjJNUau
— Bloomberg CityLab (@CityLab) March 9, 2022
United Airlines to let unvaccinated workers return – WSJ https://t.co/eQ8Zz1sHyi pic.twitter.com/57CpgFT14S
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
U.S. leaning toward ending COVID-era expulsions of migrants at Mexico border – sources https://t.co/V8Lh1evsXG pic.twitter.com/gyMDZ4N2OO
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022
Navy Says Destroyer is ‘Out of Commission’ After Florida Judge Blocks Removal of Unvaccinated CO https://t.co/wW5cHJviu3
— Ward Carroll (@wardcarroll) March 9, 2022
New Deal democrat
Cases in the US declined to 38,900, or 11 per 100,000. Cases have declined at a rate of 33% in the last week. Deaths declined to 1273, a full 50% below their Omicron peak, and an average number for the full course of the pandemic.
Cases are increasing in CT, VT, and MT, and are flat in AL. All other jurisdictions continue to decline. Since there is no evidence of increases spreading, the nationwide decline in cases should continue.
The worst State continues to be ID, at 52 cases per 100,000, followed by AK, MT, ME (all above VT, WV, KY (all above 20), CT, AL, and CO at 17. The best jurisdictions are MD, at 5.5 cases per 100,000, followed by LA, NE, SD, PR, OH, UT, SC, KS, and IN at 7.
Of note, CA is at 12, and declining at a recent rate of 33% a week; NY is at 9, and NJ at 12. While NJ is declining at 15% a week, NY is only dealing at 10% per week. This may be evidence of a long tail due to BA.2.
YY_Sima Qian
On 3/9 Mainland China reported 402 new domestic confirmed (10 previously asymptomatic), 435 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 17 new domestic confirmed & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Fangchenggang), a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 88 active domestic confirmed (49 at Fangchenggang, 37 at Baise, & 1 each at Chongzuo & Nanning) & 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases (28 at Fangchenggang, 11 at Baise & 1 at Chongzuo) in the province. 2 zones at Fangchenggang are currently at Medium Risk.
At Huaihua in Hunan Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) cases. 20 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 148 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Tianjin Municipality reported 19 new domestic confirmed (17 mild & 2 moderate) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 17 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine, 2 from screening of persons at risk of exposure & 1 from fever clinic. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 51 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 massage parlor is currently at High Risk. 1 construction site is currently at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 66 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic, 64 mild & 2 moderate) & 112 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 301 active domestic confirmed cases & 468 active asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 27 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hebei Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (all mild) & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 60 active domestic confirmed & 7 active asymptomatic case in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic, all mild) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shenyang, all of the new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. 7 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 137 active domestic confirmed (129 at Huludao & 8 at Shenyang) & 8 active domestic (6 at Shenyang & 2 at Dandong) cases in the province. 1 village at Suizhong County is currently at High Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic case were released from isolation. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed& 63 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jilin Province reported 165 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 163 mild & 2 moderate) & 179 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 414 active domestic confirmed & 374 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Hainan Province there currently are 3 active confirmed (all at Sanya) & 3 active domestic asymptomatic (2 at Sanya & 1 at Chengmai County) cases in the province.
Beijing Municipality reported 4 new domestic confirmed (3 mild & 1 moderate) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 4 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine & 1 is a person recently returning from elsewhere on 3/2. 2 of the new domestic cases are traced close contacts of the domestic positive case reported on 3/7; 4 are members of a new family cluster, 2 found at fever clinic & the other 2 are traced close contacts.
Shanghai Municipality reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 76 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 67 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine, 12 from screening of persons at risk of exposure & 1 from fever clinic. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 306 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 activity center, 3 residential buildings & a supermarket are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 21 new domestic confirmed cases (15 mild & 6 moderate), 13 at Xi’an, 7 at Baoji & 1 at Hanzhong, 20 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine & 1 at fever clinic. There currently are 45 active domestic confirmed cases in the province (30 at Xi’an, 13 at Baoji & 2 at Hanzhong), all part of the transmission chain spreading from Shanghai. 1 residential compound, 2 hotels, 2 restaurants & 5 residential building at Xi’an are currently at Medium Risk.
At Hubei Province there currently are 39 active domestic confirmed (30 mild & 9 moderate, all at Wuhan) & 9 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at Wuhan & 1 at Huanggang) cases in the province. All areas in Wuhan are now at Low Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 13 new domestic & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 81 active domestic confirmed & 31 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Anhui Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Suzhou, both returned from Shanghai on 3/8. There currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province (2 at Suzhou & 1 at Anqing).
Zhejiang Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases, 1 each at Hangzhou (a logistics worker found at fever clinic), Quzhou (a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine) & Wenzhou. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases (5 at Quzhou, 3 each at Hangzhou & Wenzhou, & 1 each at Huzhou & Jiaxing) in the province.
Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. As the province does not break down recoveries between imported & domestic cases, I can no longer track the quantity of active domestic cases there. All areas in the province are now at Low Risk.
Gansu Province reported 66 new domestic confirmed (51 mild & 15 moderate) & 11 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 88 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic.
Xining in Qinghai Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a person returning from Lanzhou in Gansu on 3/6.
Henan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Puyang, all traced F1 & F2 close contacts of domestic positive cases elsewhere. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (2 at Puyang & 1 at Zhengzhou) & 2 active domestic asymptomatic (both at Puyang) cases in the province.
Chongqing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.
Yunnan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 22 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 64 active domestic confirmed & 214 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province.
Imported Cases
On 3/9, Mainland China reported 126 new imported confirmed cases (17 previously asymptomatic, 5 in Guangdong), 151 imported asymptomatic cases, 10 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 126 confirmed cases recovered (78 imported), 70 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (58 imported) & 27 were reclassified as confirmed cases (17 imported), & 8,550 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 4,610 active confirmed cases in the country (2,451 imported), 7 in serious condition (2 imported), 3,238 active asymptomatic cases (1,328 imported), 22 suspect cases (all imported). 112,423 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 3/9, 3,169.916M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.43M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 3/10, Hong Kong reported 24,390 new positive cases (10 imported & 24,380 domestic), another 7,012 positives from rapid antigen test results, 180 deaths (22 fully vaccinated).
On 3/10, Taiwan reported 82 new positive cases, all imported.
NotMax
Suppose it was inevitable.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
79 new cases on 3/9.
Oh great, Omicron 2, Electric Boogaloo is here just in time for my 3/18 MRI. I don’t know how much good that extra booster shot I had on Saturday will be, but I’m glad I had it anyway.
New Deal democrat
The Rule of Law is based on the idea that any individual can be confident about what acts they perform would or would not be in compliance with law. Since statutes cannot cover every possibility, judicial precedent, applied by all future courts, is a fundamental part of that confidence.
When courts engage in wholesale rewriting of all past precedent, there can be no such confidence, and fundamentally the Rule of Law is destroyed. In other words, the Trumpist judiciary is close to turning the US into a fundamentally lawless country, where whatever the judicial junta decides today, good for only those cases whose results they like, is controlling.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 30,246 new Covid-19 cases yesterday in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 3,711,199 cases. It also reported 113 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 33,497 deaths – 0.90% of the cumulative reported total, 0.98% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt stands at 1.06.
158 confirmed cases are in ICU, 93 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 26,653 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 3,367,542 patients recovered – 90.7% of the cumulative reported total.
Five new clusters were reported yesterday, for a cumulative total of 6,865 clusters. 424 clusters are currently active; 6,441 clusters are now inactive.
29,828 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 418 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 62,983 doses of vaccine on 9th March: 18,781 first doses, 1,817 second doses, and 47,385 booster doses. The cumulative total is 67,935,466 doses administered: 27,220,811 first doses, 25,765,486 second doses, and 15,157,782 booster doses. 83.4% of the population have received their first dose, 78.9% their second dose, and 46.4% their booster dose.
Baud
@New Deal democrat:
I don’t know. I look forward to rewriting their precedents. It’ll take some time to get there though.
Ken
I suppose if the destroy is out of commission, the Navy’s next step will be to transfer the crew to other ships, or other roles where they can serve. Otherwise it’s a waste of resources, and damages their training and career paths.
Except the CO, obviously, because of the legal order. He has to stay on as CO, of a ship with no crew, that never moves.
raven
@Ken: “While the ship has not deployed, it has been underway even as the legal proceedings were unfolding, Staver said. The ship returned to its homeport after training at sea last week, Staver said.”
Ken
@raven: My ramble was more of a fantasy, along the lines of “how the monkey’s paw would adhere to the letter of the wish”.
FlyingToaster
Ordered my second set of free antigen tests yesterday; between that and the ones my insurance will eventually reimburse*, we’re able to test after any interesting excursions (going to see a band, in-person work days, etc.).
* They sent me an e-mail approving my claim, but haven’t sent me a check. I’m going to go get another set of tests soon, because we’ll be using them. Grrrrr.
raven
@Ken: I report, you decide!
New Deal democrat
@Ken:
From the linked article:
“At the center of the lawsuit is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a 1993 Congressional act that was meant to protect a person’s religious freedoms against government laws….“Federal judges usually defer to the military and shied away from involvement in the service’s day-to-day, a practice established by the Supreme Court ….
“This was also discussed prior to the passing of RFRA, according to a July 27, 1993 Senate committee report on the law. Federal courts would use the compelling government interest test in evaluating claims of religious freedom in the military, with the committee ‘confident that the bill will not adversely impair the ability of the U.S. military to maintain good order, discipline, and security.’
“‘The courts have always recognized the compelling nature of the military’s interest in these objectives in the regulations of our armed services,’ according to the committee report.”
A centuries’ long rule of judicial interpretation of statutes is to decide in accordance with legislative intent, I.e., how did the legislature want their Act interpreted. This rogue judge completely threw that out the window.
Kay
Smartmatic lawsuit against Fox and Fox hosts and Giuliani is continuing:
Finding out how Fox operates as a company thru discovery. For example- Fox had email responses from Smartmatic refuting some of the claims Fox and the Fox hosts were making at the time they were making them and the responses from Smartmatic were not shared with Fox’s audience. Basic factual claims- Smartmatic had no machines in California, etc.
delk
I’m having an Evusheld infusion tomorrow morning.
YY_Sima Qian
I do not believe China will be able to return to days w/o domestic positive cases. It might still be able to manage “Dynamic Zero COVID” in each region for a while longer.
I think this represents a clear, but undeclared, modulation in pandemic response. While China has demonstrated capability to suppress, contain & eliminate Omicron outbreaks, the cost of doing so is high. When such outbreaks are few & far in between (in time & space), the cost is bearable. When the outbreaks are more frequent (in time & space), the cost/benefit analysis changes. China can relax some of the extreme measures taken in pursuit of total elimination, w/o meaningfully affecting effectiveness at suppression, as long as it accepts that there is no going back to zero:
Aside from the economic considerations, China is probably also tracking case hospitalization rate. Right now over half of the Omicron cases are asymptomatic, & almost all of the rest are mild (which in China means cold-like or mild flu, no infection in the lungs). Despite the case incidents rising exponentially, number of severe/critical cases are dropping, only 7 among ~ 4K domestic positive cases. That points to the milder virulence of Omicron in a highly vaccinated population (even one using inactivated whole virion vaccines). However, there is great regional discrepancy: 95% of the cases in Dongguan in Guangdong & Shanghai are asymptomatic, while 90% of the cases in Gansu are symptomatic (though mostly mild), possibly small data sets.
Of course, there remains 3 major worries:
The exception to the relaxations in access to Beijing. Any city in China w/ domestic positive case w/in past 14 days have all flights, trains & long distance buses cancelled, & people driving from such places are turned away from the city limit. F*ckers!
lowtechcyclist
I’ve been in the drydock on a ship with no crew, it felt good to be out of the sea
lowtechcyclist
The GOP: breaking things to own the libs. It’s what we’re about.
Soprano2
I’ll read Ed Yong’s article later, but I think I can answer his question – this many deaths became “normalized” because they’re happening day to day, all over the United States, and they’ve been happening for two years now. Plus, people in conservative states are many times in denial about the true death toll of Covid, and tell themselves that anything other than Covid is what so many people are dying of. If a million people had died all at once, or over a few days, the reaction would be much different.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: I’m keeping a worried eye on that situation in Connecticut. They seem to have a genuine new outbreak spreading out from New Haven and I do wonder if it’s a blip or the beginning of the next wave.
Soprano2
Oh, and to add to my comment, most of the deaths have been happening in hospitals behind closed doors. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard comments like “I’d be more worried if people were dropping dead on the sidewalk”. People can’t see the deaths happening, so they don’t register. The longer it goes on, the more numb we become.
satby
@delk: Good luck!
Steeplejack
As we approach 1 million dead, something from Southpaw that stuck with me:
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: Agreed re Connecticut. It had a legit bad number several days ago, not a data dump. Put that together with the decelerating declines in NY and NJ, as I noted, and we could be seeing the effects of BA.2.
I still think the concern about an actual new wave is overblown, because BA.2 caused no increase at all in South Africa, and it has been prevalent there for over a month.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: There have been a bunch of new clusters elsewhere but they’re typically in rural places with relatively low vaccination. The CT one seems different. Not gigantic yet…
Ruckus
Having been stationed upon a guided missile destroyer for 2 yrs and having to live in those tight quarters at the mercy of everyone’s health, being stationed on there with a captain that refused an order that I had to comply with seems, well fucked up. His religious beliefs are that he can’t take a vaccine to keep him alive but he can be in command of a ship that can cause a dramatic amount of deaths makes me think there is something wrong in whoville. I had no, none, zero decision about all the vaccines I was given and spent 9 days in a hospital with a fever of 105 because of them. And he can decide that his fucking precious means he could refuse and possibly kill me, what with me being assigned/stuck on that ship with zero alternative? This shit is going to really, really help military readiness and moral. It’s pissing me off and I’ve been out of the navy for 49 yrs.
J R in WV
@lowtechcyclist:
My ship was in a big floating drydock in Mobile Bay, which was kind of cool, until the hurricane blew through over towards Pensacola. We put all the lines and hawsers between the ship and the drydock, and between the drydock and the solid moorings and docks beside the floating drydock in the days before Agnes got to us. It was like being in a waterfall.
All the watertight doors and compartments were closed and dogged down, but for one porthole on each deck, and people stood in line to see out into the blowing storm, which is how I know it was like a waterfall outside. The storm moved the ship a little bit, which was 18,000 tons of deadweight at the time. Maybe a little less than that, much of the normal weight in freight was off loaded before we went to the yards.
Was very creepy… normally Navy ships put out to sea to dodge hurricanes, but we weren’t really able to do that at the time.
Peale
If I’m going to be honest, I hope the next wave wipes the floor with them, their hospitals close and I never have to hear from unvaxxed rural American conservatives again. Remind me why they need hospitals? Make a case that doesn’t make some kind of heart string appeal about innocent children. If the stats open up that there’s a 15 year life expectancy gap, should I care?