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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, yesterday I devoted most of my time to a (mandatory) deep dive into Part Three. As we speak I needed to proceed that work, and get a deal with — any deal with — on Trump’s Georgia indictment, too. I’ll shortly fill in some Covid blanks; there will probably be lots extra Covid goodness tomorrow, once I assault HICPAC but once more. Extra quickly! –lambert
Chicken Music of the Day
Bobolink, Finger Lakes NF–Horton Pasture and Interloken Path, Seneca, New York, United States.
Search for the Helpers
“Are Libraries the Way forward for Media? [Popula (TH)].
Library Futures and Hearken [a company that helps newsrooms practice “”engagement journalism””] approached Albany Public Libraries and the Instances Union about working collectively. So the coalition put out a survey and, to the shock of everybody concerned, near 800 Albany library patrons and residents replied.
“”That’s uncommon for us,”” stated DiCarlo. “”Often we put out a patron survey and we’ll get a pair hundred responses. The truth that 800 individuals have been curious about native information and the way it’s modified for them over the past couple a long time… was [remarkable].””
The survey surfaced a number of helpful findings, however one stood out: in response to the ultimate report, 65% of these surveyed who didn’t use Instances Union indicated that lack of entry was the explanation. “”Subscriptions have been essentially the most cited want for patrons to enhance entry [to news].””
“”Firstly, we thought it will be wonderful if there have been a distinct relationship [between] libraries and [paywalled] newsrooms, in that newsrooms might provide consumer-grade variations of the information to library patrons,”” stated Brandel–in distinction, that’s, with the library’s clunky, hard-to-use entry instruments, similar to Newsbank, that have been at the moment in use. “”However that breaks a number of the enterprise mannequin logic, which is a much bigger, stickier subject.””
(Should you’re questioning why it is smart for purveyors of knowledge to cost for entry to data that’s each about and for the general public, you’re asking the correct query.)
And so, as a substitute of providing a digital, consumer-grade model of the paper to library patrons totally free, the coalition determined to supply authentic journalism collectively. A price range of about $100,000 funded the group’s collaboration and the manufacturing of eight tales. Each the APL and the Instances Union would personal the articles, retaining the correct to publish them on their very own web sites and digital channels, freed from any paywall, and thus free for all to learn.
TH writes: “Sure, there’s the Betteridge’s Legislation violation however librarians are nice civic helpers. (Full disclosure, I like libraries a lot, I married a librarian!)”
Politics
“So most 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
Two households, each alike in dignity,
In honest Verona, the place we lay our scene,
From historic grudge break to new mutiny,
The place civil blood makes civil fingers unclean. –William Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietShakespeare says the 2 households are “alike” in dignity, however he doesn’t say how a lot dignity they really have. If Verona’s households are like our events, the reply is “not a lot.”
* * * “The Sweep and Power of Part Three” [William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Pennsylvania Law Review]. I extremely advocate 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 means of it. One factor I discover is that there do appear to have been reasonably a number of rebellions and insurrections, not simply the Civil Warfare. To me, that is parallel to at least one lesson I drew from Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (episode 1): There are reasonably a number 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 means of his function within the rebellion that came about on January 6, 2021.
Taking “rebellion” as learn (I must do extra studying), right here is one other aggregation on Part Three.
* * * “The constitutional case that Donald Trump is already banned from being president” [Vox]. “On Baude and Paulsen’s learn, Part 3 is ‘self-executing‘ — which means it doesn’t require an act of Congress to enter pressure and binds these public officers within the place to behave on its dictates. Principally, if a single official wherever within the US electoral system finds their constitutional evaluation compelling, Baude and Paulsen urge them to behave on it.” No court docket dedication wanted. Agree or disagree, that’s what Baude and Paulsen say. Extra: “As a matter of regulation, I discover their arguments fairly compelling…. However go rogue [framing!] is a recipe for catastrophe. And that disconnect, between what the regulation says and the sensible boundaries to implementing it, speaks to some deep issues in American democracy that led to Trump’s rebellion within the first place…. Think about — simply think about — that native election administration officers in states like Georgia, Wisconsin, or Arizona acted on Baude and Paulsen’s recommendation and knocked Trump off the final election poll…. Worst case — properly, the January 6 riot might have been lots bloodier than it already was…. Equally, a severe effort to render Trump ineligible would run up in opposition to the sensible downside that he’s a near-lock to be the candidate of one of many two main events — which, in a extremely polarized system, means he’ll be the candidate of roughly half of the voters. There may be little purpose to imagine courts get pleasure from sufficient legitimacy amongst Republicans (or Democrats, for that matter) to be able to kick a major-party candidate off the poll. The systemic penalties of such an try might properly be devastating.” • IOW, each the By no means Trumpers and the liberal Democrats are setting the nation up for a civil warfare. And in the event that they imagine they will win it, they’re as delusional because the slaveholders who shaped the Confederacy.
“Imposing the 14th Modification’s Bar on Insurrectionist Officers and Candidates” [American Constitution Society]. The ACS is the New York Generals to the Federalist Society’s Harlem Globetrotters. “State election officers charged with figuring out poll entry within the presidential primaries must make an preliminary dedication on whether or not he’s eligible to serve below Part Three. A few of these officers will invariably say that Trump is ineligible, and he’ll then problem these rulings in court docket. Whereas there’s authority holding that Part Three shouldn’t be self-enforcing in an space below federal jurisdiction (as an example, within the District of Columbia), states did implement Part Three on their very own throughout Reconstruction and may achieve this once more. The Supreme Courtroom will nearly actually be requested to listen to a minimum of one of many state circumstances on Trump’s eligibility. However, Congress ought to take motion to implement Part Three in opposition to anybody engaged within the January sixth rebellion. There may be at the moment no federal statutory authority to implement Part Three, and if this deficiency shouldn’t be addressed many issues will observe. First, some states might merely select to disregard Part Three or do minimal enforcement. Second, having every state implement Part Three in its personal approach will end in a haphazard system particularly ill-suited to resolving a query of presidential ineligibility. Third, if former President Trump runs once more, his eligibility should be decided promptly–earlier than any elections happen–in any other case the Republican nominating contest will probably be thrown in chaos.” • I’m assuming solely Democrat election officers would rule Trump ineligible. And even they’ll need cowl within the type of knowledgeable opinion — cowl which I’m positive the dense community of NGOs and assume tanks that includes the Censorship Industrial Complicated will probably be primed to supply. Commentary:
I knew the repair was in in Georgia once I noticed the Georgia elections individuals had teamed up w/ CIA cut-out Freedom Home, CIA operative turned censorship czarista Renee DiResta, & the censorship mafioso CEO of NewsGuard.https://t.co/zKMIQgbrqv pic.twitter.com/lBVDdv797h
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 15, 2023
One massive completely satisfied! (NOTE: These associations don’t present that the Georgia indictment is something apart from the work product of the Fulton Nation prosecutors workplace. However they’re suggestive nonetheless.
“The Looming Supreme Courtroom Nullification Disaster” [Washington Monthly]. Beginning out with Alabama’s defiance of the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan {that a} districting map violated the voting rights Act. Then: “Since 2016, Republicans’ shameless political meddling with the Courtroom—the blockade of the Merrick Garland nomination, the issuance of Donald Trump’s checklist of judges, and his promise that his judges would “”robotically”” overturn—have been radical occasions. These and what adopted made the Courtroom a distinct establishment than it had been since a minimum of the Nineteen Thirties when the ‘swap in time’ ended its vendetta in opposition to the New Deal. Merely put, it’s not appearing like a court docket; it won’t be handled indefinitely by good friend or foe as if it have been one. The issue with contemptible conduct is that it attracts contempt from associates and foes. Let’s get severe: Everybody sees a minimum of some members of the conservative majority for what they’re—not merely intellectually however, to a shocking diploma, truly dishonest, the form of traffic-court hacks who will be purchased with dinner at Applebee’s, a dime-store award plaque, and a weekend at Myrtle Seaside. .” • Simply the form of Courtroom we would like ruling on a problem to Trump’s elimination from the poll below Part Three. Both approach. Bush v. Gore2, or, relying on the variety of states concerned, Bush v. GoreN.
“The Riot Bar to Workplace: Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification” [Congressional Research Service]. From 2022. “Congress final used Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification in 1919 to refuse to seat a socialist Congressman accused of getting given assist and luxury to Germany in the course of the First World Warfare, regardless of the Amnesty Act. The Congressman, Victor Berger, was finally seated at a subsequent Congress after the Supreme Courtroom threw out his espionage conviction for judicial bias…. As proven within the Berger expertise mentioned above, Congress has beforehand seen Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification as establishing an enumerated constitutional qualification for holding workplace and, consequently, a grounds for attainable exclusion.” • Clearly, Wilsonian Democrats would don’t have any extra bother disbarring a socialist from workplace than at this time’s Democrats, however Republicans would possibly properly think about whether or not members of their get together who oppose the Ukraine might be disbarred for giving “assist and luxury to the enemy,” as was Berger.
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * “The State of Georgia v. Donald Trump [et al.]” [Fulton Country Superior Court]. Many of the protection of this case appears to deal with “false statements” and the riot on the Capitol on January 6. (That is comprehensible, for the reason that first reinforces the ability of the Censorship Industrial Complicated, a lot beloved by liberal Democrats, and the second is entails conspiracy, the place everybody can turn out to be their very own counterintelligence service. The Georgia case additionally has Trump’s “good cellphone” name, however (a) Trump certainly had legal professionals with him when he made it (readers?), and (b) are we actually to imagine no Democrat ever made a name to get an election official to “discover” votes? Or, within the unhappy case of Sanders, to lose them.) Nevertheless, I imagine, as with Smith’s indictment, that the counts involving the “contingent electors” are by far essentially the most harmful, each from the standpoint of profitable a conviction, and morally as properly. Right here is the conspiracy rely:
And one of many acts in furtherance of the MR SUBLIMINAL Bud from Authorized insists I add this alleged conspiracy:
Legally — after all, individuals with prosecutorial experience might disagree; IANAP — the elector counts appear simpler to show, first as a result of there are not any pesky First Modification points (like Trump tweeting to God and the universe being an Act), and second as a result of they’re tangible; conferences are organized, so there’s a sequence of command; paperwork are distributed and signed, so there’s a paper path; ballots from the electors are despatched and acquired. Morally, it’s necessary to keep in mind that many (I don’t know what number of) electors have been recruited on the express dedication by the Trump marketing campaign that their votes could be used solely if Trump received a court docket problem exhibiting or intimating election theft a minimum of one state, which is why they have been known as “contingent”; however the Trump marketing campaign then went on to violate that dedication. That’s improper, and utilizing and discarded supporters displays very badly on Trump. IMNSHO, that is the cost that might gap the Trump marketing campaign under the waterline.
“Why Trump’s Georgia costs could be the toughest to pardon” [The Hill]. “Article II of the U.S. Structure grants the president the only energy of issuing pardons for offenses “”in opposition to the USA,”” however that energy is just for federal costs, not state ones. The governor of New York can subject pardons for state crimes, which might clear Trump within the case over 2016 hush-money funds made to porn actress Stormy Daniels that led to costs of falsifying enterprise data. Specialists say these costs are the least possible of the 4 circumstances to end in jail time for the previous president. However the governor in Georgia has no such pardon energy. As a substitute, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles is liable for overseeing all requests for clemency. The governor is liable for appointing the board’s 5 members with state Senate approval, however they in any other case don’t have any affect over the board’s decision-making. Members serve seven-year phrases which can be staggered. And Trump wouldn’t even be eligible to use for a Georgia pardon till a minimum of 5 years after finishing any sentence, together with parole and probation. A person additionally can’t be thought of for a pardon if they’ve any pending costs, so he couldn’t obtain a preemptive one. Trump might serve intensive time if convicted of the Georgia costs.”
“Georgia Indictment Throws Every part at Trump—and Some Would possibly Stick” [Jonathan Turley, The Daily Beast]. “Welcome to the Jackson Pollock college of prosecution. The 98-page indictment from Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis is the authorized model of Pollock’s fashion of throwing paint splatters on canvas as creative expression. It mainly makes each phone name, tweets, and assembly a separate conspiratorial act. There are 161 separate acts. Not surprisingly, everybody then turns into a part of the conspiracy…. However for all of the disparate acts that Willis says constitutes a felony conspiracy, a part of this rising image ought to fear Trump….. There are three explanation why this indictment might be essentially the most perilous for Trump, versus the Jan. 6 indictments, which current severe threshold constitutional questions. First, the racketeering circumstances are usually iron-plated earlier than trial as a result of challenges concern the interpretation of information, that are historically questions left to the finder of reality (on this case a jury)…. Second, in D.C., particular counsel Smith is basically making an attempt to create new regulation, or a minimum of stretch present case regulation to the purpose of breaking down. Conversely, elections are left largely to the states, and state prosecutors routinely carry election-based prosecutions. Willis could also be stretching the proof, however she shouldn’t be stretching the regulation. Racketeering legal guidelines are routinely used far afield from their origins in combating felony gangs…. Lastly, as a state motion, this isn’t a prosecution that may be ended prematurely with a presidential pardon…. Many people disagreed with Trump after the election and publicly rejected the claims of systemic voting fraud. Nevertheless, Trump had a proper to not solely problem the election however to be improper. That’s the reason the Willis indictment is a severe menace to Trump but additionally to our system of democratic course of. Pollock as soon as stated that ‘when I’m in my portray, I’m not conscious of what I’m doing.’ Not like painters, prosecutors don’t have the identical luxurious. What Willis is doing right here is extreme and it’s harmful.”
“Who’s Fani Willis, the Georgia district legal professional who indicted Trump?” [Al Jazeera]. ” Willis is thought for pursuing RICO costs, which she stated permit for a extra full image of felony circumstances. A divorced mom of two, Willis grew up principally in Washington, DC, together with her father, whom she describes as a felony defence legal professional and former Black Panther. She attended Howard College, a traditionally Black college within the US capital, and earned a regulation diploma from Emory College in Atlanta. She labored as a lawyer earlier than becoming a member of the Fulton County district legal professional’s workplace as an assistant prosecutor. Ultimately, she challenged and unseated her former boss, Paul Howard, because the county’s prime prosecutor. Willis, nevertheless, confronted criticism from social justice activists and election rivals in 2020 for receiving an endorsement and marketing campaign contributions from a significant police union throughout her marketing campaign. Police unions usually defend officers concerned in misconduct.” • The Cop-Loving Black Lady Who’s Going to Deliver Down Trump! Let the votive candles be ready! And let’s not point out Stacey Abrams, bless her coronary heart, beforehand beloved of liberal Democrat Schwärmer.
“Scott McAfee Has Been a Choose Six Months. He Is Now Assigned Trump’s Georgia Case.” [Wall Street Journal]. “McAfee, 34 years previous, has spent a lot of his profession as a prosecutor, first for the Fulton County district legal professional and later for the U.S. legal professional’s workplace in Atlanta. McAfee was randomly assigned the case, however he has labored for key individuals concerned within the occasions of 2020: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican whom Trump attacked repeatedly for not becoming a member of his effort to overturn Trump’s loss; former U.S. Lawyer Byung J. Pak, whom Trump compelled out of workplace for not becoming a member of the hassle; and Fani Willis, the Democratic district legal professional in Fulton County whose greater than 2½-year probe led to the costs. Attorneys in Atlanta name McAfee good {and professional}. These qualities will probably be examined in a huge case that may contain Trump, who has adopted an usually brazen method to his authorized proceedings. The case will contain different well-known defendants similar to former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a brigade of legal professionals, complicated jury choice, a cascade of authorized motions from either side, jurors who must serve for months a minimum of, a horde of reporters, and intense safety points on the Fulton County courthouse and surrounding space in downtown Atlanta.”
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I must try this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Celebration (“the Democrat Celebration is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Celebration is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Celebration is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Celebration didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Celebration reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Celebration (ka-ching, however not solely) these components 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 group.
Notice, 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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#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 Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the tackle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Keep protected on the market!
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” may be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, more than likely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind harm, together with persona adjustments therefrom.
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Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, August 14:
Lambert right here: Not a lot of a leap over the past three days. Joyful reminiscences of tape-watching days! It will likely be attention-grabbing to see what occurs when colleges open up. I want to congratulate the Biden administration and the general public well being institution, the CDC particularly, for this monumental and unprecedented achievement. And a tip of the ol’ Water Cooler hat to the Nice Barrington goons, whose insurance policies have been adopted so assiduously! A curious reality: All of Biden’s peaks are larger than Trump’s peaks. Reveals you what public well being can do when it’s firing on all eight cylinders! Musical interlude. NOTE I’m not completely satisfied that Biobot can’t replace this knowledge extra continuously.
Regional knowledge:
No backward revisions; maybe the Midwest surge, and leveling off in all places else, is actual. Let’s wait and see. Apparently, the upswing begins earlier than July 4, which neither accelerates nor retards it.
Regional variant knowledge, August 5.
EG.5 (the orange pie slice) nonetheless appears evenly distributed. Sadly, the Midwest knowledge shouldn’t be obtainable, so we will’t infer something in regards to the Midwest surge and any variant(s), come what may.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, August 5:
From CDC, July 22:
Lambert right here: Undecided what to make of this. I’m used to seeing a brand new variant take down the beforehand dominant variant. Right here it appears like now we have a “tag group,” all working collectively to chop XBB.1.5 right down to measurement. 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 minimize by directors of unwell intent).
CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will probably be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Appears 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, August 12:
Lambert right here: Enhance is much more distinct. (The black line is “mixed”, however it’s simple to see that Covid, the crimson line, is driving every little thing.)
NOTE “Charts and knowledge offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for 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, although CDC is making an attempt to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.
• Related knowledge from Japan:
Presently we can not know the way many individuals are contaminated with COVID-19, however we will know the way susceptible the individuals have turn out to be by seeing the emergency transport knowledge.
For instance, we will know that the Japanese have remarkably turn out to be susceptible in final three years.… pic.twitter.com/7SKhMByKAM
— Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) (@Yash25571056) August 16, 2023
I’d hazard a guess that Japan’s emergency response system is much extra purposeful than our personal, and so a greater proxy for Covid’s rise.
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, August 14:
-0.7%. A pause right here, too? Apparently, persons are citing to this, too, in addition to Biobot. Vertical-ish, although absolutely the numbers are nonetheless very small relative to June 2022, say. Apparently, these don’t correlate with the regional figures for wastewater. (It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer stress, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From CDC, July 24:
Lambert right here: That is the CDC’s “Traveler-Primarily based Genomic Surveillance” knowledge. They are saying “maps,” however I don’t see one….
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, August 9:
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, through the API from the CDC: https://knowledge.cdc.gov/NCHS/Situations-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?
Whole: 1,172,148 – 1,172,112 = 36 (36 * 365 = 13,140 deaths per yr, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would really like, although they will speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could must resolve that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission achieved” for this explicit tranche of loss of life and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, August 16:
Lambert right here: Again to nearly dailiy. Odd when it’s, odd when it stops. Primarily based on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran endlessly with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no one was actually taking a look at it, so I bought rid it. )
Stats Watch
Housing: “United States Housing Begins” [Trading Economics]. “Housing begins within the US rose by 3.9% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annualized fee of 1.452 million in July 2023, above market expectations of 1.448 million.”
Manufacturing: “United States Industrial Manufacturing” [Trading Economics]. “Industrial manufacturing in the USA fell by 0.2% from the earlier yr in July of 2023, extending the 0.4% decline within the earlier month.”
Capability: “United States Capability Utilization” [Trading Economics]. “Capability utilization within the US rose to 79.3% in July of 2023, in comparison with a downwardly revised 78.6% in June and barely above forecasts of 79.1%. ”
As we speak’s Worry & Greed Index: 55 Impartial (earlier shut: 56 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 66 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Aug 16 at 1:45 PM ET. Mr. Market is having a tragic!
Zeitgeist Watch
Oh noes:
this man analyzed 4 years of his on-line courting knowledge pic.twitter.com/oRUSTLzleg
— gaut (@0xgaut) August 15, 2023
“The darkish reality about Taylor Swift” [Unherd]. “It’s frequent data that girls like love tales. And people which achieve iconic standing have a tendency towards tragedy… What’s much less well-recognised is that this sort of emotional depth, and the motif of doomed ardour that serves as its service, has roots in a thousand-year-old spiritual schism. And whereas its origin story has been largely forgotten, the religious starvation it encodes lives on in a perplexing trait usually seen within the younger, and maybe particularly younger girls: a longing for romantic transcendence that’s troublesome to tell apart from self-destruction. Nowhere does this kamikaze mysticism disguise extra flagrantly and influentially in plain sight than within the wildly fashionable music of Taylor Swift, and the worldwide cult of ‘Swifties’ she has impressed. … Our love-affair with doomed love begins in early Thirteenth-century France with the two-decade Albigensian Campaign which noticed the Cathar sect persecuted, tortured, slaughtered and scattered by the orthodox Christian Knights Templar, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 200,000. …. that violent spiritual battle additionally had one other, subtler and further-reaching legacy stemming from what occurred to the Cathar religion. For it didn’t disappear: it went underground. And the origins of the recurring theme of doomed ardour in Western tradition, in response to the Swiss medievalist Denis de Rougemont, lie within the survival of Cathar heresy, hidden in plain sight in ‘courtly love’ literature. This work was created by the ‘troubadours’, poets and composers hooked up to Provençal courts — who have been, de Rougemont argues, a minimum of Cathar-influenced if not all secret heretics. For there are eerie parallels between their poetic mythologisation of knights and ‘courtly love’, and the heretical religion they have been slaughtered for. If, because it was for the Cathars, each soul was trapped in a state of eager for reunion with the Divine, when the troubadours sang of unrequited love of a knight for his ‘Woman’ that wasn’t a literal love story. Quite the opposite: it stood for that religious ache and longing. And since such a longing might solely be attained by escape from the jail of flesh — which is to say, by loss of life — the love of a knight for his ‘Woman’ couldn’t be consummated, besides by the loss of life of 1 or each. In different phrases: to convey its esoteric which means, the narrative ‘romance’ couldn’t have a ‘completely satisfied ever after’. In these phrases, the one actual completely satisfied ending is loss of life.” • Hmm. I’ve actually by no means listened to Taylor Swift; I choose Ok-Pop. Ought to I?
Class Warfare
The closest America ever got here to a European-style welfare state was below Trump, with the CARES Act:
The most important dip in suicide charges in trendy US historical past was when the US authorities took the boot of capital off individuals’s necks for a couple of months https://t.co/sleptKfO6v
— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) August 15, 2023
Stochastic eugenicism continuing apace, I see. Joe, good job.
Information of the Wired
I’m not feeling wired at this time, a minimum of not but.
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