Through Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chook Tune of the Month
Bullock’s/Baltimore Oriole, Tamarack Ranch, Logan, Colorado, United States. “Highway noise.”
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In Case You Would possibly Pass over…
(1) North Carolina pulls the anti-mask invoice for what turns out like rational revisions (for those who settle for the cop-friendly, anti-protester facet).
(2) Untouched Trump protection journeys Cohen up, hanging a conviction in danger.
(3) Peggy Noonan interviews a Wildwood, NY attendee.
(4) Some other CDC atrocity.
(5) RCP averages: Trump continues sluggish however stable journey in swing states.
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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
Not up to a part a life to walk!
RCP Ballot Averages, Would possibly 17:
Nationwide effects static, however lots of the Swing States (extra right here) are incrementally, however incessantly, shifting Trump’s means. Pennsylvania leans extra Trump this pace than ultimate. After all, it is going with out pronouncing that those are all order polls, subsequently wicked, and lots of the effects are inside the margin of error. Now, if both candidate begins breaking away in issues, in lieu of tenths of some extent…. NOTE I modified the notation: Up and i’m sick arrows for will increase or decreases over ultimate pace, circles for refuse trade. Crimson = Trump. Blue could be Biden if he had been chief any place, however he isn’t.
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Michael Cohen gives Donald Trump his best day in hush money trial so far” [CNN]. “Cohen appeared to be tripped up over an account of a call he’d previously said under oath was to discuss Trump’s hush money payment to adult film Star Stormy Daniels. It emerged under questioning on Thursday that, at least to begin with, the topic of the call was about another matter entirely…. ‘I think what happened today still is so devastating they have to do something,’ Ryan Goodman, a professor at NYU Law, told CNN’s Erin Burnett. ‘If the case ended today and there were final statements, I think there would not be a conviction.’” And that is CNN, no longer FOX. Extra: “n one of the most dramatic moments in the entire trial, Blanche drilled down on a call that Cohen placed to his boss’ bodyguard, Keith Schiller, who was with Trump on October 24, 2016. Cohen had testified earlier this week that the purpose of the call was to discuss with Trump ‘the Stormy Daniels matter and the resolution of it.’ But Blanche produced a text from Cohen to Schiller before the call in which the lawyer said he wanted to get help in dealing with a 14-year-old who was prank calling him. He didn’t mention Daniels in the text ahead of the conversation, which only lasted 96 seconds. ‘That was a lie!’ Blanche said, raising his voice. ‘You did not talk to President Trump on that night, you talked to Keith Schiller. … You can admit it.’ Blanche argued that it was impossible that Cohen would have had sufficient time to discuss the prank calls and then go on to update Trump about the complicated situation with Daniels. Cohen insisted, ‘I believe I also spoke to President Trump and told him everything regarding the Stormy Daniels matter was being worked on and it’s going to be resolved.’ Blanche then wielded a rhetorical dagger, telling Cohen: ‘We are not asking for your belief – this jury doesn’t want to hear what you think happened.’ Judge Juan Merchan sustained an immediate objection from the prosecution to the comment, but Trump’s lawyer had emphatically made his point. The exchange was so significant because – notwithstanding days of testimony and evidence put on by the prosecution to corroborate claims that Trump broke the law – the case still largely depends on Cohen, himself a convicted felon who has a proven record of lying. Since the burden to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt lies with the prosecution, the exchange could raise the chances of at least one juror questioning Cohen’s version of events.” • Oopsie.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Getting Played: The Demolition of Cohen on Cross Examination Reveals ‘The Grift’ to a New York Jury” [Jonathan Turley]. “For any discerning juror, the trial has been conspicuously lacking any clear statement from the prosecutors of what crime Trump was attempting to commit by allegedly mischaracterizing payments as ‘legal expenses.’ Even liberal legal experts have continued to express doubt over what crime is being alleged as the government rests its case. There is also the failure of the prosecutors to establish that Trump even knew of how payments were denoted or that these denotations were actually fraudulent in denoting payments to a lawyer as legal expenses…. New Yorkers are a curious breed. Yes, they overwhelmingly hate Trump, but they also universally hate being treated like chumps. When they get this case, they just might look around the courtroom and decide that they are the suckers in a crooked game.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “On Trump and the Elusive Fantasy of a 2024 Election Game-Changer” [Susan Glasser, The New Yorker]. “Much harder to predict is whether even a conviction in this case might finally move the largely immovable American electorate. Polls hint that the answer is just maybe yes, at least among a small percentage of Republicans who do not identify as part of the Party’s most fervently pro-Trump maga base. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll on the eve of the New York trial, for example, twenty-four per cent of Republicans, including thirteen per cent of Trump supporters, said that they would not support him in November if he was convicted of a felony. But, with the trial finishing its fifth week and rapidly moving toward a verdict, experience strongly suggests that some skepticism is in order. The story of the past eight years is littered with examples of Republicans accepting the previously unimaginable from Trump. Why should this time be any different?” •
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Michael Cohen on the Stand, Part I” [Lawfare]. Would possibly 13: “You’re active on Twitter? Correct. And TikTok? Correct. You do a nightly live TikTok? He’s live on TikTok for more than an hour nightly. What’s the point of doing it? To build an audience, to create community, to vent. I’m having trouble sleeping, so it’s an outlet. You also make money off of it? It does make money, Cohen admits, though it’s not significant. Since Cohen started ‘TikToking nightly’ (Blanche’s words) six weeks ago, how many times a week do you talk about Trump? Well I only do it six days a week, Cohen says (chuckles from the press), so I’d say about six times a week.” • Importance studying in complete, however except I ignored one thing — moment presses — neither Cohen nor Trump was once actually marked up at the first while.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness” [Associated Press]. That’s relatively a headline from the in most cases staid AP. “In one clip played in court Thursday, Cohen could be heard using an expletive and saying he truly hopes ‘that this man ends up in prison.’ ‘It won’t bring back the year that I lost or the damage done to my family. But revenge is a dish best served cold,’ Cohen was heard saying. ‘You better believe that I want this man to go down.’ Cohen acknowledged he has continued to attack Trump, even during the trial.”
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Trump (R): “A New Jersey Friend Is Sticking With Trump” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal]. “have a friend who lives in western New Jersey near a lake. Dee is middle aged, works in sales in a service industry, had been a politically independent moderate most of her life, voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and, less fervently, 2020. When I last saw her, in February, she and her husband felt drawn to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but that feeling has cooled. She didn’t like it that his family endorsed Joe Biden: ‘That was weird.’ She has also concluded the 2024 election will be close. “I think I’m not willing to take a chance, to experiment at this point.” So they’re again to Donald Trump, with revived passion…. I requested Dee what she noticed and skilled [at the Wildwood, NJ rally]. That is what I heard: Trump would possibly scare you, however he makes her really feel defend. ‘It was like he made you feel everything’s gonna be OK. The financial system’s gonna get well; everyone’s freaking out concerning the border, however he’ll get it cancelled.’…. On the rally she felt a part of a insurrection military, but she additionally thinks the rallygoers constitute the collection of usual American citizens so possibly they’re no longer the rebels however the majority. She unearths him hilarious. When he riffs about Al Capone and Hannibal Lecter he’s goofing with the population and being comical as a result of he’s an entertainer. ‘He’s very humorous and sarcastic,’ Dee says. ‘It’s like a husband infrequently.’ She does no longer believe the clicking, nor does she abhor them. She simply thinks they lie as a result of they’ve preconceived notions and agendas: ‘They think we are smelly Walmart shoppers with no teeth.’ She says this no longer with bitterness however as a parched descriptor…. It went all while. ‘You’re on form at 8 a.m. for a 5 p.m. get started. There have been hundreds on form with us. We made a number of pals. Everybody was once pleasant, non violent.’” And on January 6: “I asked about Jan 6. Why didn’t that change her view of Trump? I, and many others, understand it as a singular event. Breaking in, smashing doors and windows, beating cops, threatening the vice president’s life—this was a violent assault on an institution that was also an assault on the Constitution. Doesn’t it threaten or imply something about the future? She said she understood but sees it differently. In Wildwood, ‘we had a bunch of Jan. 6 people in the crowd around us. Middle-aged white women—grandma. . . . The thing about Jan. 6 is we see it as a two-part story. His speech that day was a Trump speech, the crowd was a Trump crowd, it was kind of normal. Part 2 was the people up at the Capitol. But the people just at the speech, they quietly left, they got on the bus, they went home. There was the speech and the insanity up the street. We talked, I heard people say, ‘We left.” ‘There have been some wicked folk and a few agitators. They shouldn’t have long past in there. Some folk needful home windows, shouldn’t have came about. And a few impaired girls walk to prison!’ ‘A accumulation of what came about on the Capitol—a accumulation of that was once created. A continuing narrative to form Trump glance as wicked as imaginable all the time.’” • “Dee lives in an affluent suburban community.” Nonetheless usefulness a learn…
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Biden (D): “Biden’s team had a few demands for a Trump debate. A major one: No crowd” [Politico]. “An empty TV studio could, Biden aides feel, deprive their GOP rival of a major advantage when they face off. ‘Trump feeds off the crowd, they give him life,’ said one Biden adviser who was granted anonymity in order to discuss internal strategy. ‘We wanted to take that away.’ There were several conditions that the Biden team felt were necessary in order to agree to a debate with the former president, among them that at least one forum take place before the start of early voting and that the hosts weren’t from outlets with an ideological bent toward Trump. But in interviews with more than a half dozen officials and advisers who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the issue of the crowd was consistent. Among their concerns were that the audience noise could disadvantage Biden, who sometimes has trouble hearing amid a din. They also wanted to ensure that there was a clean tempo and cadence to the debate and that it not turn into a shouting match or spectacle.” • Assuming the controversy laws allow mobile phones, possibly the Trump marketing campaign may arrange an eye birthday celebration, after tide it to Trump’s telephone. He may retain up the telephone appearing the cheering population at suitable moments.
Biden (D): “Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR” [Erik Loomis, The Conversation]. Actually, the NLRB is far advanced (no longer that Biden is working on that). This stuck my ocular: “In terms of Biden’s actions, the low point came in 2022, when he used the Railway Labor Act of 1926 to stop the railroad union from striking for better sick leave.” No longer that I’m sour. Extra: “Biden officials argued that the economy could not afford a rail shutdown, but political considerations around inflation before the midterm elections probably contributed to the administration’s response. At the same time, the Biden administration continued working behind the scenes to pressure rail companies to grant the workers their demands, and they largely did. Union leaders credit Biden for helping them get this victory for their workers. At the same time, the Biden administration continued working behind the scenes to pressure rail companies to grant the workers their demands, and they largely did. Union leaders credit Biden for helping them get this victory for their workers.” • The quote is from IBEW, however unquestionably there are extra central rail unions? Can readers remark?
BIden (D): “The Working Class-Sized Hole in Democratic Support Widens” [Ruy Teixiera, The Liberal Patriot]. “The Times poll provides data across the six key Presidential battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—as well as data for each of these individual states. Here is what I found: Across the battleground, Biden is losing to Trump among working-class voters by 16 points. That compares to Biden’s national working-class deficit of just 4 points in 2020…. The October-to-May deterioration among working-class voters is actually a bit worse among likely voters…. The October-to-May deterioration is also worse among nonwhite working-class voters. Biden was ahead among these voters in the battleground states by 16 points last October (note that this compares to the 48 point advantage Biden had nationally in 2020). But his advantage among nonwhite working class voters has fallen to single digits—9 points—in the new data.” • Importance studying in complete.
Biden (D): “Kamala for governor? She jokes, but the state lacks a giant” [Politico]. Eighteen paragraphs i’m sick: “Vice President Kamala Harris has joked to friends that she may return to California to run for governor if Democrats lose the White House this fall, taking a page from Richard Nixon, two people familiar with her remarks said. ‘That did not happen,’ Harris spokesperson Kirsten Allen told Politico in response. ‘This November, the vice president will be preparing to be inaugurated for the second term of the Biden-Harris administration.” • That’s the one severe point out of Harris. So the headline is making an attempt to form a tale the place refuse tale — that we find out about — exists. Which is fascinating in itself.
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“The most powerful pro-Israel group in American politics isn’t… talking about Israel” [Politico]. “The most prominent pro-Israel group in American politics has promised to pour tens of millions of dollars into this year’s elections. But it’s mostly not talking about Israel. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has entered several congressional races so far, attacking some candidates and boosting their own. But the topic of Israel has come up only minimally, in a handful of Republican races. And the group hasn’t talked about Israel in Democratic primaries at all.” • That’s clarifying. Now we’re simply speaking worth, precise?
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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 attempt. To replace any access, do really feel detached to touch me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic form. 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 (Govt of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission: Covid
“Explosive household spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in China in late 2022” [Building and Environment]. N = 12,037. From the Summary: “Immediately after easing the 3-year zero-COVID policy in mainland China, an explosive spread of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 occurred in late 2022, despite most people staying at home.” Appearing that non-pharmaceutical interventions are, in reality, efficient. Extra: “Better ventilation in shared corridors and living rooms was associated with a lower household daily incidence rate and a lower fever occurrence.” Extra: “Residing on upper floors was associated with a higher daily incidence rate.” Amoy Grounds redux. Extra: “Wearing an N95 respirator when leaving home could effectively reduce household infection risk. The observed similarity in the peak infection rate and its date of occurrence in different provincial regions suggest the spontaneous and simultaneous spread of the Omicron variant across the country. Crowded households, poor ventilation in shared common corridors, and residing on upper floors were associated with a higher incidence and more symptoms of disease.” • Fantastic, effective, however the place’s the RCT? Anyways…. I nonetheless stay bewildered and appalled that China, with 3 years to paintings with, didn’t even start to way air flow; as though the arena’s biggest production energy couldn’t put an HVAC in each room and business area. The one factor I will conclude is that for China’s ruling elegance, simply as for our personal, that in the long run the deaths had been the purpose.
Maskstravaganza
“NC House temporarily shelves bill barring the wearing of masks. Move comes as objections continue” [Winston-Salem Journal]. “[HB237] was once positioned into the gatekeeper Space Regulations and Operations committee, which generally meets on Tuesday afternoons and Wednesday and Thursday mornings. On the other hand, Space speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, has the discretion right through consultation to whisk a invoice out of committee and park it at the flooring calendar. The expectancy is that the Space will abandon Senate adjustments to the invoice and ship it to a concurrence committee to achieve a possible compromise at the language…. A Alternate.org petition urging lawmakers to reconsider the invoice has already gotten just about 3,700 signatures. The petition cites issues about folk who put on mask for clinical causes. Sen. Danny Britt Jr., R-Scotland, informed the Senate Regulations and Operations committee previous Wednesday that ‘we’re nonetheless in discussions with the Space on tips on how to tailor the clinical exception to this masks coverage for other folks who would possibly be afflicted by communicable illnesses.’
‘We want to ensure that this doesn’t violate the American citizens with Disabilities Function, so there shall be some tweaking alongside the way in which.’” • Favor just right information? Finally, it couldn’t harm to conserve up the force: Right here once more is the petition and (from the previous day) listed below are some numbers to name. Possibly that Greenback Newton nimrod were given filled again in his field? Great to look the Biden Management weighing in, too. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!! No longer.
Vaccines
“Adjuvanted subunit intranasal vaccine prevents SARS-CoV-2 onward transmission in hamsters” [bioRxiv]. From the Summary: “Most COVID-19 vaccine trials have focused on recipient protection, not protection of their contacts, a critical need. As a subunit intranasal COVID-19 vaccine reduced nasopharyngeal virus more than did an intramuscular (IM) vaccine, we hypothesized that this vaccine might reduce onward transmission to others. We vaccinated hamsters with either the IM-administrated Moderna mRNA vaccine twice or one dose of mRNA IM followed by adjuvanted subunit intranasal vaccine. 24 hours after SARS-CoV-2 challenge, these animals were housed with naïve recipients in a contactless chamber that allows airborne transmission. Onward airborne transmission was profoundly blocked: the donor and recipients of the intranasal vaccine-boosted group had lower oral and lung viral loads (VL), which correlated with mucosal ACE2 inhibition activity. These data strongly support the use of the intranasal vaccine as a boost to protect not only the vaccinated person, but also people exposed to the vaccinated person, a key public health goal.” • Excellent information (despite the fact that constructive concerning the targets of crowd fitness).
Trying out and Monitoring
A ray of hope on medical institution information:
Endmost pace, the requirement for US hospitals to record key COVID information to the government ended.
However there’s a proposed HHS/CMS rule that might trade this, and require hospitals to record key COVID, flu, and RSV hospitalization information *outdoor* of crowd fitness emergencies. https://t.co/R2kGlgv1ry percent.twitter.com/6aQ7A8cbTa
— Dr. Fortunate Tran (@luckytran) Would possibly 9, 2024
Sequelae: Covid
“What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the brain?” [BMJ]. “Is it the virus entering the brain? This is a complex issue and the subject of much debate. In vitro studies have found that the virus disrupts the blood-brain barrier, although this was seen only with the original wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and omicron variants. This research also found that the virus may affect the function of cells in the central nervous system. Because loss of smell is a common symptom, some researchers have suggested that the virus may enter the brain through the olfactory system. Stephen Griffin, virologist at the University of Leeds, notes that the UK Biobank study recorded ‘reduced grey matter thickness—comprised of the main cellular ‘bodies’ of neurons, rather than their tendril-like projections—in parts of the brain linked with olfactory sensing, namely the limbic system and primary olfactory cortex,’ which could be evidence for this route of entry. However, there’s little other evidence that the virus enters cells in the brain. Schifitto says, ‘There’s been one report suggesting the virus gets into astrocytes; others have not really found the virus in specific cells.’ But he adds, ‘The virus can cause damage without infecting cells. If it’s activating other cells in the brain that cause inflammation, you don’t need the virus to be there to cause problems. The amount of cytokines in the blood could activate, for example, microglia, a classical cell type involved in chronic neuroinflammation.’”
Famous person Observe
Quick — whose entourage works dehydrated to not infect the superstar — may do such a lot just right, without charge to herself. Such a lot for the delicate singer-songwriter:
Taylor Quick live shows, Covid clusters? Since @taylorswift13 ‘s presentations at @ParisLaDefArena (with needy air flow) many fanatics have informed that they have got fallen unwell, infrequently with extreme signs. “All the people I know who have been there have also fallen ill, whether Covid or not”. https://t.co/YhXeHINbUC percent.twitter.com/72GO3VLXDl
— LET’S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS (@nousaerons) Would possibly 17, 2024
I do know she’s no longer isolated, however sheesh!
Elite Maleficence
“CDC Releases Guidance for Preventing Spread of Infections in Schools to Keep Children Healthy and Learning” (press let fall) [CDC]. • Mandy slaughters extra blameless kids:
To be truthful, I don’t know the entire illnesses to which college youngsters are topic; Covid is airborne; the RSV literature is infested with droplet dogma jargon, so I suppose institutional inertia prevails instead than science, however RSV may be airborne as an aerosol; ditto for the flu. So once I remark completely on Covid, I feel it’s truthful to mention I’m masking all 3. Covid may be essentially the most unfortunate, so it will form sense to any person however CDC to form it the concern. I’ve helpfully annotated the clicking let fall (hyperlinks to be had on request; moment presses):
[1] Forgotten not anything, realized not anything (despite the fact that to be truthful, there’s refuse advice for Plexiglass obstacles).
[2] Handwashing and “respiratory etiquette” (coughing into your elbow) do not anything in opposition to Covid.
[3] Heaven forfend you must do anything else to beef up air flow now, like hanging HVAC filters and Corsi-Rosenthal disciplines within the schoolrooms; so far as Mandy is worried, such gadgets would possibly as smartly be science fantasy. After all, for those who’re a affluent prosperous district, like Newton, MA, you’ll offer protection to your kids immediately, however for those who’re no longer, after certain, wait. Why no longer?
[3] (oops) Fomite theatre. Certain, cleansing is just right, however are we able to please no longer misinform ourselves
[4] Vaccinations don’t, in fact, block transmission.
[5] “Ill” as proven through signs, in fact. However Covid spreads asymptomatically, which is why blank breeze must be the default, and no longer a reactive measure.
[6] What’s “PPE”? Moonsuits? Under, they are saying “masks” (and no longer respirators). Which is it?
[7] Deny. Deny, they don’t. That is all fomite transmission-related. None of this may aid with Covid in any respect.
[8] Mask because the completely ultimate hotel. For any sane schoolmaster — and any sane father or mother — and especailly in a faculty that may have ten extra years of wicked air flow as a result of that’s when the “remodeling” will whisk park, mask must be the primary hotel. I ruthless, if CDC’s precedence is certainly “keeping children healthy,” which it clearly isn’t.
“Pro-Infection Doctors Didn’t Just Want Kids in School. They Wanted Them There Unvaccinated, Untested, and Unmasked. They Wanted Them Infected” [Science-Based Medicine]. “It’s all enough to make one think that children learning in classrooms wasn’t the main priority for pro-infection doctors. Rather, their chief objective was to infect as many children as quickly as possible to hasten the arrival of herd immunity, and schools were just a tool to accomplish this goal- a goal they shared with their wealthy libertarian friend who told kids to dropout of public schools so they can smoke after their shift at Walmart and Chic-Fil-A.” • Yep.
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m moving to need to reconsider this fantastically formatted desk. Seems like Biobot information nonetheless purposes, CDC variant information purposes, ER visits are lifeless, Untouched York hospitalization appears to be lifeless since 5/1 [No, it’s alive!], when CDC cancelled necessary medical institution information assortment, Walgreens purposes, Cleveland Hospital purposes, CDC traveler’s information purposes, Untouched York Instances dying information has cancelled. (Be aware that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long past i’m sick). Preferably I might change hospitalization and dying information, however I’m no longer certain how. I may also extend the wastewater category to incorporate (yech) Verily information, H5N1 if I will get it. Ideas and assets welcome.
TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts pristine these days; all others don’t seem to be 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) Minute upward motion, supported through the previous day’s Walgreen’s positivity.
[2] (Biobot) Deny backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the fashion utterly ignored KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I feel in partiality of this factor. I will be able to attempt to verify. UPDATE Sure, release it to CDC to explode a web page, and after announce it was once archived a while then. And heaven forfend CDC must provide an explanation for the place to walk to get an identical information, if any. I preferred the ER information, as it appeared actually dehydrated to recreation.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Flat. The information is now updating once more. I assume to a tame epidemiologist it looks as if “endemicity,” however to me it looks as if some 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) Up and i’m sick.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529 (with backward revision).
[11] Seems like the Instances isn’t reporting dying information any longer? Possibly I want to walk again to The Economist….
Stats Observe
There don’t seem to be legitimate statistics of pastime these days.
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Tech: “”I misplaced believe”: Why the OpenAI group in control of safeguarding humanity imploded” [Vox]. “For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on Tuesday. They were the leaders of the company’s superalignment team — the team tasked with ensuring that AI stays aligned with the goals of its makers, rather than acting unpredictably and harming humanity. They’re not the only ones who’ve left. Since last November — when OpenAI’s board tried to fire CEO Sam Altman only to see him quickly claw his way back to power — at least five more of the company’s most safety-conscious employees have either quit or been pushed out. What’s going on here? If you’ve been following the saga on social media, you might think OpenAI secretly made a huge technological breakthrough. The meme ‘What did Ilya see?’ speculates that Sutskever, the former chief scientist, left because he saw something horrifying, like an AI system that could destroy humanity. But the real answer may have less to do with pessimism about technology and more to do with pessimism about humans — and one human in particular: Altman. According to sources familiar with the company, safety-minded employees have lost faith in him. ‘It’s a process of trust collapsing bit by bit, like dominoes falling one by one,’ a person with inside knowledge of the company told me, speaking on condition of anonymity.” • Why on earth would any one aside from silly cash believe Sam Altman?
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These days’s Concern & Greed Index: 64 Greed (earlier near: 60 Greed) [CNN]. One pace in the past: 46 (Impartial). (0 is Ultimate Concern; 100 is Ultimate Greed). Endmost up to date Would possibly 17 at 1:58:59 PM ET.
The Gallery
Alert reader MB writes: “Sharing because I think readers will appreciate this. Sesshu Toyo, landscape 1495 (!) I hope you can see the variety of strokes and washes”:
Serendipitously, the tones walk properly with Carla’s symbol under.
Information of the Stressed
“Mechanical Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches” [Collector’s Weekly]. “Then I popped off the back, expecting the typical interior: a battery, some metal circuitry and a plastic spacer. Instead, everything was beautifully finished—brushed metal gears, springs, and red ruby jewels. These are true rubies that are synthetically made, since rubies are extremely sturdy and resistant to the effects of continued friction. If you imagine a mechanical watch that’s ticking all day, every day, on someone’s wrist, there’s an enormous amount of friction that all of these parts incur. The classic ticking sound you hear in a mechanical watch represents various movements inside, and the vast majority of mechanical watches employ rubies so they can strike and pivot hundreds of thousands of times per day without wearing away.” • A laugh stuff!
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Carla writes: “Wade Chapel, Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, OH, April 23, 2024.” A good-looking while in early spring. I will’t {photograph} the sky to avoid wasting my occasion, let isolated a low-key sky like this….
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