Through Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, that is an abbreviated H2O Cooler as a result of I want to end up a publish on Apple’s “Crush” Advert and finance capitalism. –lambert P.S. A reader corrected a Covid Assets access in a remark, and for the presen of me I will’t in finding it. Might I ask this reader to remark another time? Thanks!
Fowl Tune of the Past
Ventriloquial Oriole, Deramakot Jungle Hold, Sabah, Malaysia.
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Politics
“So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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2024
Lower than a part a era to walk!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 10:
Nationwide effects now shifting Trump’s method. The entire Swing States (extra right here) at the moment are in Trump’s column, together with Michigan and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania leans extra Trump this future than utmost. In fact, it is going with out pronouncing that those are all circumstance polls, subsequently unholy, and many of the effects are throughout the margin of error. Now, if both candidate begins breaking away in issues, rather of tenths of some extent…. NOTE I modified the notation: Up and i’m sick arrows for will increase or decreases over utmost future, circles for incorrect trade. Purple = Trump. Blue could be Biden if he had been prominent anyplace, however he isn’t.
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump hush money trial: A timeline of key events in the case” [Associated Press]. First key tournament: “January 2005: Trump marries his current wife, Melania.” • Hmm. Helpful, despite the fact that!
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Michael Cohen: A challenging star witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial” [Associated Press]. “In criminal trials, many witnesses come to the stand with their own criminal records, relationships with defendants, prior contradictory statements or something else that could affect their credibility. Cohen has a particular set of baggage. In testimony, he will need to explain his prior disavowals of key aspects of the hush money arrangements and to convince jurors that this time he is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand” [Lawfare]. From their reside weblog, the protection, wondering Jeff McConney, Trump Group controller: “Bove, however, does not get sidetracked. Payments to lawyers are for legal expenses, right? Yes. And you booked those expenses as legal expenses, right? Yes. You rarely had conversations with President Trump, right? Very rarely. And you never gave him a tour of the accounting system, did you? Right. Did [Trump Organization CFO Alan] Weisselberg ever suggest that Trump told him to do these things? No, McConney says. He never told him that.” • Dislike the supply, but it surely’s a just right reside weblog. Importance a learn.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Stormy Daniels Steps Down” [Lawfare]. • Many inconsistences in Daniels tale, however substantive?
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Biden (D): “Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | Seattle, WA” (transcript) [White House]. ” However we’re by no means moving to disregard.We’ll by no means disregard the reality — him mendacity in regards to the pandemic. He knew how unhealthy it was once, however he didn’t need to — he wouldn’t say it to anyone. He mentioned, ‘Just go inject a little bleach in your arm.’ (Laughter.) Too unholy he didn’t. (Laughter and applause.) Glance — all kidding apart, it was once odd. We misplaced 1,000,000 population. And the entire information presentations the ones million, each one in every of them had 8 population that had been important to them — brothers, sisters, uncle, aunts, moms, fathers, other halves, kids.” • Perceptible, shameless mendacity (incorrect indecision to a cheering “Vote Blue No Matter Who” society). On whiten: I don’t have week to dig out the hyperlink, however the year this tale unpriviledged, I checked the transcript, since you at all times have to test the transcript with Trump. Trump didn’t say that. “Bleach” was once Pelosi’s addition, and the clicking dogpiled with it. Extra severely, at the million deaths, maximum of them came about on Biden’s keep an eye on. See the to hand chart at correct:
Trump is attempting to create the rustic disregard how 1,000,000 population died of covid age he was once president, however we’ll by no means disregardhttps://t.co/S2r51UXxkA %.twitter.com/GXKDugn67k
— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) Might 13, 2024
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“Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden” [New York Times]. “Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five crucial battleground states, a new set of polls shows, as a yearning for change and discontent over the economy and the war in Gaza among young, Black and Hispanic voters threaten to unravel the president’s Democratic coalition. The surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Mr. Trump was ahead among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup against Mr. Biden in five of six key states: Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden led among registered voters in only one battleground state, Wisconsin.”
“Democrats Hold Leads in 4 Crucial Races That Could Decide Senate Control” [New York Times]. “Democratic candidates for the Senate in Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin lead their Republican rivals and are running well ahead of President Biden in key states where he continues to struggle, according to polls by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College.”
Pandemics
“I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; comprises many counties; Wastewater Scan, comprises drilldown through zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization through town).
Lambert right here: Readers, thank you for the collective try. To replace any access, do really feel independent to touch me on the cope with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic order. 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 experiences); 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 (Govt of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission
“Reducing Transmission of Airborne Respiratory Pathogens: A New Beginning as the COVID-19 Emergency Ends” [Linsey C. Marr and Jonathan M. Samet, Environmental Health Perspectives]. Notable. Concluding: “Within the authors’ opinion, it’s sunny that the biggest hurdle to decreasing the chance of airborne transmission of illnesses isn’t the rarity of medical wisdom however in lieu obstacles to implementation of interventions. Those obstacles come with investment to assistance adjustments to infrastructure and operations, training of facility managers and decision-makers about technical answers, and elevating crowd consciousness in regards to the worth of indoor wind component for condition. Well timed and evidence-driven requirements for indoor wind component and air flow are wanted, in conjunction with efficient air-cleaning applied sciences to bring about trade and advertise fairness in coverage in opposition to airborne pathogens. Within the opinion of the authors, we should bridge the distance between science and implementation to appreciate the possibility of advanced indoor wind control extra absolutely.
Possibly the best barrier is that incorrect unmarried entity is liable for designing, enforcing, and comparing tasks to leave transmission of respiration pathogens in indoor environments. A strategic analysis time table is wanted that addresses key uncertainties and helps construction and implementation of evidence-based methods to leave condition chance in indoor environments. There are parallel gaps round respiration coverage.97 Deny unmarried entity is charged with addressing important proof gaps, and analysis investment on this section was once restricted previous to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re involved that go will stall with creating evidence-based interventions to leave airborne condition with the top of the COVID-19 crisis. This lull is the week to arrange for the inevitable later pandemic brought about through a respiration pathogen.”
Trying out and Monitoring
“CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread” [STAT]. “Reluctance among dairy farmers to report H5N1 bird flu outbreaks within their herds or allow testing of their workers has made it difficult to keep up with the virus’s rapid spread, prompting federal public health officials to look to wastewater to help fill in the gaps. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to unveil a public dashboard tracking influenza A viruses in sewage that the agency has been collecting from 600 wastewater treatment sites around the country since last fall. The testing is not H5N1-specific; H5N1 belongs to the large influenza A family of viruses, as do two of the viruses that regularly sicken people during flu season. But flu viruses that cause human disease circulate at very low levels during the summer months. So the presence of high levels of influenza A in wastewater from now through the end of the summer could be a reliable indicator that something unusual is going on in a particular area. Wastewater monitoring, at least at this stage, cannot discern the sources — be they from dairy cattle, run-off from dairy processors, or human infections — of any viral genetic fragments found in sewage, although the agency is working on having more capability to do so in the future.” • Why on earth this terminating deference towards dairy farmers with a plague at stake?
Transmission: H5N1
“Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed” [Los Angeles Times]. • Move lengthy Darwin Awards.
Elite Maleficence
The UN wiped clean its wind through 2021. They know:
The fresh development H of @UN leads the way in which in air flow: 100% unutilized wind and incorrect exhausted wind recirculation. This allows it to reach magnificient effects on the COVID Airborne Chance Review simulator from @CERN .
Those parts are provide within the 2021 @UN Geneva Annual Document. https://t.co/C2qWwC4tzS %.twitter.com/EsYLceQmYe
— LET’S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS (@nousaerons) Might 12, 2024
They simply don’t need you to understand.
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m moving to need to reconsider this superbly formatted desk. Looks as if Biobot information nonetheless purposes, CDC variant information purposes, ER visits are useless, Unused York hospitalization appears to be useless since 5/1 [No, it’s alive!], when CDC restrained necessary medical institution information assortment, Walgreens purposes, Cleveland Hospital purposes, CDC traveler’s information purposes, Unused York Instances loss of life information has restrained. (Word that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long gone i’m sick). Preferably I’d exchange hospitalization and loss of life information, however I’m now not certain how. I may additionally amplify the wastewater category to incorporate (yech) Verily information, H5N1 if I will get it. Tips and resources welcome.
TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts fresh nowadays; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution symbol, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) at the chart thumbnail and “open image in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a degree a ways above valleys underneath Trump. Now not a splendid victory. Word additionally the section “under the curve,” but even so having a look at peaks. That section is greater underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it sort of feels to be emerging ceaselessly if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Deny backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the fashion totally ignored KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, for the reason that hyperlink is damaged, I feel in partiality of this factor. I can effort to verify. UPDATE Sure, let go it to CDC to shoot a web page, and later announce it was once archived a year next. And heaven forfend CDC must provide an explanation for the place to walk to get identical information, if any. I favored the ER information, as it gave the impression in reality parched to sport.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) The knowledge is now updating once more. I assume to a tame epidemiologist it looks as if “endemicity,” however to me it looks as if every other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless i’m sick. “Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates weekly for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Department Visits, Test Positivity) and weekly the following Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Minute uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Flattens.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally. Nonetheless incorrect point out of KP.2
[11] Looks as if the Instances isn’t reporting loss of life information any further? Perhaps I want to walk again to The Economist….
Stats Supervise
There aren’t any statistics of hobby nowadays.
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Actual Property: “The hot business of cold storage” [Sherwood News]. “If you had to identify a specific type of real estate that has seen its value increase because of changing consumer eating habits, global demographic shifts, worldwide pandemic preparedness, and US export policy — while its importance to reducing global carbon emissions and adapting to climate change rise in tandem — refrigerated warehouses may not be your first pick. But there’s a strong case to be made that the expansion and evolution of the cold-storage industry — often called the “cold chain” — will play games an important function in power, environmental, and financial information within the twenty first century. Chilly cupboard amenities aren’t a laugh parks to consult with; some are saved so bitter, at minus 50 levels Fahrenheit, that the employees who toil in those windowless areas rotate in 15-minute shifts, in spite of their big protecting equipment. However refrigerated warehouses are splendid to develop and personal. Buyers and builders be expecting 8 to ten% annual expansion on this specialised genuine property, in keeping with Adam Thocher, SVP of World Techniques and Insights on the World Chilly Chain Alliance (GCCA). That’s made it a successful real-estate area of interest. ‘When I think of our business at its most germane, it’s meals infrastructure,’ mentioned Jonathan Epstein, managing spouse of BGO (previously BentallGreenOak), an international real-estate funding company that develops and operates those areas. ‘And because of the nature of changing supply chains, there’s now not enough quantity of it, particularly within the creating global, and what’s there’s impaired.’”
Antitrust:
An magnificient rundown on how Amazon works. https://t.co/JpZ8Q2dNLf
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) Might 11, 2024
I must almost certainly have filed this underneath Guillotine Supervise….
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These days’s Concern & Greed Index: 50 Impartial (earlier akin: 47 Impartial) [CNN]. One future in the past: 47 (Impartial). (0 is Latter Concern; 100 is Latter Greed). Ultimate up to date Might 13 at 12:21:57 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes up one on Earthquakes. “The strongest quake in 25 years hit Taiwan” [Rapture Ready]. Document Top, October 10, 2016: 189. Wave: 188. (Take into account that bringing at the Rapture is just right.) • Fowl flu now not a priority, it appears. And I dislike even to walk right here, however the “Tribulation Temple” section is an insignificant 3. If Tribulation Temple = 3rd Temple = no matter temple it’s that the Purple Heifer loons need to develop, later the Rapture Index made the best name, amazingly enough quantity. It mentioned: “Don’t worry about the Red Heifers.”
Information of the Stressed
“The rage epidemic: is our modern world fuelling aggression?” [Guardian]. “According to the Gallup Global Emotions Report, anger around the world has been rising since 2016, with 23% of respondents now feeling angry on any given day – figures are understandably much higher in war zones. In the UK in recent years shop workers and service staff have reported sharp rises in customer abuse in recent years, and one study showed criminal violence in GP surgeries had doubled in five years (this was back when it was possible to get an appointment in a GP surgery). Reported road-rage incidents also increased by 40 per cent from 2021 to 2022 (although lockdowns would have played a part).” • Lockdowns Now not a plague virus proven to have reduced govt serve as. Lockdowns [lambert bangs head on desk].
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