Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yesterday, China reported 18 new imported confirmed cases and 11 imported asymptomatic cases and 2 imported suspect cases:

    * Shanghai Municipality – 9 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals each returning from Ethiopia and the UK, 1 Mexican national coming from Mexico (via Schipol), a Serbian national coming from Serbia (via France); 2 suspect cases, no information released
    * Xiamen in Fujian Province – 7 confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 2 Chinese nationals returning from Singapore and 1 each from Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Nigeria
    * Chongqing Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Nepal
    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia, Congo (Kinshasa) (via Kigali), Iraq and the Philippines
    * Changsha in Hunan Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    * Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the UAE
    * Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    * Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Today, Hong Kong reported 4 new cases, 1 from local transmission, source of transmission has been identified.

  2. 2.

    Chyron HR

    If folks want to wear a mask, they are free to do so.

    “And we’re free to physically assault them for making Trump look bad.”

  4. 4.

    cmorenc

    How perverse that without CoVid-19 having come along, Trump’s chances dwould have been far greater for winning re-election in a seemingly booming economy and converting the US indefinitely into a corrupt RW autocracy.  How grim that the price of avoiding that was so many deaths, so much pain and suffering, so devastating an economic cost to so many.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    @cmorenc: He was down in the polling even before COVID.  And it’s quite common for bad events to bring down political leaders, especially, as here, when the leader’s actions and inactions made things worse.

  6. 6.

    TS (the original)

    Big horse races in Victoria, Australia over the next two weeks. The Victorian government decided the owners could go outside of the rules and watch their horses racing at the track. There was an outcry from those who have been locked down for 12 weeks – so that little gift to the wealthy/horse racing fraternity was reversed.

    People can handle the block on their liberty to go and do as they please – until the elite are determined to be above such laws. It was a stupid mistake for the government  to make.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. The Health Ministry reports, via Twitter, 710 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 24,514 cases. It also reports 10 new deaths, a new daily record, for a total of 214 deaths — 0.87% of the cumulative reported total, 1.33% of resolved cases.

    709 new cases are from local infection. Sabah has 528 cases: 203 in all clusters including the new Samudera cluster, 169 close-contact screenings, and 156 in other screenings. Selangor has 62 cases: 29 in all clusters including the new Palma and Jaya clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, one person back from a high-risk zone in Sabah, and 14 in other screenings. Penang has 39, all in existing clusters. Negeri Sembilan has 37 cases: 28 in all clusters including the Jaya cluster, two close-contact screenings, and seven in other screenings.

    Labuan has 19 cases: 16 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and two in other screenings. KL has 10 cases: five in all clusters including the Palma cluster, two close-contact screenings, and three in other screenings. Perak has four cases: one in an existing cluster and three in other screenings. Johore has four cases: one in an existing cluster, two close-contact screenings, and one in other screening. Terengganu has two cases, one close-contact screening, and one in other screening.

    Sarawak has two cases detected in other screening. Kedah and Pahang have one case each, both in existing clusters.

    The one imported case is an arrival from Nepal, reported in KL.

    New cases were reported in 34 clusters today, including in three new clusters, (Palma, Jaya and Samudera). The Kepayan Prison cluster has the most new cases today, 140, followed by the Remand Prison cluster which has 39. The Ministry points out that cases in these prison clusters are of course isolated from the general community.

    467 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 15,884 patients recovered — 64.80% of the cumulative reported total. 8,416 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 90 are in ICU, 28 of them on ventilators.

    Information on today’s ten deaths has not been tweeted out yet. I will update when it is.

    In other news, there has been media speculation today that a state of emergency may be declared in Malaysia by His Majesty the Agong. Satellite-TV news channel Astro Awani reports the decision was made at today’s special Cabinet meeting, after which PM Muhyiddin Yassin had an audience with the Agong.

  8. 8.

    TS (the original)

    @Baud:

    I didn’t listen to the debate, so don’t know if it was mentioned but the fact that trump forced the states to try and obtain their own PPE and other medical necessities from overseas instead of organising a country wide supply was one of his earliest big failures. That was felt in every state by every governor and probably increased the number of deaths in that first wave.

    Edit: Listening to Gov Cuomo  pointing out the lack of medical supplies brought that home every day for those 100 days that he held his daily press conference.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @TS (the original):

    I don’t understand why those races are going on at all. It means risk of exposure for the rich people in the audience, staff at the track, for the jockeys, the workers who look after and transport the horses, and if I’m not mistaken the horses too.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @TS (the original): He did worse than that–he had the federal government impound the supplies they managed to get, so he could redistribute them to places sympathetic to him, or just let them moulder in warehouses for lack of planning. States had to get the stuff shipped in secret so Trump wouldn’t steal it!

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    TS (the original)

    @Amir Khalid:

    Horse racing, without anyone attending the racecourse (other than staff) has been going on in Australia – probably since June or earlier. Too many born gamblers here to stop it for too long.

    Other than the Melbourne outbreak starting in August, the pandemic numbers in Australia have been tapering off since June. Most minor later outbreaks in NSW and Queensland started with people from Melbourne entering those states.

    Schools went back in our second term (May/June onwards) and various football games have been played albeit with none or few spectators and the teams being in isolation all the time.

    We still have conditions related to interstate travel and also related to group activities. All commercial catering places have to have covid-safe plans & are fined and can be shut down if they don’t follow them. The sporting events also have to have covid-safe plans – as does all industry groups.

  13. 13.

    TS (the original)

    @Matt McIrvin:

    I do remember that – I think the Governor of Maryland was one who said he had to secretly get supplies (did he charter a plane to bring them in?) so the Feds wouldn’t steal them.

  15. 15.

    SFAW

    “In America How Could This Happen” project, by artist Suzanne Firstenberg, is planting a flag in this field in Wash DC for each of the ~220,000 Americans that’ve died from COVID. This photo is sadly only the 20% planted so far, to be finished in next few days @InAmericaFlags

    Someone should take an aerial photo of the completed project, and do a side-by-side with the Murderer-in-Chief’s inauguration crowd. It might be pushing the boundaries of taste to have “Physically Brain-Dead” and “Mentally Brain-Dead” as the respective captions.

  16. 16.

    bluefoot

    @TS (the original): Not just Maryland.  It happened in NY, MA and CA.  And I’m sure in other states where I didn’t hear about it.  I have family in all three states, so I heard about it.

    And now with the surge in new cases, it’s going to happen again.  Lack of resources, health care workers sick, dying and burnt out, maybe back to refrigerator trucks to hold the dead.

    Hell, Trump has denied emergency assistance to CA for the fires.  There’s no reason to expect that any states that he perceives as “against” him will get any help, and will probably get outright obstruction or worse.  The man is a sociopath.  And it’s become normalized!  Everyone shrugs and is all “Oh well, that’s Trump” as if the President letting people die because he’s denied or confiscated resources that should be easy to obtain because his fee-fees are hurt isn’t heinous.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:

    All but one of today’s 10 Covid-19 deaths were reported in Sabah. They are a 77-year-old man with diabetes, pancreatic cancer and dyslipidæmia; a 69-year-old woman; a 54-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and dyslipidæmia; a 66-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 62-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidæmia, gout, heart disease and obesity; a 63-year-old man with hypertension and stroke; a 61-year-old man with hypertension; a 33-year-old man with kidney disease; a 67-year-old man in Kedah; and a 69-year-old woman with asthma.

  18. 18.

    bluefoot

    It really, truly blows my mind that public health has become so politicized.  Wearing masks when out in public should be a no-brainer, completely uncontroversial.  Getting PPE to people in essential roles – at minimum – by using the government’s powers to do so, also a no-brainer.  Working with the WHO, allowing the CDC (an actual (formerly) world-class American institution!) to do its work, should be so obvious as to be banal.

    And these are all low-to-no cost things!  The government could and should be providing monetary assistance and resources in many other ways that would cost a lot of money, but a lot less than tanking the economy and killing people in the short term, and damaging institutions, the economy, and social structure in the long term.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Here in the UK we had 21,242 new cases. This is down by about 5000 from the day before. The big decrease was predominantly in England as can be seen below,

    England – 17,354 (down from 22,948)

    Northern Ireland – 1042 (up from 1039)

    Scotland – 1712 (down from 1739)

    Wales – 1134 (up from 962).

    Deaths – 189 people died from COVID yesterday, 160 in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 17 in Scotland and 7 in Wales. The number of deaths nationwide has been going down for the last 2 days.

    Testing – 310,322 tests were processed yesterday out of a capacity of 380,049.

    Hospitalisations – 7433 people were in hospital nationwide on Tuesday, 20th October. As of Wednesday, 21st October 711 were on ventilators. Both trending upwards.

    General –  The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said that 1 in 130 people in England are infected but the rate is 1 in 59 in the North West. In Wales the rate is 1 in 180 people, Northern Ireland has a rate of 1 in 100 and Scotland’s rate is 1 in 180.  According to the ONS, the rate of increase in England is reducing from doubling to only going up by a quarter. It doesn’t seem that way to me, but then I’m not a statistician.

    Wales has started it’s 17 day lockdown and Scotland has unveiled a 5 tier system, due to start on 2 November. 0 is “the new normal” and 4 requires the closure of all non-essential shops but stop short of a full lockdown.

    This is Sloane Ranger, reporting from the UK.

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    scribbler

    @TS (the original): @bluefoot:  Illinois too.  There was a shocking story about an IL government official having to race to meet someone in a parking lot with a 3 million dollar check for N95 masks by a deadline and in secret so they wouldn’t be confiscated by the feds.

  23. 23.

    JaneE

    Our county (Inyo) case count just jumped by 7 yesterday.  I knew it was coming by the number of people not wearing masks on Main St. a week ago.  7 isn’t many, but there are less than 20,000 people in the whole county.   Businesses are not asking people without masks to leave.  At least the employees are all masked.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    @TS (the original):

    the fact that trump forced the states to try and obtain their own PPE and other medical necessities from overseas instead of organising a country wide supply was one of his earliest big failures 

    Not a failure, a feature of these Soviet shitpile mobster motherfuckers.

  26. 26.

    Gvg

    @cmorenc: he is incompetent and was going to screw up something badly. It was his destiny, written by his character.

    i was actually surprised it took that long. In my opinion some countries and organizations have been lying low, seeing that trouble on Trumps watch was bound to get out of control. As soon as Biden gets in, some put off troubles will pop up in the news because they expect the world policeman to referee again.

  27. 27.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Amir Khalid: As I remember they were claiming the shipments would be put in the national stockpile to be allocated to States according to need. Yet another shameless lie in an Administration that does them as naturally as breathing.

  28. 28.

    Obdurodon

    @Amir Khalid: ISTRC that there was some mumble about making sure they went to more “deserving” states, where everyone could tell that “deserving” meant more in line with Trump, but in practice even that awful idea took a backseat to the profiteering.

  29. 29.

    Dirk Reinecke

    In South Africa the situation seems to have largely stabilized at around 2500 infections and a 100 deaths per day.

    Most of the lockdown restrictions have been lifted, but a key one remains. Wearing masks are mandatory when outside, and also inside buildings.

    One mistake that the government has made (IMHO) is that Minibus taxis are allowed to operate at 100% capacity. Fort the minibus taxi industry this has usually meant running at around 120%. I.e. a 12 seater minibus would have 16-18 people in it.

    I had to go for my first coronavirus test on Wednesday (it was negative)

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