June 9, 2022 - 534,061,700 confirmed infections; 6,306,200 deaths
June 10, 2021 – 174,500,000 confirmed infections; 3,759,200 deaths
December 31, 2020 – 82,656000 confirmed infections; 1,8040100 deaths
US (Map)
June 9, 2022 - 85,324,615 confirmed infections; 1,010,800 deaths
June 10, 2021 – 174,500,000 confirmed infections; 3,759,200 deaths
December 31, 2020 – 19,737,200 confirmed infections; 342,260 deaths
SA (Coronavirus portal)
June 9, 2022 - 3,971,000 confirmed infections; 101,397 deaths
June 10, 2021 – 1,713,000 confirmed infections; 57,320 deaths
December 31, 2020 – 1,039,165 confirmed infections; 28,035 deaths
Posts from:
June 10, 2021, “Renewings”
December 31, 2020, “TGIO”
Day 77, June 11, 2020, “Embers, ashes, and flames”
News blues
Subvariants spread while the administration takes away $10 billion from existing pandemic funding, half of which will go to finance updated vaccines — when those become available — and the other half will pay for treatments, including the Pfizer drug Paxlovid.Read more >>
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In South Africa, Gauteng has the majority of the new Covid cases (32%) followed by the Western Cape (23%), Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (11% each), Free State (7%), Mpumalanga, (5%), Northern Cape and North West (4% each), and Limpopo (3%). There were 85 new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, bringing to 2,285 the number of people now admitted in hospitals with Covid-19.
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Covid infections continue, but humans pay less attention to the data. Institutions such as Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center continue to provide expert insight. Learn more from a recent Q&A, “The Future of the Pandemic Initiative” ***
Monkeypox is of increasing concern – more than 1,000 cases outside of Africa , but what is it? (1:40 mins)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that new genetic sequencing data indicate there are at least two distinct monkeypox outbreaks underway outside Africa — a surprise finding that one official said suggests international spread is wider, and has been occurring for longer than has been previously realized.A pox on monkeypox! Read more >>
Three of 10 viruses the CDC has sequenced from recent U.S. monkeypox cases — two from 2021 and eight from 2022 — are different from the viruses that have been sequenced by several countries involved in the large outbreak that is spreading in and from Europe.
On war – and the Culture War
Photos and news from Ukraine battle fronts >>***
According to US Congress’s House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), if “everyone had just prayed more, 19 children and two teachers might not have been massacred by a gunman in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school last month.” Yes, “thoughts and prayers continue”… >>
It’s not a joke (0:20 mins)
Make up your mind (1:15 mins)
Mark Meadows unlocked (1:30 mins)
Last week in the Republican Party - June 7, 2022 (2:22 mins)
Sometimes ice cream is the only antidote to the craziness “out there”.
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The Lincoln Project:It’s not a joke (0:20 mins)
Make up your mind (1:15 mins)
Mark Meadows unlocked (1:30 mins)
Last week in the Republican Party - June 7, 2022 (2:22 mins)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
My fav? Phish food.
