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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chook Music of the Day
Scaly Thrush, Taichung Metropolis, Taiwan. “玉山圓柏灌叢中鳴叫”.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“Raskin: To Name It Undemocratic To Take Trump Off The Poll Is Like Permitting Voters To Determine Desegregation, Equal Safety” [RealClearPolitics]. From Raskin’s dialog with CNN host Laura Coates:
The authors of the 14th Modification themselves handled that query. They felt that if somebody units themselves at struggle towards the Structure and engages in essentially the most profound anti-democratic act of attempting to overthrow an election by putting in themselves in workplace with an riot, then at that time, they’re constitutionally- barred.
I want Democrats would cease mendacity about what the Fourteenth Modification truly says. It’s unbecoming.
Biden Administration
“5 issues we discovered from the Biden-Xi assembly [BBC]. • Local weather, fentanyl, army communication, continued talks, pandas. After which there’s this:
Watching Blinken cringe at Biden is like watching the American empire crash and burn in actual time.pic.twitter.com/aLxaJ9QV6D
— Danny Haiphong (@SpiritofHo) November 17, 2023
Effectively price watching. A number of occasions!
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“Mayorkas unaware that Clapper, Brennan signed Hunter Biden laptop computer disinformation letter” [Washington Times]. Additionally Paul Kolbe. “Mr. Mayorkas went on to defend his choice to nominate the three, calling them ‘distinguished former members of the intelligence neighborhood.’” • From the Division of How Silly Do They Assume We Are?
Our Famously Free Press
“NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Hold Watch on the Web and Be a Choose of the Reality” [Lee Fang, RealClearInvestigations]. “As an alternative of merely suggesting rebuttals to untrustworthy data, as many different present anti-misinformation teams present, NewsGuard has constructed a enterprise mannequin out of broad labels that classify whole information websites as secure or untrustworthy, utilizing a person grading system producing what it calls “vitamin labels.” The scores – which seem subsequent to an internet site’s title on the Microsoft Edge browser and different techniques that deploy the plug-in – use a scale of zero to 100 primarily based on what NewsGuard calls ‘9 apolitical standards,’ together with ‘gathers and presents data responsibly’ (price 18 factors), ‘avoids misleading headlines’ (10 factors), and ‘doesn’t repeatedly publish false or egregiously deceptive content material’ (22 factors), and so on. … Critics be aware that such scores are totally subjective – the New York Occasions, for instance, which repeatedly carried false and partisan data from nameless sources through the Russiagate hoax, will get a 100% score…. NewsGuard is pushing to use its browser screening course of into libraries, tutorial facilities, information aggregation portals, and web service suppliers. Its attain, nevertheless, is much larger due to different merchandise it goals to promote to social media and different content material moderation companies and advertisers. ‘An advertiser’s worst nightmare is having an advert placement harm even one buyer’s belief in a model,’ mentioned Crovitz in a press launch touting NewsGuard’s “BrandGuard” service for advertisers. ‘We’re asking them to pay a fraction of what they pay their P.R. individuals and their lobbyists to speak about the issue,’ Crovitz advised reporters…. NewsGuard’s BrandGuard instrument gives an ‘exclusion record’ that deters advertisers from shopping for area on websites NewsGuard deems problematic.” • Eesh, libraries? Isn’t this what we’ve got librarians for?
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
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“New York decide lifts the gag order that barred Trump from maligning court docket workers in fraud trial” [Associated Press]. ” A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court docket personnel after he disparaged a legislation clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was quickly lifted Thursday by an appellate decide who raised free speech issues. Choose David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court docket issued what’s referred to as a keep — suspending the gag order and permitting the previous president to talk freely about court docket workers whereas an extended appeals course of performs out…. At an emergency listening to Thursday, Friedman questioned Engoron’s authority to police what Trump says exterior the courtroom. He additionally disputed the trial decide’s rivalry that limiting the 2024 Republican front-runner’s speech was vital or the precise treatment to guard his workers’s security.”
“Trump crew strikes for mistrial in NY case, AG asks decide for December deadline on choice” [FOX]. “Trump’s crew filed the movement for a mistrial Wednesday, citing Choose Arthur Engoron’s previous social posts on an alumni web page for Wheatley Faculty. Within the posts, the decide seems to reference the case, in addition to Trump and members of the previous president’s household… ‘On this case, the proof of obvious and precise bias is tangible and overwhelming,’ wrote Trump legal professionals Clifford Robert and Alina Habba.” • Not one of the protection I can discover gives any precise quotes from Engoron (I hold eager to sort Erdogan). The Wheatley Faculty Alumni Affiliation has a Substack. The one reference to Trump by Engoron that I can discover there’s from 2022, and complimentary (search the web page for “Trump”). There may be additionally www.wheatleyalumni.org, which the Substack appears to duplicate, partly. I can’t discover something unfavorable by Engoron there, both. From the precise movement:
Since when is “posting a hyperlink” a “public remark”? Erdogan, no less than at www.wheatleyalumni.org, is explicitly a blogger. See the URLs: “BlogPost/Blogpost-20221005-79.html.” Any blogger is aware of that posting a hyperlink isn’t the identical as commentary! Get Atrios to testify to that impact. Or Lambert!
“Trump rails towards studies Biden received’t be charged over categorized paperwork” [The Hill]. “Particular counsel Robert Hur is predicted to place collectively a essential report of Biden’s [handling of classified documents] however its not more likely to end in prison costs, the Wall Road Journal first reported Thursday. Trump, who faces prison costs in Florida in a categorized paperwork case, fumed on Reality Social towards what he known as ‘selective prosecution.’
“The election interference case towards Trump is taking form” [NPR]. “The federal election interference case towards former President Donald Trump is coming into sharper focus, as prosecutors assert he’s chargeable for the violence on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and provide new clues about how they intend to show it…. Prosecutors say Trump shouldn’t be capable of distance himself from the mayhem. They are saying proof of the assault on the Capitol is ‘highly effective and probative’ about his motive and intent. ‘Certainly, that day was the end result of the defendant’s prison conspiracies to overturn the official outcomes of the presidential election, when the defendant directed a big and indignant crowd — one which he had summoned to Washington, D.C., and fueled with knowingly false claims of election fraud — to the Capitol,’ wrote senior assistant particular counsels Molly Gaston and Thomas Windom.” “Summoned”? Extra: “For the primary time, the Justice Division crew mentioned they will use video proof to point out Trump inspired the gang on the rally to go to the Capitol, beginning quarter-hour into his speech. They mentioned they are going to present testimony, images and geolocation proof — primarily, cellphone pings — to point out how particular Trump supporters listened to him, then went on to strong-arm police and breach the Capitol…. Trump’s legal professionals mentioned the previous president known as for the rally crowd to be ‘peaceable and patriotic.’ They asserted that a lot of the crowd on the rally on Jan. 6 did behave peacefully.”
“Donald Trump’s 2024 Trial Schedule Drifts Into Chaos” [TheMessenger]. “In principle, Donald Trump is dealing with down the prospect of 4 prison trials in 4 completely different circumstances subsequent 12 months that conflict with the core interval of his marketing campaign to return to the White Home. In observe, as court docket filings, judicial rulings, public statements and different latest developments have illustrated, Trump might face only one trial on his street to Election Day 2024. By all accounts, together with her personal, U.S. District Choose Tanya Chutkan has no intention of budging on the March 4, 2024, begin date of Trump’s Washington D.C., trial on federal election-subversion costs…. Chutkan has ordered Trump’s legal professionals and Smith’s prosecutors by Jan. 9 to give you an inventory of potential questions they need to use to vet jurors. The potential jury pool can also be scheduled to seem on Feb. 9 on the federal courthouse within the shadow of the U.S. Capitol and website of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that’s central to the case.Throughout an October listening to over a gag order that was imposed on all events within the case, Chutkan mentioned she had no plans to maneuver dates round regardless of pleadings from the previous president to push every little thing again till after Election Day 2024…. But the trial date might in the end fall exterior of Chutkan’s management.” • Numerous element on scheduling. It might be that the true Democrat purpose shouldn’t be conviction, however sucking cash away from the Trump marketing campaign into his lawyer’s coffers. Additional, a marketing campaign’s most vital useful resource is the candidate’s time; to the extent that Trump shouldn’t be capable of flip the trials into marketing campaign occasions, the Democrats are sucking that away, too.
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“Speaker Johnson makes 2024 endorsement: ‘All in for President Trump’” [New York Post]. “‘I’ve endorsed him wholeheartedly. Look, I used to be one of many closest allies that President Trump had in Congress,’ Johnson (R-La.) advised CNBC’s ‘Squawk Field.’ ‘He had an outstanding first time period these first two years.’” Fastidiously sidestepping Covid, particularly Operation Warp Pace. Extra: “‘We introduced in regards to the biggest financial numbers within the historical past of the world, not simply the nation, as a result of his insurance policies labored and I’m all in for President Trump,’ Johnson continued. ‘I anticipate he’ll be our nominee, yeah, and he’s gonna win it and we’ve got to make Biden a one-term president.’ Johnson’s predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), has maintained a pleasant rapport with Trump, however has to date declined to endorse him within the midst of the first.”
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“The Implosion of Nikki Haley’s Social Media Campaign” [Politico]. “‘Each individual on social media needs to be verified, by their title. That’s, to start with, it’s a nationwide safety menace,’ Haley mentioned Tuesday on Fox Information, as a result of it may possibly unfold misinformation. Banning nameless accounts would get ‘rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese language bots,’ she continued. On the Ruthless podcast that day, Haley reiterated her pitch: ‘They should confirm each single individual on their outlet, and I need it by title.’ Haley earned fast broadsides from two of her Republican opponents. Vivek Ramaswamy waved the free speech flag as he denounced her proposal as censorship. Ron DeSantis reminded her that the Federalist Papers had been written anonymously. Journalists and activists unloaded with extra of the identical, together with Glenn Greenwald, Charlie Kirk and Dana Loesch. By Wednesday, Haley had softened her harsh proposal, saying, ‘I don’t thoughts nameless American individuals having free speech; what I don’t like is nameless Russians and Chinese language and Iranians having free speech.’ Haley’s proposal crumpled underneath essentially the most light scrutiny. With a purpose to show that you simply’re an American worthy of nameless speech underneath her regime, wouldn’t you must … establish your self, thereby dropping your anonymity? And that’s for starters. Would such a government-mandated scheme be authorized? In all probability not. Is the plague of nameless misinformation by some means distinctive to the web, requiring particular guidelines for it? No. How sensible would it not be to establish each social media account by title? Not very.” • Light-weight.
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“Ballot: A majority of Democrats need new candidate to problem Biden in 2024 main” [Yahoo News]. “In an indication of rising concern about President Biden’s probabilities of profitable reelection, a majority of potential Democratic main voters (54%) now say they wish to see ‘one other Democrat’ enter the race to problem him for his or her get together’s 2024 nomination, in line with a brand new Yahoo Information/YouGov ballot. Solely 28% say they might not like a brand new Democratic candidate to main the president…. At this level, the chances that Biden will draw a high-profile main opponent are vanishingly slim. Some submitting deadlines have already handed; others are quick approaching. Occasion leaders and sources virtually all the time fall in line behind an incumbent president, and Biden is not any exception. Any new challenger could be shunned, risking his or her future in Democratic politics.” • Sooner or later, no matter they’re juicing Biden up with will fail. It has occurred to me that the nearer this failure level is to the Democrat Nationwide Conference August 19 to 22, 2024, Chicago), the extra doubtless it’s that the Democrat candidate might be chosen within the traditional smoke-filled room. And actually, who doesn’t need that?
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“Biden stokes Newsom presidential buzz at APEC occasion alongside California governor” [Washington Examiner]. Biden: “I need to discuss Gov. Newsom,” Biden mentioned Wednesday throughout a reception for APEC leaders. “I need to thank him. He’s been one hell of a governor, man. As a matter of truth, he might be something he needs. He can have the job I’m on the lookout for.“… Newsom has performed a distinguished function at APEC, greeting Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the airport and internet hosting a high-dollar fundraiser for Biden on Tuesday.” • Photograph op:
by no means seen xi smile like that beforegood for gavin pic.twitter.com/OXWjytt3YA
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 16, 2023
I ponder what The Wizard of Kalorama™ thinks of Biden’s quip? It happens to me that of two potential oligarchical clans vying for hegemony within the Democrat Occasion, he would possibly want one nearer to his previous stomping grounds in Chicago.
“CNN Unique: Particular counsel utilizing California grand jury in Hunter Biden probe, subpoenas his uncle James Biden” [CNN]. “James Biden, President Joe Biden’s brother and a one-time enterprise affiliate of Hunter, is among the many people who’ve obtained a subpoena in latest weeks, in line with two sources near the investigation.” • Not simply Hunter — expensive Hunter! — then.
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“Schwarzenegger on Trump, Biden: ‘They’re each flawed’” [Axios]. Schwarzenegger: “The underside line is, I feel we have to discover new leaders. To me they’re each flawed and I simply suppose we’re at a time now the place we’d like somebody sturdy, the place we’d like visionaries, and never people who tinker round with little Mickey Mouse stuff. They’re [politicians in Washington] killing themselves to get only a easy finances going. I imply, the place are we now? , it’s simply, it’s embarrassing to the remainder of the world the way in which we type of, like, can’t get issues carried out, we will’t resolve the immigration difficulty, we will’t resolve the well being care difficulty, we will’t resolve the debt that we’re accumulating and the deficit that we constantly have… all of the infrastructure issues…” The limitless wars… Extra: “We don’t know the place is Trump going to be, legally. We don’t know what’s going to occur with Biden, if he actually goes to remain in. We don’t know if there’s not a 3rd candidate coming. So I feel all of that is untimely, to speak about ballot numbers, to speak about any of these items.” • So Schwarzenegger (like me) thinks the story is volatility, not stablity (the place “stability” means the Trump v. Biden rematch that so many pundits suppose is a foregone conclusion.
“Is There an Institution Plan to Repeal Antitrust Legal guidelines?” [Matt Stoller, BIG]. “Right here’s Montana Senator Jon Tester, working for reelection in a really Trump-friendly state as a Democrat, attacking consolidation within the meat-packing and seed industries as a degree of distinction between the events… [T]he juxtaposition of very fashionable antitrust with ham-fisted efforts to weaken antitrust gives fertile terrain for performing some brute politics…. Given the place most Republican and Trump voters are on problems with company energy, the assault adverts write themselves… That type of advert might be carried out in a Republican main, or a common election. They may be utilized in Democratic primaries, or common elections. It actually doesn’t matter. The purpose is, proper now, decrease costs are the highest precedence for over two-thirds of voters. But, most voters haven’t heard about what antitrust enforcers are doing… Senator Jon Tester thinks it’s politically salient sufficient to carry up. It received’t take way more for large enterprise to be on the poll in 2024.” • Appointing Lina Kahn is among the only a few unambiguously good issues Biden has carried out, and he’s not working on it. Curious.
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NV: “A Snapshot of Biden’s Swing-State Troubles” [Jon Ralston, The Atlantic]. Not that I’m one to carry a grudge, however within the 2016 Nevada Democrat Conference, Ralston propagated a false story {that a} Sanders supporter threw a chair. So it’s stunning to see him rehabilitated, if that’s the phrase I need, within the pages of The Atlantic. Anyhow: “Nevada is tough to ballot for quite a lot of causes. Right here as a lot as anyplace else, pollsters are likely to underestimate the variety of individuals they should survey by cellphone to get a consultant pattern, they usually typically don’t do sufficient bilingual polling in Nevada, the place practically a 3rd of the inhabitants is Hispanic. Nevada additionally has a transient inhabitants, plenty of residents working 24/7 shifts, and an citizens that’s much less educated than most different states’. … Nevada issues in presidential elections, however we’re additionally, let’s face it, a tad bizarre… Nonetheless, Democrats have causes to fret. Nevada was clobbered by COVID disproportionately to the remainder of the nation, as a result of our economic system is so narrowly targeted on the on line casino trade…. the state has been slowly shifting to the precise—not simply in polling however in Election Day outcomes. In 2020, Nevada was the one battleground state that noticed worse Democratic efficiency in contrast with 2016, except you embrace the extra solidly purple Florida. Nevada’s new Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, is constructing a formidable political machine. Republicans have made inroads with working-class white voters right here, leaving Democrats with an ever-diminishing margin of error.”
Republican Funhouse
“Constructing now for a conservative victory via coverage, personnel, and coaching” [Project 2025]. “It isn’t sufficient for conservatives to win elections. If we’re going to rescue the nation from the grip of the unconventional Left, we’d like each a governing agenda and the precise individuals in place, prepared to hold this agenda out on Day One of many subsequent conservative Administration…. The 2025 Presidential Transition Mission paves the way in which for an efficient conservative Administration primarily based on 4 pillars: a coverage agenda, Presidential Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and playbook for the primary 180 days of the subsequent Administration.” There’s a Playbook (920 pages in PDF). Because the spooks are huge gamers, I believed I’d see what the Playbook has to say about them:
It’s good to see that Republicans, too, appreciated the straightforward joys in life; on this case, defenestrating Clapper and Brennan. However I believed solely liberal Democrats believed within the Norms Fairy. Right here is one response from an account I like and belief:
Mission 2025. What’s your plan within the occasion this turns into actuality?
Are you making ready for it? Are you able to realistically flee the States? Not that bullshit we discuss on-line.
— Shay Stewart Bouley (@blackgirlinmain) November 17, 2023
Project2025 appears to be like like a line-up of typical Republican reactionaries (see the About Web page). Horrid, little doubt, however not Mein Kampf. However why the heck can’t Democrats get it collectively to do one thing comparable? (The closest instance I can consider is Biden’s transition crew in 2020, (additionally) a bloated monstrosity, none of whose deliverables got here to something.) This additionally appears to be like like a Heritage Basis manufacturing; they’re no less than recognized amount. Anyhow, there are already loads of causes to flee the States, beginning with the well being care system. Extra examine wanted!
“Trumpworld Is Already at Battle Over Staffing a New Trump White Home” [Daily Beast]. “The America First Coverage Institute was supposed so as to add the ideological heft to Donald Trump’s advert hoc, seat-of-your-pants policymaking. However a 12 months out from Election Day, Trump’s allies are signaling that the group could also be doing extra hurt than good—and the marketing campaign is making it clear that Trump, not any exterior group, might be in command of staffing up one other White Home. The Day by day Beast reviewed an inside AFPI e mail displaying workers contained in the group gathering names and searching for suggestions for future Trump administration posts. When Trump marketing campaign operatives obtained phrase of that effort, they noticed it not solely as untimely, but in addition not AFPI’s place. However extra to the purpose, Trump’s associates are telling the suppose tank to again off from its donors, fearing that AFPI could also be cannibalizing marketing campaign contributors and complicated those that need to straight assist Trump’s 2024 effort…. Two of Trump’s prime advisers—Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita—took the notable step of issuing a joint assertion earlier this week clarifying that exterior teams don’t ‘communicate for President Trump or his marketing campaign.’ ‘Subsequently, these studies about personnel and insurance policies which are particular to a second Trump Administration are purely speculative and theoretical,’ they mentioned. ‘Any personnel lists, coverage agendas, or authorities plans revealed anyplace are merely options.” Wiles and LaCivita had been apparently reacting to efforts by some individuals at AFPI and the Heritage Basis’s Mission 2025 to current themselves because the Trump White Home-in-waiting. A key pitch to donors of those teams has apparently develop into that these staffers may have super energy within the subsequent administration; giving now’s seen as one strategy to curry favor later.” • Hilarity ensues!
“Trump is out for vengeance, not Republican political empowerment” [The Hill]. • Who says they’re mutually unique? I imply, can’t Repunblicans have enjoyable and work laborious too?
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I must try this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Occasion (“the Democrat Occasion is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Occasion is, in truth, a tough downside. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Occasion is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). It follows that the Democrat Occasion is as “unreformable” because the PMC is unreformable; if the Democrat Occasion didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. If the Democrat Occasion fails to manipulate, that’s as a result of the PMC lacks the potential to manipulate. (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Occasion reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Occasion (ka-ching, however not totally) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with belongings within the press and the intelligence neighborhood.
Observe, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome as a type of Obsessive-Compulsive Habits:
Kevin Champeny, a mosaic artist, expresses what all of us really feel. pic.twitter.com/fpxnWhJZFV
— 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚢𝙳𝟹 (@billyd3_) November 16, 2023
“What all of us really feel.”
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the handle given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Keep secure on the market!
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Covid is Airborne
“Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19)” [United States Environmental Protection Agency]. “Unfold of COVID-19 happens by way of airborne particles and droplets. People who find themselves contaminated with COVID can launch particles and droplets of respiratory fluids that comprise the SARS CoV-2 virus into the air after they exhale (e.g., quiet respiratory, talking, singing, train, coughing, sneezing). The droplets or aerosol particles differ throughout a variety of sizes – from seen to microscopic. As soon as infectious droplets and particles are exhaled, they transfer outward from the individual (the supply). These droplets carry the virus and transmit an infection. Indoors, the very high-quality droplets and particles will proceed to unfold via the air within the room or area and may accumulate. Since COVID-19 is transmitted via contact with respiratory fluids carrying the infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus, an individual might be uncovered by an contaminated individual coughing or talking close to them. They may also be uncovered by inhaling aerosol particles which are spreading away from the contaminated individual. Transmission of COVID-19 from inhalation of virus within the air can happen at distances larger than six toes. Particles from an contaminated individual can transfer all through a complete room or indoor area. The particles may also linger within the air after an individual has left the room – they’ll stay airborne for hours in some circumstances.” • Too dangerous CDC and HICPAC can’t appear to get their heads around the idea. Or hospital an infection management, so-called.
Maskstravaganza
Simply make masking in medical amenities common and everlasting. Why putz round like this?
Doordash supply to a rehabilitation facility if I had recognized that they had a covid outbreak of fifty positives I might of declined 😡 pic.twitter.com/PfDHCnN8zj
— Information Report (@CovidDataReport) November 16, 2023
And why this mealy-mouthed “pleasewear a masks,” and “
Vaccines
I’ve by no means understood the argument that the vaccine precipitated extra hurt than the virus itself:
It is the virus, not the vaccine pic.twitter.com/VlrSrpCDVa
— Gregory Travis. Make faculties #DavosSafe (@greg_travis) November 17, 2023
Transmission
However why?
The Inquiry has now rescheduled the third preliminary listening to for Module 2B, the investigation into political and administrative choice making in Wales.
It’s going to happen on Tuesday 12 December.
Extra particulars observe quickly. https://t.co/TssSefqlI4
— UK Covid-19 Inquiry (@covidinquiryuk) November 17, 2023
‘Tis a thriller!
INTERNATIONAL BREAKING NEWS: The UK Inquiry Into That Factor We Don’t Discuss About Has Been Disrupted By That Factor We Don’t Discuss About. pic.twitter.com/dMIiGmdgVY
— The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) November 16, 2023
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” could be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, most probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind harm, together with persona modifications therefrom.
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Elite Maleficence
To the tables down at Mory’s / Wherever which may be:
I like guerrilla public well being messaging. The @CDCgov ought to notice that when individuals have to do that—then they’re failing their job. @CDCDirector ought to study from this. #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
HT @rnussbaum11 pic.twitter.com/J804LLLWaX
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 16, 2023
The “punchline” is silent:
Anticipate the punchline. 🤯🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/7DXwjhkUpL
— Lazarus Lengthy (@LazarusLong13) November 17, 2023
Simply take a look at these dishevelled blues!
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Lambert right here: Numerous indicators up, beginning with wastewater. (The one I fear about essentially the most is ER visits, since I feel that information is tough to sport, and who needs to go to the ER, anyhow?) I feel it’s time to ship the family members these clippings you saved on mind harm (additionally, after all, the 2022 clippings: right here, right here. And the 2020 one).
Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater information, November 13:
Lambert right here: Circumstances up, simply in time for Thanksgiving (and tinfoil hat time: That is the, er, inflection level CDC was attempting to hide after they gave the contract to Verily and didn’t guarantee a seamless transition).
Regional information:
All over the place!
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, November 11:
Lambert right here: High of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a robust second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…
From CDC, October 28:
Lambert right here: I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to amenities lower by directors of unwell intent).
CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information might be reported biweekly, primarily based on the supply of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, November 11:
Lambert right here: Slight will increase in some age teams, conforming to wastewater information. Solely every week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I might doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).
NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, no less than for its time interval, that Covid shouldn’t be seasonal, despite the fact that CDC is attempting to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of November 17:
Decline flattens. (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a distinct CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, no less than. November 4:
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and information offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, November 13:
-1.4%. However bouncing round. (It will be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and obtained examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, November 11:
Lambert right here: Improve (with backward revision; guess they thought it was over). I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is nice*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is attempting to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, October 23:
Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed below are the variants for vacationers, nonetheless from October 23:
Sudden huge BA.2.86 look. This variant chart has not been up to date, which makes me surprise if CDC is gaming the info, and BA.2.86 is worse than we predict.
Deaths
Whole: 1,182,259 – 1,182,163 = 96 (96 * 365 = 35,040 deaths per 12 months, in the present day’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would really like, although they’ll discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could must determine that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission completed” for this specific tranche of demise and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, November 17:
Lambert right here: Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin.
Stats Watch
Housing Begins: “United States Housing Begins” [Trading Economics]. “Housing begins within the US rose by 1.9% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annualized price of 1.372 million in October 2023, above market expectations of 1.35 million as restricted provide within the resale market has boosted new development.”
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At present’s Concern & Greed Index: 58 Impartial (earlier shut: 54 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 40 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 17 at 11:38:50 AM ET. Based mostly on what? Arms dealing?
The Gallery
Flyover nation is filled with nice structure:
went right into a movie show to see if I might take images of the foyer and the child working was like “dude you gotta see the precise theater” pic.twitter.com/zKoOe83Ue3
— Midwest Fashionable (@JoshLipnik) November 16, 2023
Class Warfare
“Starbucks staff in Larger Cleveland be a part of nationwide strike in the present day” [Signal Cleveland]. “Starbucks staff at three Larger Cleveland shops are scheduled to affix a one-day nationwide strike Thursday morning, protesting that unionized staff haven’t obtained a contract, the union mentioned…. ‘I made a decision to take part on Thursday, and helped arrange my retailer to take action, primarily based on the truth that Starbucks hasn’t come to the desk to cut price with us,’ [Cameron Stefan] mentioned. ‘Purple Cup Day is among the busiest days of the 12 months and normally one of many highest gross sales days for Starbucks. That is to point out them that we need to cut price. It is a day that may make our level by serving to their pockets to harm.’ … Starbucks spokesman Andrew Trull mentioned the corporate hasn’t refused to cut price. ‘Starbucks stays dedicated to enhancing the associate expertise and providing everybody who wears the inexperienced apron a bridge to a greater future,’ he wrote in an e mail to Sign Cleveland. ‘We’re inspired by the progress we’ve seen in direction of first contracts at shops the place union representatives have approached bargaining with professionalism and an precise curiosity in discussing associate priorities with our bargaining committees.’” • What a load of codswallop from Company. Eesh.
Information of the Wired
“Our Mission” [Apostrophe Protection Society]. “In the event you’re on the lookout for steering on the right use of apostrophes, you will discover this on our Apostrophe Use web page. If in case you have your personal photographic examples of misplaced, omitted or extreme apostrophe utilization, take a look on the Examples web page to see how one can submit your examples for inclusion on the positioning. You may be a part of the Apostrophe Safety Society to point out your assist and hold updated on the Be part of APS web page. It’s free, so why not be a part of in the present day!” • I ought to create some instance’s right here….
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