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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“A Horrible Plan to Neutralize Trump Has Entranced the Authorized World|” [Lawrence Lessig, Slate]. “A homicide of good and distinguished legal professionals imagine they’ve discovered a authorized argument to unravel the political drawback of Donald Trump.” Beautiful use of the collective noun. Extra: “irst pressed by Yale Legislation professor Bruce Ackerman and Indiana College professor Gerard Magliocca, then taken up with law-review obsessiveness by Chicago’s Will Baude and St. Thomas’ Michael Paulsen, and now endorsed by essentially the most distinguished former conservative choose, Michael Luttig, and essentially the most distinguished liberal regulation professor, Harvard’s Larry Tribe, this argument says that by its personal pressure, the 14th Modification prohibits the election of Donald Trump as president as a result of his acts of revolt disqualify him from that workplace. The argument is elegant and spectacular. However it might be flatly incorrect for any court docket — particularly the Supreme Courtroom — to embrace it…. The paradigm case that the authors of Part 3— and the state legislators who ratified it — have been pondering of was the Civil Battle. That warfare concerned an energetic revolt towards the federal government of the US…. Nobody thinks Jan. 6 was a repeat of Fort Sumter. Nobody, that’s, believes that Trump and his allies have been rallying to secede from the Union…. I imagine that those that charged the Capitol on Jan. 6 dedicated against the law. I imagine that their crimes ought to be prosecuted. .” • Fascinating argument!
“Extra On The Trump ‘Disqualified For Rebel’ Debate” [Above the Law]. ” Suppose Trump’s January 6 plot had succeeded. Pence had disqualified some ballots for Biden, as an alternative counted the Trump ballots, and declared that Trump had been re-elected. Suppose that tens of hundreds of Democrats then protested on the grounds of the Capitol. A few of these Democrats, together with elected officers, engaged in unlawful acts of civil disobedience to indicate their outrage. Would these Democratic elected officers have engaged in revolt, disqualifying them from holding future workplace? It could’t all rely on whose ox is gored. The regulation should imply one thing*. Politicians will squeal to serve their political ends. However clever, considerate individuals who care concerning the regulation will understand that the disqualification query is a tough and shut one. There might be way more to come back earlier than the 2024 election.” NOTE * The seventy five-cent phrase for this view — which I imagine is right — is “relative autonomy.”
* * * “The Sweep and Pressure of Part Three” [William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Pennsylvania Law Review]. I extremely suggest this piece (and the following dialogue at NC, beginning right here). As a former English main and a fan of shut studying, I’m not averse to “originalism,” of which Baude and Paulsen present a magisterial instance, within the sense that understanding the regulation as a textual content should start with understanding the plain, public which means of the phrases used when the textual content was written. That’s how I learn Shakespeare, or Joyce, so why not the Structure? Simply so long as understanding doesn’t finish there! In any case, I’m working by way of it. One factor I discover is that there do appear to have been moderately a variety of rebellions and insurrections, not simply the Civil Battle. To me, that is parallel to 1 lesson I drew from Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (episode 1): There are moderately a variety of revolutions, too. Alert reader Pensions Man summarizes Baude and Paulsen as follows:
The authors undergo an exhaustive textual and originalism evaluation of Part Three, and their Federalist Society leanings don’t deter them from reaching their conclusion that officers in each State who’re charged with figuring out candidate {qualifications} ought to conclude that Donald Trump is disqualified from being on ballots due to the oath he took on Inauguration Day 2017 and subsequently violated by way of his position within the revolt that passed off on January 6, 2021.
Taking “revolt” as learn (I must do extra studying), this has been extra of my persevering with protection of Part Three.
Biden Administration
“Wonderful Air Pressure One Details That Solely A Few Presidents Have Been Prepared To Confess” [Livestly]. Horrid clickbait. However this caught my eye: “That is in all probability one of many coolest information about Air Pressure One. Air Pressure One can refuel within the sky. It by no means has to the touch floor. If it needed to, it may fly perpetually.” • What a premise for a science fiction novel…
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * “The GOP’s massive wager on labor” [Politico]. That is the lead. “When Donald Trump heads to suburban Detroit Wednesday to handle placing auto staff, the previous president might be bracketing Joe Biden’s personal go to at this time to the UAW picket line and unofficially kicking off the overall election in a battleground state. However he’ll additionally provide the newest datapoint in an extended coming convergence between his personal occasion and union members.” • Besides–
“Trump to talk Wednesday at non-union Macomb Co. automotive components producer” [Michigan Advance]. “Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday is ready to ship remarks at Drake Enterprises, an automotive components producer and provider in Clinton Township in Macomb County, in keeping with an announcement from Trump’s marketing campaign…. Trump’s remarks are scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Wednesday. His look coincides with the second Republican presidential debate, which Trump isn’t attending….
“Why Trump’s message works” [Byron York, Washington Examiner]. “How is Trump, almost three years out of workplace and going through 4 indictments, forward of the incumbent president? Right here’s one reply, after listening to Trump and speaking to individuals who got here to see him on a sizzling, sweaty late September day within the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Trump’s message is compelling as a result of it’s, in essence, the spoken-word model of the emotions concerning the state of the nation expressed in…the Washington Publish ballot. Different polls, too. In a shortened model of his outdated speech — Trump spoke for a bit of greater than half an hour, mercifully brief within the debilitating warmth — Trump spent most of his time discussing the financial system. His message was easy: Issues have been good after I was president. They’ve gone to hell since Biden grew to become president. I’ll make them good once more should you return me to the White Home… Trump spoke at size concerning the financial system and his proposed options. Greater than anything, it’s the core of his message. And why does it work? As a result of it displays what the polls, together with the Washington Publish ballot, present voters are most involved about. Within the new Washington Publish ballot, simply 30% of these surveyed permitted of Biden’s dealing with of the financial system, versus 64% who disapproved. Simply 25% stated the state of the financial system is superb or good (truly, simply 2% stated it’s glorious, whereas 23% stated it’s good). Seventy-four % stated it’s not so good or poor.” • Cf. the dialogue a few days in the past in Water Cooler about insurance coverage hikes. We’d additionally bear in mind, although York doesn’t point out it, that beneath the CARES Act — handed beneath the Trump Administration — poverty truly dropped, considerably. In fact the Democrats, as soon as in workplace, set about dismantling it, together with each different pandemic safety.
“We Annotated the Trump Group’s Landmark Courtroom Ruling — Listed below are the Largest Takeaways” [The Messenger]. The deck: “The Messenger unpacks the scorching, 35-page ruling that might ring the dying knell on former President Donald Trump’s enterprise empire.” From the ruling:
I’m not an professional on the small print of this case, on the related regulation, or on New York Actual Property (a enterprise that’s pure because the pushed snow, as everyone knows). That stated, “dissolution” of the cancelled LLCs appears fairly heavy-duty. (It’s my impression that Trump’s actual property empire isn’t constructed on debt, and that he owns a great deal of property outright. So The Messenger’s deck could also be a bit of harsh. Readers?
“Cassidy Hutchinson warns second Trump time period wouldn’t have ‘guardrails’” [The Hill]. “‘I believe that Donald Trump in a second time period wouldn’t have guardrails,’ Hutchinson stated throughout a taped interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired Tuesday…. ‘We have now to assume, ‘what would a second Trump time period seem like?’ she stated. ‘Who would work for Donald Trump in a second time period? That’s the query that we ought to be asking ourselves going into this election season.’… Hutchinson has been conducting her first media rounds since testifying about what was taking place contained in the White Home after Trump misplaced the 2020 election to now-President Biden, as her e book “Sufficient” was launched Tuesday.” • I lastly found out why I hate the “guardrails” trope. It assumes there’s nothing incorrect with the street (development, route), the car (bloated, predatory), or the driving force (silly or evil). Our silly timeline wants greater than “guardrails”!
“Republicans face rising urgency to cease Trump as they enter the second presidential debate” [Associated Press]. “‘This isn’t a nomination that’s going to fall in your lap. You need to go and beat the opposite candidates and a type of occurs to be Donald Trump,’ stated Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist and veteran of Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. ‘This debate, it’ll be fascinating to see whether or not or not of us understand that the sand goes by way of the hourglass fairly rapidly proper now.’” • I suppose it might be perfect for Democrats if each Republican however Trump is taken out, Trump is then indicted (hopefully a number of occasions) and both disqualified from workplace (let’s not depend the great of us on the Federalist Society out, right here) or dogpiled into oblivion, leaving Biden — assuming he’s nonetheless compos mentis (for some definition of compos mentis) and/or alive — to be nominated by acclamation. As they imagine he deserves to be. Anyhow, there’s all the time Michelle. Or Oprah MR SUBLIMINAL N-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!
* * * “Hunter Biden obtained $260K from Beijing throughout dad’s marketing campaign — with Joe’s handle on wire: Comer” [NY Post]. Pricey Hunter. “First son Hunter Biden obtained two wire transfers from Chinese language nationals price a complete of $260,000 months after dad Joe started his 2020 presidential marketing campaign — and with the elder Biden’s Delaware dwelling listed because the beneficiary handle, a key Home Republican stated Tuesday….. ‘Financial institution information don’t lie however President Joe Biden does. In 2020, Joe Biden informed Individuals that his household by no means obtained cash from China,’ Comer stated in a press release.” And the Democrat response: “‘Think about them arguing that, if somebody stayed at their mother and father’ home throughout the pandemic, listed it as their everlasting handle for work, and bought a paycheck, the mother and father one way or the other additionally labored for the employer,’ spokesman Ian Sams posted on social media. ‘It’s bananas. But that is what excessive Home Republicans have sunken to.’” • A wire switch is identical as a paycheck? (To be honest, maybe to some Democrats, it might be.) And from China? Actually? In the meantime:
Greatest pivot to this https://t.co/ME5lBqCohs pic.twitter.com/p5sUBgQZtC
— 🇺🇸ColonelMAGAMark🇺🇸 (@ColonelMark4) September 26, 2023
“How Home Republicans Will Attempt to Show Bribery in Biden Impeachment Inquiry (Unique)” [The Messenger]. “GOP investigators imagine they don’t have to indicate that Biden took a “direct fee,” a senior Home Republican aide with direct data of the impeachment inquiry informed The Messenger. There are different methods to show Biden engaged within the constitutionally impeachable offense Republicans are pursuing. ‘Whereas the corrupt fee is robust proof of a bribe fee, the crime may be achieved with even looking for or agreeing to simply accept something of worth for the aim of being influenced,’ the aide stated. The senior staffer, who requested for anonymity to talk freely about authorized technique, highlighted that the U.S. felony code says bribery may be achieved when a public official “instantly or not directly, corruptly calls for, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to obtain or settle for something of worth personally or for some other individual or entity.’ Chilly, arduous money in hand isn’t a vital burden of proof, Republicans imagine.” • They’re right; ask Zephyr Teachout. (In my opinion, the Republicans don’t even have to indicate affect. Hunter (pricey Hunter) is swanning about utilizing the Biden household identify to money in, together with his father’s data. Joe Biden may and may have stopped Hunter from doing that (which might be a easy matter of Joe not taking Hunter’s calls when Hunter is “out to lunch” with enterprise associates). I don’t know the authorized principle to suit this beneath, however absolutely that is widespread sense? The Republicans have carried out this enquiry with admirable sobriety to this point (“financial institution information don’t lie,” they usually’re additionally super-boring). In the event that they get the bit between their enamel and go full Benghazi, issues will finish badly for them.
“Litman: Is it time for a federal choose to place a gag order on Donald Trump?” [Los Angeles Times]. “It’s the repeated insistence that the trouble to impose a restricted gag order comes from “the Biden administration” — the transient accommodates no fewer than 9 references to Biden and his authorities — that’s the inform. It’s sheer demagoguery for the advantage of Trump’s political base to say that the felony fees towards him are the results of a political command by the president. Any half-sophisticated observer is aware of it’s a lie. The barrier between Biden and Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland is barely strengthened by the separation between Garland and Smith, who has a broad measure of independence from the division.” • That may be a basic Madisonian assemble: “Ambition have to be made to counteract ambition. The curiosity of the person have to be linked with the constitutional rights of the place” (Federalist 51). That’s, the President, the Lawyer Basic, and the Prosecutor would all test one another. Isn’t it fairly to assume so. Nevertheless, RussiaGate and the Censorship Industrial Advanced each go to indicate that Democrats don’t roll with Madisonian niceties.
“Bidens’ canine bites Secret Service officer in eleventh recognized aggressive incident” [WaPo]. • In the event you imagine that companion animals replicate the personalities of their house owners, Biden isn’t a pleasant individual in any respect.
* * * “Youngkin ‘doesn’t count on’ to make endorsement in presidential main” [The Hill]. “‘I don’t count on to endorse anybody. I believe voters ought to select this, and I’m positive will probably be a well-participated main,’ Youngkin stated on the Financial Membership of Washington. Youngkin is a well-regarded Republican who has hinted at potential White Home ambitions in his future. Whereas he has thought of a 2024 race, he has signaled that an announcement is feasible however unlikely.”
“The Youngkin blueprint” [The Spectator]. “It’s late August and he has simply completed up one in every of his ‘Dad and mom Matter’ listening classes, this one in Virginia Seashore. Youngkin has been touring the Commonwealth and listening to instantly from mother and father to meet one in every of his greatest 2021 marketing campaign guarantees: defending the rights of fogeys from authorities overreach in issues regarding their kids. Dad and mom teams mobilized throughout that election to nice impact. Covid-related college closures and the intrusion of divisive gender and racial politics into the classroom made mother and father a vital and energized a part of the coalition that elected Youngkin. Since then, the Republican governor has launched new statewide insurance policies that require mother and father to be notified when their kids request social gender transitions in class, when their kids are uncovered to sexually express materials and, inside twenty-four hours, when their youngsters are subjected to bullying. College students are additionally required to make use of services and be part of sports activities groups in keeping with their organic intercourse. He has devoted $30 million in state funds to handle pandemic studying loss.” • Placing Youngkin on a collision course with Pritzker, who’s completely not working both.
Republican Funhouse
“Gaetz: ‘We are going to see’ if Democrats ‘bail out our failed Speaker’” [The Hill]. “Below present Home guidelines, it solely takes one member to convey up a movement to vacate the Speakership…. Requested about Gaetz’s feedback, McCarthy informed reporters Tuesday, ‘Look, individuals have gotten to recover from private variations. I’m centered on America.’ ‘He by no means voted for me to begin out with. I don’t assume he’s altering his place,’ the Speaker continued. When requested if Gaetz’s feedback bothered him, McCarthy responded, ‘Does it seem like it bothers me? No, it doesn’t.’” • What enjoyable!
“Hillary Clinton’s portrait unveiled at State Division” [The Hill]. • The gilded body will present a pleasant coloration distinction to the crimson of the dripping blood.
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently individuals are truly studying the back-dated put up! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I must do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Social gathering (“the Democrat Social gathering is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated put up, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, the truth is, a tough drawback. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Social gathering is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not totally) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence neighborhood.
Be aware, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; 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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“Notes on the State of Politics: Sept. 26, 2023” [Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball]. “Menendez’s intransigence prompted a daring transfer from Rep. Andy Kim (D, NJ-3): On Saturday, the three-term member from South Jersey introduced that he’d run for Senate. Although different Democratic challengers could emerge, Kim’s early transfer could assist construct statewide identify recognition. Kim can even credibly declare to have been forward of the curve all through the current Menendez saga — he was the primary main New Jersey Democrat to name for the senator’s resignation. We don’t know precisely what sort of, or if any, behind-the-scenes politicking went on earlier than Kim’s announcement. Nonetheless, it stands to cause that Kim — a non-machine politician in a state nonetheless influenced to a point by machine politics — would have needed to have some geese lined up earlier than mounting a problem to his senior senator. One of many notable voices calling for Menendez’s resignation was 1st District Rep. Donald Norcross. Norcross represents the Camden space and has a brother, George, who is thought for controlling a South Jersey political community (though the latter just lately stated he takes a step again from politics because the power of his machine has waned). For Kim, South Jersey could make for a pleasant statewide launching pad, whereas the Norcross machine may attempt its hand a selecting Kim’s successor within the Home. In North Jersey, although, Menendez has constructed a sturdy machine of his personal, with a base in Hudson County (Jersey Metropolis). Menendez’s pull was evidenced in final 12 months’s NJ-8 main, when no big-name Democrats ran towards his son for an open seat. Though Menendez seems to have misplaced help from native Democratic events in a number of key counties, he may nonetheless theoretically win a main if his help in Hudson County holds, particularly if extra candidates enter the race. The occasion line system, one in every of New Jersey’s electoral quirks that has lengthy been disliked by good authorities advocates, is the primary cause why county-level events maintain outsized sway within the state.” • WSWS classifies Kim as a CIA Democrat: “Civilian warfare planner and adviser to US navy commanders in Afghanistan, Iraq director for Nationwide Safety Council beneath President Obama.”
“The Democratic Social gathering Has an Previous Downside and Gained’t Admit It” [Brian Beutler, New York Times]. Masterful Beutler Substack rollout. “In our fixation on Mr. Biden’s age, we regularly gloss over the position the Democratic Social gathering has performed in selling and lionizing its older leaders, then muddling by way of when sickness or dying undermines their potential to manipulate. The occasion’s leaders appear to imagine implicitly within the inalienable proper of their getting old icons to stay in positions of excessive energy unquestioned, lengthy after it turns into cheap to ask whether or not they’re risking insupportable hurt. The occasion has come to function extra like a machine, during which prolonged, loyal service have to be rewarded with deference.” • Now do Covid mind harm.
“Randomly Chosen Panel Ought to Information Airport’s Future, Officers Say” [Santa Monica Lookout]. “The way forward for Santa Monica Airport ought to be hammered out — not by the standard neighborhood activists and civic volunteers — however by randomly chosen ‘on a regular basis individuals,’ Metropolis officers informed the Metropolis Council Monday. The data merchandise from prime Public Works officers proposes utilizing a democratic lottery to ‘have interaction new residents by way of a randomized choice course of,’ as an alternative of counting on ‘the identical self-selected people.’ After assembly in individual for six weekends over the course of some 9 months beginning subsequent fall, the panel would make suggestions to the Council for the 227-acre website that beneath a 2017 settlement with the FAA would stop to function as an airport on the finish of 2028. The panel might be charged with what Metropolis officers have stated ‘is prone to be essentially the most transformative city planning occasion of the century for the Metropolis’ (‘Airport Plan Takes Off,’ January 25, 2023). The lottery system — which isn’t widespread in North America — ‘would lead to a panel that calls for broad demographic illustration, and minimizes the affect of particular pursuits,’ stated the report from Public Works Director Rick Valte.” • Sortition for the win! Do we’ve got any California readers who’re monitoring this?
#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; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic 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!
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Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Movie star Watch
“Cori Bush exams optimistic for COVID, working remotely” [The Hill]. “I’ve examined optimistic for COVID-19 & I’m experiencing signs.”
“Minnesota senator exams optimistic for COVID-19” [The Hill]. Tina Smith. “I examined optimistic for COVID this morning after creating delicate signs Sunday night time.”
Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, September 25:
Lambert right here: “Information final up to date September 18, 2023 from samples collected throughout the week of September 11, 2023. This Thursday’s replace is delayed. Visualizations are subsequent anticipated to be up to date on September 25, 2023. Most up-to-date knowledge are topic to alter.” So even wastewater knowledge is popping to rubbish? (I checked CDC knowledge, and it was up to date on September 18, too? Funding points? All people utilizing the identical lab behind the scenes, and there was a debacle of some sort?)=
Lambert right here: Dropping all over the place however the Northeast.
Regional knowledge:
Curiously, the upswing begins earlier than July 4, which neither accelerates nor retards it.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, September 16:
Lambert right here: High of the leaderboard: EG.5 (“Eris“). Nonetheless BA.2.86 right here, not even within the notice, however see beneath at Positivity.
From CDC, September 2:
Lambert right here: Unsure what to make of this. I’m used to seeing a brand new variant take down the beforehand dominant variant. Right here it seems like we’ve got a “tag staff,” all working collectively to chop XBB.1.5 right down to dimension. 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 services lower by directors of sick intent).
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge might be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per 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
From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, September 23:
Drop coinciding with wastewater drop.
NOTE “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the whole 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 suitable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart exhibits, a minimum of for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, regardless that CDC is attempting to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, knowledge as of September 27:
Flattened peak continues. I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading.
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a distinct CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, a minimum of. September 16:
Lambert right here: At the very least we will see that positivity and hospitalization correlate.
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at 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, September 25:
-4.7%. One other massive drop. (It will be fascinating to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, September 23:
Lambert right here: I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is sweet*, and we’re starved for knowledge, 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 knowledge, September 4:
Again up once more And listed below are the variants:
No BA.2.86 for 3 of the long-delayed assortment weeks. We all know BA.2.86 is within the nation, so apparently it escaped CDC’s internet.
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, September 20:
Lambert right here: The WHO knowledge is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Information Tracker. Their methodology: “These knowledge have been sourced, by way of the API from the CDC: https://knowledge.cdc.gov/NCHS/Circumstances-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Information are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that exhibits a complete of the three causes (prime proper). Readers?
Complete: 1,176,310 – 1,176,159 = 151 (151 * 365 = 55,115 deaths per 12 months, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would really like, although they will discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could need to determine that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).
Extra Deaths
NOT UPDATED The Economist, September 24:
Lambert right here: That is now being up to date day by day once more. Odd. Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States Sturdy Items Orders” [Trading Economics]. “New orders for manufactured sturdy items within the US unexpectedly rose 0.2% month-over-month in August 2023, rebounding from an upwardly revised 5.6% stoop in July, and beating market forecasts of a 0.5% fall. ”
Tech: “The invisible drawback” [Scott Jenson]. “There are seemingly many causes, however I might argue that there are a number of deep foundational UX issues with tablets that hinders productively. Textual content modifying is one. One other is file dealing with, one thing I’ve earlier written about should you’re . Nevertheless, earlier than anybody accuses me of being a nostalgic idiot, I need to be clear that I’m not anti-mobile. My objective is to not return again to the desktop, however to maneuver cell ahead. How can we truly repair our telephones and tablets to be as productive and quick as we’re on desktop methods?” • Good query, and perhaps Jenson has the reply, however I doubt it.
Immediately’s Worry & Greed Index: 24 Excessive Worry (earlier shut: 26 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 48 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 26 at 1:47:27 PM ET. I might count on Mr. Market to be having a tragic. However whereas MarketWatch has a variety of actually odd headlines, there aren’t any photos of bankers leaping out of home windows. Anticipating the federal government shutdown?
Zeitgeist Watch
Dad:
A person walks as much as a police officer. Officer, I discovered a penguin, what ought to I do with it? the person asks.
The officer replies: Take him to the zoo.
The subsequent day, the officer walks down the road and meets the person with the penguin. Didn’t I inform you to take him to the zoo? he asks the person.
The person replies: That’s what I did and at this time we’re going to the flicks.
Class Warfare
“A 3rd of Individuals imagine the financial system is a zero-sum recreation” [MarketWatch]. • Appears low.
Information of the Wired
“Tempest for Eliza” [Tempest for Eliza]. “Tempest for Eliza is a Program that makes use of your pc monitor to ship out AM radio indicators. You’ll be able to then hear pc generated music in your radio.” • Might need broader software than music?
Contact info for crops: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a test if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me photos of crops. Greens are high-quality! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you would like your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it at first of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Carla:
Carla writes: “Within the Hoh Rainforest, Olympic Nationwide Park, July 2023.” Wow! A forest, not a plantation. Jogs my memory of another photographer…
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