By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Track of the Day
Darkish-eyed Junco (cismontanus), Belleau Woods Forest Protect. “Distinct separation between hood and physique coloring. Images and audio recording of 1 particular person, one other was close by partially obscured in brambles.” What an ensemble! Even the white noise…
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
“Practically 200 congressional Republicans urge SCOTUS to maintain Trump on the poll” [Politico]. “Practically 200 congressional Republicans, together with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, have joined a Supreme Courtroom temporary urging the courtroom to facet with former President Donald Trump on the query of if he’s eligible to be on Colorado’s poll within the 2024 election…. The temporary from congressional Republicans doesn’t weigh in on whether or not the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was an rebellion or not, despite the fact that that willpower was on the coronary heart of the Colorado courtroom’s determination. Lawmakers spent a lot of the 37-page submitting questioning whether or not Trump bore duty for the violence that day. ‘It’s onerous to think about an precise insurrectionist rapidly asking for peace and inspiring disbandment,’ the group writes, specializing in one in every of many actions Trump took that day to direct the group. McConnell’s signature is especially notable as a result of he has repeatedly stood by feedback he made within the weeks after the Jan. 6 assault, squarely blaming Trump for stoking the violence.” • Republicans consolidating quickly….
“Legal professionals for Trump urge the Supreme Courtroom ‘to place a swift and decisive finish’ to poll removing efforts” [Associated Press]. “Trump’s Supreme Courtroom staff is led by Texas-based lawyer Jonathan Mitchell, who devised features of the anti-abortion laws that largely shut down abortions in Texas months earlier than the Supreme Courtroom overturned the Roe v. Wade determination in June 2022.” Fascinating; lastly Trump has a reliable, or no less than a intelligent, lawyer? Extra: “And the courtroom has stated that it intends to listen to an attraction that would upend tons of of fees stemming from the Capitol riot, together with in opposition to Trump.” • Hmm. If the Courtroom overturns these “tons of of fees” — the cost of interrupting an official continuing comes from Sarbanes-Oxley, weirdly — that ought to eliminate the rebellion cost by the again door. What’s an rebellion with out insurrectionists?
2024
Lower than a yr to go!
* * * “Hunter Biden agrees to personal deposition with Republicans” [Associated Press]. After the stunt of refusing to not! “The Home Oversight Committee introduced Thursday that the 2 events have agreed for Hunter Biden to take a seat for a deposition on Feb. 28. ‘The president’s son is a key witness on this investigation and he’s gonna be capable of are available in now and sit down and reply questions in a substantive, orderly method,’ Rep. James Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, informed reporters. He added that Hunter Biden will be capable of testify publicly someday after his deposition.” And: “Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, wrote in a letter Friday that his consumer’s cooperation depends on the committee issuing a brand new subpoena, which they’ll now do given the up to date deposition date. That they had argued that the 2 subpoenas despatched in final yr weren’t reputable as a result of they have been issued earlier than the total Home approved the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.” • Effectively, tremendous. Nothing fallacious with a fig leaf, I suppose.
* * * “Nikki Haley DID cheat on husband Michael – had affairs together with her comms guide and a MARRIED South Carolina lobbyist earlier than she turned governor, sworn affidavits and new witnesses declare” [Daily Mail]. “Presidential candidate Nikki Haley falsely denied dishonest on her husband when she was accused of partaking in two extramarital affairs throughout her gubernatorial marketing campaign, a number of sources who labored together with her declare. New witnesses have come ahead telling DailyMail.com that Haley’s denials of two alleged 2008 affairs are false, and that the supposed trysts have been brazen and extensively identified amongst South Carolina politicos. Will Of us, 49, and Larry Marchant, 61, each signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they’d a sexual relationship with the then-South Carolina lawmaker, earlier than she went on to grow to be governor. Whereas the contents of the affidavits have been described by main information shops on the time, that is the primary time they’ve been revealed outdoors of Of us’ personal doc which he revealed on his weblog…. However a number of GOP insiders informed DailyMail.com that they have been intimately conscious of Haley’s infidelity as a South Carolina lawmaker – together with tales of steamy liaisons behind her Cadillac SUV, ‘canoodling’ in her lovers’ laps at bars, and nights spent collectively in a Columbia, South Carolina duplex…. Sources spoke to DailyMail.com about Haley’s alleged affairs after noticing her rosy references to her relationship together with her husband, a serious within the Nationwide Guard who’s at present deployed in Africa, on her presidential marketing campaign path.” And what the hell are we doing in Africa? Don’t now we have sufficient on our plate? Extra: “A fourth supply, a senior political official in South Carolina, claimed Of us confessed to him he had intercourse with Haley in her automotive in a restaurant car parking zone. ‘Within the South Carolina legislature, there are two sorts: the individuals who imagine not sufficient will get accomplished as a result of there aren’t sufficient lawmakers and lobbyists sleeping collectively; and the people who find themselves holier than thou and say that having an affair violates the Ten Commandments,’ the political official stated.” • “South Carolina is just too small for a republic and too giant for an insane asylum.” Anyhow, the Every day Mail posts copies of the affidavits. Hopefully Nikki does higher on the Seventh Commandment than she did on slavery. And also you’ve gotta marvel why this oppo didn’t come out nicely earlier than this.
* * * “Trump Desires Revenge—And So Does His Base” [The Atlantic]. “Very similar to Trump himself, these voters are unable to simply accept what’s occurred over the previous a number of years. Trump, in so some ways, rapidly made fools of them; his numerous inanities, failures, and attainable crimes despatched them scrambling for ever more unusual rationalizations, defenses of the indefensible that separated them from household and buddies. If in 2016 they suspected, rightly or wrongly, that many People seemed down on them for any variety of causes, they now know with certainty that hundreds of thousands of individuals look down on them—not for who they’re however for what they’ve supported so vocally.” • Clinton did all that with one phrase: “Deplorables.” It’s items like this that make me marvel if all of the “hate” is on one facet….
“Trump’s closing argument to New Hampshire voters pushes misinformation suggesting Democrats would ‘infiltrate’ GOP major” [CBS]. I hate the pseudo-profundit of that “closing argument” trope. The “story arc,” because it have been, of a political marketing campaign shouldn’t be that of a lawsuit. Anyhow: “Former President Donald Trump’s closing message to New Hampshire voters accommodates falsehoods in regards to the upcoming major election, together with a baseless declare that Democrats are planning to ‘infiltrate’ the first to assist former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley…. By legislation, undeclared residents might vote in New Hampshire’s GOP major, together with Republican voters. Registered voters might solely vote in a single social gathering’s major, and the deadline to change social gathering registration expired in early October. Of the state’s greater than 873,000 registered voters, simply 3,542 voters modified their registration from Democrat to undeclared earlier than the state’s Oct. 6 deadline, and simply 408 Democrats modified their registration to Republican.”
* * * “Do You Keep in mind the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden?” [Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine]. No. Chait writes: “The one strategy to cease an authoritarian-minded candidate from profitable is for a coalition of anti-authoritarian voters to unify behind one other presidential candidate. That coalition very conspicuously did not materialize in 2016 for quite a lot of causes…. In 2020, the dynamic modified. The central situation on the general public’s thoughts was Trump, and Biden managed to assemble a majority in opposition to him, ranging all the way in which from Bernie Sanders supporters to disillusioned Republicans within the Atlanta suburbs…. In the mean time, the state of the anti-Trump coalition appears to be like much more grim than it did in 2020 and even 2016. Biden has an anemic approval score, far worse than Trump, Barack Obama, or every other incumbent at this stage.” • At which level Chait goes in for an prolonged spherical of hippie-punching. The phrase “coalition,” to me, remembers the FDR “coalition,” which — being based mostly on the fabric curiosity of voters — lasted for forty or fifty years. In actuality, what Chait’s calling a “coalition” is the Democrat’s stable base within the PMC — itself, identical to MAGA or Bush the Youthful’s Christianists, too small to manipulate by itself — cobbled along with no matter free-floating demographics appear applicable for the given election (true since 2008, when Obama’s “coalition” putatively shaped).
* * * “Dean Phillips drops DEI from marketing campaign web site” [Politico]. “Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips eliminated a reference to selling “Range, Fairness, and Inclusion” on his marketing campaign web site after one in every of his prime monetary backers, a number one DEI opponent, prodded Phillips publicly on the topic. That donor, the hedge fund investor Invoice Ackman, has at completely different occasions known as Phillips’s language about DEI a ‘mistake’ and stated the candidate was ‘getting educated’ on the problem. Writing on X, he stated a number of occasions that he anticipated Phillips would revise his marketing campaign web site’s reference to DEI. Earlier this week, the Minnesota consultant’s marketing campaign took out the time period DEI from the platform part of its web site and changed it with ‘Fairness & Restorative Justice.’ The language below the header stays the identical, with Phillips’ marketing campaign saying he believes, ‘We’re a rapidly-diversifying nation, and it’s that variety, which makes America nice.’ However the determination to drop reference to DEI — an decades-old initiative in academia and authorities to advertise fairer illustration amongst teams which have confronted historic discrimination — stands out for its timing. Phillips’s tremendous PAC not too long ago acquired a dedication for a $1 million donation from Ackman….” • Oh.
* * * IA: “Let’s Take a look at the Iowa Outcomes With a Chilly Eye” [Esquire]. “[L]ook on the outcomes with, and you’ll pardon the expression, a chilly eye. That is the primary time {that a} candidate ever broke 50 p.c of the caucus vote, and the previous president* gained by the biggest margin in Iowa caucus historical past. In 2016, his marketing campaign at this stage was the mere semblance of a marketing campaign. (On the day of the 2016 New Hampshire major, his headquarters in downtown Manchester was an empty storefront.) . This, I discover unsettling.” • Allow us to recall that PA, essentially the most delegate-rich swing state, might be gained with area organizing. That’s what Fetterman — bless his coronary heart — did (that and a superb media marketing campaign).
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#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t 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).
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Covid is Airborne
“Ultraviolet gentle can kill nearly all of the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it in all places?” [Vox]. “These advocates think about a world through which far-UV lamps are arrange in most giant indoor areas the place individuals collect, emitting rays that kill airborne viruses and micro organism whereas leaving people unhurt. If all goes in keeping with plan, day cares will cease spreading round noroviruses and flus; hospital infections will plummet; aged and immunocompromised individuals can collect overtly, unmasked, with out fearing they’ll catch one thing. In a world the place the flu alone imposes a median of $11 billion in financial prices per yr to the US and Covid has price america on the order of $14 trillion, it’s a virtually utopian imaginative and prescient. The following Covid can be strangled within the crib, unable to achieve the billions of individuals SARS-CoV-2 did as a result of it’s deactivated at each flip. In contrast to a vaccine, which must be formulated anew for each rising pathogen after which proactively taken by everybody in danger, far-UV can be a passive protection in opposition to respiratory viruses of all types, present ones in addition to these to return. Pandemics would go from a daily risk to a factor of the previous. That’s the plan, anyway. However there’s nonetheless quite a bit we have no idea, not least about what shining these lights does to the air it touches and what that would do to people who breathe that air. It’s a know-how with unimaginable promise, however one the place getting the main points proper may hardly be extra essential.” • I’m all for layered safety, and Far-UV may very well be one layer. That stated, I like easy and rugged, which air flow and masking are, and which Far-UV shouldn’t be.
Maskstravaganza
“7 of the Very Finest KN95 Masks Genuine, high-quality KN95 masks as advisable by medical doctors and Strategist editors” [New York Magazine]. I confess that The Strategist is a guiltu pleasure of mine, so it’s good to see a masks evaluation there. And: ” Like many 1000’s of different individuals, I favor carrying KN95 masks: Their foldable beaklike form and ear loops (versus the hairdo-ruining head straps discovered on N95 masks) make them a extra handy and cozy on a regular basis alternative for me.” • Sigh, however I assume that interprets right into a design problem for the N95 producers, a paradigm shift for them: 3M sees the N95 as a medical equipment for the office, not a vogue merchandise for public areas.
Prevention
“‘I’m an oncologist – that is the nasal spray I take advantage of to forestall viruses attaching to me’” [Express]. UK. “However oncologist Dr Yussef Gaffar has one other hack to struggle off infections – utilizing a nasal spray. Dr Gaffar makes use of BioSURE PRO nasal spray which features a “silver bullet” ingredient, ethyl lauroyl arginate hydrochloride (ELAH).” • In a UK tabloid!!
Origins Debate
From over the transom:
Restriction enzymes are used to chop sequences at particular sites-they recognise a selected sequence and that tells them the place to chop (like scissors minimize). Restriction enzymes have humorous names like BamH1, EcoRI, and so on. Every one recognises a special sequence, so relying on the place in your sequence you wish to minimize, you lookup the restriction enzyme that’ll minimize that particular spot. If you happen to’re designing one thing, you stick in a sequence that’ll let you minimize later at a selected spot, and use that individual restriction enzyme. It’s very, very particular. So, if this virus has a website that matches a really explicit restriction enzyme goal, and that particular goal was listed within the EcoHealth Alliance grant or paperwork, that means they’d inserted it within the sequence throughout design, it’s primarily being caught red-handed. It’s like a one in a gazillion fingerprint that was inserted through the design for manufacturing functions. Exhausting to elucidate, and I most likely didn’t do it very nicely. What you find yourself with is a sequence map, and you’ll determine that website and sequence. Map often even has the minimize website marked.
https://www.neb.com/en-us/merchandise/r0739-bsmbi-v2#Productpercent20Information
I f-ing knew it from the start. I hate being proper about this, however rattling. Have run a lab for too lengthy and knew instantly.
To be truthful, the EcoHealth grant was not authorized; that doesn’t imply one other model didn’t get authorized, and the EcoHealth grant software course of was a veritable cesspit (Vainness Truthful article, too lazy to search out the hyperlink). However the backside line is that paperwork generated by Ecohealth contemplated making cuts that will vogue a virus with distinctive options much like SARS-CoV-2, as proven by the enzymes named and to be bought. This story has not but made it into the mainstream AFAIK, however yikes.
Case Knowledge
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, January 16:
Lambert right here #3: Slight lower in slope, because of the Northeast and the West (except it’s a knowledge situation). Personally, I wouldn’t name a peak, based mostly totally on the anecdotes I’m scrolling by, which aren’t encouraging, notably with regard to the faculties. Very unscientific, I agree! Let’s wait and see. Observe that I don’t settle for the PMC “homework” mannequin, whose most well-known exponent is Sociopath of the Day Bob Wachter, the place you regulate your conduct in keeping with a number of sources of (horrible, gappy, lagged) knowledge about an infection ranges (ignoring “threat of smash”). Simply stick along with your protocol day in and time out, my recommendation. Okay.I.S.S. Nevertheless, monitoring these traits, in addition to having intrinsic curiosity, is pragmatically helpful for main choices, like journey, cruises (certainly not, readers), relocation, household occasions, communication with recalcitrant HCWs, and so on.
Lambert #4: Seems to be like I used to be too pessimistic! (In fact, half the circumstances below the curve happen after the height….)
Regional knowledge:
Large decline within the Northeast!
Variants
From CDC, January 20:
Lambert right here: JN.1 now dominates. That was quick.
CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will likely be reported biweekly, based mostly on the supply of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems to be 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
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, January 13:
Lambert right here: In line with Biobot knowledge.
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 “identical 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 reveals, no less than for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, despite the fact 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. And naturally, we’re not even moving into the standard of the wastewater websites that now we have as a proxy for Covid an infection general.
Hospitalization
NOT UPDATED Bellwether New York Metropolis, knowledge as of January 17:
Lambert right here: Lower for the state, lower then improve for New York Metropolis. (This has been updating every day for a long-time, all of a sudden it’s intermittent [snarl].
Right here’s a special CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, no less than. January 13:
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check 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, January 15:
-0.7%. (It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer stress, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, January 13:
Lambert right here: Share and absolute numbers down.
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s knowledge, January 1:
Up, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed here are the variants for vacationers, January 1:
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Right here is the New York Instances, based mostly on CDC knowledge, January 6:
Stats Watch
There aren’t any statistics of curiosity at this time.
The Economic system: “People Are All of the sudden Upbeat About Economic system. Sentiment Simply Logged Its Largest Leap in Many years” [Wall Street Journal]. “Client sentiment leapt 13% within the first half of January from December, the College of Michigan stated Friday. That got here on the heels of a pointy rise in December, inflicting the index to surge a mixed 29% from November, the most important two-month improve since 1991. The pickup in sentiment was broad-based, spanning customers of various age, revenue, schooling and geography. The restoration in sentiment ‘is probably going to offer some optimistic momentum for the economic system,’ stated Joanne Hsu, the Michigan survey’s director. Persistently excessive inflation, the lingering shock from the pandemic’s destruction and fears {that a} recession was across the nook had put a damper on emotions in regards to the economic system in recent times, regardless of stable progress and constant hiring. Now People are bucking up as inflation cools and the Federal Reserve indicators that interest-rate will increase are probably behind us. And with the stable labor market placing cash within the financial institution accounts of freely spending customers, recession fears for 2024 are fading. Regardless of the current sentiment good points, the measure remains to be about 20% decrease than earlier than the pandemic took maintain in 2020 and nearer to ranges in step with an economic system simply rising from a downturn—not one which recorded surprisingly sturdy progress final yr.” • Hmm. I maintain studying about layoffs….
As we speak’s Concern & Greed Index: 71 Greed (earlier shut: 66 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 71 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 19 at 12:45:47 PM ET.
Zeitgeist Watch
Gobsmacked:
A truck loaded with 1000’s of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses have been shocked, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, shocked, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed. pic.twitter.com/1Xd3lq4ovL
— Doc (@DocAtCDI) January 18, 2024
The Gallery
Lord of Misrule:
Revenue I, 1982 https://t.co/C6QY6iQVSq pic.twitter.com/sPiw3cn3SV
— Jean-Michel Basquiat (@artistbasquiat) January 18, 2024
Information of the Wired
“Don’t look again: the aftermath of a distressing occasion is extra memorable than the lead-up, research suggests” (press launch) [Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]. “A brand new research from psychologists on the Beckman Institute for Superior Science and Know-how means that we keep in mind the moments instantly following a distressing episode extra sharply than the moments main as much as it. Clarifying the connection between trauma and reminiscence can enhance how we consider eyewitness testimonies, inform therapies to deal with PTSD, and assist clinicians fight reminiscence decline in mind problems like Alzheimer’s illness. This research seems within the journal Cognition and Emotion….. That is unintuitive, the researchers say. ‘You may think that people advanced to have a superb reminiscence for what led to unfavorable issues,’ Bogdan stated. ‘If you happen to bought bit by a snake, what foolhardy factor have been you doing beforehand?’ One clarification is that unfavorable emotional spikes (for instance, upon sustaining a snake chunk) trigger a rush of focus and application, telling our brains to take exhaustive notes about what occurs subsequent and squirrel them away for future use. However the prelude to trauma employs a a lot much less diligent notetaker. This casts a doubtful eye on situations like witness testimonies, the place contextual particulars are paramount… Taking again management over traumatic reminiscences, then, requires reattaching them to their context — their unique place and time. The researchers hope to include this technique into cognitive therapies for individuals with PTSD.” • Hmm.
“The geometry of different individuals” [Aeon]. “Why do social relationships kind distinct geometries in our minds? Previously few many years, analysis has proven that these metaphors usually are not merely idiosyncratic makes use of of language. As a substitute, they reveal one thing basically spatial about how we expertise our social lives. And this results in a radical chance: if we make sense of our friendships, acquaintances, colleagues, households and societies by spatial relationships, may architectural ideas – the intentional design of house – grow to be instruments for creating new metaphors for social and political thought?” • Like “upstairs, downstairs”?
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