2:00PM Water Cooler 4/12/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Hen Music of the Day

Canyon Towhee, San Juan Wash, south aspect of the Black Hills, Pima, Arizona, United States. “‘Complicated track’, mixing into regular track later within the lower, from a chicken transferring at mid-height in a dense bush.”

Politics

“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

2024

“Trump’s potential to get away with taking pictures any person in the course of fifth Ave is probably going waning” [Boing Boing]. “Trump’s recognition is falling aside. Whereas he may be capable to win a Republican major, it appears extremely unlikely that the indicted fraudster, who can be on trial for rape, may win a normal election. By no means rely the Orange Menace out, nonetheless, as a result of Lindsay Graham and Don Jr are nonetheless pulling for him.”” • That’s the lead. Then once more–

“Trump Leads DeSantis In Our 2024 Republican Major Polling Common” [FiveThirtyEight]. “Right this moment, FiveThirtyEight is launching our national polling average for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. It exhibits former President Donald Trump receiving 49.3 p.c of the nationwide vote and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has not formally entered the race) receiving 26.2 p.c. Former Vice President Mike Pence, one other potential candidate, is at 5.8 p.c, whereas declared candidate and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is at 4.3 p.c.”

“Trump says he’d “by no means drop out” of 2024 race, even when convicted” [Axios]. “Former President Trump made clear Tuesday night he received’t drop out of the 2024 presidential race if convicted of charges related to a 2016 illegal hush money payment to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels. Fox Information host Tucker Carlson requested Trump if there’s something authorized that would make the 2024 Republican presidential candidate drop out of the race. ‘No, I’d by no means drop out,’ Trump mentioned. ‘That’s not my factor. I wouldn’t do it,’ he added.” • I ought to most likely have gone to discover a transcript, since Trump could be very usually misquoted. That mentioned, IIRC the Daniels fee was not authorized, however that doesn’t imply Trump did something unlawful.

“DA Alvin Bragg’s one-time rival explains why he was ‘100% proper’ to go away a gaping gap in Trump’s indictment” [Insider]. “Bragg’s method seems to be a deliberate technique to decide on amongst 4 completely different secondary crimes afterward. A 30-year veteran of the DA’s workplace advised Insider that Bragg will lay the specifics out in a so-called ‘invoice of particulars’ down the highway.” • So we weren’t taking a look at an indictment, however a meta-indictment; a chunk of sandbagging. Appropriate me if I’m unsuitable right here, however beneath our system of justice, doesn’t the defendant get an opportunity to organize?

“Tim Scott is probably the most intriguing GOP presidential hopeful most Republicans haven’t heard of” [Insider]. “Nationwide consideration is transfixed on former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. A protracted and ugly conflict between the 2 males seems inevitable, although DeSantis isn’t anticipated to announce till not less than Could. If the fallout scars each males, a gap may simply emerge for a 3rd hopeful. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is strongly positioned to capitalize. Scott, like DeSantis, has but to formally announce a marketing campaign, although he established an exploratory committee on Wednesday. Scott may very effectively find yourself being the one GOP senator to enter the sphere after Sen. Tom Cotton demured, and neither Sens. Ted Cruz nor Marco Rubio appear prone to launch a second presidential run… Scott’s most compelling case may simply be his marketing campaign’s checking account. Having simply received reelection, he began the 12 months with over $20 million on the prepared. As compared, Sen. Elizabeth Warren used $10.4 million to assist seed her Democratic presidential run in 2019…. The South Carolinian can be effectively positioned if the Republican Nationwide Committee imposes grassroots donor thresholds for official major debates. Axios reported in late January that the RNC is contemplating utilizing the identical tactic that Democrats used to winnow their debate subject in 2019….” • Plus he’s Black, which might completely personal the libs.

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, plainly individuals are truly studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I must do this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated post, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, in actual fact, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working components of the Get together reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Get together (ka-ching, however not totally) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Observe, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different lessons; 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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CA: “Aspen Trip Residence of Dianne Feinstein and Her Late Husband Sells for $25.25 Million” [Wall Street Journal]. “The longtime Colorado trip residence of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her late husband, Richard C. Blum, has offered for $25.25 million, in keeping with property information…. Mr. Blum, founding father of the San Francisco-based funding agency Blum Capital Companions, and Mrs. Feinstein married in 1980, when she was mayor of San Francisco. A belief led by Mr. Blum paid $1.975 million for the Aspen-area land in 1996, information present, and the house was accomplished in 1998. The couple hosted occasions, foreign-policy consultants and others at Bear Paw Ranch through the years. Mr. Blum was a longtime skier with a powerful curiosity in Tibetan Buddhism, and crammed the house with Tibetan and Nepali Buddhist artifacts.”

TN: “Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones says he’ll proceed to name for gun reform” [CNN]. “After being sworn back into the Tennessee House of Representatives, a lawmaker who was expelled simply days in the past over a gun management demonstration on the chamber ground mentioned he’ll proceed to name for gun reform. ‘The very first thing I do once I stroll into this constructing as a consultant is to proceed that licensing weapons, like automobiles? With “Gun Ed,” like automobiles?

TN: “Justin Pearson and Justin Jones Have a Historical past of Breaking the Standing Quo, Even With Clothes” [Vogue]. “However in some ways Jones and Pearson had been already bucking in opposition to the so-called establishment of the Republican-controlled chambers—partly by means of their sartorial decisions, which have included Afros, pristine white fits, and dashikis (a colourful patterned garment, which originated in West Africa, for each formal and casual events). If President Barack Obama turned a goal of Republican-led assaults and vitriol by donning a tan go well with, think about the chatter a white one would have elicited? Or a dashiki?…. Jones, who’s of Filipino and Black descent, delivered an almost 20-minute protection earlier than the vote occurred, calling the affair a “lynch mob assembled—to not lynch me however our democratic course of.” He instantly stood out within the sea of drab-colored fits and intently cropped haircuts by means of his white go well with, hoop earring, and lengthy curls that had been loosely pulled again right into a ponytail. Ditto Pearson. The 29-year-old lawmaker has an enormous, combed-out Afro and wore a black-and-white dashiki over his crisp white button-down and tie, with a navy blazer worn over the ensemble. Right here had been two males of colour tinkering with the usual politician’s uniform and reworking it into one thing decidedly extra private and attuned to who they’re. It felt much more poignant that it was going down whereas being ousted from the very area they had been trying to alter.” • Hmm.

Realignment and Legitimacy

“See the quickest rising (and shrinking) U.S. states” [Axios]. “Idaho, Montana and Florida noticed the very best inhabitants development amongst U.S. states between 2020-2022, per new U.S. Census Bureau information, whereas New York, Illinois and Louisiana suffered probably the most shrinkage. The previous few years have been particularly turbulent for inhabitants developments, with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting beginning and dying charges, interstate and worldwide migration, and extra…. A few of the quickest rising areas — we’re taking a look at you, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico — are additionally among the most susceptible to the continued results of local weather change, like drought and a dwindling water provide. The underside line: It’ll take a couple of extra years for the consequences of the pandemic to completely shake out, however there’s by no means been a extra fascinating time to take a look at information like this.” • Useful map:

#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); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. We at the moment are as much as 50/50 states (100%). That is actually nice! (It happens to me that there are makes use of to which this information is perhaps put, past serving to individuals with “private danger assessments” acceptable to their state. For instance, considering pessimistically, we would preserve the listing and see which states go darkish and when. We’d additionally tabulate the properties of every web site and search for variations and commonalities, for instance the usage of GIS (an train in Federalism). I don’t that CA stays somewhat sketchy; it feels somewhat odd that there’s no statewide web site, however I’ve by no means been capable of finding one. Additionally, my working assumption was that every state would have one web site. That’s turned out to not be true; see e.g. ID. Trivially, it means I have to punctuate this listing correctly. Much less trivially, there could also be extra native websites that ought to be added. NY metropolis in NY state springs to thoughts, however I’m certain there are others. FL additionally springs to thoughts as a particular case, as a result of DeSantis will likely be a Presidental candidate, and IIRC there was some foofra about their state dashboard. Thanks once more!

Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reports); 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 (Government of Canada).

Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Maskstravaganza

On nasal vaccines:

They’ve taught us… groomed us… to not care about each other…

to not even be awake to our personal well being…

— Dr Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) April 8, 2023

Sequelae

“SARS-CoV-2 an infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination” [NIH]. “The researchers discovered that vaccination of people that had by no means been contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 induced sturdy CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell responses to the virus’ spike protein. As well as, these T cells produced a number of sorts of cell-signaling molecules referred to as cytokines, which recruit different immune cells—together with antibody-producing B cells—to combat pathogens. Nevertheless, individuals who had been contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 previous to vaccination produced spike-specific CD8+ T cells at significantly decrease ranges—and with much less performance—than vaccinated individuals who had by no means been contaminated. Furthermore, the researchers noticed considerably decrease ranges of spike-specific CD8+ T cells in unvaccinated individuals with COVID-19 than in vaccinated individuals who had by no means been contaminated. Taken collectively, the investigators write, these findings counsel that SARS-CoV-2 an infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an impact akin to that noticed in earlier research exhibiting long-term harm to the immune system after an infection with viruses akin to hepatitis C or HIV. The brand new findings spotlight the necessity to develop vaccination methods to particularly enhance antiviral CD8+ T cell responses in individuals beforehand contaminated with SARS-CoV-2, the researchers conclude.” • I’m not educated sufficient to say that this implies “Leonardi was proper about T cells.” Maybe readers extra skilled than I can remark.

“Going lengthy: Viruses linger with lasting impression” [Fred Hutch Cancer Center]. “NIH scientists are at the moment analyzing the similarities between lengthy COVID and different post-viral fatigue ailments akin to long-neglected ME/CFS. Fred Hutch infectious illness skilled Steve Pergam, MD, MPH, referred to as the long-term penalties of infections ‘a extremely intriguing area.’ ‘I might argue that it’s not simply viruses,’ he mentioned, pointing to a current evaluate of unexplained post-acute infection syndromes by Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, and colleagues. Revealed within the journal Nature, the authors mentioned (emphasis added), ‘the comparatively related symptom profiles of particular person post-acute an infection syndromes, , in addition to the overlap of medical options with ME/CFS, counsel the potential involvement of a standard etiopathogenesis.’ In different phrases, it’s not simply COVID that goes lengthy. ‘It might be quite a few completely different pathways to an infection generally that may result in persistent issues,’ Pergam mentioned. ‘A basic instance is one thing just like the gastrointestinal micro organism campylobacter which has been related to rheumatologic issues. These infections can set off a pathway towards autoimmunity and different issues. It depends upon the sickness and the severity of the sickness on whether or not it lingers or there’s ongoing points.’ A few of it, Pergam mentioned, is expounded to our immunity and the way we reply to organisms. And a few of it’s the pathogen itself.”

Origins Debate

“Congressional memo: Virologists drafted article in opposition to the lab leak concept on behalf of Wellcome Belief, NIH” [US Right to Know]. “A March 2020 paper in Nature Drugs titled ‘The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2‘ assured the general public that the virus’ genome demonstrated an origin in wildlife. Tons of of reports organizations cited the article to claim that the lab leak concept was a ‘conspiracy concept.’ However the new congressional memo exhibits that the lead creator of the article advised the scientific journal that the writing had been “prompted” by then-Wellcome Belief Director Jeremy Farrar, chief of NIH’s Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses Anthony Fauci, and NIH Director Francis Collins. The virologists met with Farrar, Fauci and Collins in a non-public teleconference on February 1, 2020, emails launched beneath the Freedom of Data Act have proven — a gathering some scientists have criticized as improper. ‘There was a whole lot of hypothesis, worry mongering, and conspiracies put ahead on this area,’ acknowledged lead creator Kristian Andersen in a February 12 electronic mail, in keeping with the brand new memo.” And: ‘The involvement of Collins, Fauci and Farrar within the article was not disclosed till it was made obvious in a Freedom of Data Act lawsuit in June 2021, 15 months after the article had first made its huge impression. The virologists have given shifting explanations of the aim of the article, the brand new memo additionally exhibits. When hoping to reveal their integrity to the journal, Andersen mentioned dialogue of the proof had been ‘agnostic.’ Nevertheless when talking to gain-of-function virologists who didn’t wish to give credence to the opportunity of a lab origin in any respect, the authors assured them that their objective was to reveal the lab leak concept was outlandish from the soar.” • The issue I’ve right here is that “The depraved flee when no man pursueth” (Proverbs 28:1). Responsible conduct is just not guilt; if I had been these guys, I’d wish to slam the door too, no matter (Sure, we already know virology funding is a cesspit; see Vanity Fair, of all places. However that tells us nothing of origins.)

Elite Malfeasance

Disinformation (1):

Phys. orghttps://t.co/Nd6EZubbYt

— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston 🌬️🔅#COVIDisAirborne (@jmcrookston) June 24, 2022

An extended thread filled with helpful hyperlinks, for individuals who want ammo.

Disinformation (2):

They’ve taught us… groomed us… to not care about each other…

to not even be awake to our personal well being…

— Dr Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) April 8, 2023

Hospital An infection Management is at it once more:

Wow! These are a whole lot of covid infections from healthcare settings. Over 100,000 hais in 2023 alone from the @PeoplesCDC weekly climate report. https://t.co/GzgcciHcCQ #KeepMasksInHealthCare pic.twitter.com/aKqtvP8VV8

— Andrew W a n g, PhD, MPH, CPH (@AWangMPH) April 11, 2023

Seems like “leveling off to a excessive plateau” throughout the board. (I nonetheless assume “One thing Terrible” is coming, nonetheless. I imply, moreover what we already find out about.) Keep protected on the market!

Case Knowledge

NOT UPDATED BioBot wastewater data from April 10:

For now, I’m going to make use of this nationwide wastewater information as the most effective proxy for case information (ignoring the medical case information portion of this chart, which for my part “goes dangerous” after March 2022, for causes as but unexplained). A minimum of we are able to spot developments, and evaluate present ranges to equal previous ranges.

Covid Emergency Room Visits

From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, from April 8:

NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the whole pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for each_{MR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot}. Anyhow, I added a gray “Fauci line” simply to indicate that Covid wasn’t “over” after they began saying it was, and it’s not over now. Discover additionally that this chart exhibits, not less than for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, although CDC is making an attempt to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.

Positivity

NOT UPDATED From the Walgreen’s test positivity tracker, revealed April 11:

-1.8%. Under the low level of the earlier valley.

Lambert right here: Walgreens all the time updates. In the event that they’re shutting it down, I’ll be dissatisfied…

Deaths

Loss of life fee (Our World in Data):

Total: 1,157,194 – 1,157,022 = 172 (172 * 365 = 62,780 deaths per 12 months, immediately’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would really like, although they will discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could must determine that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).

Lambert right here: 172 once more. I hate that.

Extra Deaths

NOT UPDATED Extra deaths (The Economist), revealed April 2:

Lambert right here: Massive soar from the final studying within the “Central Estimate.”

Lambert right here: Based on a machine-learning model. Seems like an information difficulty, to me. I”m unsure how usually this updates, and if it doesn’t, I’ll take away it. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran eternally with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no one was actually taking a look at it, so I acquired rid it.

• “COVID-19 a number one explanation for dying in youngsters and younger individuals within the US” [Imperial College London]. “Evaluation of US well being information highlights COVID-19 was a number one explanation for dying in youngsters and younger individuals, rating eighth total. COVID-19 was the underlying explanation for dying for greater than 940,000 individuals within the US, together with over 1,300 deaths amongst youngsters and younger individuals aged 0–19 years. These are the findings of a brand new research, led by researchers on the College of Oxford, and together with researchers from the Division of Arithmetic and MRC Centre for World Infectious Illness Evaluation at Imperial School London, which revealed within the journal JAMA Community Open.” •

Stats Watch

Inflation: “United States Client Worth Index (CPI)” [Trading Economics]. “The buyer value index in the US rose 5.0 p.c from a 12 months earlier to 301.836 factors in March 2023, easing from a 6.0 p.c advance the month earlier than and lacking market expectations forecasts of a 5.2 p.c enhance to 302.254 factors. The headline inflation eased for a ninth consecutive month to the bottom degree since Could 2021, led by a pointy decline in the price of power.”

Tech: “Twitter Inc. ‘No Longer Exists’ As Elon Musk Inches Nearer To X ‘All the pieces App’ Ambitions” [Forbes]. “Twitter Inc. ‘now not exists’ and the corporate is now part of X Corp., in keeping with an April 4 submitting in California federal courtroom. Musk pointed to the pretty obscurely positioned submitting in an early Tuesday tweet, which merely learn, ‘X.’ …. Musk has indicated he hopes to remodel Twitter/X right into a wide-ranging service akin to China’s WeChat, telling a Morgan Stanley convention final month he needs his app ‘to develop into the largest monetary establishment on the earth.’ Musk mentioned on the time he needed X to develop into a peer-to-peer cellular fee platform the place customers can earn curiosity on their money like at a financial institution, beforehand suggesting he needs his app to incorporate a glut of companies together with ride-hailing and meals supply.” • I can say with confidence that we at NC could be joyful to see a competitor to PayPal, even when this can be a little self-serving.

The Bezzle: “Bitcoin Rally Continues, Gaining Extra Than 80% This 12 months” [New York Times]. • Perhaps I’ve to recategorize Bitcoin. In any case, there’s all the time a marketplace for fraud.

The Bezzle: “Hey look, unicorns are uncommon once more!” [TechCrunch]. “Traders are now not minting almost two unicorns per day. Actually, we’re right down to barely a couple of new legendary horned horse per week. Welcome to the brand new enterprise regular, the place it appears tales of beforehand well-funded startups imploding shall be extra widespread than information of mega-rounds…. Declining valuations at tech corporations huge and small and the dearth of capital are collectively making a parched startup panorama.” • That’s a rattling disgrace.

Right this moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 65 Greed (earlier shut: 59 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 55 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Apr 12 at 1:52 PM ET.

Police State Watch

“New York’s mayor needs you to know the way a lot he loves police robots [TechCrunch]. • Kill them with fireplace.l

Class Warfare

“Southern California ports reopen. Shutdown highlights high-stakes contract talks” [Los Angeles Times]. “Southern California dockworkers returned to the job Friday evening, ending an roughly 24-hour shutdown on the Los Angeles and Lengthy Seaside ports — a vital entry level for imports arriving from Asia. The non permanent closure has exacerbated fears a couple of logistics infrastructure that has by no means totally recalibrated for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic delays and has shone a stark, nationwide highlight on the high-stakes labor negotiations taking part in out on the ports. ‘That is fairly clearly a wake-up name to the ports’ operators,’ mentioned Harley Shaiken, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley who makes a speciality of labor points. ‘This course of hasn’t simply been gradual, it’s been inching together with very excessive stakes within the stability. ‘As a result of their members can shut down ports all alongside the West Coast, Shaiken mentioned, the longshore union has unequaled energy.’” • Moar robots!

“The actor, the hairstylist and the attention surgeon: Medicine and dying in a Malibu seaside home” [Los Angeles Times].

Information of the Wired

Dang. Not wired once more!

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