Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shock troops for the Unitarian Jihad.

Nevertheless, she persisted.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Where tasty lettuce and good mustard aren’t elitist.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Naturally gregarious and alpha

The house always wins.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Militantly superior in their own minds…

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

No one could have predicted…

How do you get liars to care about the truth?

Too inconsequential to be sued

This blog will pay for itself.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I’m going back to the respite thread.

I thought we were promised Infrastructure Week.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Everybody saw this coming.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Let there be snark.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Shocking, but not surprising

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Friday / Saturday, June 19-20

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    The Health Ministry Website is down, and the Director General doesn’t do the media briefing on weekends anymore. I may not be able to report numbers today.

  2. 2.

    Royston Vasey

    New Zealand had 2 new cases today. All the cases we have had in the past 5 days (5 in total) have been from overseas.
    Total cases now at 1,509 since all this began.
    Five active cases (all returning from overseas). No-one in hospital.
    No new deaths, total remains at 22
    All businesses are open, as are professional sports teams.
    Hardly anyone wears a mask – no real need as there have been no cases of community spread for over 30 days.
    Border still closed, and inbound quarantine beefed up.

     

    RV in NZ

  4. 4.

    Ms. Deranged in AZ

    Well, it’s a barrel o’ fun here in AZ. I read with great amusement about Adam’s Karen episode yesterday. If he lived here he would be having LOTS of those incidents. Even now when the daily new infection numbers doubled from around 1,500 to 3,200 in a single day at least half the population is not using masks. And it’s not just the “oh so masculine” white men, it’s every demographic. It’s like living in an insane asylum. Gov. Douchey will not order us to all wear masks and he sure as shootin won’t put us back on lockdown. We have a visit from Cheetolini next week and we wouldn’t want to disappoint that gelatinous POS. Most but not all cities have declared masks as mandatory as of yesterday but I live in the NW valley in an unincorporated part where people can apparently do whatever the f**k they want. Can someone please stop this ride, because I desperately want to get the hell off?!

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This thing is no longer on Donald’s radar.  He’s far too busy thinking about ways to put the uppity back in their place, and far too busy luxuriating in the adulation of his cretinous cultists.  Tens of thousands will die who would not have died if not for 80,000 morans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

  8. 8.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    you don’t have to wear pants, be employed by pants, or even know pants, to be oppressed by pants,

    are you not American?

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:

    Spoke (as it were) too soon. The numbers, per the Ministry’s Twitter feed. 21 new cases: 19 of them from local infection including seven non-Malaysians, two imported infections comprising one Malaysian and one permanent resident returning from abroad. Total 8,556 cases.

    76 more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,146 recovered or 95.2% of all cases. We’re down to 289 active and contagious cases, all isolated in hospital. Of the three in ICU, no one is on a ventilator. No new deaths for the sixth straight day, total still 121 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.42%, case fatality rate is 1.46%.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    Maui’s unemployment rate remains the highest in the state with the state Department of Labor and Industrial relations reporting a 34.5% unemployment rate for Maui Island in May. That’s slightly down from the 35.7% (non-seasonally adjusted) rate in April, but drastically different than the 2.4% rate at the same time last year. Source

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:

    I take it that Maui is heavily dependent on tourism, and the lack of incoming tourists because of Covid-19-related travel restrictions is the main problem.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    Yuppers. Dearth of tourism cascades through every sector (though I guess with the exception of government employees). Agriculture (both farming and ranching) is also a decent size component. Rough guess is that if one were to look at only non-agricultural workers then the rate would be around 50%.

    Ongoing effects into next year from the pandemic are going to force a sea change in the structure of the local economy. To what form, I’ve no idea.

  14. 14.

    trnc

    Is it just me, or is covid giving us the finger in Julia Coronado’s graph? I know it is everywhere else.

  15. 15.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 20 June 2020, a total of 7,436 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,888 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 19 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 62% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 2,000,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.4% have been positive.’

    27 new cases today, only 3 in quarantined returning travellers. With 25 cases today and 106 this week, Victoria is definitely having community transmission. They also have the only ICU/ventilated cases in the country. The state had plans to ease some restrictions on Monday, but have pushed them back to mid July.

    Only 28 cases have been detected in the rest of the country this week, so the Victorian situation is getting all the attention. My state shared a (closed) border with Victoria but it may not be as watertight as we would like.

    On the upside, 2 million tests is definitely a milestone.

  19. 19.

    TS (the original)

    @terben:

    According to the Victorian Premier, at least half of the new cases are via friend/family transmission where people told to isolate at home are still meeting up with family &/or neighbors. Also a case where a confirmed person went back to work – from what has been said because he had no sick leave. The premier announced a new payment of $1500 to anyone who has to isolate for 2 weeks & has no other payment source.

    The number of new cases because of the black lives matter protest is reported to be very small.

  20. 20.

    WereBear

    I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto.

    All these people, and their elected officials, are long to “get back to normal” and we all do, but Trump burned down that building.

    The business bankruptcies will run into the billions as the likes of Hertz and J. Crew collapse. All that debt from Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalists has sunk all those jobs. I was shocked to read on the “Karen Silverman” thread about the many businesses who are blowing off precautions, including bars and restaurants which will open and then close as the pandemic continues. This turns their tourism into a smoking crater.

    And Trump is going to keep pulling up to the blaze with a gasoline truck until January. By that time we are going to have to invent a new kind of society, or the tumbrils will roll.

    In NY, Governor Cuomo ended his daily press briefings yesterday, with a mini-doc that had us in tears and also laughing, like the giant sign that said, “Not Wear a Mask Outside? Fugheddaboutit.” As Ben Stiller tweeted, “It is the end of an era.”

    Say what you like about him, he pulled the state together, started our own testing, and came out of lockdown with rules and a plan. Thus, I have a hope of some kind of future.

    The people on Twitter making fun of NY and calling us names? Apparently they think the virus itself is a “NY thing.”

    No clues whatsoever. And that’s what is going to flatten them. They won’t listen. They won’t learn.

    It contributes a great deal to my sense of impending doom…

  21. 21.

    Jack Canuck

    @TS (the original): Not happy with how things are going here in Victoria, especially as a teacher who has no choice but to interact at close quarters with large numbers of people. But Andrews and the state government are doing the best they can and doing the right things. I think people have mostly been appreciative of the fact that we’re, you know, not most of the rest of the world at this point, but fatigue is setting in for people in terms of keeping up the distancing. Which I get, I’m tired of it too on some levels, but maybe they need this kick up the behind to remind them that the problem hasn’t gone away and we can still fuck this up.

  22. 22.

    TS (the original)

    @Jack Canuck:

    Edit Having trouble with the fingers today

    I think all the states have done well – locking the outside world was the biggest plus.

  23. 23.

    WereBear

    @Jack Canuck:  I think people have mostly been appreciative of the fact that we’re, you know, not most of the rest of the world at this point, but fatigue is setting in for people in terms of keeping up the distancing.

     
    From what I’ve been reading in epidemiology, this is a constant problem. If you are successful, it looks like nothing needs to be done.

    People need constant encouragement and feedback to keep on this unnatural path.

  24. 24.

    Jack Canuck

    @TS (the original): Agreed, I do actually give the Morrison government credit for doing a good job during the real crisis phase. My good will is rapidly evaporating as they return to business-as-usual culture wars and the like, however.

  25. 25.

    Jack Canuck

    @WereBear: It is hard to maintain the sense of urgency, and it is ironically probably even harder when there are only a few hundred active cases in the whole country. But these clusters that emerge show just how fast things can change!

  26. 26.

    Brachiator

    @terben:

    With 25 cases today and 106 this week, Victoria is definitely having community transmission.

    As people relax and try to “get back to normal,” we may be seeing the virus being spread in new ways, when compared to the earliest days of the pandemic. In Pasadena, California, in Los Angeles County, they are not seeing as many cases associated with nursing homes.
    Instead:

    Since Wednesday, June 17 — the last day this newsgroup reported on the city’s coronavirus landscape — there have been 36 new cases reported. Sixteen of those involved men, while 21 involved women.

    By age group, three involved patients younger than 18.

    This demographic has seen more reported cases in the past few weeks, and public health officials now have an explanation for the trend.

    In an email sent to this newsgroup, the city’s epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Feaster said 73% of cases involving 11- to 18-year-olds were household contacts “mostly due to family exposures, like parties.”

  27. 27.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Beijing reported 22 new domestic confirmed cases yesterday, as well as 4 new suspect and 2 new asymptomatic cases. 2 of the confirmed cases works at a food factory. One of the cases from the day before yesterday is a nurse at a hospital’s ER, a close contact of someone infected at Xinfadi. All cases since the start of the Xinfadi outbreak could be traced to the market, except the hotel restaurant worker in Tianjin.

    From 6/13 – 6 AM of 6/20, Beijing has collected swab samples from 2.3M people, the municipal CDC did not report how many tests have been processed, or if they are pooling samples (as Wuhan did for the mass screening). As soon as the the nurse tested positive on 6/18 (she had been screened on 6/17 as part of the mass screening of the hospital staff, and tested negative), the hospital was shut down. The nurse’s close contacts were quarantined, all other working staff held under observation in staff dormitories, non-working staff staying home to be screened with their communities. As of the morning of 6/20, 2669 medical staff at the hospital have been tested again, all negative.

    Hebei Province reported a new domestic confirmed case yesterday, a close contact of a confirmed case in Beijing.

    I just spent the past two days in Shanghai for business. As is ShenHen, things in Shanghai are almost back to normal (but movie theaters remain closed). Masking in public spaces is still high, especially in doors. However, about a third of the employees in the customer’s campus either did not wear masks or did not wear them properly. Of course, they are located in one of the industrial zones at the periphery of the city, not in the heart of the metropolis.

    Flights in China are operating at 1/2 to 2/3 capacity, with passengers assigned to every other seat. Apparently air in the cabin is replaced by outside air every few minutes, or so says the announcement. Food is prepackaged.

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    Forget where i saw it, but yesterday I saw images of CT scans of the lungs of people who were infected but “asymptomatic.” Showed significant “ground glass” lung damage. Those folks will have long-term issues.

    Asymptomatic. I don’t think that word means what we think it means.

  29. 29.

    Sab

    My stepdaughter went out to a bar the other night since the governor ended the lockdown. She is the single mother of a 6 year old. She’s almost 40 years old. She knows better. Then she got into a brawl interfering in complete strangers’ fight. WTF. She has multiple bruises where somebody punched her.

    Presumably, no masks were worn.

    I can’t even…Her brothers are essential workers, and she needlessly does stupid, stupid stuff like this

    ETA: NOBODY will be allowed on our property for Father’s Day. Stupid kids.

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    @Villago Delenda Est: 

    This thing is no longer on Donald’s radar. He’s far too busy thinking about ways to put the uppity back in their place, and far too busy luxuriating in the adulation of his cretinous cultists bored because it’s exceeded his attention span.

    FTFY.

  31. 31.

    rikyrah

    @burnspbesq:

    If you have a tweet about it, please post. I try to post as much COVID-19 stuff from people who never wound up on a ventilator, because I want to spread the word that even a mild case is serious.

  34. 34.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @burnspbesq: This has been known in China since at least Feb., seemingly asymptomatic (or with very mild symptoms) people presenting pneumonia in the lungs and reduced blood O2 levels, and they can quickly crash if they do not receive medical intervention early. Such cases would be classified as confirmed in China, rather than asymptomatic, since infection in the lungs is a clinical symptom. Some of the cases from the new outbreak in Beijing have no outward symptoms when traced and tested, but are quickly deemed confirmed by panel of experts, I assume with clinical symptoms from CT scans or blood works.

    Since late Feb., anyone visiting a fever clinic in China first get a flu panel, then RT-PCR swab, serological antibodies, chest CT scans, and full blood works. Anyone about to receive in-patient care gets the latter four before being allowed into the hospital wards.

  35. 35.

    Ben Cisco

    Popping in for the first time in a while.

    Alabama numbers as of < 40 minutes ago:

    • 29,002 cases confirmed
    • 787 new cases reported yesterday
    • 822 deaths
    • 11 deaths reported yesterday

    Mama Cisco reports that her rural, ruby red county is behaving as though nothing ever happened even in the face of increased (and increasingly public) infections. She has now curtailed what little venturing out she was doing; enough provisions have been laid in to make outside trips unnecessary for some time.

    Guess we’re going to learn the hard way here.

  37. 37.

    Suzanne

    I should note that my BIL in Arkansas tested positive for Covid. He works in a hospital. Ughhhh.

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