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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nBird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Northern Mockingbird, Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, Westchester, New York, United States. \u201cAmazing repertoire of other species\u2019 songs woven into this song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#table\">New Covid charts:<\/a> No bad news.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#reed\">Adolph Reed<\/a> makes another call.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#blame\">Blame Cannons<\/a>: The Democrat\u2019s \u201cleftward\u201d turn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing puts a finance guy on the board<\/a>, layoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"115.94298982314\">\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018Epic\u2019 Deregulation Must Preserve Financial Stability\u201d [Editorial Board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-11-13\/trump-and-musk-s-epic-deregulation-must-preserve-financial-stability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>]. The deck: \u201cThe president-elect and Elon Musk want to blow up the federal rule book. Good luck, but please exercise some caution.\u201d More: \u201cA big reduction in regulation would indeed be welcome. Unfortunately, it\u2019s a complicated task that requires prudence, diligence and sustained attention to detail, virtues that were not in evidence during Trump\u2019s previous stint in office. Where the financial system is concerned, deregulation may be especially fraught. Last time around, Trump scaled back several major rules adopted after the global financial crisis, an effort that may have contributed to last year\u2019s spate of bank failures. Weakening requirements further, without due discretion, could create needless risk. Whoever ends up leading this mission, they should keep four principles in mind. First, banks must be strong enough to weather turmoil\u2026. Next, focus on transparency and accountability. Disclosures should be clear and fraud should be punished. \u2026 Third, size is not in itself the enemy. Allowing mergers between financial companies doesn\u2019t automatically reduce competition and can in fact increase it.\u201d lol. More: \u201cFinally, regulation that defies common sense breeds cynicism. As one example among many, the Securities and Exchange Commission routinely extracts fines from financial companies for allowing their employees to converse on nonofficial channels, a practice that is all but unavoidable in the mobile communications era.\u201d \u2022 Yes, what could possibly wrong with financial professionals conversing on secret channels\u2026. Nevertheless, a warning shot for Trump<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump says Dimon won\u2019t be part of administration\u201d [The Hill]. \u2022 Dang. Though I suppose it could always be worse!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=115867555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC<\/a>]. \u201cThe woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/house-ethics-committee-subpoenas-documents-lawsuit-brought-gaetzs\/story?id=114387365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sex trafficking allegations<\/a> surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now-former Florida congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News\u2026.. \u2018Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I have engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18. The answer to this question is unequivocally NO. You can apply this response to every version of this question, in every forum,\u2019 Gaetz said in a statement posted to his social media account. \u2018The Committee\u2019s star witness, Joel Greenberg, is a felonious liar who involves others in his lies \u2026 Greenberg was initially indicted for attempting to falsely smear a teacher at a local high school as a pedophile,\u2019 Gaetz added regarding former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, who pleaded guilty to falsely accusing a teacher, who was running for office against him, of a sex crime. The woman\u2019s allegation regarding Gaetz became part of the investigation following claims by Greenberg, a former friend of Gaetz\u2026\u201d \u2022 Poor choice of friends. That said, I am so, so tired of Democrats ginning up sex scandals when they have no moral standing to do so. Revered and witty Democrat Barney Frank\u2019s boyfriend ran a brothel out of the House they shared on Capitol Hill. Revered Democrat elder Bill Clinton was, at the very least, guilty of workplace abuse (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/14\/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">never apologized to her personally<\/a>). Biden has a \u201cskeevy\u201d penchant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/03\/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sniffing women\u2019s hair<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2014\/08\/01\/biden-swims-naked-upsetting-female-secret-service-agents-book-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kept swimming nude in front of female Secret Service agents after they protested<\/a>. Then there\u2019s Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13925099\/kamala-harris-husband-doug-emhoff-office-misogynist-flirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Gentleman Doug Emhoff<\/a>. The Democrats are the party of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/Grundyism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grundyism<\/a>, if <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs_Grundy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mrs. Grundy<\/a> were, herself, a madame. Can\u2019t we give it a rest?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ixi3m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>]. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s transition team scrambled Thursday after Trump\u2019s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was presented with an allegation that former Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth, Trump\u2019s nominee to be Defense Secretary, had engaged in sexual misconduct. According to two sources, Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about an allegation that Hegseth had acted inappropriately with a woman. One of the sources said the alleged incident took place in Monterey, California in 2017. According to the transition source, the allegation is serious enough that Wiles and Trump\u2019s lawyers spoke to Hegseth about it on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the meeting said that Hegseth said the allegation stemmed from a consensual encounter and characterized the episode as he-said, she-said. On Thursday evening, Hegseth\u2019s lawyer Timothy Parlatore said: \u201cThis allegation was already investigated by the Monterey police department and they found no evidence for it.\u201d \u2022 Genocide, no problemo. Pandemic? What pandemic? But \u201callegations\u201d of \u201csexual misconduct\u201d? Oh my goodness! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/15\/politics\/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s transition team is\u202fbypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say. Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect\u2019s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage. The discussions come as Trump has floated several controversial choices for high-level positions in the US government \u2013 including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. Ultimately, the president has the final authority on who he nominates and decides to share intelligence with, regardless of the established protocol set in the wake of World War II to make sure those selections don\u2019t have unknown foreign ties or other issues that could raise national security concerns. But circumventing background checks would be bucking a long-established norm in Washington. It also reflects Trump\u2019s deep mistrust of the national security establishment, which he derides as the Deep State. Sources say he has privately questioned the need for law enforcement background checks.\u201d \u2022 I don\u2019t understand this. Surely the organs of state security are completely apolitical?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left should welcome Matt Gaetz as attorney general\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/the-left-should-welcome-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unherd<\/a>]. \u201cHis record speaks for itself. From his perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Gaetz has promoted a surprisingly consumer-friendly agenda, routinely breaking with his GOP colleagues on crucial votes. He previously supported legislative measures to break up Silicon Valley monopolies, sharply regulate the online data broker industry, ban noncompete employment contracts, and an end to the practice of forced arbitration, among other corporate accountability votes. He has also taken maverick positions on reducing FBI surveillance powers, cutting certain arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and legalising marijuana. In addition, Gaetz has staked a position at times to the Left of some establishment Democrats. In the fight over the Ending Platform Monopolies Act \u2014 a bill designed to curb anticompetitive practices by Amazon and Google \u2014 Gaetz ended up supporting the legislation, while California Democrats close to the tech industry, such as Zoe Lofgren and Eric Swalwell, voted against it. In an era of severe political polarisation, the Florida representative has found opportunities to support actions of the Biden administration. In August, Gaetz wrote a letter to Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai, urging him to \u201cadhere fully\u201d to the antitrust ruling against the company secured by the current Department of Justice.\u201d \u2022 I believe the meme \u201cKhanservatives\u201d originated with Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt Gaetz, Trump\u2019s uniquely unqualified pick for attorney general, explained\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/384967\/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. \u201cAs New York Times columnist Ezra Klein writes, Trump\u2019s decision to nominate Gaetz should be read as an effort to gauge whether Republican senators will permit him to take absurd and dangerous actions. \u201cThese aren\u2019t just appointments,\u201d Klein writes of Gaetz and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, \u2018They\u2019re loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.’\u201d \u2022 But see above on anti-trust, which goes unmentioned at Vox, the avatar of \u201cclear-eyed journalism,\u201d as they say themselves.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump Is About to Face the Choice That Dooms Many Presidencies\u201d [Oren Cass, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VbrkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201c[Trump] is an iconoclastic leader with a uniquely unfiltered relationship to the American people and a disdain for the chattering class of consultants. He is also the first president since Grover Cleveland to get a second shot at a first term\u2026. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, he made a promise to \u201cevery citizen\u201d that he would \u201cfight for you, for your family and your future\u201d and that \u201cthis will truly be the golden age of America.\u201d Achieving that will require focusing on the challenges and respecting the values broadly shared by not only his voters, but also many others who might come to support him\u2026. Focus on making it easier to speculate in cryptocurrency or on providing non-college pathways to building a decent life? Focus on whatever harebrained scheme Robert Kennedy Jr. or Vivek Ramaswamy might mention over lunch or on creating a more generous benefit for working families raising kids, as JD Vance and others have proposed? Any president finds himself surrounded by advisers pushing their personal and ideological agendas. There is a reason most lose sight of what matters to the people outside that bubble. But Mr. Trump has built his political career on taking the road less traveled. Returning to office, he has a last best first chance to get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"30.774709302326\">\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump broke the Democrats\u2019 thermostat\u201d [John Burn-Murdoch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201c[T]he data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has distanced them from the median voter, just as Wright\u2019s cartoon depicted. We see this not only in Democratic voters\u2019 self-reported ideology, but in their views on issues including immigration and whether or not minorities need extra help to succeed in society. Notably, .\u201d I think the chart shows the change began in 2008, and accelerated in 2015. More: \u201cThis suggests that Trump\u2019s election radicalised the left, not the right. Some counter that this is simply what progressive politics is, but the evidence suggests otherwise. America\u2019s decades-long progress towards racial and sexual tolerance and equality has been a gradual shift, led by progressives with the centre and right quickly following. The pivots of the past decade, by contrast, have been abrupt and are leaving the majority behind. They are better characterised not as moves towards greater tolerance and equality but as shifts in rhetoric or proposed solutions for addressing disparities, where there is plenty of room for disagreement without bigotry. Many of these pivots originated with the activists and non-profit staffers that surround the Democratic party. In an invaluable piece of research carried out in 2021, political scientists Alexander Furnas and Timothy LaPira at the think-tank Data for Progress found that these \u201cpolitical elites\u201d or tastemakers hold views often well to the left of the average voter \u2014 and even the average Democratic voter \u2014 on cultural issues.\u201d \u2022 Handy chart:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One reason the 2020 Sanders campaign messaging changed to idpol. (Of course, \u201cleftward,\u201d as is usual in mainstream discourse, is a misnomer:; identity politics is just another flavor of liberalism. Leftism means putting the working class first; no serious Democrat believes in that, though of course lip service is occasionally paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Campaign Finance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"22.965688712084\">\n<p>\u201cClashes, confusion and secrecy consume the Harris campaign\u2019s finances\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris\/clashes-confusion-secrecy-consume-harris-campaign-finances-rcna179654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cIf Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign was known for anything, it was its blockbuster fundraising. In just a matter of months, it crossed the $1 billion mark, in a stunning and record-breaking pace. Now, less than a week since the vice president conceded the contest, it not only has run out of money, it\u2019s still asking for more. The campaign emails and texts, known for their ubiquity throughout the election, aren\u2019t expected to stop anytime soon\u2026. The overarching challenge at this point for what is left of Harris\u2019 campaign is that the financial picture is shrouded in mystery \u2014 even for those within the organization. No one can \u2014 or will \u2014 spell out a clear status of its finances\u2026 Five sources with direct knowledge of the campaign\u2019s internal finances confirmed to NBC News that it has indeed accrued debt. But none could point to a specific amount; several people threw out possibilities, with the lowest beginning at $6 million\u2026. It isn\u2019t unusual for a campaign to close out a contest carrying some debt. What is unusual is the pace of the expenditures after record-breaking fundraising, some senior officials said. . Interviews with more than a dozen campaign officials and allies reveal a deep distrust of leadership, questions over payments to consultants and celebrities, as well as anger over what they say was a pervasive lack of transparency over finances and analytics. The sources were granted anonymity to speak about internal campaign dynamics.\u201d And then this: \u201cSome aides expressed frustration in interviews, saying they had crafted language for ongoing requests for money but that they were intended for a prolonged counting effort post election night. \u2018,\u2019 a senior campaign official close to the strategy said.\u201d \u2022 Hmm\u2026..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"82.175111982083\">\n<p>\u201cA Triumph for Trump\u2019s Republicans\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/peggynoonan.com\/a-triumph-for-trumps-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peggy Noonan<\/a>]. \u201cIt is worth being moved that in our huge, restive, cynical and yearning nation we peacefully, and with complete public acceptance of the outcome, made a dramatic national judgment this week. Just about every adult citizen took part and took it seriously. All together they produced something we needed: a clear outcome, one delivered without charges of large-scale chicanery or even small-scale so far as we know. There will be a peaceful transfer of power. A lot of people had to do a lot of things right to make this happen.\u201d Allow me to note that I (paraphrasing) always qualified \u201cthe Democrats cannot allow Trump to take office\u201d with \u201cif they believe what they say\u201d (about \u201cfascism\u201d, \u201cour democracy\u201d, etc. As happens so often, no matter how hard I try, I\u2019m never cynical enough; that Kamala\u2019s 2024 Democrats would be as cynical about deploying \u201cfascism\u201d as Obama\u2019s 2008 \u201cDemocrats\u201d\u2026 .Well, doggone it. Back to Nooners, who concludes: \u201cI like what Liz Cheney tweeted Wednesday: \u2018Our nation\u2019s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results.\u2019 We also have a responsibility as members of \u2018the greatest nation on earth\u2019 to \u2018support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years.\u2019 She singled out the courts, the press, \u2018and those serving in our federal, state and local governments\u2019 to be \u2018the guardrails of democracy.’\u201d \u2022 That \u201cguardrails\u201d metaphor shows lazy thinking and lazy writing (the metaphor presumes we\u2019re on the right road, there\u2019s gas in the tank, there\u2019s gas at the next gas station, as opposed to feral mobs with torches, etc.). I\u2019m surprised to find it in Nooners\u2019 peroration. Yet another sign of civilizational collapse; Nooners creates clich\u00e9s for other people; she doesn\u2019t retail them.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"reed\"\/>\u201cGoing Forward from the Edge of the Abyss\u201d [Adolph Reed, <a href=\"https:\/\/nonsite.org\/going-forward-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nonsite<\/a>]. Must-read. \u201cTrump has no new coalition; he can\u2019t because those \u201cgroups\u201d aren\u2019t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like consumer taste \u201ccommunities\u201d or partisan fans of sports teams. (Recall that some people got cues for what they should believe or how to line up on current issue positions from watching Archie Bunker.) That\u2019s why so much of this politics reduces to \u201cyou say potAYto; I say potAHto.\u201d This is not to say that the reified categories couldn\u2019t become constituencies on the same principle as the Heisenberg effect; part of the beauty of interest-group politics is that tossing some resources around will produce constituencies\u2014or at least people who claim to speak for them. And it\u2019s not just the right; that\u2019s also how the Democrats have been reinventing every four years under differing labels that magical constituency of \u201creasonable\u201d upper-status, suburban, moderate Republican (white) women, which hasn\u2019t materialized in thirty years or more, or their happy-face version of Passing of the Great Race in the simple-minded contention that changing racial demographics would provide yet another way to win without confronting capitalism\u2019s contradictions. Indeed, constructing those taxonomies of identity configurations and reifying them into bodies of shared political interests is, ironically within a so self-consciously and performatively antiracist \u2018left,\u2019 quintessentially racist. Of course, those won\u2019t be the takeaways.\u201d No, they won\u2019t. Crucially: \u201cWe have to face up to the fact\u2014finally\u2014that all we can expect from Dem success is kicking the can of confrontation with fascism down the road for four years. But for that approach to make sense someone, and only the labor-left can lead it or maybe even do it, has to spend another four years between elections organizing a real constituency for a different way of talking and thinking about and doing politics. To put it bluntly, we won\u2019t be able to face up to the fascist juggernaut without working to build an actual popular constituency for a different, openly working-class-based politics. I\u2019m not alone in noting that Trump\/ism is not an anomaly; it\u2019s now the point of the lance of what\u2019s clearly a fascist international\u2026. [W]e may be facing the equivalent of a T-intersection at which there are only two possible, totally opposite directions to take.\u201d \u2022 If Reed is willing to make the call\u2026 Well, I\u2019m gonna have to examine my priors by returning to Paxton; as readers know, Reed has an excellent track record, <a href=\"https:\/\/s-usih.org\/tag\/reading-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">having called his shot on Obama in 1996<\/a>. It would be so like the Democrats to so pollute the discourse on fascism that nobody could take it seriously (and certainly I veer in that direction, because I process so much of their output). My immediate reaction is that people should be thinking of that general strike on May Day, 2028, and not the next Presidential cycle, let alone the midterms\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the Democratic Party be listening to John Fetterman? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/john-fetterman-democratic-party-trump-00189595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c<em>What did you make of Harris\u2019 decision to call Trump a fascist?<\/em> [FETTERMAN:] II love people that are absolutely going to vote for Trump. They\u2019re not fascists. They\u2019re not those things. I think if you go to , use those kinds of terms, then it\u2019s kind of hard to walk back on those things. That\u2019s kind of a word that really isn\u2019t part of the vernacular for voters. Scolding harder or clutching the pearls harder, that\u2019s never going to work for Democrats.\u201d \u2022 It\u2019s like <em>everything<\/em> with Democrats is \u201cthe tickle switch\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 problematic attitude toward voters of color hits a wall\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/democrats-latino-voters-trump-demographics-destiny-rcna179662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>], \u201cTrump\u2019s victory is shattering a common slogan and guiding principle in Democratic circles that \u2018demographics is destiny.\u2019 There has long been a belief in the party that Democrats were destined to hold a long-term majority in the country as the nation became more diverse. That belief was predicated on the idea that the party won ethnic minorities because it presented itself as the multicultural and socially inclusive party, and because it treated minorities as interest groups to cater to based on priorities specific to their ethnicity. That belief has always been problematic, and now it is collapsing. Trump\u2019s playbook has thrown a grenade into the Democratic worldview, and the fallout among the left hasn\u2019t been pretty.\u201d dAs I keep saying, \u201cdemographics is destiny\u201d has nothing to do with \u201cthe left\u201d (except insofar as it was designed to destroy it). And: \u2018But many liberals forget that those groups are never a monolith, and their members also have other identities that shape how they view the world, including class [dread word], gender, age and the countless subcultures they choose to associate with. \u201d \u2022 It\u2019s not really useful to think of class as an idenity, or at least not an identity <em>first<\/em>. One does not, after all, \u201cidentify as\u201d a wage worker. One <em>is<\/em> a wage worker. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.925572519084\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6470588235294\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 11<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last Week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6619718309859\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9759036144578\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 14:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 14:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5915492957746\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 11:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 9:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6363636363636\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.76\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"117.50838671948\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Good news!<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* still popular. XEC has entered the chat. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Steadily down.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Actually improved; it\u2019s now one of the few charts to show the entire course of the pandemic to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Now XEC.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity down.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/ny-empire-state-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe NY Empire State Manufacturing Index climbed to 31.2 in November 2024, up from -11.9 in October and surprising analysts who expected it at -0.7. It was the best reading since December 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Industrial Production\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/industrial-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cIndustrial Production in the United States decreased 0.3% year-on-year in October 2024, following a downwardly revised 0.7% fall in September.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing appoints former Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley as new board member\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/boeing-names-ex-vanguard-ceo-172601581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing board has elected former Vanguard Group CEO Tim Buckley as its newest member, effective Jan. 1, the U.S. planemaker said on Friday. Buckley, 55, will be Boeing\u2019s tenth director since 2019, the company said, adding that he will serve on the board\u2019s Finance and Governance & Public Policy committees. Prior to becoming Vanguard\u2019s CEO, Buckley held multiple roles during his over three-decade career at the top U.S. asset manager, including chief investment officer and chief information officer.\u201d \u2022 A finance guy? Really?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees included in Boeing layoffs, union confirms\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/tech\/science\/aerospace\/boeing\/speea-employees-boeing-layoffs\/281-82db7867-dfa0-415f-9a30-ad5d48800767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KING5<\/a>]. \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees are included in Boeing\u2019s sweeping job cuts, the union confirmed to KING 5 on Thursday night. SPEEA, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, represents more than 17,000 engineers, technical workers, pilots and other aerospace industry professionals. The union confirmed that 438 of their Boeing employees will be laid off, including 218 members of their professional unit and 220 technical employees\u2026 . The company did say both union and non-union employees and managers, and executives are included. In October, Boeing said striking machinists with the IAM District 751 would not be impacted by the job cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing spending millions to save major supplier\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/boeing-spending-millions-to-save-major-supplier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SAN<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing is making a big financial move to save one of its key suppliers. The jet maker this week confirmed it\u2019ll advance $350 million to Spirit AeroSystems. Spirit makes the fuselage for Boeing planes. Boeing is doling out money to keep Spirit afloat. This comes as the supplier is experiencing high levels of inventory and financial problems. Spirit is the largest employer in Wichita, Kansas. The company has announced it might not be able to keep operating due to billions of dollars in losses over the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Sale Was Supposed to Mark the Bottom. Shares Just Keep Dropping.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/boeing-stock-price-tariffs-9a2f31a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u201cThe biggest factor in the recent decline in shares just might be the election. President-elect Trump has promised tariffs on China. A trade war with China would hit Boeing more than just about any other company. China is a big buyer of planes and has accounted for roughly 20% of Boeing\u2019s total deliveries before recent turmoil. How the trade relationship with China will develop under Trump is anyone\u2019s guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 49 Neutral (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 15 at 1:41:16 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VgL_cI3b5ls?si=gK05lwmQO2z_kM0i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Musical interlude<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1238532110092\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.5963302752294\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lion Resting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rembrandt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#rembrandt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EhrSfhKTZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/EhrSfhKTZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rembrandt (@artistrembrandt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistrembrandt\/status\/1852482259002990848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/geoawesome.com\/viral-cartography-what-makes-map-go-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GeoAwecome<\/a>]. \u201cWhile researching viral cartography, Penn State geographer Anthony Robinson found that the above map had spawned a series of copycat maps, many of which also went viral. These included both the serious (what \u2018if only people of color voted\u2019) and the silly (\u2018If only goats voted\u2019). Robinson found more than 500 such unique maps on the internet. And in the context of our battle with fake news, this is a very dangerous thing. When a map conveys more validity than it deserves, it becomes very easy to fabricate the truth; we all know how convincing auto-generated videos called \u2018deep fakes\u2019 seem. As Robinson says, \u2018It\u2019s cool that anybody can make a map now. They can take election data and do something creative with it, and it can be very helpful. But it\u2019s also easy to make something that looks like it\u2019s authoritative and use it as a weapon.’\u201d \u2022 Some would urge that maps are <em>always<\/em> used as weapons; the original Red\/Blue distinction was amplified by a map (I don\u2019t think we had a concept of virality back then). Anyhow, here is the \u201cabove\u201d map:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"661\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! 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From Wukchumni:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wukchumni writes: \u201cPhos-Chek\u2019d oak tree in front of the fickle finger of fate, Mineral King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, tapping the sign didn\u2019t work\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"donate\"\/><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Water Cooler is a standalone entity <em>not<\/em> covered by the annual NC fundraiser. 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Thank you!<\/p>\n<div class=\"printfriendly pf-alignleft\"><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF & Email\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow:none; padding:0; margin:0\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.printfriendly.com\/buttons\/print-button-gray.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF & Email\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/category\/guest-post\" rel=\"category tag\">Guest Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/category\/water-cooler\" rel=\"category tag\">Water Cooler<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/11\/200pm-water-cooler-11-15-2024.html\" title=\"2:00 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date updated\" datetime=\"2024-11-15T14:00:56-05:00\">November 15, 2024<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/author\/lambert-strether\" title=\"View all posts by Lambert Strether\" rel=\"author\">Lambert Strether<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-info\" wp_automatic_readability=\"20.197005056398\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"35.467911318553\">\n<h2>About Lambert Strether<\/h2>\n<p>Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don\u2019t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. <br \/>\n <br \/>\nTo me, the key issue \u2014 and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me \u2014 is the tens of thousands of excess \u201cdeaths from despair,\u201d as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics \u2014 even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton\u2019s wars created \u2014 bright shiny objects by comparison. Hence my frustration with the news flow \u2014 currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press \u2014 a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. What kind of political economy is it that halts or even reverses the increases in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let\u2019s call such voices \u201cthe left.\u201d Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn\u2019t allowed to get back into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! 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Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Northern Mockingbird, Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, Westchester, New York, United States. \u201cAmazing repertoire of other species\u2019 songs woven into this song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#table\">New Covid charts:<\/a> No bad news.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#reed\">Adolph Reed<\/a> makes another call.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#blame\">Blame Cannons<\/a>: The Democrat\u2019s \u201cleftward\u201d turn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing puts a finance guy on the board<\/a>, layoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"115.94298982314\">\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018Epic\u2019 Deregulation Must Preserve Financial Stability\u201d [Editorial Board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-11-13\/trump-and-musk-s-epic-deregulation-must-preserve-financial-stability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>]. The deck: \u201cThe president-elect and Elon Musk want to blow up the federal rule book. Good luck, but please exercise some caution.\u201d More: \u201cA big reduction in regulation would indeed be welcome. Unfortunately, it\u2019s a complicated task that requires prudence, diligence and sustained attention to detail, virtues that were not in evidence during Trump\u2019s previous stint in office. Where the financial system is concerned, deregulation may be especially fraught. Last time around, Trump scaled back several major rules adopted after the global financial crisis, an effort that may have contributed to last year\u2019s spate of bank failures. Weakening requirements further, without due discretion, could create needless risk. Whoever ends up leading this mission, they should keep four principles in mind. First, banks must be strong enough to weather turmoil\u2026. Next, focus on transparency and accountability. Disclosures should be clear and fraud should be punished. \u2026 Third, size is not in itself the enemy. Allowing mergers between financial companies doesn\u2019t automatically reduce competition and can in fact increase it.\u201d lol. More: \u201cFinally, regulation that defies common sense breeds cynicism. As one example among many, the Securities and Exchange Commission routinely extracts fines from financial companies for allowing their employees to converse on nonofficial channels, a practice that is all but unavoidable in the mobile communications era.\u201d \u2022 Yes, what could possibly wrong with financial professionals conversing on secret channels\u2026. Nevertheless, a warning shot for Trump<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump says Dimon won\u2019t be part of administration\u201d [The Hill]. \u2022 Dang. Though I suppose it could always be worse!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=115867555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC<\/a>]. \u201cThe woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/house-ethics-committee-subpoenas-documents-lawsuit-brought-gaetzs\/story?id=114387365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sex trafficking allegations<\/a> surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now-former Florida congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News\u2026.. \u2018Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I have engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18. The answer to this question is unequivocally NO. You can apply this response to every version of this question, in every forum,\u2019 Gaetz said in a statement posted to his social media account. \u2018The Committee\u2019s star witness, Joel Greenberg, is a felonious liar who involves others in his lies \u2026 Greenberg was initially indicted for attempting to falsely smear a teacher at a local high school as a pedophile,\u2019 Gaetz added regarding former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, who pleaded guilty to falsely accusing a teacher, who was running for office against him, of a sex crime. The woman\u2019s allegation regarding Gaetz became part of the investigation following claims by Greenberg, a former friend of Gaetz\u2026\u201d \u2022 Poor choice of friends. That said, I am so, so tired of Democrats ginning up sex scandals when they have no moral standing to do so. Revered and witty Democrat Barney Frank\u2019s boyfriend ran a brothel out of the House they shared on Capitol Hill. Revered Democrat elder Bill Clinton was, at the very least, guilty of workplace abuse (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/14\/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">never apologized to her personally<\/a>). Biden has a \u201cskeevy\u201d penchant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/03\/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sniffing women\u2019s hair<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2014\/08\/01\/biden-swims-naked-upsetting-female-secret-service-agents-book-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kept swimming nude in front of female Secret Service agents after they protested<\/a>. Then there\u2019s Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13925099\/kamala-harris-husband-doug-emhoff-office-misogynist-flirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Gentleman Doug Emhoff<\/a>. The Democrats are the party of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/Grundyism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grundyism<\/a>, if <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs_Grundy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mrs. Grundy<\/a> were, herself, a madame. Can\u2019t we give it a rest?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ixi3m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>]. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s transition team scrambled Thursday after Trump\u2019s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was presented with an allegation that former Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth, Trump\u2019s nominee to be Defense Secretary, had engaged in sexual misconduct. According to two sources, Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about an allegation that Hegseth had acted inappropriately with a woman. One of the sources said the alleged incident took place in Monterey, California in 2017. According to the transition source, the allegation is serious enough that Wiles and Trump\u2019s lawyers spoke to Hegseth about it on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the meeting said that Hegseth said the allegation stemmed from a consensual encounter and characterized the episode as he-said, she-said. On Thursday evening, Hegseth\u2019s lawyer Timothy Parlatore said: \u201cThis allegation was already investigated by the Monterey police department and they found no evidence for it.\u201d \u2022 Genocide, no problemo. Pandemic? What pandemic? But \u201callegations\u201d of \u201csexual misconduct\u201d? Oh my goodness! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/15\/politics\/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s transition team is\u202fbypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say. Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect\u2019s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage. The discussions come as Trump has floated several controversial choices for high-level positions in the US government \u2013 including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. Ultimately, the president has the final authority on who he nominates and decides to share intelligence with, regardless of the established protocol set in the wake of World War II to make sure those selections don\u2019t have unknown foreign ties or other issues that could raise national security concerns. But circumventing background checks would be bucking a long-established norm in Washington. It also reflects Trump\u2019s deep mistrust of the national security establishment, which he derides as the Deep State. Sources say he has privately questioned the need for law enforcement background checks.\u201d \u2022 I don\u2019t understand this. Surely the organs of state security are completely apolitical?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left should welcome Matt Gaetz as attorney general\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/the-left-should-welcome-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unherd<\/a>]. \u201cHis record speaks for itself. From his perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Gaetz has promoted a surprisingly consumer-friendly agenda, routinely breaking with his GOP colleagues on crucial votes. He previously supported legislative measures to break up Silicon Valley monopolies, sharply regulate the online data broker industry, ban noncompete employment contracts, and an end to the practice of forced arbitration, among other corporate accountability votes. He has also taken maverick positions on reducing FBI surveillance powers, cutting certain arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and legalising marijuana. In addition, Gaetz has staked a position at times to the Left of some establishment Democrats. In the fight over the Ending Platform Monopolies Act \u2014 a bill designed to curb anticompetitive practices by Amazon and Google \u2014 Gaetz ended up supporting the legislation, while California Democrats close to the tech industry, such as Zoe Lofgren and Eric Swalwell, voted against it. In an era of severe political polarisation, the Florida representative has found opportunities to support actions of the Biden administration. In August, Gaetz wrote a letter to Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai, urging him to \u201cadhere fully\u201d to the antitrust ruling against the company secured by the current Department of Justice.\u201d \u2022 I believe the meme \u201cKhanservatives\u201d originated with Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt Gaetz, Trump\u2019s uniquely unqualified pick for attorney general, explained\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/384967\/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. \u201cAs New York Times columnist Ezra Klein writes, Trump\u2019s decision to nominate Gaetz should be read as an effort to gauge whether Republican senators will permit him to take absurd and dangerous actions. \u201cThese aren\u2019t just appointments,\u201d Klein writes of Gaetz and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, \u2018They\u2019re loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.’\u201d \u2022 But see above on anti-trust, which goes unmentioned at Vox, the avatar of \u201cclear-eyed journalism,\u201d as they say themselves.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump Is About to Face the Choice That Dooms Many Presidencies\u201d [Oren Cass, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VbrkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201c[Trump] is an iconoclastic leader with a uniquely unfiltered relationship to the American people and a disdain for the chattering class of consultants. He is also the first president since Grover Cleveland to get a second shot at a first term\u2026. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, he made a promise to \u201cevery citizen\u201d that he would \u201cfight for you, for your family and your future\u201d and that \u201cthis will truly be the golden age of America.\u201d Achieving that will require focusing on the challenges and respecting the values broadly shared by not only his voters, but also many others who might come to support him\u2026. Focus on making it easier to speculate in cryptocurrency or on providing non-college pathways to building a decent life? Focus on whatever harebrained scheme Robert Kennedy Jr. or Vivek Ramaswamy might mention over lunch or on creating a more generous benefit for working families raising kids, as JD Vance and others have proposed? Any president finds himself surrounded by advisers pushing their personal and ideological agendas. There is a reason most lose sight of what matters to the people outside that bubble. But Mr. Trump has built his political career on taking the road less traveled. Returning to office, he has a last best first chance to get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"30.774709302326\">\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump broke the Democrats\u2019 thermostat\u201d [John Burn-Murdoch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201c[T]he data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has distanced them from the median voter, just as Wright\u2019s cartoon depicted. We see this not only in Democratic voters\u2019 self-reported ideology, but in their views on issues including immigration and whether or not minorities need extra help to succeed in society. Notably, .\u201d I think the chart shows the change began in 2008, and accelerated in 2015. More: \u201cThis suggests that Trump\u2019s election radicalised the left, not the right. Some counter that this is simply what progressive politics is, but the evidence suggests otherwise. America\u2019s decades-long progress towards racial and sexual tolerance and equality has been a gradual shift, led by progressives with the centre and right quickly following. The pivots of the past decade, by contrast, have been abrupt and are leaving the majority behind. They are better characterised not as moves towards greater tolerance and equality but as shifts in rhetoric or proposed solutions for addressing disparities, where there is plenty of room for disagreement without bigotry. Many of these pivots originated with the activists and non-profit staffers that surround the Democratic party. In an invaluable piece of research carried out in 2021, political scientists Alexander Furnas and Timothy LaPira at the think-tank Data for Progress found that these \u201cpolitical elites\u201d or tastemakers hold views often well to the left of the average voter \u2014 and even the average Democratic voter \u2014 on cultural issues.\u201d \u2022 Handy chart:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One reason the 2020 Sanders campaign messaging changed to idpol. (Of course, \u201cleftward,\u201d as is usual in mainstream discourse, is a misnomer:; identity politics is just another flavor of liberalism. Leftism means putting the working class first; no serious Democrat believes in that, though of course lip service is occasionally paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Campaign Finance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"22.965688712084\">\n<p>\u201cClashes, confusion and secrecy consume the Harris campaign\u2019s finances\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris\/clashes-confusion-secrecy-consume-harris-campaign-finances-rcna179654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cIf Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign was known for anything, it was its blockbuster fundraising. In just a matter of months, it crossed the $1 billion mark, in a stunning and record-breaking pace. Now, less than a week since the vice president conceded the contest, it not only has run out of money, it\u2019s still asking for more. The campaign emails and texts, known for their ubiquity throughout the election, aren\u2019t expected to stop anytime soon\u2026. The overarching challenge at this point for what is left of Harris\u2019 campaign is that the financial picture is shrouded in mystery \u2014 even for those within the organization. No one can \u2014 or will \u2014 spell out a clear status of its finances\u2026 Five sources with direct knowledge of the campaign\u2019s internal finances confirmed to NBC News that it has indeed accrued debt. But none could point to a specific amount; several people threw out possibilities, with the lowest beginning at $6 million\u2026. It isn\u2019t unusual for a campaign to close out a contest carrying some debt. What is unusual is the pace of the expenditures after record-breaking fundraising, some senior officials said. . Interviews with more than a dozen campaign officials and allies reveal a deep distrust of leadership, questions over payments to consultants and celebrities, as well as anger over what they say was a pervasive lack of transparency over finances and analytics. The sources were granted anonymity to speak about internal campaign dynamics.\u201d And then this: \u201cSome aides expressed frustration in interviews, saying they had crafted language for ongoing requests for money but that they were intended for a prolonged counting effort post election night. \u2018,\u2019 a senior campaign official close to the strategy said.\u201d \u2022 Hmm\u2026..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"82.175111982083\">\n<p>\u201cA Triumph for Trump\u2019s Republicans\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/peggynoonan.com\/a-triumph-for-trumps-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peggy Noonan<\/a>]. \u201cIt is worth being moved that in our huge, restive, cynical and yearning nation we peacefully, and with complete public acceptance of the outcome, made a dramatic national judgment this week. Just about every adult citizen took part and took it seriously. All together they produced something we needed: a clear outcome, one delivered without charges of large-scale chicanery or even small-scale so far as we know. There will be a peaceful transfer of power. A lot of people had to do a lot of things right to make this happen.\u201d Allow me to note that I (paraphrasing) always qualified \u201cthe Democrats cannot allow Trump to take office\u201d with \u201cif they believe what they say\u201d (about \u201cfascism\u201d, \u201cour democracy\u201d, etc. As happens so often, no matter how hard I try, I\u2019m never cynical enough; that Kamala\u2019s 2024 Democrats would be as cynical about deploying \u201cfascism\u201d as Obama\u2019s 2008 \u201cDemocrats\u201d\u2026 .Well, doggone it. Back to Nooners, who concludes: \u201cI like what Liz Cheney tweeted Wednesday: \u2018Our nation\u2019s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results.\u2019 We also have a responsibility as members of \u2018the greatest nation on earth\u2019 to \u2018support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years.\u2019 She singled out the courts, the press, \u2018and those serving in our federal, state and local governments\u2019 to be \u2018the guardrails of democracy.’\u201d \u2022 That \u201cguardrails\u201d metaphor shows lazy thinking and lazy writing (the metaphor presumes we\u2019re on the right road, there\u2019s gas in the tank, there\u2019s gas at the next gas station, as opposed to feral mobs with torches, etc.). I\u2019m surprised to find it in Nooners\u2019 peroration. Yet another sign of civilizational collapse; Nooners creates clich\u00e9s for other people; she doesn\u2019t retail them.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"reed\"\/>\u201cGoing Forward from the Edge of the Abyss\u201d [Adolph Reed, <a href=\"https:\/\/nonsite.org\/going-forward-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nonsite<\/a>]. Must-read. \u201cTrump has no new coalition; he can\u2019t because those \u201cgroups\u201d aren\u2019t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like consumer taste \u201ccommunities\u201d or partisan fans of sports teams. (Recall that some people got cues for what they should believe or how to line up on current issue positions from watching Archie Bunker.) That\u2019s why so much of this politics reduces to \u201cyou say potAYto; I say potAHto.\u201d This is not to say that the reified categories couldn\u2019t become constituencies on the same principle as the Heisenberg effect; part of the beauty of interest-group politics is that tossing some resources around will produce constituencies\u2014or at least people who claim to speak for them. And it\u2019s not just the right; that\u2019s also how the Democrats have been reinventing every four years under differing labels that magical constituency of \u201creasonable\u201d upper-status, suburban, moderate Republican (white) women, which hasn\u2019t materialized in thirty years or more, or their happy-face version of Passing of the Great Race in the simple-minded contention that changing racial demographics would provide yet another way to win without confronting capitalism\u2019s contradictions. Indeed, constructing those taxonomies of identity configurations and reifying them into bodies of shared political interests is, ironically within a so self-consciously and performatively antiracist \u2018left,\u2019 quintessentially racist. Of course, those won\u2019t be the takeaways.\u201d No, they won\u2019t. Crucially: \u201cWe have to face up to the fact\u2014finally\u2014that all we can expect from Dem success is kicking the can of confrontation with fascism down the road for four years. But for that approach to make sense someone, and only the labor-left can lead it or maybe even do it, has to spend another four years between elections organizing a real constituency for a different way of talking and thinking about and doing politics. To put it bluntly, we won\u2019t be able to face up to the fascist juggernaut without working to build an actual popular constituency for a different, openly working-class-based politics. I\u2019m not alone in noting that Trump\/ism is not an anomaly; it\u2019s now the point of the lance of what\u2019s clearly a fascist international\u2026. [W]e may be facing the equivalent of a T-intersection at which there are only two possible, totally opposite directions to take.\u201d \u2022 If Reed is willing to make the call\u2026 Well, I\u2019m gonna have to examine my priors by returning to Paxton; as readers know, Reed has an excellent track record, <a href=\"https:\/\/s-usih.org\/tag\/reading-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">having called his shot on Obama in 1996<\/a>. It would be so like the Democrats to so pollute the discourse on fascism that nobody could take it seriously (and certainly I veer in that direction, because I process so much of their output). My immediate reaction is that people should be thinking of that general strike on May Day, 2028, and not the next Presidential cycle, let alone the midterms\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the Democratic Party be listening to John Fetterman? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/john-fetterman-democratic-party-trump-00189595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c<em>What did you make of Harris\u2019 decision to call Trump a fascist?<\/em> [FETTERMAN:] II love people that are absolutely going to vote for Trump. They\u2019re not fascists. They\u2019re not those things. I think if you go to , use those kinds of terms, then it\u2019s kind of hard to walk back on those things. That\u2019s kind of a word that really isn\u2019t part of the vernacular for voters. Scolding harder or clutching the pearls harder, that\u2019s never going to work for Democrats.\u201d \u2022 It\u2019s like <em>everything<\/em> with Democrats is \u201cthe tickle switch\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 problematic attitude toward voters of color hits a wall\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/democrats-latino-voters-trump-demographics-destiny-rcna179662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>], \u201cTrump\u2019s victory is shattering a common slogan and guiding principle in Democratic circles that \u2018demographics is destiny.\u2019 There has long been a belief in the party that Democrats were destined to hold a long-term majority in the country as the nation became more diverse. That belief was predicated on the idea that the party won ethnic minorities because it presented itself as the multicultural and socially inclusive party, and because it treated minorities as interest groups to cater to based on priorities specific to their ethnicity. That belief has always been problematic, and now it is collapsing. Trump\u2019s playbook has thrown a grenade into the Democratic worldview, and the fallout among the left hasn\u2019t been pretty.\u201d dAs I keep saying, \u201cdemographics is destiny\u201d has nothing to do with \u201cthe left\u201d (except insofar as it was designed to destroy it). And: \u2018But many liberals forget that those groups are never a monolith, and their members also have other identities that shape how they view the world, including class [dread word], gender, age and the countless subcultures they choose to associate with. \u201d \u2022 It\u2019s not really useful to think of class as an idenity, or at least not an identity <em>first<\/em>. One does not, after all, \u201cidentify as\u201d a wage worker. One <em>is<\/em> a wage worker. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.925572519084\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6470588235294\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 11<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last Week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6619718309859\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9759036144578\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 14:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 14:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5915492957746\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 11:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 9:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6363636363636\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.76\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"117.50838671948\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Good news!<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* still popular. XEC has entered the chat. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Steadily down.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Actually improved; it\u2019s now one of the few charts to show the entire course of the pandemic to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Now XEC.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity down.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/ny-empire-state-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe NY Empire State Manufacturing Index climbed to 31.2 in November 2024, up from -11.9 in October and surprising analysts who expected it at -0.7. It was the best reading since December 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Industrial Production\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/industrial-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cIndustrial Production in the United States decreased 0.3% year-on-year in October 2024, following a downwardly revised 0.7% fall in September.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing appoints former Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley as new board member\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/boeing-names-ex-vanguard-ceo-172601581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing board has elected former Vanguard Group CEO Tim Buckley as its newest member, effective Jan. 1, the U.S. planemaker said on Friday. Buckley, 55, will be Boeing\u2019s tenth director since 2019, the company said, adding that he will serve on the board\u2019s Finance and Governance & Public Policy committees. Prior to becoming Vanguard\u2019s CEO, Buckley held multiple roles during his over three-decade career at the top U.S. asset manager, including chief investment officer and chief information officer.\u201d \u2022 A finance guy? Really?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees included in Boeing layoffs, union confirms\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/tech\/science\/aerospace\/boeing\/speea-employees-boeing-layoffs\/281-82db7867-dfa0-415f-9a30-ad5d48800767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KING5<\/a>]. \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees are included in Boeing\u2019s sweeping job cuts, the union confirmed to KING 5 on Thursday night. SPEEA, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, represents more than 17,000 engineers, technical workers, pilots and other aerospace industry professionals. The union confirmed that 438 of their Boeing employees will be laid off, including 218 members of their professional unit and 220 technical employees\u2026 . The company did say both union and non-union employees and managers, and executives are included. In October, Boeing said striking machinists with the IAM District 751 would not be impacted by the job cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing spending millions to save major supplier\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/boeing-spending-millions-to-save-major-supplier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SAN<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing is making a big financial move to save one of its key suppliers. The jet maker this week confirmed it\u2019ll advance $350 million to Spirit AeroSystems. Spirit makes the fuselage for Boeing planes. Boeing is doling out money to keep Spirit afloat. This comes as the supplier is experiencing high levels of inventory and financial problems. Spirit is the largest employer in Wichita, Kansas. The company has announced it might not be able to keep operating due to billions of dollars in losses over the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Sale Was Supposed to Mark the Bottom. Shares Just Keep Dropping.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/boeing-stock-price-tariffs-9a2f31a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u201cThe biggest factor in the recent decline in shares just might be the election. President-elect Trump has promised tariffs on China. A trade war with China would hit Boeing more than just about any other company. China is a big buyer of planes and has accounted for roughly 20% of Boeing\u2019s total deliveries before recent turmoil. How the trade relationship with China will develop under Trump is anyone\u2019s guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 49 Neutral (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 15 at 1:41:16 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VgL_cI3b5ls?si=gK05lwmQO2z_kM0i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Musical interlude<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1238532110092\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.5963302752294\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lion Resting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rembrandt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#rembrandt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EhrSfhKTZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/EhrSfhKTZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rembrandt (@artistrembrandt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistrembrandt\/status\/1852482259002990848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/geoawesome.com\/viral-cartography-what-makes-map-go-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GeoAwecome<\/a>]. \u201cWhile researching viral cartography, Penn State geographer Anthony Robinson found that the above map had spawned a series of copycat maps, many of which also went viral. These included both the serious (what \u2018if only people of color voted\u2019) and the silly (\u2018If only goats voted\u2019). Robinson found more than 500 such unique maps on the internet. And in the context of our battle with fake news, this is a very dangerous thing. When a map conveys more validity than it deserves, it becomes very easy to fabricate the truth; we all know how convincing auto-generated videos called \u2018deep fakes\u2019 seem. As Robinson says, \u2018It\u2019s cool that anybody can make a map now. They can take election data and do something creative with it, and it can be very helpful. But it\u2019s also easy to make something that looks like it\u2019s authoritative and use it as a weapon.’\u201d \u2022 Some would urge that maps are <em>always<\/em> used as weapons; the original Red\/Blue distinction was amplified by a map (I don\u2019t think we had a concept of virality back then). Anyhow, here is the \u201cabove\u201d map:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"661\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! 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From Wukchumni:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wukchumni writes: \u201cPhos-Chek\u2019d oak tree in front of the fickle finger of fate, Mineral King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, tapping the sign didn\u2019t work\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"donate\"\/><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Water Cooler is a standalone entity <em>not<\/em> covered by the annual NC fundraiser. 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Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Northern Mockingbird, Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, Westchester, New York, United States. \u201cAmazing repertoire of other species\u2019 songs woven into this song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#table\">New Covid charts:<\/a> No bad news.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#reed\">Adolph Reed<\/a> makes another call.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#blame\">Blame Cannons<\/a>: The Democrat\u2019s \u201cleftward\u201d turn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing puts a finance guy on the board<\/a>, layoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"115.94298982314\">\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018Epic\u2019 Deregulation Must Preserve Financial Stability\u201d [Editorial Board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-11-13\/trump-and-musk-s-epic-deregulation-must-preserve-financial-stability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>]. The deck: \u201cThe president-elect and Elon Musk want to blow up the federal rule book. Good luck, but please exercise some caution.\u201d More: \u201cA big reduction in regulation would indeed be welcome. Unfortunately, it\u2019s a complicated task that requires prudence, diligence and sustained attention to detail, virtues that were not in evidence during Trump\u2019s previous stint in office. Where the financial system is concerned, deregulation may be especially fraught. Last time around, Trump scaled back several major rules adopted after the global financial crisis, an effort that may have contributed to last year\u2019s spate of bank failures. Weakening requirements further, without due discretion, could create needless risk. Whoever ends up leading this mission, they should keep four principles in mind. First, banks must be strong enough to weather turmoil\u2026. Next, focus on transparency and accountability. Disclosures should be clear and fraud should be punished. \u2026 Third, size is not in itself the enemy. Allowing mergers between financial companies doesn\u2019t automatically reduce competition and can in fact increase it.\u201d lol. More: \u201cFinally, regulation that defies common sense breeds cynicism. As one example among many, the Securities and Exchange Commission routinely extracts fines from financial companies for allowing their employees to converse on nonofficial channels, a practice that is all but unavoidable in the mobile communications era.\u201d \u2022 Yes, what could possibly wrong with financial professionals conversing on secret channels\u2026. Nevertheless, a warning shot for Trump<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump says Dimon won\u2019t be part of administration\u201d [The Hill]. \u2022 Dang. Though I suppose it could always be worse!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=115867555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC<\/a>]. \u201cThe woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/house-ethics-committee-subpoenas-documents-lawsuit-brought-gaetzs\/story?id=114387365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sex trafficking allegations<\/a> surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now-former Florida congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News\u2026.. \u2018Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I have engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18. The answer to this question is unequivocally NO. You can apply this response to every version of this question, in every forum,\u2019 Gaetz said in a statement posted to his social media account. \u2018The Committee\u2019s star witness, Joel Greenberg, is a felonious liar who involves others in his lies \u2026 Greenberg was initially indicted for attempting to falsely smear a teacher at a local high school as a pedophile,\u2019 Gaetz added regarding former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, who pleaded guilty to falsely accusing a teacher, who was running for office against him, of a sex crime. The woman\u2019s allegation regarding Gaetz became part of the investigation following claims by Greenberg, a former friend of Gaetz\u2026\u201d \u2022 Poor choice of friends. That said, I am so, so tired of Democrats ginning up sex scandals when they have no moral standing to do so. Revered and witty Democrat Barney Frank\u2019s boyfriend ran a brothel out of the House they shared on Capitol Hill. Revered Democrat elder Bill Clinton was, at the very least, guilty of workplace abuse (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/14\/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">never apologized to her personally<\/a>). Biden has a \u201cskeevy\u201d penchant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/03\/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sniffing women\u2019s hair<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2014\/08\/01\/biden-swims-naked-upsetting-female-secret-service-agents-book-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kept swimming nude in front of female Secret Service agents after they protested<\/a>. Then there\u2019s Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13925099\/kamala-harris-husband-doug-emhoff-office-misogynist-flirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Gentleman Doug Emhoff<\/a>. The Democrats are the party of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/Grundyism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grundyism<\/a>, if <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs_Grundy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mrs. Grundy<\/a> were, herself, a madame. Can\u2019t we give it a rest?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ixi3m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>]. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s transition team scrambled Thursday after Trump\u2019s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was presented with an allegation that former Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth, Trump\u2019s nominee to be Defense Secretary, had engaged in sexual misconduct. According to two sources, Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about an allegation that Hegseth had acted inappropriately with a woman. One of the sources said the alleged incident took place in Monterey, California in 2017. According to the transition source, the allegation is serious enough that Wiles and Trump\u2019s lawyers spoke to Hegseth about it on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the meeting said that Hegseth said the allegation stemmed from a consensual encounter and characterized the episode as he-said, she-said. On Thursday evening, Hegseth\u2019s lawyer Timothy Parlatore said: \u201cThis allegation was already investigated by the Monterey police department and they found no evidence for it.\u201d \u2022 Genocide, no problemo. Pandemic? What pandemic? But \u201callegations\u201d of \u201csexual misconduct\u201d? Oh my goodness! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/15\/politics\/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s transition team is\u202fbypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say. Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect\u2019s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage. The discussions come as Trump has floated several controversial choices for high-level positions in the US government \u2013 including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. Ultimately, the president has the final authority on who he nominates and decides to share intelligence with, regardless of the established protocol set in the wake of World War II to make sure those selections don\u2019t have unknown foreign ties or other issues that could raise national security concerns. But circumventing background checks would be bucking a long-established norm in Washington. It also reflects Trump\u2019s deep mistrust of the national security establishment, which he derides as the Deep State. Sources say he has privately questioned the need for law enforcement background checks.\u201d \u2022 I don\u2019t understand this. Surely the organs of state security are completely apolitical?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left should welcome Matt Gaetz as attorney general\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/the-left-should-welcome-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unherd<\/a>]. \u201cHis record speaks for itself. From his perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Gaetz has promoted a surprisingly consumer-friendly agenda, routinely breaking with his GOP colleagues on crucial votes. He previously supported legislative measures to break up Silicon Valley monopolies, sharply regulate the online data broker industry, ban noncompete employment contracts, and an end to the practice of forced arbitration, among other corporate accountability votes. He has also taken maverick positions on reducing FBI surveillance powers, cutting certain arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and legalising marijuana. In addition, Gaetz has staked a position at times to the Left of some establishment Democrats. In the fight over the Ending Platform Monopolies Act \u2014 a bill designed to curb anticompetitive practices by Amazon and Google \u2014 Gaetz ended up supporting the legislation, while California Democrats close to the tech industry, such as Zoe Lofgren and Eric Swalwell, voted against it. In an era of severe political polarisation, the Florida representative has found opportunities to support actions of the Biden administration. In August, Gaetz wrote a letter to Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai, urging him to \u201cadhere fully\u201d to the antitrust ruling against the company secured by the current Department of Justice.\u201d \u2022 I believe the meme \u201cKhanservatives\u201d originated with Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt Gaetz, Trump\u2019s uniquely unqualified pick for attorney general, explained\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/384967\/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. \u201cAs New York Times columnist Ezra Klein writes, Trump\u2019s decision to nominate Gaetz should be read as an effort to gauge whether Republican senators will permit him to take absurd and dangerous actions. \u201cThese aren\u2019t just appointments,\u201d Klein writes of Gaetz and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, \u2018They\u2019re loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.’\u201d \u2022 But see above on anti-trust, which goes unmentioned at Vox, the avatar of \u201cclear-eyed journalism,\u201d as they say themselves.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump Is About to Face the Choice That Dooms Many Presidencies\u201d [Oren Cass, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VbrkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201c[Trump] is an iconoclastic leader with a uniquely unfiltered relationship to the American people and a disdain for the chattering class of consultants. He is also the first president since Grover Cleveland to get a second shot at a first term\u2026. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, he made a promise to \u201cevery citizen\u201d that he would \u201cfight for you, for your family and your future\u201d and that \u201cthis will truly be the golden age of America.\u201d Achieving that will require focusing on the challenges and respecting the values broadly shared by not only his voters, but also many others who might come to support him\u2026. Focus on making it easier to speculate in cryptocurrency or on providing non-college pathways to building a decent life? Focus on whatever harebrained scheme Robert Kennedy Jr. or Vivek Ramaswamy might mention over lunch or on creating a more generous benefit for working families raising kids, as JD Vance and others have proposed? Any president finds himself surrounded by advisers pushing their personal and ideological agendas. There is a reason most lose sight of what matters to the people outside that bubble. But Mr. Trump has built his political career on taking the road less traveled. Returning to office, he has a last best first chance to get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"30.774709302326\">\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump broke the Democrats\u2019 thermostat\u201d [John Burn-Murdoch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201c[T]he data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has distanced them from the median voter, just as Wright\u2019s cartoon depicted. We see this not only in Democratic voters\u2019 self-reported ideology, but in their views on issues including immigration and whether or not minorities need extra help to succeed in society. Notably, .\u201d I think the chart shows the change began in 2008, and accelerated in 2015. More: \u201cThis suggests that Trump\u2019s election radicalised the left, not the right. Some counter that this is simply what progressive politics is, but the evidence suggests otherwise. America\u2019s decades-long progress towards racial and sexual tolerance and equality has been a gradual shift, led by progressives with the centre and right quickly following. The pivots of the past decade, by contrast, have been abrupt and are leaving the majority behind. They are better characterised not as moves towards greater tolerance and equality but as shifts in rhetoric or proposed solutions for addressing disparities, where there is plenty of room for disagreement without bigotry. Many of these pivots originated with the activists and non-profit staffers that surround the Democratic party. In an invaluable piece of research carried out in 2021, political scientists Alexander Furnas and Timothy LaPira at the think-tank Data for Progress found that these \u201cpolitical elites\u201d or tastemakers hold views often well to the left of the average voter \u2014 and even the average Democratic voter \u2014 on cultural issues.\u201d \u2022 Handy chart:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/democrats_left-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One reason the 2020 Sanders campaign messaging changed to idpol. (Of course, \u201cleftward,\u201d as is usual in mainstream discourse, is a misnomer:; identity politics is just another flavor of liberalism. Leftism means putting the working class first; no serious Democrat believes in that, though of course lip service is occasionally paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Campaign Finance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"22.965688712084\">\n<p>\u201cClashes, confusion and secrecy consume the Harris campaign\u2019s finances\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris\/clashes-confusion-secrecy-consume-harris-campaign-finances-rcna179654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cIf Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign was known for anything, it was its blockbuster fundraising. In just a matter of months, it crossed the $1 billion mark, in a stunning and record-breaking pace. Now, less than a week since the vice president conceded the contest, it not only has run out of money, it\u2019s still asking for more. The campaign emails and texts, known for their ubiquity throughout the election, aren\u2019t expected to stop anytime soon\u2026. The overarching challenge at this point for what is left of Harris\u2019 campaign is that the financial picture is shrouded in mystery \u2014 even for those within the organization. No one can \u2014 or will \u2014 spell out a clear status of its finances\u2026 Five sources with direct knowledge of the campaign\u2019s internal finances confirmed to NBC News that it has indeed accrued debt. But none could point to a specific amount; several people threw out possibilities, with the lowest beginning at $6 million\u2026. It isn\u2019t unusual for a campaign to close out a contest carrying some debt. What is unusual is the pace of the expenditures after record-breaking fundraising, some senior officials said. . Interviews with more than a dozen campaign officials and allies reveal a deep distrust of leadership, questions over payments to consultants and celebrities, as well as anger over what they say was a pervasive lack of transparency over finances and analytics. The sources were granted anonymity to speak about internal campaign dynamics.\u201d And then this: \u201cSome aides expressed frustration in interviews, saying they had crafted language for ongoing requests for money but that they were intended for a prolonged counting effort post election night. \u2018,\u2019 a senior campaign official close to the strategy said.\u201d \u2022 Hmm\u2026..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"82.175111982083\">\n<p>\u201cA Triumph for Trump\u2019s Republicans\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/peggynoonan.com\/a-triumph-for-trumps-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peggy Noonan<\/a>]. \u201cIt is worth being moved that in our huge, restive, cynical and yearning nation we peacefully, and with complete public acceptance of the outcome, made a dramatic national judgment this week. Just about every adult citizen took part and took it seriously. All together they produced something we needed: a clear outcome, one delivered without charges of large-scale chicanery or even small-scale so far as we know. There will be a peaceful transfer of power. A lot of people had to do a lot of things right to make this happen.\u201d Allow me to note that I (paraphrasing) always qualified \u201cthe Democrats cannot allow Trump to take office\u201d with \u201cif they believe what they say\u201d (about \u201cfascism\u201d, \u201cour democracy\u201d, etc. As happens so often, no matter how hard I try, I\u2019m never cynical enough; that Kamala\u2019s 2024 Democrats would be as cynical about deploying \u201cfascism\u201d as Obama\u2019s 2008 \u201cDemocrats\u201d\u2026 .Well, doggone it. Back to Nooners, who concludes: \u201cI like what Liz Cheney tweeted Wednesday: \u2018Our nation\u2019s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results.\u2019 We also have a responsibility as members of \u2018the greatest nation on earth\u2019 to \u2018support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years.\u2019 She singled out the courts, the press, \u2018and those serving in our federal, state and local governments\u2019 to be \u2018the guardrails of democracy.’\u201d \u2022 That \u201cguardrails\u201d metaphor shows lazy thinking and lazy writing (the metaphor presumes we\u2019re on the right road, there\u2019s gas in the tank, there\u2019s gas at the next gas station, as opposed to feral mobs with torches, etc.). I\u2019m surprised to find it in Nooners\u2019 peroration. Yet another sign of civilizational collapse; Nooners creates clich\u00e9s for other people; she doesn\u2019t retail them.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"reed\"\/>\u201cGoing Forward from the Edge of the Abyss\u201d [Adolph Reed, <a href=\"https:\/\/nonsite.org\/going-forward-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nonsite<\/a>]. Must-read. \u201cTrump has no new coalition; he can\u2019t because those \u201cgroups\u201d aren\u2019t real as groups, and people identify with them largely around thin identities more like consumer taste \u201ccommunities\u201d or partisan fans of sports teams. (Recall that some people got cues for what they should believe or how to line up on current issue positions from watching Archie Bunker.) That\u2019s why so much of this politics reduces to \u201cyou say potAYto; I say potAHto.\u201d This is not to say that the reified categories couldn\u2019t become constituencies on the same principle as the Heisenberg effect; part of the beauty of interest-group politics is that tossing some resources around will produce constituencies\u2014or at least people who claim to speak for them. And it\u2019s not just the right; that\u2019s also how the Democrats have been reinventing every four years under differing labels that magical constituency of \u201creasonable\u201d upper-status, suburban, moderate Republican (white) women, which hasn\u2019t materialized in thirty years or more, or their happy-face version of Passing of the Great Race in the simple-minded contention that changing racial demographics would provide yet another way to win without confronting capitalism\u2019s contradictions. Indeed, constructing those taxonomies of identity configurations and reifying them into bodies of shared political interests is, ironically within a so self-consciously and performatively antiracist \u2018left,\u2019 quintessentially racist. Of course, those won\u2019t be the takeaways.\u201d No, they won\u2019t. Crucially: \u201cWe have to face up to the fact\u2014finally\u2014that all we can expect from Dem success is kicking the can of confrontation with fascism down the road for four years. But for that approach to make sense someone, and only the labor-left can lead it or maybe even do it, has to spend another four years between elections organizing a real constituency for a different way of talking and thinking about and doing politics. To put it bluntly, we won\u2019t be able to face up to the fascist juggernaut without working to build an actual popular constituency for a different, openly working-class-based politics. I\u2019m not alone in noting that Trump\/ism is not an anomaly; it\u2019s now the point of the lance of what\u2019s clearly a fascist international\u2026. [W]e may be facing the equivalent of a T-intersection at which there are only two possible, totally opposite directions to take.\u201d \u2022 If Reed is willing to make the call\u2026 Well, I\u2019m gonna have to examine my priors by returning to Paxton; as readers know, Reed has an excellent track record, <a href=\"https:\/\/s-usih.org\/tag\/reading-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">having called his shot on Obama in 1996<\/a>. It would be so like the Democrats to so pollute the discourse on fascism that nobody could take it seriously (and certainly I veer in that direction, because I process so much of their output). My immediate reaction is that people should be thinking of that general strike on May Day, 2028, and not the next Presidential cycle, let alone the midterms\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the Democratic Party be listening to John Fetterman? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/john-fetterman-democratic-party-trump-00189595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c<em>What did you make of Harris\u2019 decision to call Trump a fascist?<\/em> [FETTERMAN:] II love people that are absolutely going to vote for Trump. They\u2019re not fascists. They\u2019re not those things. I think if you go to , use those kinds of terms, then it\u2019s kind of hard to walk back on those things. That\u2019s kind of a word that really isn\u2019t part of the vernacular for voters. Scolding harder or clutching the pearls harder, that\u2019s never going to work for Democrats.\u201d \u2022 It\u2019s like <em>everything<\/em> with Democrats is \u201cthe tickle switch\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 problematic attitude toward voters of color hits a wall\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/democrats-latino-voters-trump-demographics-destiny-rcna179662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>], \u201cTrump\u2019s victory is shattering a common slogan and guiding principle in Democratic circles that \u2018demographics is destiny.\u2019 There has long been a belief in the party that Democrats were destined to hold a long-term majority in the country as the nation became more diverse. That belief was predicated on the idea that the party won ethnic minorities because it presented itself as the multicultural and socially inclusive party, and because it treated minorities as interest groups to cater to based on priorities specific to their ethnicity. That belief has always been problematic, and now it is collapsing. Trump\u2019s playbook has thrown a grenade into the Democratic worldview, and the fallout among the left hasn\u2019t been pretty.\u201d dAs I keep saying, \u201cdemographics is destiny\u201d has nothing to do with \u201cthe left\u201d (except insofar as it was designed to destroy it). And: \u2018But many liberals forget that those groups are never a monolith, and their members also have other identities that shape how they view the world, including class [dread word], gender, age and the countless subcultures they choose to associate with. \u201d \u2022 It\u2019s not really useful to think of class as an idenity, or at least not an identity <em>first<\/em>. One does not, after all, \u201cidentify as\u201d a wage worker. One <em>is<\/em> a wage worker. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.925572519084\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6470588235294\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 11<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last Week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6619718309859\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9759036144578\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 14:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 14:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-5-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitaliztion-natl-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5915492957746\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 11:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 9:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-1-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6363636363636\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> October 28:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.76\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 2:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"117.50838671948\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Good news!<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* still popular. XEC has entered the chat. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Steadily down.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Actually improved; it\u2019s now one of the few charts to show the entire course of the pandemic to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Down.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Now XEC.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity down.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/ny-empire-state-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe NY Empire State Manufacturing Index climbed to 31.2 in November 2024, up from -11.9 in October and surprising analysts who expected it at -0.7. It was the best reading since December 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Industrial Production\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/industrial-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cIndustrial Production in the United States decreased 0.3% year-on-year in October 2024, following a downwardly revised 0.7% fall in September.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing appoints former Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley as new board member\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/boeing-names-ex-vanguard-ceo-172601581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing board has elected former Vanguard Group CEO Tim Buckley as its newest member, effective Jan. 1, the U.S. planemaker said on Friday. Buckley, 55, will be Boeing\u2019s tenth director since 2019, the company said, adding that he will serve on the board\u2019s Finance and Governance & Public Policy committees. Prior to becoming Vanguard\u2019s CEO, Buckley held multiple roles during his over three-decade career at the top U.S. asset manager, including chief investment officer and chief information officer.\u201d \u2022 A finance guy? Really?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees included in Boeing layoffs, union confirms\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/tech\/science\/aerospace\/boeing\/speea-employees-boeing-layoffs\/281-82db7867-dfa0-415f-9a30-ad5d48800767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KING5<\/a>]. \u201cHundreds of SPEEA employees are included in Boeing\u2019s sweeping job cuts, the union confirmed to KING 5 on Thursday night. SPEEA, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, represents more than 17,000 engineers, technical workers, pilots and other aerospace industry professionals. The union confirmed that 438 of their Boeing employees will be laid off, including 218 members of their professional unit and 220 technical employees\u2026 . The company did say both union and non-union employees and managers, and executives are included. In October, Boeing said striking machinists with the IAM District 751 would not be impacted by the job cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing spending millions to save major supplier\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/boeing-spending-millions-to-save-major-supplier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SAN<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing is making a big financial move to save one of its key suppliers. The jet maker this week confirmed it\u2019ll advance $350 million to Spirit AeroSystems. Spirit makes the fuselage for Boeing planes. Boeing is doling out money to keep Spirit afloat. This comes as the supplier is experiencing high levels of inventory and financial problems. Spirit is the largest employer in Wichita, Kansas. The company has announced it might not be able to keep operating due to billions of dollars in losses over the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Sale Was Supposed to Mark the Bottom. Shares Just Keep Dropping.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/boeing-stock-price-tariffs-9a2f31a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u201cThe biggest factor in the recent decline in shares just might be the election. President-elect Trump has promised tariffs on China. A trade war with China would hit Boeing more than just about any other company. China is a big buyer of planes and has accounted for roughly 20% of Boeing\u2019s total deliveries before recent turmoil. How the trade relationship with China will develop under Trump is anyone\u2019s guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 49 Neutral (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 15 at 1:41:16 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VgL_cI3b5ls?si=gK05lwmQO2z_kM0i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Musical interlude<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1238532110092\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.5963302752294\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lion Resting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rembrandt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#rembrandt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EhrSfhKTZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/EhrSfhKTZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rembrandt (@artistrembrandt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistrembrandt\/status\/1852482259002990848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/geoawesome.com\/viral-cartography-what-makes-map-go-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GeoAwecome<\/a>]. \u201cWhile researching viral cartography, Penn State geographer Anthony Robinson found that the above map had spawned a series of copycat maps, many of which also went viral. These included both the serious (what \u2018if only people of color voted\u2019) and the silly (\u2018If only goats voted\u2019). Robinson found more than 500 such unique maps on the internet. And in the context of our battle with fake news, this is a very dangerous thing. When a map conveys more validity than it deserves, it becomes very easy to fabricate the truth; we all know how convincing auto-generated videos called \u2018deep fakes\u2019 seem. As Robinson says, \u2018It\u2019s cool that anybody can make a map now. They can take election data and do something creative with it, and it can be very helpful. But it\u2019s also easy to make something that looks like it\u2019s authoritative and use it as a weapon.’\u201d \u2022 Some would urge that maps are <em>always<\/em> used as weapons; the original Red\/Blue distinction was amplified by a map (I don\u2019t think we had a concept of virality back then). Anyhow, here is the \u201cabove\u201d map:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"661\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silver-electionupdate-womenvoted-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/11\/200pm-water-cooler-11-14-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From Wukchumni:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mineral_king_2-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wukchumni writes: \u201cPhos-Chek\u2019d oak tree in front of the fickle finger of fate, Mineral King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, tapping the sign didn\u2019t work\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"donate\"\/><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Water Cooler is a standalone entity <em>not<\/em> covered by the annual NC fundraiser. 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Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. 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