SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation’s most populated state, following the first reported U.S. case in Colorado.
But hope is on the horizon as vaccines roll out.
Modified rapture.
(Checks current headline on TPM)
The cavalry coming to our rescue turned out to be 58 weasels in a pantomime horse.
California is practically neighbors with Jina.
Just sayin’…
DJT
Viruses do not care about state or international boundaries. They don’t care about Brexit or the EU. They do not care about Mexican border walls, Incels, QAnon, American Exceptionalism, or cancel culture. They multiply, spread, evolve into new genomic variants and show up in the darndest places. They prove that biological evolution, undirected by a superego, is a fact as certain as relativity.
They don’t respond to political rhetoric or Mitch’s poison pills. They can be managed down to the point of marginal significance and minimal loss of life if we accept the science, follow the health guidelines of the medical community, efficiently allocate the resources and get vaccinated.
We can’t bargain this down, like Trump does with his contractors, to pennies on the dollar.
I suppose if it could express a preference, the virus would prefer that they get out and meet more people…
Anywho, the new variant will spread just like the old one. Maybe we’ll get some spiffy new CNN graphics to track it, with each state colored in as cases are discovered. We have utterly failed at anything resembling containment, because a substantial minority of the population does not care about protecting society as a whole at the cost of a minor inconvenience.
I got told by a local grocery checkout person “the law says I don’t have to” when I asked if she could please pull up her chin-mounted mask before I moved forward in line. I was going to mention this to the night manager, but her own mask was dangling by one ear while she was in conversation with a fully non-masked employee. Never shopping there again. (This was HyVee for those within its regional territory. They are, I think, the only grocery in my area without a customer mask mandate. And obviously not an employee one either.)
Which is so weird to me, I was in my second choice grocery store today and everyone was masked up. There were plenty of stockers stocking while masking, and plenty of customers wearing masks. I know that there are places in St. Louis County, MO that have scofflaws, but not in my neck of the woods.
Turns out they’re mink
or 42 mexican whooping llamas
If we still had a really good national health surveillance team in the NIH, CDC, HHS that worked with scientists across the world, we might have a handle on this problem of Covid virus mutation, and where it is showing up, and when. We have an incredible resource here in Seattle, at Fred Hutch, and I know they are working with others in the US and elsewhere. But they don’t have the data and the $$ and manpower support they need. We have lost a tremendous amount of ability in the last 4 years. I hope we put effort into building this up again. It will take time, and we have the smart people and the ability to do it.
We can do it. We just need to demand and support it.
“I don’t think Californians should think that this is odd; it’s to be expected,” Fauci said.
Slow down, everybody. What does Marco say?
The GOP loves it some marks and rubes, yo!
This is most confusing write up. Is CA or CO first case in USA? The opening paragraph asserts both.
Where is statewide infectious rate one to one in CA. Last paragraph claims it’s statewide and goes on to say Southern CA is higher.
WTH?
Further, why does article infer & imply that a variant of CoV has to travel to USA from elsewhere. The virus can mutate whereEVER it is!
Geez. This article is simply poorly written & full of inaccurate information. Where is the editor? On holiday, I presume.
Smdh
From the article:
But hope is on the horizon as vaccines roll out.
It should be journalistic malpractice to say this without the qualifiers of vaccination timelines and supply, botched rollouts, and continued need for mask use.