Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday / Thursday, June 9-10

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… India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 infections in the world after the United States, with 29.2 million cases and 359,676 deaths, according to health ministry data.

But the discovery of several thousand unreported deaths in the state of Bihar has raised suspicion that many more coronavirus victims have not been included in official figures.

The health department in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, revised its total COVID-19 related death toll to more than 9,429 from about 5,424 on Wednesday.

The newly reported deaths had occurred last month and state officials were investigating the lapse, a district health official said, blaming the oversight on private hospitals.

“These deaths occurred 15 days ago and were only uploaded now in the government portal. Action will be taken against some of the private hospitals,” said the official, who declined to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

Health experts say they believe both coronavirus infections and deaths are being significantly undercounted across the country partly because test facilities are rare in rural areas, where two-thirds of Indians live, and hospitals are few and far between…

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Remember this jackass, from January, back when every dose of vaccine was liquid gold?

When LOOKIT MEEEE is your brand…


And with a vaguely anti-Semitic advertisement, because of course. Can’t blame the MAGAts for this one; it’s a Saturday potluck / book signing in an upstate NY enclave full of well-to-do homeschooling refugees from the Big Apple. So brave!

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  2. 2.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    In March, Wolf tweeted a photo credited to a Dr. John Sims in which Sims is quoted as saying, “If a vaccine is effective, then why do you need to pressure people to say it?” However, the quote was made up and the photo was actually of adult-film actor Johnny Sims. Wolf deleted the tweet before her account was suspended.

    Wolf’s history of making absolutely buck-wild claims extends beyond vaccines. She has previously said that the city of Belfast feels “the way it did in the 1970s” because it doesn’t have 5G.

    Her Wiki page lists her occupation as a “conspiracy theorist”​

  3. 3.

    sab

    In Ohio here. Husband spent yesterday joking around with steel spoons and forks. Nothing stuck.

    It is a good thing we aren’t using floppy disks anymore. Imagine the data loss.

    5:30 a.m. robins are extremely loud.

  7. 7.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    33 new cases – 63.6% were people under 40, including 9 children between 0 and 19. Men in their 20s had the highest number of cases.

    Deaths now at 1309.

    1% test positivity

    58% have had at least 1 shot
    52% are totally vaccinated

    Also old enough to have had measles, mumps and chicken pox before there were vaccines for them. I don’t understand anti-vaxxers either.

  8. 8.

    MagdaInBlack

    I am still the only one in my workplace of 10 who has been vaccinated. My estimators 18 y/o daughter signed up for vaccination, estimator giving her a lot of shit over it.  I’ve stayed out of that, the kid made her decision and mom is a hopeless case. I remain stunned at the deliberate ignorance.

  10. 10.

    sab

    @MagdaInBlack: Covid has been so under wraps because so infectious. Even family couldn’t get in. Nobody actually saw it except front line medical personnel. Everyone else just heard about it. Even if you lost a loved one you just heard about it from doctors and nurses.

  11. 11.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 6/9 China reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Guangdong Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    • Guangzhou reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic). Of the 7 new cases 5 are at Liwan District & 2 at Nansha District. all of the new confirmed cases are traced close contacts. 1 sub-district was elevated to Medium Risk. There are 2 sub-districts at High Risk, as well as 3 sub-districts & 7 residential compounds at Medium Risk.
    • Zhanjiang did not report any new domestic positive case. 1 residential compound remains Medium Risk.
    • Maoming did not reported any new domestic positive cases.
    • Foshan did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Shenzhen did not report any new domestic positive cases.

    Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are 3 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases at Yingkou.

    In Yunnan Province, there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 6/9 China reported 15 new imported confirmed cases, 27 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 7 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia & 1 each from the DRC (via Addis Ababa), Brazil (via Switzerland), France, Canada & Malaysia
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Malaysia & 1 from Bangladesh; 10 asymptomatic cases, 4 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia, 3 from Malaysia, 2 from Bangladesh & 1 from the US
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Iraq, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Xi’an in Shanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Japan
    • Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Italy; the case (along with spouse) arrived at Beijing on 5/10, went through 21 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative on RT-PCR 4 times, upon release from quarantine on 6/1 the couple flew to Wenzhou and entered home quarantine, on 6/9 the case felt unwell and went to the hospital where the case tested positive; on 6/10 the spouse and their cohabitating son have tested positive, both diagnosed as asymptomatic, and will be reported on the China National Health Commission’s data dump tomorrow; as of 2 PM on 6/10 242 F1 & 829 F2 close contacts have been traced and quarantined, and 72,791 individuals deemed at risk have been swabbed, the residential compound has been locked down; it is difficult to believe both of the couple were infected in Italy and had incubation periods of > 21 days, they are not recovered cases shedding dead viral particles because they infected their son
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 each from Nigeria, the Ukraine & Hungary
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Nigeria (via Frankfurt); 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Cambodia & 1 from Nigeria (via Frankfurt)
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar via land border crossing
    • Beijing Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Liaoning Province (no location specified) – 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Jiangsu Province (no location specified) – 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released 
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Argentina
    • Guangxi Province (no location specified) – 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released 
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Hefei in Anhui Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, no information released

    Overall in China, 18 confirmed cases recovered, 15 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 625 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 416 active confirmed cases in the country (285 imported), 12 in serious condition (1 imported), 371 asymptomatic cases (351 imported), 11 suspect case (both imported). 10,172 traced contacts are currently 

    As of 6/9, 824.856M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 15.894M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 6/10, Hong Kong reported 2 new positive cases, both imported (1 each from Mauritania & the UK).

  12. 12.

    MagdaInBlack

    @sab: That’s basically it. She doesn’t know anyone who had it. Although, she thinks she had it, and worked through it, so there’s the ” It wasn’t so bad.” factor.  Boss’s grmother had it, ventilator and all. Boss still isnt getting the vaccine.

    Regarding chicken pox: I had chicken pox so bad they were in my throat. Not a fun experience.

  13. 13.

    Matt McIrvin

    Tomorrow my employer is going to have our first in-person meeting in many months, and we’re going to be able to have it indoors and go to one of our old downtown lunch hangouts because all of us are fully vaccinated, besides which COVID is at a year-and-a-half low in Boston. It’ll be nice.

  15. 15.

    Cermet

    @sab: I can – argued two years ago with a coworker about vaccinations; he is very wary of them and against many types but interestingly didn’t hesitate for a second to get the Covid-19 shot, however. Fear of death is a powerful motivator.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,671 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 639,562 cases. He also reports 73 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 3,684 deaths — 0.58% of the cumulative reported total, 0.66% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 79,848 active and contagious cases; 911 are in ICU, 462 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 7,325 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 556,030 patients recovered – 86.94% of the cumulative reported total.

    22 new clusters were reported today.

    5,663 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,506 local cases: 125 in clusters, 1,069 close-contact screenings, and 312 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 769 cases: 188 in clusters, 362 close-contact screenings, and 216 other screenings.

    Sarawak reports 631 cases: 141 in clusters, 373 close-contact screenings, and 117 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 593 cases: 140 in clusters, 258 close-contact screenings, and 195 other screenings. Johor reports 523 local cases: 202 in clusters, 230 close-contact screenings, and 91 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 309 cases: 43 in clusters, 212 close-contact screenings, and 54 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 262 cases: 17 in clusters, 215 close-contact screenings, and 30 other screenings. Sabah reports 233 cases: 55 in clusters, 128 close-contact screenings, and 50 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 184 cases: 45 in clusters, 102 close-contact screenings, and 37 other screenings. Penang reports 166 cases: 51 in clusters, 67 close-contact screenings, and 48 other screenings. Perak reports 143 cases: 57 in clusters, 59 close-contact screenings, and 27 other screenings. Pahang reports 112 cases: 46 in clusters, 58 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Terengganu reports 108 cases: 35 in clusters, 57 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Labuan reports 106 cases: 37 in clusters, 31 close-contact screenings, and 38 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 18 cases: 15 close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Perlis reports three cases: two close-contact screenings, and one other screening.

    Eight new cases today are imported: four in Selangor, three in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Johor.

  17. 17.

    Anne Laurie

    @sab: Old enough here to have had measles, mumps (painful!), chicken pox. Also knew people who had polio. Cannot fathom antivax “thought” process.

    From what I’m reading, it’s mostly people young enough not to have these memories (either because their parents had them vaxxed, or they drew a lucky card on herd immunity).

    I can remember measles, chicken pox, ‘German measles’ (rubella), and a ‘second round of measles’ (diagnosed by my pediatrician over the phone) that was almost certainly scarletina (systemic strep infection, the nastiest / most painful — but at least it left me immune to future college-dorm strep throat infections).  I got both kinds of shingles vaccines, side effects be damned, not to mention the Pfizer miracle shot!

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Cermet: There’s a specific kind of antivaxxer who thinks they can power through the pandemic on diet and exercise, and regards vaccination as somehow opposed to that, the cop-out of a person who is too morally weak to rely on diet and exercise.

    I was talking to an old online friend about this and he said that he thought that was actually motivated by a fear of death–these people pre-rationally associate medicine, doctors and hospitals with death, and whatever fad diet and supplement routine they’re on with vitality and self-mastery. Of course it’s ironic that they’re increasing their risk of death as a result.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Anne Laurie: I had the Shingrix vaccine just before getting vaccinated for COVID, so I could compare with the other experience fresh in my mind. The second shot of Shingrix hit me *way* harder than the Moderna shot did. But it was actually pretty similar to my kid’s experience with the Pfizer COVID shot. Just a day I had to pretty much spend lying down.

  20. 20.

    Zzyzx

    I’m very impressed that that Naomi Wolf event trivializes slavery and the Holocaust at the same time.

    Of course two core Jewish values are to not follow any ritual (e.g. fasting on Yom Kippur) if your life is at stake and saving others is the greatest good you can do, so equating Judaism with not taking vaccines because you don’t feel like it is extra offensive.

  21. 21.

    NeenerNeener

    @sab: Yep, I still have “chicken pops” scars too. And MS, which some research has suggested is shingles turned inward. How accurate that is, is still under investigation.

  22. 22.

    Sloane Ranger

    @sab:

     

    Chicken pox wasn’t painful, but it certainly was very very itchy. 60 years later I still have scars. Plus shingles risk.

    Me too. I only had them on my scalp. I was playing with some friends at their house and I was scratching so badly she thought I had nits. She called me over, examined my head and I was being escorted home so fast I had to run to keep up with her. The really bad thing for me was that I had Chicken pox only a week or so after I was up and about again after nearly dying from Measles (temp. of 105). It was NOT a good couple of months for me.

  23. 23.

    YY_Sima Qian

    I am rather puzzled by the NYT article on the Guangzhou outbreak. I normally consider Keith Bradsher one of the best foreign corresponds in China.

    The response at Guangzhou is not different from any one of the previous dozen or so local outbreaks in China since the first wave, rather similar to the actions taken during Beijing’s Xinfadi outbreak in June 2020 (praised at the time for being targeted) – localized lockdowns of residential compounds and neighborhoods, school closures, repeated rounds of mass screening.

    Xinjiang government locked down the entire “autonomous” region during the Ürumqi outbreak in Aug. 2020 (despite very few cases outside of the regional capital), and locked down all of Kashgar during its outbreak in Oct. 2020 (despite all of the cases being in 2 outlying rural counties far from urban area), Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province imposed a cordon sanitaire around the entire provincial capital during its outbreak in Jan. 2021 (as did Wangkui Country in Heilongjiang Province during the same time period). The extent of the lock downs in Xinjiang was drastic overkill relative to the scope of the outbreaks, and impacted far more people than current measures in Guangzhou.

    I actually think Guangzhou should have imposed lock downs and mass screening in larger areas more quickly, in face of the more transmissive Delta variant. Of course, this was also China’s first experience with community outbreak of the Delta variant. Guangzhou Municipal CDC has claimed that, with the Delta variant, even relatively casual contact can cause infection, something almost never seen in previous outbreaks with other variants. Local governments of China’s more developed regions tend to be more “enlightened”, and less reflexive with drastic draconian measures “just to be sade” with no consideration for impact to people’s lives and livelihoods. Might have placed it at a slight disadvantage in this case.

    In any case, incidence has been dropping, most of the new cases are either previously asymptomatic (thus already in isolation) or traced close contacts (thus already under quarantine). I have noticed that new cases seem to be identified in family clusters, which again points to the speed of transmission and the necessity for movement restrictions. In past outbreaks, one member of the family may test positive, and other members only become positive 5 – 10 days later (or not at all). In Guangzhou, entire cohabitating families are testing positive within 1 – 2 days, even with all residents in Liwan and Nansha Districts being screened every 2 – 3 days by RT-PCR.

    Contrast Guangzhou with Shenzhen, the latter having < 20 positive cases with the Alpha variant, all started asymptomatic and only 5 progressing to mild more than a week later. The initial cases were likely breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated dock workers, who in turn infected a few other cases (all asymptomatic). I think the data gives an indication of the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines – limited sterilization efficacy, but can still reduce speed of transmission and prevent moderate to severe disease. There has been no neighborhood level lock downs in Shenzhen and no restrictions to movement. Only buildings with positives cases have been locked down. The outbreak is likely to already have been eliminated. Also contrast Shenzhen with the situation in Taiwan, an outbreak also of the Alpha variant.

  24. 24.

    Cermet

    The decline in Covid infection rate appears to be leveling off – so its official: we have entered the period of the illness called the “Stupid Phase.” Every new infection and serious illness as well as death is solely due to the stupid (except, of course, those unfortunate immune compromised or those too young to get the vaccine.)

  25. 25.

    YY_Sima Qian

    I am very gratified by Biden Administration’s plan to purchase 500M Pfizer/BioNTech doses for donation to the world.

    This is how competition with China should be carried out, by doing better, not by maligning Chinese vaccine diplomacy (which comes off as whiny, especially to countries that do not have alternatives on offer) or throwing doubt on the efficacies of Chinese vaccines (surely detrimental to the global effort of vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible).

    Notice that data more favorable to Chinese vaccines get very little play in western MSM. A prime example is the study conducted by Butantan Institute at the town of Serrano in the Sao Paolo State in Brazil, where full vaccination of 95% of eligible adults (or ~ 75% of all residents) with the Sinovac vaccine has collapsed case incidence, hospitalization and death, even among the unvaccinated minors. This points to at least some effectiveness in preventing transmission.

  26. 26.

    Sloane Ranger

    So, Wednesday in the UK, we had 7540 new cases. This is an increase of 66% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 6201 (up 951)

    Northern Ireland – 105 (up 24)

    Scotland – 1011 (up 316)

    Wales – 223 (up 201).

    Deaths – There were 6 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 43.5% in the rolling 7-day average. 5 of the deaths were in England and 1 was in Scotland.

    Testing – 727,274 tests were administered on Tuesday, 8 June. This is an increase of 11% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 571,644.

    Hospitalisations – On Monday, 7 June, there were 1024 people in hospital. There were 154 people on ventilators on Tuesday, 8th. There was no change in the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions as of 3 June.

    Vaccinations – As of 8 June, 40,710,319 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 28,540,844 had had both. In percentage terms this means that, as of this date, 77.3% of all UK adults had had 1 shot of a vaccine and 54.2% were fully vaccinated.

  27. 27.

    Soprano2

    Our restrictions were lifted on May 27th. On that day there were 43 people in local hospitals with Covid, the 7-day case rate per 100,000 people was 79.16, and 36.8% of eligible people were fully vaccinated. Now, just like day follows night, those numbers have spiked to 92 people in hospitals, and the 7-day case rate per 100,000 is 156. The fully vaccinated rate dropped to 36.05% because on June 7th they added the 12-17 year old cohort to the total. Our low points actually came on May 10th and 14th, because towns around us lifted restrictions in April. It’s so sad that people have decided to get sick and die of what is now a totally preventable disease.

  28. 28.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 735 new cases of COVID-19 reported overnight, one new death. The test positivity rate is 2.8%, down from the previous few days. This may be due to more testing being carried out including “survey” testing where everyone in an area with a high rate of cases will be asked to undergo a test to provide some baseline data but with the expectation that most tests will be negative.

    Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers are remaining stable, the main factor the Scottish government has specified as the driver for their decisions on lockdowns and reaction to this epidemic rather than simple case numbers.

    Vaccinations continue apace with over 51,000 doses administered yesterday with over 60% of those being second doses. Over half the adult population in Scotland is now fully vaccinated with over 90% of everyone above the age of 40 having received at least their first dose.

    Locally, Glasgow is preparing to host several games in the Euro football championship with an associated Fan Village area where a few thousand ticketed fans will be allowed to congregate to eat, drink and watch the matches on large-screen displays. There will be testing and other precautions taken but it’s still a considered risk. Further ahead there will be an international rugby match, British Lions (a team made up from Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Irish players) versus Japan to be held at the end of this month. Spectators will be allowed in to the stadium here in Edinburgh to watch the match. At the moment it’s expected to be about 25% capacity or roughly 16,000 or so warm bodies. I’m presuming testing and/or proof of vaccination will be needed but it may be that permission to allow spectators at all might be withdrawn at short notice depending on how the spread of COVID-19 goes over the next couple of weeks.

  29. 29.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Maryland has officially hit over 50% vaccinated, and my county, Montgomery, is close to 70% vaccinated.  One area of concern is that two of the mainly conservative counties on the Eastern Shore have not reported anything in over a week.  Not going to Maryland beaches this year!

  30. 30.

    Chris Johnson

    Posted to the “I Got The Shot” thread: a few of us are still filtering in. Second shot, done :)

    I’m glad to be more insulated from the plague lemmings, but still pretty bitter about them. I’ll be mask wearing just as a fuck-you, plus it’s a nice way to not catch the flu in flu season, and at this point I am rooting for the virus. Not really, but… you know that this is going to eat away at their voting margins, yes?

  31. 31.

    Soprano2

    @Chris Johnson: I’m glad to be more insulated from the plague lemmings, but still pretty bitter about them.

    I’m not. If they’re willing to risk serious illness and/or death in an attempt to “own” us, let them. The only people they are “owning” are themselves (yes, with all the caveats that I know children under 11 can’t get vaccinated yet and the immunocompromised are at risk, none of that changes their behavior in the slightest). And yes, it could eat into their vote totals at the margins, although I doubt they’ve thought much about that. I had one tell me that his doctor told him he didn’t need the vaccine because he was young and healthy. I told him he needs a new doctor! The fact that they’re telling themselves all kinds of lies about the vaccines (They make you magnetic! They cause 5g to hurt you! They cause you to shed a dangerous virus onto other people!) tells you that they know in their hearts they’re making a bad decision, but their desire to show liberals “you aren’t the boss of me, you can’t make me take it” has overridden what little common sense they have.

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    There is nothing but good as the RWNJs talk themselves out of getting vaccinated. It cuts the voting margins a little bit, cuts demand for scarce resources, and trims some of the aggressively stupid and deliberately ignorant out of the general population.

    Frankly, I’m glad to see more of the RWNJs get massively ill and die off.

    Which startles me, I was once compassionate about even stupid people, but they have convinced me to not give a fuck about their deaths. I won’t be talking anyone into getting a vaccination. If they don’t believe in science, fuck ’em. To quote EFG once more! Fuck ’em, those assholes!

    I quit wearing my industrial respirator some months ago, because it has unfiltered exhausts. Now that I’m vaccinated, I think I’m back to wearing the space mask, which is more comfortable, doesn’t fog my glasses, and provides more protection to the wearer than ordinary surgical masks. Will keep us from getting the flu or colds, as well as avoiding Sars-Corona-19, because even vaccinated people can catch the dammed virus!

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