Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

1,000 new cases today. Heck of a job, Asa.

 

Pray harder

 

South African in-laws dealing with a devastating 3rd wave in the country. Brother-in-law's mother-in-law and father-in-law are both in ICU with Covid. My mother-in-law's neighbor just died of it. Mother-in-law took my father-in-law for his first shot and stood in line for 6 hours for it. The vaccine only now has been offered to those over 50 and the rollout is hardly smooth. Another South African friend, whose father died of it, has been asking if it's possible to fly to New York to get the vaccine.

And then you have tens of millions of people here who have easy access to these life-saving miracles and say, meh, no thanks.

 

This is exactly why I now think the COVID vaccination should be required, and a deadline put up, for people here to begin the process of getting vaccinated (first shots). There is just no excuse not to be vaccinated here at this point.

There are so many people, and so many other parts of the world that the vaccines are needed, either for direct widespread health reasons, or in order to make it so the overbearing governments of these countries can open up these places to more normal life. I've lost all patience and sympathy for people in the U.S. who simply refuse to get their shots, and at this point, any excess vaccines we have should be being distributed elsewhere as widely as possible.

 

Nearly a third of the Arkansas tests yesterday were positive.

Not good.

 

Did anyone have a weird sort of oral discomfort post-vaccine, particularly the tongue area? Like a mild scorched effect?

 

We now have county-level data for both the election and the Trumpandemic for 3,211 counties.
Trump won 82.7% of those counties yet clearly lost both popular vote count and electoral vote count.
So you might think it would be hard for him to have an even greater share of the counties in which the virus has a "high" or "substantial" local transmission rate. But you'd be wrong. Of those high-transmission areas, 90.14% (722 of 801) voted for the lord and savior.
But we're all in this together, we're told.
The libruhl media are just as bad as everybody else, we are told.
Trump Country is full of Patriots, we are told.
No.

 

One way to social distance, I suppose.

 

Now there are 211 new cases listed for RVA in the last two days, so maybe some of those rejected tests came back conclusive? It's a weird thing to keep track of.

 

Well, these data are being tabulated/reported by people who work for the government, so ...

 

I was zero years old when that one jackass licked the public toilet seat on a dare and became desperately ill of COVID.