Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. is in a 'bad position' as daily coronavirus cases hit record highs https://t.co/vwbWXZRfL8
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 28, 2020
Here's the full exchange in which Fauci certainly appears to call for a national mask mandate through strong questioning from @thenewsoncnbc pic.twitter.com/QG3KcKMqKh
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) October 29, 2020
“We’re getting more cases identified, but the cases are actually going up. And we know that, too, because hospitalizations are going up,” @HHS_ASH Brett Giroir on @nbc this morning on coronavirus surge. https://t.co/81YiOxjOT0
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 28, 2020
The overlay of new daily cases and hospitalizations in the US is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/0A62QHDL2H
— Decoherence (@DecoherenceWave) October 28, 2020
lots of folks have said, "this is waving a white flag." but it's worse than that; it's a conscious decision that hundreds of thousands of more dead americans–maybe millions–are easier than using the tools this country has had in place *for decades* to deal with pandemics https://t.co/sbusrBlMSo
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) October 29, 2020
Remember all those jackasses who insisted that COVID was really just a liberal brown secular urban problem because real America has lower population density? I guess they’ve been too busy to admit they were full of crap.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 28, 2020
White House could have traced and contained its covid-19 outbreak. It chose not to. “It’s only unknowable if you don’t want to know,” former CDC director says. By @desmondbutler @thamburger @bylenasun @sarahkaplan48 https://t.co/KXQVAqXmgt
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) October 28, 2020
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According to @WHO there has been a record of over 2 million new #Coronavirus cases in the past 7 days.
We have not even hit peak cold/flu season or the holidays and it’s this bad. We need to all come together to help turn this around.
— Dr.Krutika Kuppalli (@KrutikaKuppalli) October 28, 2020
Get this news out to MAGAland, quick! Will either encourage them to wear masks or diminish their admiration of Putin, a win either way. https://t.co/H4McFukyNg
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) October 27, 2020
Moscow transport dept tries to make mandatory mask and glove wearing glam. pic.twitter.com/rok8uwckpg
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) October 28, 2020
Russia confirmed 16,202 Covid-19 cases Wednesday, bringing its official number of cases to 1,563,976. A record 346 people have died in the past 24 hourshttps://t.co/aNEqzFUag1
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 28, 2020
BREAKING: German officials agree to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars and other leisure facilities in a bid to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. https://t.co/jLlQRxMboi
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2020
France to enter second national lockdown from Friday, with more businesses forced to shut but schools to stay open, the president says https://t.co/6GP5MziETN
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 28, 2020
England's COVID-19 infections doubling every nine days: Imperial College https://t.co/RHyrKUxqHC pic.twitter.com/tllPUAb9jm
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2020
BREAKING: India's Health Ministry says confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 8 million with 120,527 deaths. https://t.co/4vp5ciz6zr
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2020
Taiwan has hit 200 days without any domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19, highlighting the island’s continued success at keeping the virus under control even as cases surge in other parts of the world. https://t.co/blkPQaPeC0
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2020
The Marshall Islands has reported its first cases of the coronavirus after two people who flew from Hawaii to a U.S. military base tested positive. https://t.co/YNaE3k8sUC
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2020
Melbourne, once the epicentre of Australia's second wave of Covid, has exited a strict lockdown after four months
The city was "full of smiles" with people able to meet loved ones, and restaurants and shops able to reopenhttps://t.co/M1BZbZpuS1 pic.twitter.com/0lkNpntIwE
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 28, 2020
Canada celebrates Thanksgiving in October; it's a family gathering holiday, but people don't fly across the country to get together. Canadian Thanksgiving is much lower key event than American Thanksgiving.
And yet… a #Covid19 spreader.
Pay heed.https://t.co/dn0nIQAS0e— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 28, 2020
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The vast majority of people infected w/ mild-to-moderate Covid mount robust antibody response that's stable for ~5 months, according to research at Mount Sinai in NYC. Image: ELISA test plate w/ antibodies. The darker the yellow, the more antibody present https://t.co/z0dJXmrXdT pic.twitter.com/kz8eUi08d2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 28, 2020
As an explanation of how coronavirus spreads indoors, and what you can do to prevent that, this is as good as I've seen:https://t.co/FiR3ROiLq7
— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) October 29, 2020
The mouth is the primary source of SARSCoV2 infection & spread, according to a new preprint. Most Covid research has focused on the nose & lungs. This is the 1st study to identify the mouth & underscores the importance of face masks & physical distancing https://t.co/xsT6DUBD8S pic.twitter.com/o3z2AFizF2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 29, 2020
It is deeply unfortunate that we head into Fall without enough doses of this drug. Many of us were talking about this as early as March. Regeneron did extraordinary work to secure their own manufacturing, but we needed a concerted industrial effort to get the supply we needed. https://t.co/xAibkwK0dn
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) October 28, 2020
Remdesivir is the first drug approved to treat #covid19 in the US. Which is surprising given how little data there is of it helping patients much. @sciencecohen and I looked at how the drug failed its way to the top. Story here, thread tk tomorrow https://t.co/2Upq0sfy6Z
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) October 28, 2020
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Daily cases per 1 million in the Midwest have now shot past the Northeast at the height of the NY metro outbreak. pic.twitter.com/2L3a3s6Trs
— Decoherence (@DecoherenceWave) October 28, 2020
Dr. Birx out in the wilderness, visiting North Dakota and Montana.
“She said Yellowstone County is ‘in for a pretty rough next six to eight weeks in terms of continued high case counts.’” https://t.co/CkeYsCVNkZ
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 28, 2020
Canary in the coal mine. This mega testing site in Orlando, one of the busiest in Florida, has typically been short wait or no wait the last couple months. #COVID19 https://t.co/7LUiJ5X7Wf
— Michael McNarney (@mmcnarney) October 28, 2020
In emergency motion, AG Ken Paxton asks 5th Circuit Court to block the ruling on mandatory face coverings in polling places, saying it will force voters to choose between wearing a mask or losing their right to vote: pic.twitter.com/TunOnJP3eR
— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) October 28, 2020
Critical care docs told me if sick, they'd want to be treated in large hospitals with high-volume ICUs.
But, large or small, they warned, hospitals under strain will struggle to care for the new wave patients.
Mortality rates will rise again. https://t.co/AfCDtPgyxS
— Julia Belluz (@juliaoftoronto) October 28, 2020
I feel like the people who think Covid is a hoax aren't giving us hoaxers enough credit for our COMMITMENT.
With most of my disease japes, I start laughing inside five minutes. But here I am, six months in, getting hoax heart surgery for the "damage" the virus did to my atrium: pic.twitter.com/XhbC2lD3fC
— Scott Westerfeld (@ScottWesterfeld) October 28, 2020
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 23 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture, in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region. There are currently 45 confirmed (including 3 in serious condition) and 138 asymptomatic cases there. All the new confirmed cases were previously asymptomatic, further sign that the authorities caught the cluster early, and the rapid and vigorous response probably contained the outbreak to the factory and the workers’ close contacts in the nearby villages, not faced with community transmission in the county seat or urban part of Kashgar. Still, expect more of the currently asymptomatic cases to become confirmed, and possibly more asymptomatic cases to emerge from the quarantined contacts, in the coming days.
Yesterday, China reported 24 new imported confirmed cases and 16 imported asymptomatic cases:
Today, Hong Kong reported 3 new cases, 1 from local transmission, source of transmission has been identified.
JPL
Good morning! The power is out and apparently there are trees down all over the Atlanta area, so I’m not sure how soon it will be back on.
Raven, How is it in Athens?
David C
The Fauci interview in the first tweet was by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Anyone interested in Covid should subscribe to the channel for the weekly interviews led by Dr. Howard Bauchner. This one, with infectious disease expert Dr. Rochelle Walensky, covers a lot of ground.
https://youtu.be/7h8gvYJtglc
Baud
Oh but he’s doing nothing about the pants mandate, I’m sure. Hypocrite.
NotMax
In a week and a day tiny Lanai (population around 3000) has gone from 0 cases to nearly 100.
YY_Sima Qian
@Al Khalid
To answer your question yesterday, “confirmed case” in China is actually 确诊病例, or more properly translated as confirmed patient. Therefore, a confirmed case in the terminology of China National Health Commission means a confirmed COVID-19 patient, via clinical diagnosis. An asymptomatic case is one that is positive for SARS-CoV-2 but not (yet) exhibiting any symptoms. If an asymptomatic case develops symptoms, the case is redesigned as “confirmed”. A more familiar corollary might be someone who is an AIDS patient, versus HIV positive.
Before Apr. 1, when Chinese authorities were not disclosing the case counts for asymptomatics, there was suspicion that the government (at whatever level) were hiding cases. Since the public health authorities at various levels have started publishing asymptomatic case counts and case summaries, those suspicions have faded. From heath care resource management perspective, it is the number of confirmed patients that matters, though asymptomatic cases are currently placed under isolation in hospitals in China, for medical observation, due to the extremely low prevalence in the country. During the initial wave back in Jan. – Feb., asymptomatic case were probably missed (especially in Hubei Province), due to overwhelmed contact tracing and testing. Those that were found were placed in quarantine hotels, with skeleton medical staffs.
As far as I can see, Chinese authorities is generally transparent with the case, though there are anomalies (such as Shanghai never reporting any imported asymptomatic cases, only imported suspect cases, local authorities there might be working with slightly different definition there), the definitions are just different from those used in other countries. In any case, Chinese authorities seem to have a very limited definition of asymptomatic – zero detectable clinical symptoms at all (including bloodwork results). I suspect some other countries are only diagnosing outward symptoms when assessing whether a case is asymptomatic.
I remember Swedish Ministry of Health once complained that the RT-PCR tests sourced from BGI (a major Chinese genomics company, and one of the world leaders) were too sensitive (in their opinion), producing positive results for persons with extremely low viral loads, persons who are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms. It seems the Swedish authorities do not want to include such cases into their case counts.
raven
@JPL: Dr. Hackenbush : I’m sorry, sir, but there’s a hurricane blowing down here, and you’ll have to talk a little louder! Whew, it certainly is the windiest day we ever did have. Woo, it certainly is windy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icq2KvONMPA
OzarkHillbilly
I’m honestly surprised he cares. Texas has a 150 year history of denying people the right to vote. I wonder what changed? s//
raven
We just lost internet and youtube tv for about five minutes and it’s back up.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: How’s the gut?
NotMax
@raven
Internet goes up, internet goes down. No one can explain it.
:)
Seriously though, stay secure.
JPL
@raven: GA Power probably won’t access the outages until after nine.. I have a gas stove, so I can at least make some drip coffee
the pup woke me up before five
raven
@JPL: The Bohdi has gone pretty deaf so I had to tap him to take him out.
TS (the original)
I’m unsure how far Biden can legally go to contain covid-19. Most of our rules are set by the states (other than the country boundaries)
Melbourne families will probably be with family at Christmas, as will most Australians. What we will not have is open international borders. Apart from a recent agreement with New Zealand, no-one can travel to Australia without going into 2 weeks quarantine. Every day, at least one person in quarantine is found to have covid-19. If these people were allowed directly into the country, we would not be a minimal covid country. For all states there are still rules as to how many people can meet in a social environment and social distancing applies.
It can be controlled – all it takes is someone who thinks the health of the people they are elected to represent matters.
mrmoshpotato
Stranding supporters miles from their cars in freezing weather, throwing in the towel during a pandemic, etc.
Hooray for the Negligent Homicide Administration! And can we charge as an accessory every selfish shithead who didn’t vote for Hillary?
mrmoshpotato
Wouldn’t rows upon rows of caskets get the point across better? Oh wait. That might make their Dear Leader look bad.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Danger of some Muscovites taking up residence in them.
“It’s bigger than my apartment.”
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Mary G
South Dakota has the highest number of cases per 100,000 residents I’ve ever seen on the WaPo page – 115.
California is at 12 and the OC is still at 3.2. Very scary.
Has anybody seen AG Barr since the WH superspreader event for Amy Covid Barrett? hi
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
He seems to be arguing that if the polling station can turn you away for not wearing a mask, that deprives you of your right to vote. Is he serious?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Meh. Kinda fucked up but I’m not gonna die. He removed “8 giant gastric polyps with bleeding, resected and retrieved”, I have gastritis, and he wants to do another scope in 2 months, which I’m not real high on the idea of because on Jan. 1, 2021 the covid ought to be exploding out everywhere.
We’ll see. If I continue with severe acid reflux that has me spitting up blood I guess I will have to have it whether I like it or not.
Oh yeah, he also wants me off blood thinners, which really isn’t an option. I called to make an appt. with my RPN to figure out how to thread the needle and found out she is out on “indefinite leave” and the gal who is usually behind the desk is MIA too. Seeing as they became the Covid care unit for the tri county area 4 months ago…
I’m trying not to think too much. These people have been taking care of me for almost 20 years.
Mary G
@Amir Khalid: I’m sure he is. The Republicans are batshit crazy children. Or toddlers. Which is an insult to children and toddlers.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: And not near as crowded.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: damn dawg, hang in there!
eclare
@Mary G: I look at those numbers too and am amazed. My county is in the high twenties, not good but better than 115.
mrmoshpotato
“Wear a mask, or lose the right to vote.”
This is a non-decision, and the phrasing on this would embarrass a member of the weasel family.
Raven
I texted our non-driving neighbor to give her a ride to work and she said “not if you think it’s too risky”! Riskier than walking two miles in 50 mph winds!!!
p.a.
@NotMax:
Magnets
In a sign of the times, evidence methane release in Arctic becoming likely. Methane many times the insulating capacity of CO2.
If methane wants to join the 2020 horrorshow, it better get its ass in gear. Piker.
mrmoshpotato
@JPL: Are you safe?
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: not fun.
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: yes.. It’s still dark so can’t tell if I lost any trees, but I don’t think so. My nook is charged so when the computer battery goes, I’ll read.
One of my sons in Sandy Springs, lives in a pocket that has power. He’s normally the first to go since he has above ground power lines.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Busted tubes. A big truck probably drove over one.
mrmoshpotato
@JPL: Good. ?
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Take care of yourself OH! Hope with the polyp removal you get a bit of relief once you heal up some.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Haha. Так просторно!
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G:
And bats and shit.
jl
@YY_Sima Qian: I wonder how long ago the Swedes made that complaint. Very sensitive PCR tests are good when they pick up cases very early into infectious period, bad when they pick up traces of rna from resolved cases. The two cases can be distinguished by repeat testing and there are now reliable algorithms using 2 or 3 tests.
mrmoshpotato
@p.a.:
Perfect! I blame the dinosaurs – particularly the Fartasaurus.
jl
Thanks to AL for posting on Taiwan. They managed great control without prolonged severe shutdowns. They built an entire supply chain for tests, masks, and PPE, so by now, no shortages.
My only quibble is the worry worting about whether the disease is still on the island. Of course it is. Every disease in history is still with us except for smallpox and rinderpest. There are dozens of cases of SARS every year. Taiwan shows that the disease can be very effectively controlled, while maintaining a half way normal life, until we can get mass immunization.
raven
@JPL: There were no trees down on the route to downtown but lots of branches in the road.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. The Ministry of Health’s Twitter feed reports 649 new cases today, a 19% drop from yesterday’s number, for a cumulative reported total of 30,090 cases. And, for the first time in three weeks, zero deaths, which keeps the total at 246 deaths — 0.84% of the cumulative reported total, 1.23% of resolved cases.
Five new clusters have been identified: Sakti and Tuguson in Sabah, Taman Laut and Bah Medan in Selangor, and Taman Bunga in Negeri Sembilan.
642 new cases are of local origin. Sabah has 352 cases: 44 in older clusters, seven in the new Sakti cluster, four in the new Tuguson cluster, 170 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings. Selangor has 132 cases: 64 in older clusters, six in the new Taman Laut cluster, four in the new Bah Medan cluster, 41 close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 43 cases: 20 in older clusters, 16 in the new Taman Bunga cluster, five close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Kedah has 37 cases, all in existing clusters.
KL has 21 cases: 12 in existing clusters, eight close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Labuan has 17 cases: 15 in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Penang has 13 cases: 12 in in existing clusters, and one other screening. Johore has 10 cases, ninr in existing clusters, and one other screening. Sarawak has eight cases: seven in existing clusters, and one other screening. Perak has five cases: four in existing clusters, and one other screening.
Putrajya has one case, a close-contact screening. Melaka has one case in an existing cluster. Terengganu has one case in an existing cluster. Pahang has one case, in other screening. Perlis and Kelantan have reported no new cases.
Seven new cases are imported. Three were reported in Selangor, two in KL and two in Sarawak. (The countries of departure were not given today.)
685 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 19,757 patients recovered — 65.66% of the cumulative reported total. 10,087 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 106 are in ICU, of whom 23 are on ventilators.
YY_Sima Qian
@jl: I read about the Swedish complaint in early October, I think. Since the Swedish health authorities did not want people with very mild symptoms to be counted (unless there was a mistranslation to English), I don’t think they were worrying about the relatively low percentage of recovered cases that continue to shed dead viral particles.
Overall, I have been disappointed by European nations’ response to COVID-19, especially with the breathtaking complacency that set in over the summer after they successfully suppressed the 1st wave with lock downs, and the dithering procrastination in face of early signs of the 2nd wave in late Sept. Instead, we saw some of the same wishful thinking among political leaders and significant portions of the population that the 2nd wave will be high on cases but relatively low on hospitalizations, that impaired response in Florida, Texas and Arizona in Jun. & Jul. Even Germany and Scandinavia really only look good compared to rest of Europe (and the US and Latin America). Place them in East and Southeast Asia they would be down with the Philippines and Indonesia in terms of the effectiveness of response. Of course, being surrounded by nations with high and surging prevalence, and with cross-border travels still unfettered. even the best domestic response by Germany and Scandinavia can only do so much. (Likewise with the few states that are still holding on in the US.)
While the 2nd wave in Western and Southern Europe is still far from the magnitude of the 1st wave in Mar. & Apr. (much better testing is catching far more cases), the governments are also not reacting as decisively as during the 1st wave. Eastern Europe largely avoided the 1st wave with some preemptive lock down measures, which seem to lead the political leaders and much of the populations to believe they would be safe. Must be some of the fatigue that WHO has been talking about in recent days.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: Sorry for getting your name wrong in my message earlier! (Smack on the head)
gbbalto
This is what we should be trying for. I am so glad that my 92 year old mother, my sister and BIL all live there –
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-atlantic-bubble-has-largely-succeeded-in-keeping-out-covid-1/?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20201029&instance_id=23596&nl=the-morning®i_id=108519135&segment_id=42711&te=1&user_id=30d6d59aef2294e157690ec625568aa
ETA – Canadians, including Atlantic Canadians, are not particularly “deferential” – there are just a lot fewer covidiots.
Amir Khalid
@YY_Sima Qian:
I forgive you. You may now un-smack your head.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: Sabah definitely appears to be trending down. The lock down is working, though costly.
Amir Khalid
@YY_Sima Qian:
I think we in Malaysia are lucky to have professionals in government who know what they’re doing, and who have been supported rather than undermined by the politicians.
YY_Sima Qian
@jl: I admit to be somewhat pleasantly surprised by Taiwan’s COVID-19 response. The civil service has always been competent, and its national health system is highly regarded. However, politics and society in Taiwan are almost as deeply fractious as in the US, and the DPP government’s public policy over the past 4 years has been characterized by wishful thinking, cynicism and nepotism/cronyism (whether in energy, defense, infrastructure, etc.), and rapid politicization of hitherto technocratic and non-partisan agencies. However, memories of SARS is still fresh in the collective psyche (as is the case across much of East and Southeast Asia), Taiwan’s domestic COVID-19 response has been largely spared of political rancor.
Taiwan is also fortunate that the 1st detected outbreak of COVID-19 in Mainland China was in Wuhan, and that the Chinese government placed the cordon sanitaire around Hubei Province before COVID-19 took root in the rest of the country. If the first major outbreak was in the Yangtze or Pearl River Delta regions, where hundreds of thousands (up to a million) of Taiwanese live, and tend to all head back to the island before Chinese New Year, it would have been much more challenging to suppress the 1st wave. Same for South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Brachiator
This is pretty good stuff. However, the nightclub scenario should consider what happens when people do not wear masks, but there is good ventilation. And from photos in British pubs, I don’t think that people wear masks while eating or drinking.
The school models note that “schools only account for 6% of coronavirus outbreaks recorded by Spanish health authorities.” They are doing something right. I don’t know if the model shown adequately summarizes what schools are doing. I wonder, for example, whether there are fewer students in a typical classroom.
At home situations: I wonder whether people wear masks at home when they have guests. I think one takeaway from this site is to maybe limit time socializing, even though this may feel like a sacrifice, and have good ventilation, or maybe try to meet non-household family and friends outdoors.
ETA: The US and other countries should really be paying attention to what is happening in Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand with respect to containing the virus.
Instead we have Trump barking about the “China virus” and making noise about what he is going to do to “hold China accountable.” Disgusting, and counter-productive.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday from the UK.
There were 24,701 new cases, 2000 or so cases more than the day before. Cases by home nation:
England – 21,245 (up @1500)
Northern Ireland – 840 (up @120)
Scotland – 1202 (down @100)
Wales – 1414 (up @200).
Case numbers continue to increase but there is an identifiable reduction in how steeply they are doing so (at least for now).
Deaths – There were a total of 310 deaths, a bit down from the day before but still higher than earlier in the week. The trend continues upwards. 236 deaths were in England, 9 in Northern Ireland, 28 in Scotland and 37 in Wales.
Testing – 280,995 tests were processed out of a capacity of 439,541. For the last two days there has been a major difference between the number of cases processed and the capacity.
Hospitalisations – 9520 people were in hospital as of Monday last and 902 were on ventilators as of Tuesday, 27th October. Both up from the day before.
No general news of any significance.
YY_Sima Qian
Trump White House looking to implement herd immunity policies as they head toward defeat (fingers crossed) next week, sure feels like the last days of Hitler’s bunker, this time repeated as farce (though consequences will still be tragic). The period between Election Day and Jan. 20 will be harrowing.
If Trump and the GOP go down in massive defeat, would the Republicans in the current Congress and the state houses finally stand aside to allow meaningful policies to be implemented (finally liberated from the mill stone that is Trump supporters), or are they true believers that will instead double down on nihilism? Most likely a rhetorical question…
Another Scott
Thanks for the pointer to the El Pais article on aerosols and mitigation. It’s great to have all that clearly summarized in one place. Very well done.
But it makes one wonder about the Rose Garden SuperSpreader party for Amy Covid Barrett…
Cheers,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
@YY_Sima Qian:
No, because Sack of Shit McConnell doesn’t care about governing. He cares about power. And if the Rethuglicans lose the Senate, he’ll try to wreck more before they lose their majority (and hopefully he’s out on his turtle ass.)
Dump will pick up a flamethrower and sledgehammer as well. These are evil, evil, democracy-hating fuckers.
YY_Sima Qian
@mrmoshpotato: I think you are right about McConnell, but would all of the GOP senators still stand in lock step, especially those that already lost, or are up for reelection in 2022?
Slappy Kincaid
One of the guys I fish with is a pretty big Trump supporter, so is his son. They don’t take Covid very seriously. About three weeks ago, his son went on a golf weekend in SC with about 30 guys (they couldn’t do it here in NC because of Cooper’s restrictions). A third of them came back to NC with the virus.
He died yesterday.
mrmoshpotato
@YY_Sima Qian: I think so. Romney showed a flash of morality in voting to remove Dump after the House impeachment over asking Ukraine to create bullshit on Biden, but then he voted to confirm Amy Cult Member Barrett.
The rest of the GOP Senators voted against removal and also confirmed the cultist to the Supreme Court.
mrmoshpotato
@Slappy Kincaid: Are you able to get tested for peace of mind?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Just more of Trump punishing his own base for not loving him enough.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I would say that California is an example of Post Trump virus response; the liberal urban countries do their best to control the pandemic themselves, the purple and red urban counties had to learn the hard way first before they got serious, some of the red rural counties there simply is no pandemic due to low population density and then their is Imperial County, were no amount of death and suffering will move the county leadership from their dogma. So yes to both, at the same time
So my bet is in a Biden administration a lot of the Red States like Texas will happily take Federal aid as long as they can bad mouth the Democrats for it, but South Dakota will be a charnel house tell the bitter end.
Ken B
I apologise if this has been answered, but I saw that robust response is good for about five months.
Is that like the earlier study, which meant ‘We’re pretty sure that this is good for at least five months, but it’s too early to say how long it’s good for,’ or does it mean that the response is now shown to fade after about five months, on average?
Because those are two very different results.
gwangung
@NotMax: Locals are pretty livid about it, from what I can tell. Blaming pressure on opening up for tourists and on the US military on not being transparent on cases (and not screening them very well).
Fair Economist
@Amir Khalid: I keep meaning to ask – what went wrong in Malaysia? You had it under pretty good control for a while.
Amir Khalid
@Fair Economist:
The officially favoured theory of what caused this third wave is infected illegal immigrants who came in via Sabah’s long coastline, which wraps around the northeastern tip of the roughly triangular island of Borneo. The many small islands close to it have traditionally provided staging points for smuggling in people from the southern Philippines and Indonesia — who are mostly Muslims of Malay ethnicity, which makes it easier for them to blend in to the local population.
Then visitors from Peninsular Malaysia returned with Covid-19 and that’s how it spread to other states.