By way of Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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American Robin, Accentuation of The usa Sport Land, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States.
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In Case You Would possibly Omit…
(1) Bragg’s concept of the case:: category 17-152.
(2) Sodium batteries.
(3) Google score large media websites the usage of AI-generated content material, destroying miniature websites.
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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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Biden Management
“IRS says its number of audits is about to surge. Here’s who the agency is targeting” [CBS]. “The IRS has been bolstered by $80 billion in new funding directed by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was signed into law in 2022 by President Joe Biden. The idea behind the new funding was to help revive an agency whose ranks have been depleted over the years, leading to customer service snarls, processing delays and a falloff in audit rates…. Werfel noted that the IRS’ strategic plan over the next three tax years include a sharp increase in audits, although the agency reiterated it won’t boost its enforcement for people who earn less than $400,000 annually — which covers the bulk of U.S. taxpayers. ‘There is no new wave of audits coming from middle- and low-income [individuals], coming from mom and pops. That’s not in our plans,’ Werfel said. But by focusing on big corporations, complicated partnerships and wealthy people who earn over $10 million year, the IRS wants to send a signal, he noted. ‘It sets an important tone and message for complex filers, high-wealth filers, that this is our focus area,’ he said.”
2024
Not up to a time to walk!
★ RCP Ballot Averages, Might 3:
Nationwide effects now shifting Trump’s manner. However one of the crucial Swing States (extra right here) at the moment are shifting Biden’s manner, together with Michigan and Wisconsin, which isn’t any lack of certainty why Trump visited them on his date off. Pennsylvania, OTOH, simply inclined to Trump. After all, it is going with out pronouncing that those are all shape polls, due to this fact malicious. Now, if both candidate begins break in issues, in lieu of tenths of some degree….
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Trump (R): (Bragg/Merchan): “Old, unused, and ‘twisty’ — meet the obscure NY election-conspiracy law that just might get Trump convicted” [Business Insider]. Very notable. “At Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday, a Manhattan prosecutor surprised law nerds in the audience by revealing that ‘the entire case’ rests on a single section of New York’s election law.” That is (allegedly) the “other law” Trump needful that converts the industry information misdemeanors into felonies. Right here it’s:
Extra: “Business Insider asked two veteran New York election-law attorneys — one a Republican, the other a Democrat — about the law, also known as ‘Conspiracy to promote or prevent election.’ Neither one could recall a single time when it had been prosecuted. Two highly respected law professors specializing in New York election law said the same…. However, while the two attorneys were highly skeptical of the DA’s newly focused strategy, the two election law professors told BI they were confident it would lead to a conviction. Sure, 17-152 has never been used before, they said. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work now that the dust has been blown off…. [Jeffrey M. Wice, who teaches state election law at New York Law School] noted that two judges — Merchan and Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge who rejected Trump’s attempt to move the hush-money case to federal court — upheld the use of 17-152 in this case.” However wait! There’s extra! “[W]hat if that underlying crime is section 17-152 — conspiring to mess with an election through ‘unlawful means?’ Things will get “twisty,” [Brooklyn attorney and former Democratic NY state Sen. Martin Connor] stated, when prosecutors effort to turn that Trump’s falsified industry information are felonies on account of an underlying crime — 17-152 — that itself wishes evidence of a conspiracy to do one thing ‘unlawful.’ ‘You’re having an underlying crime inside of an underlying crime to get to that criminal,’ Connor advised BI. ‘It’s book,” he stated with fun. ‘It’s book,” he repeated. Division 17-152 wishes its personal underlying prison conspiracy, he stated. ‘Two or more conspiring to elect or defeat a candidate — that’s the definition of each political marketing campaign,’ he joked. ‘It’s handiest whilst you conspire to do it by means of illegal signifies that you violate this regulation.’ Having an election-conspiracy statute like 17-152 at the shape election-law books makes negligible sense, he stated. ‘It would appear to cover something like three people getting together and saying, ‘Let’s crack into our opponent’s headquarters and smash all his apparatus,’ Connor stated.” • Turns out sophisticated. So, if the industry information a part of the case is a conspiracy, and category 17-152 calls for a conspiracy — the similar one? a distinct one? — why now not simply rate Trump with 17-152 isolated? To transform misdemeanors into felonies, that’s why. Disagree alternative reason why. That’s good-looking seamy, for those who inquire from me, in spite of a group of Pristine York Shape Democrats nodding their heads vigorously in unison about how notable it’s to grant the pursuits of justice, and so forth.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “How Hope Hicks went from Trump confidante to key prosecution witness” [Politico]. “While Trump cycled through a number of top advisers, who rose and fell in his favor, Hicks was a near constant. Her title was senior communications adviser, but that belied her importance. Her real job, those who worked with her say, was to manage Trump. Her office was right outside the Oval Office, a reflection of her importance to the former president.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “‘This was a crisis’: Hope Hicks testifies about Trump campaign response to Access Hollywood tape – live” [Guardian]. “Hope Hicks testifies that she reached out to Michael Cohen and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker after receiving the Wall Street Journal email requesting comment about a story it planned to publish about American Media buying the rights to a story of Karen McDougal of an affair she had with Donald Trump when he was married to Melania. Hicks says Cohen ‘feigned that he didn’t know what I was talking about’ and that ‘there was a reason why I called David [Pecker] next.’ She says Pecker explained that McDougal was paid for magazine articles and fitness columns and that it was all very legitimate and that was what the contract for.’ The prosecution asked Hope Hicks about the days following the Access Hollywood tape’s release. Hicks explained, on direct, that he was asked about the comments a few days later, during the second presidential debate. He reiterated that this was locked room talk – just talk – words, not actions. The words-not-actions mantra is incredibly important for prosecutors. If Trump thought his best chances for surviving the Access Hollywood scandal was to claim that it was just talk – and that he wasn’t an actual boor – then he had to cover up allegations of misconduct. And, after the debate, when reports of Trump’s alleged misconduct surface, the campaign was in panic-mode – providing a motive for Cohen’s purchase of Daniels’ story.” • To (a) win the election, (b) offer protection to Melania, and/or (c) offer protection to the Trump emblem (notable to Trump’s symbol). I supposition we’ll have to look which purpose predominated. CNN has a 2nd play-by-play.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “The Secret Tape That Will Roil the Trump Trial” [New York Magazine]. “[T}apes are the prosecutor’s best friend — usually. But when Michael Cohen secretly recorded a phone call with his own client Donald trump in September 2016, he created a piece of evidence that could become a key part of Trump’s defense in his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan. It’s not all bad news for the prosecutors, of course. The tape confirms an important pillar of the district attorney’s case: Trump plainly knew about and approved of hush money payments to women with whom he had allegedly had sexual dalliances years before. But that was never seriously in dispute. Trump’s lawyer conceded as much during his opening statement. Remember that the crime here is not payment of hush money — it’s falsification of business records around those payments to evade campaign-finance laws. The crime, in other words, lies in the accounting behind the hush-money payments. And Cohen’s tape casts doubt on a central element that the prosecution must prove to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt: that Trump was involved in the fraudulent scheme to structure reimbursements to Cohen to make the hush-money payments look like legal expenses.” • Oh.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Week 3 of Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Reaches Its Explosive Finale’ [Daily Beast]. “Cohen’s tonality was once heard in court docket with the taking part in of a tape that Cohen himself secretly made. The September 2016 recording captured Cohen speaking with Trump a couple of plan to shop for McDougal’s tale from the Enquirer to deliver to bury it for excellent. Cohen might be heard pronouncing at the recording that he’d spoken to Allen Weisselberg, the then-CFO of the Trump Group, about ‘how to set the whole thing up with funding,’ in step with the Related Press. ‘What do we got to pay for this?’ Trump stated in reaction. ‘One-fifty?’ The tape was once performed next Douglas Daus, a forensic analyst within the New york district legal professional’s place of job, was once known as to the arise. Daus testified about knowledge he helped to take back from Cohen’s telephones that had been passed to government all the way through the investigation.” • However that doesn’t talk to the industry information phase (“set the whole thing up” is good-looking hazy).
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Trump (R): “SEC charges Trump Media auditor with ‘massive fraud’ on hundreds of companies, imposes lifetime ban” [CNBC]. “The auditing company for Trump Media
and the auditor’s proprietor had been charged Friday with ‘massive fraud’ by means of the Securities and Change Fee for accounting paintings that affected greater than 1,500 SEC filings, the federal regulator introduced. The auditor, BF Borgers CPA and its proprietor Benjamin Borgers have assuredly to be completely suspended from training as accountants prior to the SEC, and in addition assuredly to pay a blended $14 million in civil consequences, with out admitting or denying the allegations, the SEC stated. The company, calling BF Borgers a ‘sham audit mill,’ stated the corporate and its proprietor ‘deliberately systematically failed to conduct’ based on Community Corporate Accounting Oversight Board requirements audits and quarterly evaluations included in additional than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 via June 2023. The SEC stated the Lakewood, Colorado-based auditor lied to shoppers by means of pronouncing its paintings complied with PCAOB requirements, fabricated audit paperwork to produce it appear that the paintings did conform to the ones requirements, and falsely claims in audit experiences integrated in additional than 500 population corporate SEC filings that the company’s audits complied with such requirements.”
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Biden (D): “Biden says ‘order must prevail’ during campus protests over the war in Gaza” [Associated Press]. “‘Dissent is essential for democracy,’ Biden said at the White House. ‘But dissent must never lead to disorder.’… Biden’s team has expressed confidence that his stance appeals to the widest array of voters. It also echoes his approach to nationwide unrest after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer four years ago, a politically volatile situation in the middle of his campaign against then-President Donald Trump. ‘I want to make it absolutely clear rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting,’ Biden said then in remarks that his team turned into an advertisement. ‘It’s lawlessness, plain and simple, and those that do it should be prosecuted.’” • So possibly Biden can produce a marketing campaign advert out of this, too!
Biden (D): “Sanders: Protests ‘may be Biden’s Vietnam’” [The Hill]. “‘[Former President] Lyndon Johnson in many respects was a very, very good president. Domestically he brought forth some major pieces of legislation. He chose not to run in ’68 because of opposition to his views on Vietnam, and I worry very much that President Biden is putting himself in a position where he has alienated, not just young people, but a lot of the Democratic base, in terms of his views on Israel and this war,’ Sanders said.” • Biden is having a bet on “restoring law and order” higher than Trump (or Kennedy) can do.
Biden (D): “Young Democrats warn Biden he must quickly change course” [The Hill]. “”He’ll lose the election if he comes to a decision to roll the cube and assumes that Gaza isn’t on the supremacy of minds presently,” stated Elise Joshi, the manager director of Gen-Z for Trade —which was once as soon as run underneath the identify TikTok for Biden. Joshi added that the closing six months have observable ‘an increasing pace of concern’ in regards to the president. The situation in Gaza has been a tipping level for lots of younger citizens, and a few polls have proven assistance dissolving for Biden. Ultimate presen, a Harvard Adolescence Ballot confirmed Biden’s assistance from citizens ages 18-29 had slipped from about 60 p.c in 2020 right down to 45 p.c. A CNN ballot closing weekend additionally unhidden that Biden was once 11 proportion issues in the back of Trump in a head-to-head match-up amongst younger citizens.” • I lack of certainty very a lot the early life vote getting to progress from BIden to Trump over Gaza. Biden’s play games this is “They’ve got no place to go” (“Oh, you love Trump?”).
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PA: “Biden’s natural gas pause could complicate Pennsylvania strategy” [The Hill]. “The Biden administration’s pause on natural gas exports is putting the president in a tricky political spot in Pennsylvania, one of the key swing states in November. Pennsylvania has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the last decade’s natural gas boom in the U.S. … The administration earlier this year halted new export permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG) while it analyzes their impact on climate change, something that Republicans are sure to pounce on in a state where Biden is not only running neck and neck with former President Trump, but also where Democrats are looking to hold onto a critical Senate seat…. ‘If I’m President Biden or his campaign team, I’m not terribly concerned — natural gas is important in Pennsylvania, but this issue — there have been political fights going back 15 years over this issue,’ [Mike Mikus, a Pittsburgh-based Democratic strategist] said. ‘I think people who feel strongly one way or another have already picked a side.’”
Realignment and Legitimacy
“More than 2,100 people have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests on US college campuses” [Associated Press]. “Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings. One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside a Columbia University administration building while clearing out protesters camped inside, authorities disclosed Thursday.” And on UCLA: “The confrontations at UCLA also played out over several days this week. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block told alumni on a call Thursday afternoon that the trouble started after a permitted pro-Israel rally was held on campus Sunday and fights broke out and ‘live mice’ were tossed [by Zionists] into the pro-Palestinian encampment later that day. In the following days, administrators tried to find a peaceful solution with members of the encampment and expected things to remain stable, Block said. That changed late Tuesday, he said, when [Zionist] counterdemonstrators attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment. Campus administrators and police did not intervene or call for backup for hours. No one was arrested that night, but at least 15 protesters were injured. The delayed response drew criticism from political leaders, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and officials pledged an independent review. ‘We certainly weren’t thinking that we’d end up with a large number of violent people [i.e., the Zionists], that hadn’t happened before,’ Block said on the call. By Wednesday, the encampment had become ‘much more of a bunker’ and there was no other solution but to have police dismantle it, he said.” • I added some notes to clarifiy company problems. The counter-demonstrators at UCLA collision me as uniquely nasty (thankfully).
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 Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; comprises many counties; Wastewater Scan, comprises drilldown by means of zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization by means of 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!
Sources, 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).
Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Govt of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Search for the Helpers
“SoCal’s COVID-cautious: Fighting isolation along with the virus” [KCRW]. “‘We’re going to make a big circle,’ Mahler explains. ‘We’re going to go up to the San Fernando Valley over to Eagle Rock, and then back down through Mid-City to where we are now.’… Mahler makes these Odyssian treks across Southern California every month. It’s part of her work with Mask Bloc LA, a volunteer group dedicated to getting COVID tests and masks into the hands of Angelenos — all free of charge….. The grassroots group is one of several that have popped up in LA and Southern California, united around one goal: to mitigate the spread of COVID. They’re extensions of a global community of cautious folks continuing to take proactive steps to prevent infection in a post-pandemic world where others seem to no longer care about the virus… Being COVID-cautious is different for everyone, from how much protective gear they wear to what risks they’re willing to take. Some folks remain vigilant because they’ve already caught the virus and know the damage it causes. Others, however, are among the nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults and older teens who the CDC estimates have never had COVID — and they want or need to keep it that way.” • 1 in 4 is a good-looking superb statistic, whilst you take into consideration the entire stumbling blocks (and whilst you believe that you’ll be able to not include mind injury and lack of govt serve as because of Covid for [allow me to break out my calculator] 333,000,000 * 25% = 83,250,000 folk. That’s a batch).
Checking out and Monitoring
“Blood transcriptomic analyses reveal persistent SARS-CoV-2 RNA and candidate biomarkers in post-COVID-19 condition” [The Lancet]. N = 48. “With an estimated 65 million individuals affected by post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID),1 non-invasive biomarkers are direly needed to guide clinical management. To address this pressing need, we used blood transcriptomics in a general practice-based case-control study. …. 212 genes were identified to be differentially expressed between individuals with long COVID and controls (figure A), of which 70 remained significant after adjustment for false discovery rate correction…. Upon summarising transcriptomic results into biological pathways, we found significantly decreased immunometabolism in individuals with long COVID, which was negatively correlated with the blood viral load… In conclusion, the associations among persistent viral RNA, immunometabolism, and patient-reported outcomes provide mechanistic insights for addressing the challenges posed by long COVID.” • If true, superb information. (Recall that NIH blew one billion greenbacks on Lengthy Covid with out on the lookout for biomarkers in any respect.)
“Influenza and RSV Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S. | Week of April 29, 2024” [Biobot]. “We want to share the information that we have at the moment on the rapidly evolving H5N1 influenza virus situation. Biobot’s influenza A assay detects the H5N1 influenza subtype, which is an influenza A virus, but does not distinguish between the different subtypes of influenza A (e.g., H5N1 vs. H1N1). While we are not seeing a widespread increase across the country in influenza A virus in the recent week, we are seeing a slight uptick in influenza A concentrations in the South.” • So Verily is forward. That’s miserable.
Sequelae: Covid
“What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut?” [BMJ]. “[Sheena Cruickshank, immunologist at the University of Manchester] says, ‘One of the reasons for the gut symptoms may be that the ACE2 receptors that the virus uses to enter and hijack cells are found on our gut epithelial cells. We know that viral RNA has been isolated from stool samples, although this may not be infectious.’ This evidence was gathered early in the pandemic from studies in China, which found SARS-CoV-2 RNA in stool samples from patients in hospital. More recent research5 has confirmed that faecal shedding of viral RNA happens in around half of covid patients and that this is associated with GI symptoms. Stephen Griffin, virologist at the University of Leeds, explains why we shouldn’t be surprised that so many people experience GI symptoms. He says, ‘The receptor for SARS-CoV-2, ACE2, is widely expressed within the blood vessels and lining of the gut, and we know that the virus can be detected, recovered from, and sequenced both in stool samples and in wastewater from the environment—which is an excellent, real time way to monitor infections and genetic variability.’ Once the virus is in the gut it interacts with ACE2, increasing the production of inflammatory cytokines and damaging the mucous membrane barrier. In severe cases this inflammation can result in ulceration of the oesophagus, stomach, and duodenum, but more commonly it causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, and diarrhoea.” • The extra ….
“Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in platelets and megakaryocyte in Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (Long COVID)” (poster) [Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections]. “In Long COVID, SARS-CoV-2 persists and replicates in [megakaryocytes (MKs)] that in turn produce platelets containing virus. Circulating spike might be an additional sign of viral persistence that could serve as a Long COVID biomarker. The persistence of the virus could lead to abnormal platelet activation and formation of microclots, contributing to the various symptoms observed in Long COVID and to deregulation of serotonin uptake, favoring bneurocognitive symptoms found in long COVID.” • Over my paygrade. Possibly readers will remark. (NOTE There appears to be an argument over whether or not, in Lengthy Covid, the virus persists, or whether or not handiest viral fragments persists.)
Remedy: Covid
“Favorable Antiviral Effect of Metformin on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Viral Load in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of Coronavirus Disease” (summary handiest) [Clinical Infectious Diseases]. “In this randomized, placebo-controlled trial of outpatient treatment of SARS-CoV-2, metformin significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 viral load, which may explain the clinical benefits in this trial. Metformin is pleiotropic with other actions that are relevant to COVID-19 pathophysiology.” • Pleiotropic = generating a couple of impact. Unfortunately, the object is paywalled, so I will’t observe i’m sick a utilization instance.
Elite Maleficence
Maskless Mandy does a cheerful dance:
Venerated to be featured by means of #TIME100HEALTH in conjunction with such a lot of fantastic leaders + innovators! @CDCGov is operating each date to offer protection to fitness & fortify lives via more potent knowledge, sunny & speedy communications, and breaking i’m sick silos to paintings as one staff. https://t.co/klVxZJV2Z2
— Mandy Okay. Cohen, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) Might 2, 2024
It truly takes chutzpah to pat your self at the again for “stronger data” one date next you close i’m sick necessary reporting of Covid circumstances in hospitals.
“Covid lessons remain unlearned as avian flu infects cattle, hospitals say” [Politico]. “Still, hospital officials told POLITICO they’re dismayed that they don’t feel better prepared, just four years after Covid-19 caught them unawares. They’re not confident that the health care system — including the government agencies that have wound down Covid responses — can avoid the missteps around tests, bed space and communication that plagued the last public health emergency, should this strain of flu, H5N1, become more of a threat… Trust in health systems also remains battered from the Covid wars over lockdowns, masks and vaccines. ‘One big limiting factor’ in vaccinating the public, were it to become necessary, ‘would be whether or not people actually take it,’ [Dr. George Diaz, an infectious disease specialist at Providence health in Washington state] said. ‘The Covid pandemic taught us a lot of lessons, but also harmed us.’ And if a lockdown were needed again? ‘Society right now — It’s not a consideration,’ [Dr. Bruce Farber, chief public health and epidemiology officer at Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system,] said. ‘The politics are such that it will never happen.’” • After all, one Covid lesson can be necessary common covering right through healthcare amenities. That appears to be a lesson hospitals haven’t discovered.
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TABLE 1: Day-to-day Covid Charts
LEGEND
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NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a degree a long way above valleys underneath Trump. No longer a stunning victory. Word additionally the department “under the curve,” but even so having a look at peaks. That department is bigger underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it kind of feels to be emerging often if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Disagree backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.2 has entered the chat, a minimum of within the type. As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will likely be reported biweekly, according to the provision of certain take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring every two weeks. 2. occurring twice a week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has selected sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are not anything to fret about. Year will inform.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, for the reason that hyperlink is damaged, I feel in bias of this factor. I will be able to effort to verify. UPDATE Sure, let go it to CDC to execute a web page, and later announce it was once archived a date upcoming. And heaven forfend CDC must give an explanation for the place to walk to get identical knowledge, if any. I appreciated the ER knowledge, as it appeared truly withered to recreation.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Pulling down out to a non-zero baseline. I guess 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) Leveling out.
[8] (Cleveland) Little uptrend.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Flattens.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally. Nonetheless disagree point out of KP.2
[11] Seems like the Occasions isn’t reporting dying knowledge any longer? Possibly I wish to walk again to The Economist….
Stats Oversee
Operate Condition: “United States Unemployment Rate” [Trading Economics]. “The unemployment rate in the United States edged up to 3.9% in April 2024 from 3.8% in the previous month and surprising market expectations, which had forecasted the rate to remain unchanged.”
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Tech: “Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production” [New Atlas]. “Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn’t fall too far behind as far as mass battery production goes. It officially commenced production of its rapid-charging, long-life lithium-free sodium batteries this week, bringing to market an intriguing new alternative in the energy storage game. Not only is sodium somewhere between 500 to 1,000 times more abundant than lithium on the planet we call Earth, sourcing it doesn’t necessitate the same type of earth-scarring extraction. Even moving beyond the sodium vs lithium surname comparison, Natron says its sodium-ion batteries are made entirely from abundantly available commodity materials that also include aluminum, iron and manganese. Furthermore, the materials for Natron’s sodium-ion chemistry can be procured through a reliable US-based domestic supply chain free from geopolitical disruption. The same cannot be said for common lithium-ion materials like cobalt and nickel.” • Hmm. Readers, ideas?
Tech: “HouseFresh has virtually disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?” [HouseFresh]. • Excess quality for me to summarize, but it surely truly frosts me that Google has competely crapified breeze air purifier evaluations with AI-generated bullshit, for the reason that breeze purifiers play games helpful irole all the way through airborne pandemics.
Tech: “Google, DOJ return for closing arguments” [The Hill]. “Google’s main defense is that its search engine is better.” • Lol. Dude, come on.
Production: “Whistleblower Joshua Dean, who raised concerns about Boeing jets, dies at 45” [NPR]. “”This was once his first era ever in a medical institution,” [his mother, Virginia Green] stated. ‘He didn’t actually have a physician as a result of he by no means was once unwell.’ However inside of days, Dean’s kidneys gave out and he was once depending on anECMO month assistance system to do the paintings of his center and lungs. The night time prior to Dean died, Inexperienced stated, the clinical team of workers in Oklahoma did a bronchoscopy on his lungs. ‘The doctor said he’d by no means observable the rest find it irresistible prior to in his month. His lungs had been simply utterly … gummed up, and prefer a mesh over them.’ Inexperienced says she has requested for an post-mortem to decide precisely what killed her son. Effects will most likely pluck months, she stated. ‘We’re now not positive what he died of,’ she stated. ‘We know that he had a bunch of viruses. But you know, we don’t know if any individual did one thing to him, or did he simply get actual unwell.’” • So the autopy effects. One thing to wait for.
Production: “Boeing Promotes Mysterious Employee Known Only As ‘The Panther’” [The Onion]. “‘The entire Boeing family would like to extend a big congratulations to The Panther, who has recently proven that his loyalty to this company truly knows no bounds,’ said Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, who described The Panther’s role as ‘a little bit operations, a little bit corporate security, a little bit human resources.’”
Taxes: As a hallmark. Attention-grabbing:
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Nowadays’s Worry & Greed Index: 40 Worry (earlier alike: 36 Worry) [CNN]. One date in the past: 42 (Worry). (0 is Endmost Worry; 100 is Endmost Greed). Ultimate up to date Might 3 at 1:31:16 PM ET.
Elegance Battle
“Beyond The Binary Of Race And Class” [Historical Materialism]. A truly attention-grabbing assessment of this subject, neatly use finding out. “There have been many efforts to create ‘a new socialist mode of production’ by transforming or abolishing the ‘free market’, but it would be hard to argue that they put an end to racial discrimination. Neither the Social Democratic welfare states, which sought to restrain the free market, nor ‘revolutionary’ regimes in the USSR, China or Cuba which got rid of it, can claim to have abrogated discrimination based on race and gender. The history of the past 100 years indicates that there is no assurance that targeting the ills of a market economy based on private ownership of the means of production translates into overcoming racialised ways of seeing and relating to others – especially since those who imbibe the norms of a racist society often includes progressive whites.” I’ve to take hold of a cup of espresso and go back to this. However notice this superb observation: “Marx restructured Capital on the basis of the impact of the events during in the U.S. during the Civil War” (and as readers know, Marx reported at the Civil Battle, I imagine for the Pristine York Bring in.
Information of the Stressed
“Welcome to theunderground” [The Underground]. “theunderground.blog is an experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader.” • Attention-grabbing concept. A homogeneous way–
“Forget WhatsApp and Messenger, contact me via my website” [Dissociated]. “I’m a Blogger now. I stay on my website. That’s something that should be printed on t-shirts. When I catch up with friends, they ask me: ‘how’s disassociated going?’ Then a few minutes later, ‘oh, and are you on Whatsapp by any chance?’ Sometimes I’d like to respond by saying, ‘well, I don’t need a messaging app, because you know you can reach me through my website. You know, the same one that predates Facebook, most of the social networks, and messaging apps.’ But I don’t. I just shake my head. And it can’t be all that bad after all. Some of my friends live interstate and overseas, and we still manage to meet in person when in each other’s respective places of residence, hassle free. All without the need to involve messaging apps, aside from some texts. If you’re an avid user of messaging apps — go for it — don’t let me dissuade you.” • Two straws within the breeze; I don’t know if this approaches zeitgeist situation, despite the fact that.
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TH writes: “Desert wildflower: Browneyes or brown-eyed primrose; Chylisma claviforms. This is one of the wildflowers in front of our house in the Mojave Desert.” Painterly!
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