This is a lovely story and Linda Greenhouse is a lovely person for writing it. (I tried to email a letter-to-the-editor at the Times but couldn't do it.)
The language of the money shot (for our purposes) in the 12th Amendment is peculiar. PAUSE I can't believe I am reading the fucking 12th Amendment UNPAUSE:
“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;”
Active voice: “President of the Senate SHALL...OPEN...”
Then passive voice: “and the votes SHALL THEN BE COUNTED."
Who? Who counts once Pence opens.
It specifically does NOT say the votes shall be counted by the PRESIDENT of the Senate.
The 12th A. gives no active role to the President of the Senate besides opening.
The practice seemingly countenanced there is that of the reception of jury verdicts. Judge “opens”, checks that it’s signed by foreperson (in the present case, that the states' electoral votes are under seal of the states) and then the clerk reads the verdict and polls each juror individually.
Some anti-democratic elected representatives have filed suit against Pence. The suit asks SCOTUS to declare that the President of the Senate is the sole counter of the electoral votes and the sole determiner of the election winner. The 12th A. doesn’t say that.
*Updated. Gohmert's claim conflicts with legal experts who say that Pence’s role, or the role of any vice president, is to preside over the counting of the votes submitted by the Electoral College, not to judge which ones are valid or not.
Just as a judge does upon receipt of a jury verdict. A judge cannot override a jury verdict.
344.3k, 19M
Okay. I ignored the daily counts, the trends, convinced that reporting lag or bump were the cause. Whatever. The numbers are what they are.
We have had two consecutive days of record highs in Deaths. Looking back at my last post on the subject there were approximately 6k more Deaths. So I checked Johns Hopkins' daily graph.
3,732 Dec. 29
3,744 Dec. 30
The previous high, 3,682, was on Dec. 16.
New York Times 14-day changes.
-13% Cases
+10 Hospitalizations
-9% Deaths
All of the figures except totals are still contingent on reporting erraticity. This is still no way for an advanced society to manage a public health crisis.
Full Time. My beloved Oklahoma “Sooners” of the Big XII Conference laid a double-nickel on the Florida “Gators” of the Southeastern Athletic Conference. 55-20 the final. Florida got a garbage time TD when it was 55-13. Florida linebacker James Harrison IV is now James Harrison in need of an IV. JH4 said last week about this matchup,
"Oklahoma is a good matchup, but they're not on our level. They're not the SEC. They're not the Florida Gators. So we should put on a good show.”OU was an 8.5 point favorite. They covered.
To young James, who won’t learn from this to keep his pie hole shut since no one learns anything at Florida, to all Florida players, coaches, friends, family, alumni and unborn children a hearty,
FU
Good night.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
FU 3 OU 17, End 1Q
OU fumbled after the INT, the THIRD INT of the first quarter. FU got the ball down to the OU 3 and had to settle for the FG. Think they should have gone for it; try a pass.
FU 0 OU 17, 5' 1Q
You'd think that getting humiliated would knock some humility into you. But if you thought that you wouldn't be a Florida Gator.
WHOA! FT Rooks 0 Livers 0
Huge result for Nuevo Castillo, who were fifteenth.
Man, I didn't know Sheffield United weren't cutting it (Do you get it?). Zero wins, two draws, fourteen losses. PU SheffU.
Did you notice that that story was from WaPo, not NYT? Would it surprise you that to this moment that story does not appear in NYT? I was, although I shouldn't have been. This is not to shade the Chief and his little red skin, the story is real. The Times though has taken the moral from 2016 and 2020 to be that it (and WaPo and ESPECIALLY Noodles) MADE the candidacy and presidency of Individual One. And they ain't gonna do that no mo'.
Sen. Hawley announces he will contest certification of electoral college vote
(WaPo)
And that is all Trump needed for his constitutional coup d’etat to take the futile, next, final step: one Senator. With any number of Republican House members announcing their willingness to further the coup, Hawley, of Missouri, gives them the floor debate they need to delay the inevitable and official: President Biden. Six, I believe, states electors will be challenged on Jan. 6, triggering two hours of debate per. That will drag it into Jan. 7. There will be protests, probably sometimes violent, that whole day into night into Jan. 7. The coup has its best, although long, chance of partial success in the Senate where the anti-democrats have control, but even if that long play bears rotten fruit it takes both houses of Congress to agree to toss a state’s electoral votes and there’a not a snowball’s chance the anti-democrats’ play will survive the democratic Democratic House.
This will fail. President Biden will be official. However, this is also the anti-democrats’ first attempt. It took Hitler a couple of elections too. America has what looks like a vast, durable anti-democratic minority. They will have another go in 2024 if not sooner.
John Buchan had a good thing to say about everybody he knew, even those, as Milner, who Buchan served in South Africa, who bequeathed the Nazis the idea and practice of the concentration camp; as Haig, who insisted on cavalry in an era of barbed wire and ignored the airplane, who lost 20,000 men in one day in adherence to the single file walk advance in an era of the machine gun. Yes, even "the butcher."
The Great War shattered those it did not butcher, and their societies. Indeed, it shattered modernity. It drove people, including Buchan, away from all involvement in civic affairs. Those, like Buchan, who could afford it, left the cities for the seclusion of the peaceful pastoral life. 
Those who could not afford it, those who remained involved in civic life, who remained in the cities, those drew the only bitter words in Pilgrim's Way. It is a grave failing of John Buchan. It reveals his constitutional toryism. That so kindly a man thought and wrote so contemptuously of the "lost generation" shows his bedrock reactionism. He would not abandon the principles of an order that had admitted him to its perch of ruling privilege, of intellectual, moral, and material supremacy, even when that order had smashed itself against the rock of its own making. Instead, he turned bitter pen on those, raised by him and his generation to belieF in and reliance upon that old order who now stood agape amidst the wreckage.
Those who could not afford it, those who remained involved in civic life, who remained in the cities, those drew the only bitter words in Pilgrim's Way. It is a grave failing of John Buchan. It reveals his constitutional toryism. That so kindly a man thought and wrote so contemptuously of the "lost generation" shows his bedrock reactionism. He would not abandon the principles of an order that had admitted him to its perch of ruling privilege, of intellectual, moral, and material supremacy, even when that order had smashed itself against the rock of its own making. Instead, he turned bitter pen on those, raised by him and his generation to belieF in and reliance upon that old order who now stood agape amidst the wreckage.
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41-year old congressman Luke Letlow, R-LA, just elected in Nov., got COVID Dec. 18 and died the 29th.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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FT “Male Deer” 144 “Heat” 97, tied for worst loss in “Heat” history. “Beer” led 83-51 HT.
Trump's Last Stand Before He Goes to Jail
Ex-Pence Aide 'Very Concerned' About Trump Inciting Violence on January 6
(Newsweek)
"This is what he does. He tweets, he incites it, he gets his followers and supporters to behave in this manner."--Olivia Troye.
Trump has tweeted that he will see his Disgusting people in Washington on that date, when the Electoral Votes are formally recorded in Congress. Pence will preside.
Monday, December 28, 2020
COVID
It's all fucked up. The numbers are all artifact of reporting. I'm not even going to post them. They're not trustworthy. I'll show you this Cases graph from Hopkins to prove the point:
You see those two deep troughs in black? Know what days those are+? November 26 and December 25, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I bet the reporting isn't going to get back to normal until after New Year's, when the reporters go back to work. The numbers aren't reliable, not the dailies, not the 7-day averages, not the 14-day changes. You cannot set health policy based on garbage data. Garbage in. garbage out.
It is disgraceful. A mature, advanced society doesn't track the greatest public health catastrophe in its history like this. The United States of America does.
Out.
Sunday, December 27, 2020
333,115
We end as we must. That number is the total Killed by COVID since Feb. 16. More than thepopulation of Santa Ana, CA.
1M Americans have now been vaccinated. Is that having an impact yet? The New York Times 14-day averages are:
-9% Cases
+11% hospitalizations
-7% Deaths.
Some cognitive dissonance there in the Cases and Hospitalizations percentages.
The Times 7-day Cases line toggled up Dec. 26. The 7-day Deaths is on a steep, six-day decline.
Every time I watch one of the Pink Panther movies I think, "No, this one's flawed." There is a zaniness to Blake Edwards directions that is peculiarly English--and Edwards was American. Of course, David Niven, the original Charles Lytton was English as was Peter Sellers. Most of the actors speak with a British accent (or don't speak with American-accented English) and the overarching theme of the series is the Brits making fun of the French. Where would an American director get that? It had to be the influence of Niven and Sellers.
I watched The Pink Panther yesterday and A Shot in the Dark today. The Pink Panther had one of Edwards' zany social gathering scenes where Clouseau is going to nab the thief. An elite costume party. Two guys dressed as gorillas. The lights go out, Clouseau turns it into a disaster. Followed by one of Edwards' zany vehicle scenes. Several of Clouseau's misadventures in bed scenes (with his wife). The flaws in The Pink Panther are the virgin queen falling for Lytton, the final ski scene, the car chase scene (overlong), the ending court scene (Clouseau arrested and convicted as the thief and murderer, his wife escaping with Lytton). Too much.
The audience reaction to Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther led to the cacheting of David Niven as the star of the series in favor of Sellers. A Shot in the Dark therefore begins the Clouseau-centrism for which the series is famed and introduces those closest to him, Herbert Lom as Charles Dreyfus, Commissioner of the Sûreté (or alternately as Chief Inspector), Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong, André Maranne plays Dreyfus' assistant Sergeant François Chevalier. I get that in the abrupt change Clouseau's wife had to be cacheted too.
The new Clouseau-centric focus birthed the icons of the series, the Cato fight scenes, inspired brainstorms. The first one takes the audience completely by surprise. There are four of them, however. Four in one film. Flaw. Two serving the same purpose: to frustrate Clouseau's love-making. Flaw. Just that extra shot too far. Two, absolutely. Three, okay. Four, two to same effect, no; the salon scene at the end concludes with yet another vehicle catastrophe. It is too pat. One can see Edwards, et al breathless with what they have and then having to pull back and end the film, somehow, anyhow.
The zany social gathering scene is reprised, as it will be again. The full Sellers portfolio of subtle comedic genius is on display, in his mind (Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer) is innocent; the fights with Cato are to keep him en garde); in his speech: (the signaure "bimp"), on his face (Clouseau looks directly at the camera in exasperation in the drawing room scene; his prudish embarrassment at the nudist colony), his body control (falling off the sofa, difficulties with the pool cue, with the cue rack, the karate chop), his timing--all of what made Sellers the greatest English actor along with Chaplin is here. The screenwriter, if not Edwards, than whomever, is brilliant: the sotto voce dialogue between Clouseau and his deputy Hercule in futile attempt to accomplish the simple--synchronize their watches; Four times Clouseau dons various disguises to keep on the well heels of Maria, four times he is arrested; the camera cuts immediately from first encounter with the gendarme to the rear view of the paddy wagon screaming down a street, it's continental siren hee-hawing to goal.
I did not remember A Shot in the Dark being this good. Instead of, or in addition to, "No, this one's flawed," I thought about this one as I don't remember thinking previously, "This is the best one."
(more, I think)
Slow news day
How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels
(NYT)
I don’t even know what “Incels” are.
Cleveland and Miami (FL) are proof that "tanking" works in the National Concussion League. Miami is 10-5 after only one year in the tank and have a good, young team. The "Dolphins" D is really good. Cleve has spent owner Jimmy Haslam's entire tenure stinking up the joint, the fish rots from the head down, but after a couple of years of teasing are 10-5 as well. I think "Browns" coulda clinched a playoff spot today had they won. They didn't of course because they are the B-R-O-W-N-S JETS! JETS! JETS!
J-E-T-S BROWNS! BROWNS! BROWNS!
Whoa. Cleveland, 10-4, went into the Rotting Apple (or environs) today and somehow let the "Fast Planes", the "Browns" of yesteryear, win their second ball game. New York led 20-3 after the first possession of the 3Q and stopped the "Turds" 4th and 1 at the NYJ 16 to end the affair.
"Steelers" Win
Pit hung on at the end, stopping Indy on 4th and 8 from the Iron City 33. After a punt the "Colts" got the ball back at their own 15. Indy led 24-7 after the first possession of the 3Q. Man, that is a hard loss for them.
Stillers
The Pittsburgh “Steelers” won their first eleven straight to the XXMM season, the first time they had ever done that. It seemed like recaptured glory after a few dissappointing seasons. Then they lost their next three in a row. It seemed like recaptured misery. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger started throwing shockingly importune interceptions. Again. In recent years Roethlisberger would have the team moving, he is such an elite QB you fully expected a score and a win, and then throw an INT into the end zone.
Indianapolis, a good team, is at the confluence today. Can the “Steelers” snap this alarming swoon or will Indy make it four in a row? It looks like the former. Pittsburgh leads 28-24 with the ball and 2:35 left to play.
In my first readings of Pilgrim's Way I was most interested in John Buchan's portraits of people I had barely heard of, or not at all. He set the limits of his reminiscences: only dead guys and nothing of the tattler even on them. They were three-quarters of the book. Fine. We were on notice. On subsequent readings the self-imposed moral code resulted in coloring with the palest pastels, fifty shades of white. It's not realism; you have to look the figures up to see what they were "really" like. Why write about them then? Take Arthur Balfour.
If it be a statesman's first duty to see facts clearly and to make the proper deductions from them, then I think that Arthur Balfour was the greatest public figure of that time.
Well, is it? That is a perfectly sound standard to measure a statesman, is that the standard Buchan employs? Why the "If"?
A statesman should not be judged by his policy alone...
Indeed! I would have thought policy the cash value of deductions from clearly-seen facts!
...since much of that may be the work of others; to get at the real man we must have cross-bearings from different angles. (emphasis added)
One key to the understanding of Arthur Balfour was his conversation. Unhesitatingly I should put him down as the best talker I have ever known...
"Talker." "The best talker"?
Hi
You know, this is Miami. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
i just thought maybe he got it confused with Minsk or whatever. It’s alright, I’ll just buy another pair of long underwear.
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Hey
331,740 Total Deaths since Feb. 6.
Dudette, that is a steeep drop sustained over several iterations.
Dude, DOWN 18%. 💃🏻🕺🏻(couple dancing)
That is a cleeer drop.
Holiday reporting lag? Yes, but I (knowing nothing) do not think that is ALL reporting lag.
So all of that gets 👏🏻 👏🏻 (two claps).
Man City leading 2-0 with Pep fully enforcing his passive possession- based tactics and Steve Bruce’s non tactics tactics is the perfect way to fall asleep on Boxing Day.
Angels 2 Striped Prison Shirtings 0, 77'
Boxing Day is humongous in Merry Ol' for short pants football.
Lester and ManU drew 2-2, Villains beat Child Porn three-nil, Fulham and Southie drew 0-0, the Arse blasted Swine Chelsea 3-1, and SheffU trail Everton 1-0 in the 83'.
Failing America
Customers angry, AT&T stresses patience with outage following downtown Nashville explosion
Friday, December 25, 2020
Nashville Sessions
At 6:30 a.m. today a car bomb exploded in downtown Nashville, TN. Fortunately no one was killed. Three were injured. The blast was preceded by several minutes of pre-recorded audio warnings apparently coming from the vehicle. Surpassingly weird. Police released this image of the van that first appeared in the area at 1:22 a.m.
CBS first reported that human remains had been found "in the area." Weird manner in which to commit suicide if that is what it was.
Sinking New York City
This is so gross. “Me first!” Like wealthy adult male passengers pushing ahead of women and children to get in half-filled lifeboats as the Titanic sunk. The behavior of a morally bankrupt people.
Hospital Workers Start to ‘Turn Against Each Other’ to Get Vaccine
“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine.
This guy...
is the new rock star of the Democratic Party. John Fetterman, immediately above is his official photograph is...Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, and the ex-Mayor of Braddock, Pa. He is 6’9” tall and is as populist as he looks. He refused to live in the Lt. Gov manshion and turned its swimming pool into a public pool. He is tough (almost) as tough as he looks. He has been trolling the Lt Gov of Texas to pay up after the latter offered $1M to anyone who found voter fraud. John found three cases in Pa. and demands $3M😂. John may become the first true Pennsylvanian president since James Buchanan.
Move over AOC, Big John’s in town!
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March 11: The day the music died.
I remember that night. I was following the NBA on ESPN, maybe the "Heat" were playing, I don't remember, and one of lead stories was the postponement of the game in OKC. The media had no information at first. I remember there being some chatter that it was a delay and that the game might resume but that is belied by the video that those screen grabs were taken from--the PA guy tells the crowd to leave and says they are "safe." He didn't give a reason. Bomb threat? I think that was also a fleeting theory.
I remember that night. I was following the NBA on ESPN, maybe the "Heat" were playing, I don't remember, and one of lead stories was the postponement of the game in OKC. The media had no information at first. I remember there being some chatter that it was a delay and that the game might resume but that is belied by the video that those screen grabs were taken from--the PA guy tells the crowd to leave and says they are "safe." He didn't give a reason. Bomb threat? I think that was also a fleeting theory.
That was, I think, the first time that the seriousness of the coronavirus entered my consciousness.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
It’s Great to Hate the Florida Gators
You can find college sports teams as insufferable as the University of Florida but you’d have to look awhile to find one worse:
"Oklahoma is a good matchup, but they're not on our level. They're not the SEC. They're not the Florida Gators. So we should put on a good show."-FU linebacker James Houston IV.
"Oklahoma is a good matchup, but they're not on our level. They're not the SEC. They're not the Florida Gators. So we should put on a good show."-FU linebacker James Houston IV.
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Texts between me and son late last night:
Me: New NBA season started tonight. Heat lost to Magic. Such a strange year I can’t keep up with sports. No idea when City play next, didn’t know the Heat opened tonight.
Son: I didn’t realize that we played until I saw my ESPN app notify me. Somehow without social interaction the concept of sports is utterly mundane UNLESS you play that sport. In which case it’s just a job. Who cares about gold mining? Gold miners. Who cares about basketball. Basketball players. Some of the magic is lost and I’m not sure exactly why.
Me: Yeah, there is no magic in watching a game on TV with a nearly empty stadium. It’s ineffably weird. But the games and matches are still televised. It’s the lack of media coverage that is so puzzling to me. Broadcasters still have a financial interest in promoting and covering them yet ESPN didn’t even provide recaps of college football games until the last three or so weeks of the season.
God Save ‘Tis Heil Country Rooski
This is unbelievable. You know how Americans totally ripped off the music to "God Save the Queen" for "My Country 'Tis of thee"? Always pissed me off. But NOW. I was just down an internet rabbit hole and wikipedia'd the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918). "Oh let's see what their national anthem was," to self.
I sent it to my son and his mother. My son did some research:
“The melody [of God Save the Queen) continues to be used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein, "Oben am jungen Rhein", and the royal anthem of Norway, "Kongesangen". In the United States, the melody is used for the patriotic song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (also known as "America"). The melody was also used for the national anthem 'Heil dir im Siegerkranz' of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 and as "The Prayer of Russians", the imperial anthem of Russia from
1816 to 1833.”
Do we have any imagination? Did we just pass this around? Hey, listen to this. Wanna use it too? That is EMBARRASSING.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Super-Model Stella Tennant, Instantiation of British Aristocratic Beauty, Dies Suddenly at 50
Both gone.
Ms. Tennant had been married for twenty-one years until August when she and husband David Lasnet separated. She had four children.
"No suspicious circumstances" says Scotland Yard and no cause of death was given by the family, a maddeningly common custom of the British elite class.
325,829
Which provides segue to this early but last post on the subject for tonight. Appropriately enough in meaning and season 325,829 is closest in population to the city of Corpus Christi, 61st largest in the U.S.
Daily Deaths reported by Johns Hopkins yesterday, Dec. 22, were a humongous number, 3,410, more than double the number reported on Dec. 21 and second only to the Dec. 16 all-time high of 3,682. 1) That is reporting backlog. Tuesday is the first day of the reporting week. This is Christmas week however. A lot of people are off work. Today's figures will be reported tomorrow, Christmas Eve. There's just no way there are going to be as many reporters volunteering Christmas Eve than say, last Thursday. The blippity-blop of the numbers this week has been more confusing than usual. They remind me of the reporting around Thanksgiving. I don't know if they're entirely trustworthy. I provided NYT's 14-day changes this morning. They are more trustworthy than the daily numbers, obviously, they continue a recent trend of smaller increases, true, but they still rely on the same volunteer reporting. I don't know for sure how Britain collects their stats but I would be surprised if it's on a voluntary basis.
Daily Cases reported by Hopkins rose a tick from Dec. 21, which rose a tick from Dec. 20, to 195,033.
-30-
“Another new variant of the coronavirus in the UK”, this one from South Africa, “highly concerning,” this variant is “yet more transmissable and appears to have mutated further” than the first variant found in the UK that necessitated a Tier 4 shutdown of London this week.
I would not be surprised AT ALL if the vaccines are ineffective or much, much less effective against this South African strain. The emphasis with which this Brit spokesman distinguishes the South African strain even from the other UK variant is alarming.
I confess that I am becoming pessimistic about the whole COVID situation. Nobody has it under control anywhere. It has bounced back on the continent, there are these new strains now in Britain, it is out of control here in the colonies, cities are dying around the world. This thing is like the Plague in the Middle Ages. It is ending the world as we know it.
With four weeks left in [Illegi]Trump’s term, he is at perhaps his most unleashed — and, as events of the past few days have demonstrated, at the most unpredictable point in his presidency.
...
He is almost entirely disengaged from leading the nation...It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s latest behavior is anything other than a temper tantrum, attention seeking or a form of therapy for the man who controls a nuclear arsenal ...
This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former Trump administration officials, Republicans and allies of the president.
Most of his advisers believe Mr. Trump will depart the White House for a final time by Jan. 20...But how far he will go to subvert the election results, actually refuse to leave the White House or to unleash a wave of unilateral policy decisions in his final weeks is hard to discern.
...his erratic behavior and detachment from his duties have even some of his most loyal aides and advisers deeply concerned.
...
...the most worrisome issue is the gradual disappearance of the core group of West Wing aides who, often working in unison, consistently could get him to turn away from risky, legally dubious and dangerous ideas.
...
...he is listening to Republicans who insist that Vice President Mike Pence could help sway the election during the normally routine process of ratifying the election early next month, despite the fact that it is not realistically possible.
...in the White House, the president is turning on his closest of allies. He has complained to allies that Mr. Pence, who has been mocked for unflinching loyalty over the past four years, should be doing more to defend him.
...
Privately, allies...who have dismissed criticisms that the president has authoritarian tendencies, are expressing concern about the next four weeks.
Mr. Barr, whose last day in the job is Wednesday, has told associates he had been alarmed by Mr. Trump’s behavior in recent weeks.
...
Other advisers have simply absented themselves at a time when the president is particularly unsteady.
...
...Trump has spent his days watching television,...cloistered in the White House, shuffling from the residence to the Oval Office.
Many Trump advisers hope that his trip to...Mar-a-Lago will give him a change of scenery and a change of perspective. He left on Wednesday and is scheduled to stay through the New Year holiday.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
I didn’t do it last night I know. I was tired after taking pictures of the Great Confluence which I thought we were trying to see Pittsburgh but it was Jupiter and Saturn.
HOLY SHIT!
Cases are walking drunk again wiggling up and down, down and up, they’re wiggling unsteadily at ~216k/day for the last three iterations.
Deaths had a teeny-weeny drop in the Dec 18 iteration but have risen the three consecutive its of Dec 19, 20, and 21, not big, but clear it rises.
14-day changes: I like! Especially given the alternative.
+7% Cases. Been awhile since the increase in Cases has been in single digits. 👏🏻
+13% Hospitalizations. Low d-d’s. One hand clap.
+16% Deaths. That gets a one-hander too.
Not bad overall. Not the worst certainly.
Harris out.
So this is two days worth but the “weekend reporting days," Sunday, Monday. What was the total Sunday night like 311k? Okay, so...let’s see...Okay first of all you know I suck at this...Okay, where were we ~2.5k-3k, right? Our daily high i...Oh, I’m gonna step on my dick again...The daily high was like 3.6k. Okay. Two weekend reporting days...1.8k per reasonable. 3.6k total onto the 311k I remember...THIS IS BASED ON MY MEMORY OKAY! If my memory is wrong then this is going to be wrong okay! You can’t jump in my phoof if I remember bad you make me sick. So that would be 314.6. I’m allowed to round up. 315. I’m allowed a margin of error. I’m going to use my RIGHT to a margin of error fuck you and make it my official prediction, 317k. I’m afraid to look. You can’t laugh at me! Swine. Okay here goes...
322,585 Eeee!
WtF?!
1,596 Sunday and 1,609 Monday. That’s UNDER what I predicted! Was my memory wrong of the base? Une momento...Ooh it was. My memory was BAD! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE ME SHIT FOR FAULTY MEMORY I’M 65 YEARS OLD! The total Sunday night was 317,667, why the fuck did I think 311k. Anyway, that’s where we are fuck YOU!
The Timesies ave’s: oh wait a minute. When I google nytimes coronavirus the first story that comes up at the newspaper of record in that dying sex-obsessed city is
The Joys of Frivolous Sex
The pandemic has brought out a nasty puritanism.
Oh my God. Okay, Quasis, this is what I want you to do. Tonight when your mommy goes to sleep I want you to sneak a pair of her panties into the bathroom, put them on your head and JERK OFF ALL OVER YOUR OWN FACE!
So doing a no-read over the Times’s compelling new “nasty puritanism” piece let’s decamp to the COVID 7-day averages, shall we? We shall.Cases are walking drunk again wiggling up and down, down and up, they’re wiggling unsteadily at ~216k/day for the last three iterations.
Deaths had a teeny-weeny drop in the Dec 18 iteration but have risen the three consecutive its of Dec 19, 20, and 21, not big, but clear it rises.
14-day changes: I like! Especially given the alternative.
+7% Cases. Been awhile since the increase in Cases has been in single digits. 👏🏻
+13% Hospitalizations. Low d-d’s. One hand clap.
+16% Deaths. That gets a one-hander too.
Not bad overall. Not the worst certainly.
Harris out.
I GOT FIRST!
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