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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, Damon-Garcia Sports Field, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#transition\">Trump border czar beats chest.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#resistance\">Resistance 2.0<\/a> funders and NGOs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\"> Mathematical thinking <\/a>.<\/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=\"59.472275334608\">\n<p>\u201cTrump Border Czar: If Sanctuary Cities Do Not Assist, We Will Go Into The Community To Find Criminal Illegal Immigrants\u201d (transcript) [Laura Ingraham, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/11\/20\/trump_border_czar_if_sanctuary_cities_do_not_assist_we_will_go_into_the_community_to_find_criminal_illegal_immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cIncoming Trump \u201cBorder Czar\u201d and former acting director of ICE Tom Homan laid out his plan to deport illegal immigrants in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham.\u201d \u2022 Homan may indeed be an effective administrator, but there\u2019s nothing in this chest-beating interview to prove it. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nullification-Crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201csanctuary cities\u201d are an updated version of Calhoun\u2019s nullification doctrine<\/a>, I oppose the concept. But I\u2019m gonna have to get my knee seen to, the way Ingraham and Homan are pounding on it.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cchaos\u201d talking point, a hardy perennial:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s daily chaos circus is already back in full force\u201d [Aaron Rupar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/trump-gaetz-hegseth-chaos-factory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Public Notice<\/a>]. \u201cVoters may have been willing to risk it all for slightly lower egg prices, but regardless of what they thought they were doing, they\u2019re getting a chaos machine \u2014 and that sort of thing gets exhausting pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos reigns supreme in Trump\u2019s Washington\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/22\/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-cabinet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cTrump has achieved historic political success by following his instincts \u2014 and his instincts tend to favor maximum chaos\u2026. If past is prologue, the pace of chaos is unlikely to relent even after Trump gets his Cabinet in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Maybe I didn\u2019t get the memo, but is there anything more chaotic than risking World War III by trying to achieve escalation dominance over a nuclear power, in their own back yard? And how about genocide? Is genocide chaotic or no? Anyhow\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaybook: What Trump learned from Gaetz-gate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/11\/22\/what-trump-learned-from-gaetz-gate-00191212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c[E]ven Trump has his limits on drama. For years, the conventional wisdom around Trump is that he has a sweet tooth for chaos and that his appetite is bottomless as long as he ultimately gets the outcome he desires. But Gaetz-gate suggests that when that chaos becomes a distraction \u2014 or worse in his eyes, when it makes him look bad \u2014 he\u2019s willing to cut bait and head home.\u201d \u2022 And\/or he\u2019s listening to Susie Wiles.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/ro-khanna-elon-musk-doge-defense-00191053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly,\u2019 Khanna said on today\u2019s POLITICO Tech podcast. \u2018I mean, let\u2019s see if he can get defense cuts. My guess is that there are going to be a lot of the people on that committee [who] are going to want even more defense spending. It\u2019ll be a test.\u2019\u2026 Khanna represents a large swath of Silicon Valley and has known Musk for years. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1857924169393975482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent exchange on X<\/a>, Musk\u2019s social media platform, the pair appeared to agree that the Defense Department was spending too much money on large defense contractors. Khanna has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/khanna.house.gov\/media\/ros-op-eds\/why-i-was-proud-be-lone-vote-against-defense-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted against expanding the Pentagon\u2019s budget<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as new DOGE subcommittee chair\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-ramaswamy-doge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNBC<\/a>]. \u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., have met with Ramaswamy and his team and are \u2018already working together,\u2019 a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday. Comer aims to establish the subpanel early next year, the source said. Greene\u2019s group will be dubbed the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, allowing it to share the DOGE acronym with the outside-of-government entity commissioned by President-elect Donald Trump.\u201d \u2022 MTG = Cover against\/discipline from the base?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"85.727332630469\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Need Their Own Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/11\/22\/democrats_need_their_own_donald_trump_151987.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cPerhaps the greatest indictment of Democrats\u2019 competence is the rise of Donald Trump. After eight years of Barack Obama \u2013 an exemplar of well-polished progressivism \u2013 the American people elected a man with no government experience, whose campaign focused on the failures of the ruling elites of both parties. Entrenched Republicans were, in fact, as disdainful of Trump as Democrats were. Then, despite titanic efforts to undercut and delegitimize him at every turn, this quintessential outsider led a largely successful administration. Polls suggested he was likely to be reelected before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Trump was returned to office earlier this month because many Americans remembered the policies of the man Democrats dismissed as a failed real estate developer and superficial reality TV star as far more effective than those advanced by his highly credentialed opponents.\u201d More: \u201cAll of which is to say, Democrats need their own Trump \u2013 a wrecking ball who will challenge the party\u2019s dogmas; a disruptive outsider who can force them out of their ideological cul-de-sac. The radical transformation Democrats need seems beyond the capacity of the party\u2019s entrenched leadership: To expect people who cannot admit error to change their minds and ways seems like wishful thinking. They probably don\u2019t need a Trump-like figure to win elections, but they need one to find a way to govern effectively.\u201d \u2022 The hour has produced the man: Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColumn: The Trump landslide that wasn\u2019t\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/newsletter\/2024-11-21\/2024-election-chabria-column-trump-national-vote-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>]. \u201cBut as more of the popular vote is counted, it turns out that Trump\u2019s victory came with the slimmest of margins \u2014 a few hundred thousand votes in key places slid him into office. The Cook Political Report, considered to be the expert on these things, has Kamala Harris earning 48.24% of the popular vote as of Wednesday, compared with 49.89% for Trump. That\u2019s a difference of about 2.5 million votes out of about 155 million counted\u2026. [Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Price School of Public Policy] points out that Republicans also won control of both houses of Congress, which gives Trump a \u2018trifecta, and its power.\u2019 But Republicans did it with about 31% of eligible voters going for Trump. About 30% went for Harris. Though voter turnout was strong, an alarming 36% of eligible voters didn\u2019t bother to cast a ballot, she said.\u201d \u2022 A \u201clandslide\u201d election 2024 was not. Decisive, it was, at least at the presidential level. These days, 49.89 \u2013 48.24 = 1.65% <em>is<\/em> decisive. So is winning all seven swing states. So is winning both houses of Congress. Even more important, the \u201ccoalition of the ascendant,\u201d the identity-based strategy Democrats have been using since at least 2008, finally crashed and burned. Oh the bright side for Democrats, many of their candidates ran ahead of Harris, suggesting that the top of the ticket was indeed problematic <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL No duh!<\/sub>. (At the non-Presidential level, \u201cprogressive\u201d causes did well, and Democrats held on to all their governorships.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Red Wave Didn\u2019t Hit Statehouses in This Election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/state-houses-trump-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats\u2019s state power is shaping up to be the strongest counterweight to the Trump administration. When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, there were just 29 Democratic legislative majorities in the states, and only six states had Democratic governing trifectas. That meant there were only so many opportunities for the states to quickly or effectively counter the damaging effects of MAGA federal policy. This time around, Democrats are in a much stronger position. Thanks to a decade of making investments and gains\u2014including our 2024 wins\u2014Democrats will hold nearly 40 majorities in our statehouses and are ready to combat the worst of the Trump presidency. We\u2019ve also nearly tripled our number of governing trifectas to 15 states, including big blue powerhouses like New York, California, and Illinois with large populations and booming economies. Case in point: California alone is the fifth-largest economy in the world. That means . If Trump goes full steam ahead on the many extreme and dangerous promises made during the campaign\u2014including Project 2025\u2014Democrats in state legislatures are ready to pump the brakes.\u201d \u2022 And see below from the Washington Examiner on the \u201cGovernors Safeguarding Democracy\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrow the Groups Under the Bus!\u201d [Ruy Teixeira, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/throw-the-groups-under-the-bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Liberal Patriot<\/a>]. \u201c. The time, energy and resources spent on the Democrats\u2019 cultural left agenda is time, energy, and resources taken away from promoting the economic welfare of the working class. Working-class voters are well aware of this tradeoff, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-common-sense-problem?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">progressive activists<\/a> and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-progressive-organization?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Groups<\/a>\u2018 are not. As a result, working-class voters tend to connect their economic criticisms of the Democrats to the party\u2019s apparent preoccupation with cultural issues pushed by their liberal college-educated supporters\u2014issues working class voters either don\u2019t care about or are actively hostile to. This connection is clearly dragging the Democrats down with these voters.\u201d More: \u201cDemocrats have lost the plot in the view of more and more nonwhite, especially nonwhite working-class, voters. How can they find it again? The obvious answer would be to sever the party\u2019s connection to unpopular and unworkable social policies and . The simplest way to do this, in turn, would be to forcefully denounce said policies and unambiguously break from the forces in the party that are pushing these policies\u2014\u2019the Groups\u2019 and their allies that insist being a Democrat is inseparable from being a progressive as they define it. But this is hard because it entails conflict and conflict with the Groups is something Democrats have been determined to avoid. This is foolish, not least because the theory upon which this deference was based\u2014that the Groups actually represented groups of voters\u2014was incorrect.\u201d \u2022 Oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe End of Denial: How Trump\u2019s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party\u2019s break with reality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EhqX2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Magazine<\/a>]. \u201cIn truth, the MAGA faithful are not among the city\u2019s upper-middle-class liberals in any meaningful way. Neighborhoods like Park Slope are some of the only ones in the city that remained dark blue this cycle. It was instead the areas of the city where some of the least wealthy and least white reside that broke hardest toward Trump. These neighborhoods, and the reasons they voted as they did, have been out of the field of vision of many of the very people, here in the country\u2019s media capital, who have tasked themselves with reporting on, understanding, and explaining American politics. This myopia reflects a Democratic Party that in losing touch with such places is in danger of forgetting its reason for being.\u201d \u2022 Not so. The Democrat Party is the party of the PMC. That <em>is<\/em> its reason for being, and the party has by no means forgotten that. (Another way of saying this is that the problems of the Democrat Party are the problems of the PMC itself, boiling down to a failure to deliver a humane, non-crapified baseline of services in every system where it handles governance, especially healthcare, but also education, human resources, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"80.276276276276\">\n<p>\u201cBillionaire Musk foe bankrolls second Trump resistance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3235838\/billionaire-musk-foe-bankrolls-second-trump-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>]. A maze of NGOs: \u201cPierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and a backer of progressive groups spearheading anti-Elon Musk campaigns, is behind a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3228243\/democratic-governors-announce-alliance-counter-trump-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> new initiative led by Democrats<\/a> aiming to champion the second Trump resistance, records reveal. The initiative, called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/democratic-governors-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">profiled<\/a> in the New York Times last week as a newly-formed vehicle for Govs. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Jared Polis (D-CO), and other governors to \u2018protect the rule of law\u2019 in states and push back on the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. On its website, GSD calls itself a \u201cnonpartisan alliance\u201d of leaders, though it is unclear what Republican officials, if any, are involved with the group. But, according to nonprofit donation software records, GSD is not technically a stand-alone organization. Rather, the Trump resistance operation is under the umbrella of a Governors Action Alliance project sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/charity.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Impact<\/a>, a Virginia-based charity. In September, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund, a private foundation steering the left-wing billionaire\u2019s fortune, routed $500,000 to the Governors Action Alliance to support \u2018coordinating and strengthening the work of governors to address specific threats to American democracy,\u2019 Democracy Fund\u2019s grants database shows. Omidyar\u2019s ties to the Trump resistance group, which operates under its parent umbrella alongside an effort called the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, is a window into how billionaire progressives are ramping up campaigns to combat speculated GOP plans on abortion, immigration, and other issue areas. Democrats are enlisting high-powered lawyers, while , the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/16\/us\/politics\/democrats-anti-trump-battle-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a> also reported.\u201d And: \u201cOmidyar\u2019s group routed $750,000 in April to a project called Free Election Fund, which is associated with Marc Elias, the Democratic superlawyer who pushed the discredited Steele Dossier aiming to link Trump to Russia falsely in 2016\u2026 The Free Election Fund used to be called the Democracy Docket Legal Fund. It is housed under the Hopewell Fund, a group managed by an influential Democratic-aligned consulting firm called Arabella Advisors. In 2020, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund also granted $1.5 million to the Elias-linked legal group \u2018to detect and combat suppressive voting laws and practices through litigation,\u2019 records show. GSD, the group co-chaired by Pritzker and Polis, says on its website that it will \u2018.\u2019 The group will also aim \u2018to protect executive agencies, elections, state courts, and other core democratic bodies,\u2019 GSD adds on its website.\u201d \u2022 Oh, <em>play<\/em>books [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gx046Lo1v_4?si=v0O_vHo9mF-kKp5z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">musical interlude<\/a>]. This is the Times article cited by the Examiner\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ntr2G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cDemocratic officials, activists and ambitious politicians are seeking to build their second wave of opposition to Mr. Trump from the places that they still control: deep-blue states\u2026. Some of the planning in blue states began in 2023 as a potential backstop if Mr. Trump won, according to multiple Democrats involved in different efforts. .\u201d Gad. More: \u201cThe Democratic effort will rely on the work of hundreds of lawyers, who are being recruited to combat Trump administration policies on a range of Democratic priorities. Already, advocacy groups have begun workshopping cases and recruiting potential plaintiffs to challenge expected regulations, laws and administrative actions starting on Day 1.\u201d But: \u201cSome of the first maneuvering by top Democrats began this past week, when Mr. Pritzker and Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado announced the formation of a group called Governors Safeguarding Democracy. Its unveiling followed several days of behind-the-scenes drama, as several fellow Democratic governors declined to join the group, at least for now. A draft news release listed six other governors as members of the coalition led by Mr. Pritzker and Mr. Polis. But four of them \u2014 Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania \u2014 declined to join, according to people briefed on the discussions. Govs. Tony Evers of Wisconsin and Josh Green of Hawaii were also named on the draft news release, but neither has yet agreed to join the group. Alex Gough, a spokesman for Mr. Pritzker, said that the group had been working with 20 governors\u2019 offices but that \u2018not all of these governors wish to be named publicly at this time for understandable reasons, including the potential threats states are facing.’\u201d \u2022 Or maybe the reluctant governors don\u2019t want to sign on to Pritzker 2028?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBury the #Resistance, Once and For All\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/bury-the-resistance-once-and-for-all\/ar-AA1uuykM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cIn late September, I warned about the reemergence within the Democratic coalition of the failed #Resistance mindset that defined the 2016 election and the response to Donald Trump\u2019s first term. Among that movement\u2019s defining features were trying to shame or scare voters into voting against Trump, rather than for the Democrat, an over-reliance on pop culture signifiers rather than policy, and a hope and a prayer for the system, in particular prosecutors and the FBI, to deliver us from evil\u2026. Rather than engage in meaningful self-reflection, though, many top Democrats are looking for someone other than party leadership and their own candidate to blame. Just like after Clinton\u2019s 2016 loss, they\u2019re landing on the progressive wing of the party and voters from marginalized groups.\u201d \u2022 Surely one needs to include financing in a list of \u201cdefining features\u201d? As above?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spook Country<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"15.608671484158\">\n<p>\u201cDOJ Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/doj-apparatchiks-told-to-lawyer-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Declassified with Julie Kelly<\/a>]. \u201cThe resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the government\u2019s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/raw-investigates\/sedition-hunters-january-6-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">paid<\/a> the \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 as FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.\u201d Nice precedent there. More: \u201cMark Zaid, an attorney who represented self-described Ukrainian \u2018whistleblower\u2019 Eric Ciaramella, prompting the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, just told both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/11\/politics\/video\/mark-zaid-advises-clients-leave-country-trump-revenge-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a> and Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/11\/18\/targeted-by-the-trump-administration-00189878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">magazine<\/a> that government officials worried they will be pursued by a Trump DOJ or Republican Congress should travel \u2018outside of the country\u2019 right around Inauguration Day.\u201d And: \u201cBut why would anyone else leave the country around Inauguration Day? To wait and see if Trump signs an executive order authorizing an investigation of everything from the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukrainian impeachment operation to the coverup of the Biden family corruption ring? To wait and see if the acting attorney general appoints a special counsel to investigate Smith\u2019s team as well as the events of January 6? And therein lies the justified panic within the DOJ and national security state. The ground is fertile for multiple investigations with legitimate criminal liability for top officials including Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DC US Attorney Matthew Graves in addition to line prosecutors and investigators.\u201d<\/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>Morbidity and Mortality<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"13.885714285714\">\n<p>\u201cOil and gas well proximity linked to higher rates of COVID-19 mortality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-oil-gas-proximity-linked-higher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org<\/a>]. \u201cBut a new study by Timothy Archer and colleagues is the first, to the authors\u2019 knowledge, to study whether proximity specifically to oil and gas development could also be linked to higher rates of COVID-19. The researchers studied COVID-19 case and death rates during the first year of the pandemic (February 2020 to January 2021), focusing on California communities located within 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) of active oil and gas wells. In addition to COVID-19 case records, the researchers\u2026. In communities within 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) of an actively producing well, COVID-19 cases were 34% higher and mortality rates were 55% higher in the first four months of the pandemic. Though the results did not show a significant association between well production and COVID-19 cases over the entire year, mortality rates were higher in the areas with the highest production.\u201d \u2022 Hmm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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=\"10.894941634241\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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=\"3.6666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> 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 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2-300x214.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 21:<\/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 21:<\/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-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9-300x190.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-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 802w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-624x479.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\"\/><\/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=\"2.6111111111111\">\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 18:<\/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 16:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2-300x189.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-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1-300x196.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=\"3.5862068965517\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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\"> 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=\"178.09673444239\">\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>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA eyes new Boeing 737 MAX pilot instructions after smoke emergencies\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-weighs-new-boeing-737-max-pilot-instructions-to-avert-safety-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe Federal Aviation Administration is weighing whether to require all pilots of 737 MAX aircraft to take off with the air flow from the main engines into the aircraft\u2019s interior turned off \u2014 to avoid a risk of smoke flooding the plane if one of the engines hits a bird. Such a change in takeoff procedure for pilots would be temporary until Boeing comes up with a permanent fix. Devising that could further delay certification of the Renton-built MAX 7 and MAX 10 models. The FAA said in a statement Thursday that it \u2018will convene a Corrective Action Review Board in the coming weeks to examine the data and develop a path forward\u2019 and assess the options to prevent the risk of smoke entering the cockpit or passenger cabin. In the meantime, the FAA said that because pilots have been alerted to the procedure they should follow if smoke enters the plane, \u2018this is not an immediate flight-safety issue.\u2019 The proposed FAA action is a response to the safety risk exposed by two serious incidents on Southwest Airlines MAXs last year. In those two incidents, a bird collided with an engine during takeoff and the damage caused an oil leak. The oil ignited in the hot engine, sending heavy smoke and fumes into the interior of the airplane. Airflow off an aircraft\u2019s engines \u2014 known as \u201cbleed air\u201d \u2014 is normally directed to the airplane interior and passed through air conditioning packs to control the air pressure and temperature inside.\u201d \u2022 Still nothing from Gates or the Seattle Times on Ortberg\u2019s \u201cstop bitching\u201d pep talk. Odd!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing inks contracts worth more than $4B for KC-46s, P-8s\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2024\/11\/boeing-inks-contracts-worth-more-than-4b-for-kc-46s-p-8s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breaking Defense<\/a>]. \u201cThe Pentagon this week awarded Boeing a pair of separate contracts for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers and seven P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, deals that are collectively worth more than $4 billion. Although both contracts had been expected under existing plans, getting the deals signed is good news for Boeing, whose defense arm logged $2 billion in losses for its last fiscal quarter and which is facing company-wide layoffs\u2026. \u2018This $1.67 billion contract for seven additional P-8A Poseidons not only reinforces the U.S. Navy\u2019s commitment to maintaining a robust maritime presence but also highlights Boeing\u2019s dedication to delivering safe, reliable platforms that enhance the Navy\u2019s operational capabilities, readiness and effectiveness,\u2019 [said] Tory Peterson, vice president and P-8 program manager at Boeing.\u201d \u2022 \u201cUndefinitized\u201d? Is that a word?<\/p>\n<p>The Bezzle: \u201cA perfect storm is brewing for Bitcoin\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/a-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CoinTelegraph<\/a>]. \u201cBitcoin is the world\u2019s most reflexive asset today. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved options for several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Once issued, these options lead to gamma squeezes, acting like reflexivity. Together, that\u2019s reflexivity squared, leading to unprecedented price movements\u2026. Financial markets are deeply influenced by human behavior. George Soros famously coined the concept of \u201creflexivity\u201d to describe the circular relationship between perception and reality in financial markets. Bitcoin exemplifies this concept more than any other asset: As its price rises, the asset garners increasing attention, which leads to further investment, driving prices even higher. Prominent investors such as Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett have criticized Bitcoin because of its reflexive nature. They have argued that it lacks intrinsic value because its price seems to move based on perception. But that is precisely the point: Bitcoin is the most reflexive asset because its supply is genuinely finite, more finite than precious metals or top-performing equities. The scarcity of Bitcoin is what makes it fundamentally valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201c\u2018A place of joy\u2019: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03784-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature<\/a>]. \u201cIn the two weeks since the US presidential election, the platform has grown from close to 14 million users to nearly 21 million. Bluesky has broad appeal in large part because it looks and feels a lot like X (formerly known as Twitter), which became hugely popular with scientists, who used it to share research findings, collaborate and network. One estimate suggests that at least half a million researchers had Twitter profiles in 2022\u2026. Daryll Carlson, a bioacoustics researcher at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, says she noticed the largest influx of users on Bluesky after the US election. Musk has become closely aligned to president-elect Donald Trump. For Carlson, Bluesky offers a space to engage with other scientists, as well as artists, photographers and the general public. \u2018I\u2019d really like it to continue to be a place of joy for me,\u2019 she says.\u201d \u2022 Just like the Kamala campaign\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 61 Greed (previous close: 57 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 51 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 22 at 1:12:19 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World\u2019s Oldest Forest Is Here in the Hudson Valley\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/hvmag.com\/life-style\/oldest-forest-world-cairo-hudson-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hudson Valley<\/a>]. \u201cOn the floor of an abandoned quarry in Cairo, in Greene County, researchers have found the earliest tree fossils yet discovered anywhere in the world. Dating back roughly 387 million years, the find has thoroughly rewritten the story of the origins of trees. One researcher called the discovery nothing less than \u2018mindblowing.\u2019\u2026 After beginning studies in the region in 1993, the collective made significant inroads in 2007 and 2008 when they learned to recognize the bases of two types of fossil trees. According to [Christopher] Berry, one is the large rooting system of the Archaeopteris tree, while the other is the dish-like imprint of the Cladoxylopsid tree, which contains hundreds of radiating roots\u2026 It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important things that has happened in the history of the world. Those early trees absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which led to a rapid cooling favorable to more complicated forms of animal life. The shade provided by the broad, flat leaves of taller trees protected critters on the ground from the sun, and the roots limited soil erosion. \u2018The arrival of these forests was the creation of the modern world,\u2019 Berry told Smithsonian Magazine.\u201d And: \u201cEventually, the remains of those early plants and trees, compacted over hundreds of millions of years, became the coal deposits that fueled the Industrial Revolution, returning the carbon they had absorbed into the atmosphere, thereby triggering the present age of global warming.\u201d \u2022 Oh. Anyhow, here\u2019s a picture of a fossilized root system:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/11\/17\/salmon-return-to-lay-eggs-in-historic-habitat-after-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a>]. \u201cA giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, males butt into each other as they jockey for a good position to fertilize eggs. These are scenes local tribes have dreamed of seeing for decades as they fought to bring down four hydroelectric dams blocking passage for struggling salmon along more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) of the Klamath River and its tributaries along the Oregon-California border. Now, less than a month after those dams came down in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in cool creeks that have been cut off to them for generations.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Less than a month!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan who spent $6.2 million on banana duct-taped to wall says he\u2019s going to eat it\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/man-spent-62-million-banana-duct-taped-wall-says-going-eat-rcna181172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. Grocery inflation just hit its peak after a single banana was sold for $6.2 million Wednesday. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun dropped over $6 million on the piece of produce \u2014 because it was duct-taped to a wall. The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan. \u2018In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture,\u2019 he said. Sun\u2019s snacking won\u2019t change the value of his investment, however. His $6.2 million purchase awarded him a roll of duct tape, instructions on how to \u2018install\u2019 the banana properly and, most importantly, a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the artwork, when reproduced by Sun, as an original work of Cattelan\u2019s, CNBC reported. The soon-to-be devoured banana wasn\u2019t included in his winnings, as the fruit tends to rot quickly. But the value of the artwork isn\u2019t in the banana itself \u2014 it\u2019s derived from the certificate accompanying the purchase.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m not sure this business scales.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematical Thinking Isn\u2019t What You Think It Is\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/mathematical-thinking-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-20241118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to [mathematician David Bessis], the way math is taught in school emphasizes the logic-based part of this process, when the more important element is intuition. Math should be thought of as a dialogue between the two: between reason and instinct, between language and abstraction. It\u2019s also a physical practice of sorts, like yoga or martial arts \u2014 something that can be improved through training. It requires tapping into a childlike state and embracing one\u2019s imagination, including the mistakes that come with it.\u201d BESSIS: \u201cWhen you do math, you\u2019re exposed to the human thought process in a way that is really pure. It\u2019s not just about understanding things, but about understanding things in a very childish, deep, na\u00efve, super clear, obvious way. It\u2019s very good training for creativity. It\u2019s a scaffold for your imagination.\u201d \u2022 Bessis is French, and the article is accompanied by photos of Paris (and Bessis) that are so Parisian I want to find an art house cinema and start watching Truffaut movies. And start smoking cigarettes.<\/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-11-20-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia-283x300.jpeg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cI decided to try opening this email account on my dying computer since I was able to use it\u2019s Picasa on some photos, and what do you know? Today it is working. This is Thunbergia growing in a lovely garden on Naples Island in Long Beach (CA).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kind readers, we are almost there with plant photos. Thank you! But one thing: I\u2019m mostly seeing handles or email addresses that I already know. If you haven\u2019t sent in a plant photo to Water Cooler, why not try it? 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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. 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, Damon-Garcia Sports Field, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#transition\">Trump border czar beats chest.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#resistance\">Resistance 2.0<\/a> funders and NGOs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\"> Mathematical thinking <\/a>.<\/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=\"59.472275334608\">\n<p>\u201cTrump Border Czar: If Sanctuary Cities Do Not Assist, We Will Go Into The Community To Find Criminal Illegal Immigrants\u201d (transcript) [Laura Ingraham, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/11\/20\/trump_border_czar_if_sanctuary_cities_do_not_assist_we_will_go_into_the_community_to_find_criminal_illegal_immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cIncoming Trump \u201cBorder Czar\u201d and former acting director of ICE Tom Homan laid out his plan to deport illegal immigrants in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham.\u201d \u2022 Homan may indeed be an effective administrator, but there\u2019s nothing in this chest-beating interview to prove it. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nullification-Crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201csanctuary cities\u201d are an updated version of Calhoun\u2019s nullification doctrine<\/a>, I oppose the concept. But I\u2019m gonna have to get my knee seen to, the way Ingraham and Homan are pounding on it.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cchaos\u201d talking point, a hardy perennial:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s daily chaos circus is already back in full force\u201d [Aaron Rupar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/trump-gaetz-hegseth-chaos-factory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Public Notice<\/a>]. \u201cVoters may have been willing to risk it all for slightly lower egg prices, but regardless of what they thought they were doing, they\u2019re getting a chaos machine \u2014 and that sort of thing gets exhausting pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos reigns supreme in Trump\u2019s Washington\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/22\/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-cabinet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cTrump has achieved historic political success by following his instincts \u2014 and his instincts tend to favor maximum chaos\u2026. If past is prologue, the pace of chaos is unlikely to relent even after Trump gets his Cabinet in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Maybe I didn\u2019t get the memo, but is there anything more chaotic than risking World War III by trying to achieve escalation dominance over a nuclear power, in their own back yard? And how about genocide? Is genocide chaotic or no? Anyhow\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaybook: What Trump learned from Gaetz-gate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/11\/22\/what-trump-learned-from-gaetz-gate-00191212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c[E]ven Trump has his limits on drama. For years, the conventional wisdom around Trump is that he has a sweet tooth for chaos and that his appetite is bottomless as long as he ultimately gets the outcome he desires. But Gaetz-gate suggests that when that chaos becomes a distraction \u2014 or worse in his eyes, when it makes him look bad \u2014 he\u2019s willing to cut bait and head home.\u201d \u2022 And\/or he\u2019s listening to Susie Wiles.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/ro-khanna-elon-musk-doge-defense-00191053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly,\u2019 Khanna said on today\u2019s POLITICO Tech podcast. \u2018I mean, let\u2019s see if he can get defense cuts. My guess is that there are going to be a lot of the people on that committee [who] are going to want even more defense spending. It\u2019ll be a test.\u2019\u2026 Khanna represents a large swath of Silicon Valley and has known Musk for years. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1857924169393975482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent exchange on X<\/a>, Musk\u2019s social media platform, the pair appeared to agree that the Defense Department was spending too much money on large defense contractors. Khanna has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/khanna.house.gov\/media\/ros-op-eds\/why-i-was-proud-be-lone-vote-against-defense-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted against expanding the Pentagon\u2019s budget<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as new DOGE subcommittee chair\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-ramaswamy-doge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNBC<\/a>]. \u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., have met with Ramaswamy and his team and are \u2018already working together,\u2019 a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday. Comer aims to establish the subpanel early next year, the source said. Greene\u2019s group will be dubbed the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, allowing it to share the DOGE acronym with the outside-of-government entity commissioned by President-elect Donald Trump.\u201d \u2022 MTG = Cover against\/discipline from the base?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"85.727332630469\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Need Their Own Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/11\/22\/democrats_need_their_own_donald_trump_151987.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cPerhaps the greatest indictment of Democrats\u2019 competence is the rise of Donald Trump. After eight years of Barack Obama \u2013 an exemplar of well-polished progressivism \u2013 the American people elected a man with no government experience, whose campaign focused on the failures of the ruling elites of both parties. Entrenched Republicans were, in fact, as disdainful of Trump as Democrats were. Then, despite titanic efforts to undercut and delegitimize him at every turn, this quintessential outsider led a largely successful administration. Polls suggested he was likely to be reelected before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Trump was returned to office earlier this month because many Americans remembered the policies of the man Democrats dismissed as a failed real estate developer and superficial reality TV star as far more effective than those advanced by his highly credentialed opponents.\u201d More: \u201cAll of which is to say, Democrats need their own Trump \u2013 a wrecking ball who will challenge the party\u2019s dogmas; a disruptive outsider who can force them out of their ideological cul-de-sac. The radical transformation Democrats need seems beyond the capacity of the party\u2019s entrenched leadership: To expect people who cannot admit error to change their minds and ways seems like wishful thinking. They probably don\u2019t need a Trump-like figure to win elections, but they need one to find a way to govern effectively.\u201d \u2022 The hour has produced the man: Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColumn: The Trump landslide that wasn\u2019t\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/newsletter\/2024-11-21\/2024-election-chabria-column-trump-national-vote-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>]. \u201cBut as more of the popular vote is counted, it turns out that Trump\u2019s victory came with the slimmest of margins \u2014 a few hundred thousand votes in key places slid him into office. The Cook Political Report, considered to be the expert on these things, has Kamala Harris earning 48.24% of the popular vote as of Wednesday, compared with 49.89% for Trump. That\u2019s a difference of about 2.5 million votes out of about 155 million counted\u2026. [Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Price School of Public Policy] points out that Republicans also won control of both houses of Congress, which gives Trump a \u2018trifecta, and its power.\u2019 But Republicans did it with about 31% of eligible voters going for Trump. About 30% went for Harris. Though voter turnout was strong, an alarming 36% of eligible voters didn\u2019t bother to cast a ballot, she said.\u201d \u2022 A \u201clandslide\u201d election 2024 was not. Decisive, it was, at least at the presidential level. These days, 49.89 \u2013 48.24 = 1.65% <em>is<\/em> decisive. So is winning all seven swing states. So is winning both houses of Congress. Even more important, the \u201ccoalition of the ascendant,\u201d the identity-based strategy Democrats have been using since at least 2008, finally crashed and burned. Oh the bright side for Democrats, many of their candidates ran ahead of Harris, suggesting that the top of the ticket was indeed problematic <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL No duh!<\/sub>. (At the non-Presidential level, \u201cprogressive\u201d causes did well, and Democrats held on to all their governorships.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Red Wave Didn\u2019t Hit Statehouses in This Election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/state-houses-trump-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats\u2019s state power is shaping up to be the strongest counterweight to the Trump administration. When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, there were just 29 Democratic legislative majorities in the states, and only six states had Democratic governing trifectas. That meant there were only so many opportunities for the states to quickly or effectively counter the damaging effects of MAGA federal policy. This time around, Democrats are in a much stronger position. Thanks to a decade of making investments and gains\u2014including our 2024 wins\u2014Democrats will hold nearly 40 majorities in our statehouses and are ready to combat the worst of the Trump presidency. We\u2019ve also nearly tripled our number of governing trifectas to 15 states, including big blue powerhouses like New York, California, and Illinois with large populations and booming economies. Case in point: California alone is the fifth-largest economy in the world. That means . If Trump goes full steam ahead on the many extreme and dangerous promises made during the campaign\u2014including Project 2025\u2014Democrats in state legislatures are ready to pump the brakes.\u201d \u2022 And see below from the Washington Examiner on the \u201cGovernors Safeguarding Democracy\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrow the Groups Under the Bus!\u201d [Ruy Teixeira, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/throw-the-groups-under-the-bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Liberal Patriot<\/a>]. \u201c. The time, energy and resources spent on the Democrats\u2019 cultural left agenda is time, energy, and resources taken away from promoting the economic welfare of the working class. Working-class voters are well aware of this tradeoff, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-common-sense-problem?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">progressive activists<\/a> and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-progressive-organization?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Groups<\/a>\u2018 are not. As a result, working-class voters tend to connect their economic criticisms of the Democrats to the party\u2019s apparent preoccupation with cultural issues pushed by their liberal college-educated supporters\u2014issues working class voters either don\u2019t care about or are actively hostile to. This connection is clearly dragging the Democrats down with these voters.\u201d More: \u201cDemocrats have lost the plot in the view of more and more nonwhite, especially nonwhite working-class, voters. How can they find it again? The obvious answer would be to sever the party\u2019s connection to unpopular and unworkable social policies and . The simplest way to do this, in turn, would be to forcefully denounce said policies and unambiguously break from the forces in the party that are pushing these policies\u2014\u2019the Groups\u2019 and their allies that insist being a Democrat is inseparable from being a progressive as they define it. But this is hard because it entails conflict and conflict with the Groups is something Democrats have been determined to avoid. This is foolish, not least because the theory upon which this deference was based\u2014that the Groups actually represented groups of voters\u2014was incorrect.\u201d \u2022 Oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe End of Denial: How Trump\u2019s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party\u2019s break with reality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EhqX2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Magazine<\/a>]. \u201cIn truth, the MAGA faithful are not among the city\u2019s upper-middle-class liberals in any meaningful way. Neighborhoods like Park Slope are some of the only ones in the city that remained dark blue this cycle. It was instead the areas of the city where some of the least wealthy and least white reside that broke hardest toward Trump. These neighborhoods, and the reasons they voted as they did, have been out of the field of vision of many of the very people, here in the country\u2019s media capital, who have tasked themselves with reporting on, understanding, and explaining American politics. This myopia reflects a Democratic Party that in losing touch with such places is in danger of forgetting its reason for being.\u201d \u2022 Not so. The Democrat Party is the party of the PMC. That <em>is<\/em> its reason for being, and the party has by no means forgotten that. (Another way of saying this is that the problems of the Democrat Party are the problems of the PMC itself, boiling down to a failure to deliver a humane, non-crapified baseline of services in every system where it handles governance, especially healthcare, but also education, human resources, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"80.276276276276\">\n<p>\u201cBillionaire Musk foe bankrolls second Trump resistance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3235838\/billionaire-musk-foe-bankrolls-second-trump-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>]. A maze of NGOs: \u201cPierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and a backer of progressive groups spearheading anti-Elon Musk campaigns, is behind a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3228243\/democratic-governors-announce-alliance-counter-trump-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> new initiative led by Democrats<\/a> aiming to champion the second Trump resistance, records reveal. The initiative, called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/democratic-governors-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">profiled<\/a> in the New York Times last week as a newly-formed vehicle for Govs. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Jared Polis (D-CO), and other governors to \u2018protect the rule of law\u2019 in states and push back on the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. On its website, GSD calls itself a \u201cnonpartisan alliance\u201d of leaders, though it is unclear what Republican officials, if any, are involved with the group. But, according to nonprofit donation software records, GSD is not technically a stand-alone organization. Rather, the Trump resistance operation is under the umbrella of a Governors Action Alliance project sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/charity.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Impact<\/a>, a Virginia-based charity. In September, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund, a private foundation steering the left-wing billionaire\u2019s fortune, routed $500,000 to the Governors Action Alliance to support \u2018coordinating and strengthening the work of governors to address specific threats to American democracy,\u2019 Democracy Fund\u2019s grants database shows. Omidyar\u2019s ties to the Trump resistance group, which operates under its parent umbrella alongside an effort called the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, is a window into how billionaire progressives are ramping up campaigns to combat speculated GOP plans on abortion, immigration, and other issue areas. Democrats are enlisting high-powered lawyers, while , the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/16\/us\/politics\/democrats-anti-trump-battle-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a> also reported.\u201d And: \u201cOmidyar\u2019s group routed $750,000 in April to a project called Free Election Fund, which is associated with Marc Elias, the Democratic superlawyer who pushed the discredited Steele Dossier aiming to link Trump to Russia falsely in 2016\u2026 The Free Election Fund used to be called the Democracy Docket Legal Fund. It is housed under the Hopewell Fund, a group managed by an influential Democratic-aligned consulting firm called Arabella Advisors. In 2020, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund also granted $1.5 million to the Elias-linked legal group \u2018to detect and combat suppressive voting laws and practices through litigation,\u2019 records show. GSD, the group co-chaired by Pritzker and Polis, says on its website that it will \u2018.\u2019 The group will also aim \u2018to protect executive agencies, elections, state courts, and other core democratic bodies,\u2019 GSD adds on its website.\u201d \u2022 Oh, <em>play<\/em>books [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gx046Lo1v_4?si=v0O_vHo9mF-kKp5z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">musical interlude<\/a>]. This is the Times article cited by the Examiner\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ntr2G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cDemocratic officials, activists and ambitious politicians are seeking to build their second wave of opposition to Mr. Trump from the places that they still control: deep-blue states\u2026. Some of the planning in blue states began in 2023 as a potential backstop if Mr. Trump won, according to multiple Democrats involved in different efforts. .\u201d Gad. More: \u201cThe Democratic effort will rely on the work of hundreds of lawyers, who are being recruited to combat Trump administration policies on a range of Democratic priorities. Already, advocacy groups have begun workshopping cases and recruiting potential plaintiffs to challenge expected regulations, laws and administrative actions starting on Day 1.\u201d But: \u201cSome of the first maneuvering by top Democrats began this past week, when Mr. Pritzker and Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado announced the formation of a group called Governors Safeguarding Democracy. Its unveiling followed several days of behind-the-scenes drama, as several fellow Democratic governors declined to join the group, at least for now. A draft news release listed six other governors as members of the coalition led by Mr. Pritzker and Mr. Polis. But four of them \u2014 Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania \u2014 declined to join, according to people briefed on the discussions. Govs. Tony Evers of Wisconsin and Josh Green of Hawaii were also named on the draft news release, but neither has yet agreed to join the group. Alex Gough, a spokesman for Mr. Pritzker, said that the group had been working with 20 governors\u2019 offices but that \u2018not all of these governors wish to be named publicly at this time for understandable reasons, including the potential threats states are facing.’\u201d \u2022 Or maybe the reluctant governors don\u2019t want to sign on to Pritzker 2028?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBury the #Resistance, Once and For All\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/bury-the-resistance-once-and-for-all\/ar-AA1uuykM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cIn late September, I warned about the reemergence within the Democratic coalition of the failed #Resistance mindset that defined the 2016 election and the response to Donald Trump\u2019s first term. Among that movement\u2019s defining features were trying to shame or scare voters into voting against Trump, rather than for the Democrat, an over-reliance on pop culture signifiers rather than policy, and a hope and a prayer for the system, in particular prosecutors and the FBI, to deliver us from evil\u2026. Rather than engage in meaningful self-reflection, though, many top Democrats are looking for someone other than party leadership and their own candidate to blame. Just like after Clinton\u2019s 2016 loss, they\u2019re landing on the progressive wing of the party and voters from marginalized groups.\u201d \u2022 Surely one needs to include financing in a list of \u201cdefining features\u201d? As above?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spook Country<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"15.608671484158\">\n<p>\u201cDOJ Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/doj-apparatchiks-told-to-lawyer-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Declassified with Julie Kelly<\/a>]. \u201cThe resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the government\u2019s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/raw-investigates\/sedition-hunters-january-6-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">paid<\/a> the \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 as FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.\u201d Nice precedent there. More: \u201cMark Zaid, an attorney who represented self-described Ukrainian \u2018whistleblower\u2019 Eric Ciaramella, prompting the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, just told both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/11\/politics\/video\/mark-zaid-advises-clients-leave-country-trump-revenge-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a> and Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/11\/18\/targeted-by-the-trump-administration-00189878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">magazine<\/a> that government officials worried they will be pursued by a Trump DOJ or Republican Congress should travel \u2018outside of the country\u2019 right around Inauguration Day.\u201d And: \u201cBut why would anyone else leave the country around Inauguration Day? To wait and see if Trump signs an executive order authorizing an investigation of everything from the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukrainian impeachment operation to the coverup of the Biden family corruption ring? To wait and see if the acting attorney general appoints a special counsel to investigate Smith\u2019s team as well as the events of January 6? And therein lies the justified panic within the DOJ and national security state. The ground is fertile for multiple investigations with legitimate criminal liability for top officials including Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DC US Attorney Matthew Graves in addition to line prosecutors and investigators.\u201d<\/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>Morbidity and Mortality<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"13.885714285714\">\n<p>\u201cOil and gas well proximity linked to higher rates of COVID-19 mortality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-oil-gas-proximity-linked-higher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org<\/a>]. \u201cBut a new study by Timothy Archer and colleagues is the first, to the authors\u2019 knowledge, to study whether proximity specifically to oil and gas development could also be linked to higher rates of COVID-19. The researchers studied COVID-19 case and death rates during the first year of the pandemic (February 2020 to January 2021), focusing on California communities located within 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) of active oil and gas wells. In addition to COVID-19 case records, the researchers\u2026. In communities within 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) of an actively producing well, COVID-19 cases were 34% higher and mortality rates were 55% higher in the first four months of the pandemic. Though the results did not show a significant association between well production and COVID-19 cases over the entire year, mortality rates were higher in the areas with the highest production.\u201d \u2022 Hmm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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=\"10.894941634241\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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=\"3.6666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> 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 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2-300x214.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 21:<\/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 21:<\/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-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9-300x190.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-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 802w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-624x479.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\"\/><\/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=\"2.6111111111111\">\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 18:<\/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 16:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2-300x189.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-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1-300x196.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=\"3.5862068965517\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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\"> 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=\"178.09673444239\">\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>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA eyes new Boeing 737 MAX pilot instructions after smoke emergencies\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-weighs-new-boeing-737-max-pilot-instructions-to-avert-safety-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe Federal Aviation Administration is weighing whether to require all pilots of 737 MAX aircraft to take off with the air flow from the main engines into the aircraft\u2019s interior turned off \u2014 to avoid a risk of smoke flooding the plane if one of the engines hits a bird. Such a change in takeoff procedure for pilots would be temporary until Boeing comes up with a permanent fix. Devising that could further delay certification of the Renton-built MAX 7 and MAX 10 models. The FAA said in a statement Thursday that it \u2018will convene a Corrective Action Review Board in the coming weeks to examine the data and develop a path forward\u2019 and assess the options to prevent the risk of smoke entering the cockpit or passenger cabin. In the meantime, the FAA said that because pilots have been alerted to the procedure they should follow if smoke enters the plane, \u2018this is not an immediate flight-safety issue.\u2019 The proposed FAA action is a response to the safety risk exposed by two serious incidents on Southwest Airlines MAXs last year. In those two incidents, a bird collided with an engine during takeoff and the damage caused an oil leak. The oil ignited in the hot engine, sending heavy smoke and fumes into the interior of the airplane. Airflow off an aircraft\u2019s engines \u2014 known as \u201cbleed air\u201d \u2014 is normally directed to the airplane interior and passed through air conditioning packs to control the air pressure and temperature inside.\u201d \u2022 Still nothing from Gates or the Seattle Times on Ortberg\u2019s \u201cstop bitching\u201d pep talk. Odd!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing inks contracts worth more than $4B for KC-46s, P-8s\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2024\/11\/boeing-inks-contracts-worth-more-than-4b-for-kc-46s-p-8s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breaking Defense<\/a>]. \u201cThe Pentagon this week awarded Boeing a pair of separate contracts for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers and seven P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, deals that are collectively worth more than $4 billion. Although both contracts had been expected under existing plans, getting the deals signed is good news for Boeing, whose defense arm logged $2 billion in losses for its last fiscal quarter and which is facing company-wide layoffs\u2026. \u2018This $1.67 billion contract for seven additional P-8A Poseidons not only reinforces the U.S. Navy\u2019s commitment to maintaining a robust maritime presence but also highlights Boeing\u2019s dedication to delivering safe, reliable platforms that enhance the Navy\u2019s operational capabilities, readiness and effectiveness,\u2019 [said] Tory Peterson, vice president and P-8 program manager at Boeing.\u201d \u2022 \u201cUndefinitized\u201d? Is that a word?<\/p>\n<p>The Bezzle: \u201cA perfect storm is brewing for Bitcoin\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/a-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CoinTelegraph<\/a>]. \u201cBitcoin is the world\u2019s most reflexive asset today. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved options for several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Once issued, these options lead to gamma squeezes, acting like reflexivity. Together, that\u2019s reflexivity squared, leading to unprecedented price movements\u2026. Financial markets are deeply influenced by human behavior. George Soros famously coined the concept of \u201creflexivity\u201d to describe the circular relationship between perception and reality in financial markets. Bitcoin exemplifies this concept more than any other asset: As its price rises, the asset garners increasing attention, which leads to further investment, driving prices even higher. Prominent investors such as Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett have criticized Bitcoin because of its reflexive nature. They have argued that it lacks intrinsic value because its price seems to move based on perception. But that is precisely the point: Bitcoin is the most reflexive asset because its supply is genuinely finite, more finite than precious metals or top-performing equities. The scarcity of Bitcoin is what makes it fundamentally valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201c\u2018A place of joy\u2019: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03784-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature<\/a>]. \u201cIn the two weeks since the US presidential election, the platform has grown from close to 14 million users to nearly 21 million. Bluesky has broad appeal in large part because it looks and feels a lot like X (formerly known as Twitter), which became hugely popular with scientists, who used it to share research findings, collaborate and network. One estimate suggests that at least half a million researchers had Twitter profiles in 2022\u2026. Daryll Carlson, a bioacoustics researcher at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, says she noticed the largest influx of users on Bluesky after the US election. Musk has become closely aligned to president-elect Donald Trump. For Carlson, Bluesky offers a space to engage with other scientists, as well as artists, photographers and the general public. \u2018I\u2019d really like it to continue to be a place of joy for me,\u2019 she says.\u201d \u2022 Just like the Kamala campaign\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 61 Greed (previous close: 57 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 51 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 22 at 1:12:19 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World\u2019s Oldest Forest Is Here in the Hudson Valley\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/hvmag.com\/life-style\/oldest-forest-world-cairo-hudson-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hudson Valley<\/a>]. \u201cOn the floor of an abandoned quarry in Cairo, in Greene County, researchers have found the earliest tree fossils yet discovered anywhere in the world. Dating back roughly 387 million years, the find has thoroughly rewritten the story of the origins of trees. One researcher called the discovery nothing less than \u2018mindblowing.\u2019\u2026 After beginning studies in the region in 1993, the collective made significant inroads in 2007 and 2008 when they learned to recognize the bases of two types of fossil trees. According to [Christopher] Berry, one is the large rooting system of the Archaeopteris tree, while the other is the dish-like imprint of the Cladoxylopsid tree, which contains hundreds of radiating roots\u2026 It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important things that has happened in the history of the world. Those early trees absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which led to a rapid cooling favorable to more complicated forms of animal life. The shade provided by the broad, flat leaves of taller trees protected critters on the ground from the sun, and the roots limited soil erosion. \u2018The arrival of these forests was the creation of the modern world,\u2019 Berry told Smithsonian Magazine.\u201d And: \u201cEventually, the remains of those early plants and trees, compacted over hundreds of millions of years, became the coal deposits that fueled the Industrial Revolution, returning the carbon they had absorbed into the atmosphere, thereby triggering the present age of global warming.\u201d \u2022 Oh. Anyhow, here\u2019s a picture of a fossilized root system:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/11\/17\/salmon-return-to-lay-eggs-in-historic-habitat-after-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a>]. \u201cA giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, males butt into each other as they jockey for a good position to fertilize eggs. These are scenes local tribes have dreamed of seeing for decades as they fought to bring down four hydroelectric dams blocking passage for struggling salmon along more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) of the Klamath River and its tributaries along the Oregon-California border. Now, less than a month after those dams came down in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in cool creeks that have been cut off to them for generations.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Less than a month!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan who spent $6.2 million on banana duct-taped to wall says he\u2019s going to eat it\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/man-spent-62-million-banana-duct-taped-wall-says-going-eat-rcna181172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. Grocery inflation just hit its peak after a single banana was sold for $6.2 million Wednesday. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun dropped over $6 million on the piece of produce \u2014 because it was duct-taped to a wall. The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan. \u2018In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture,\u2019 he said. Sun\u2019s snacking won\u2019t change the value of his investment, however. His $6.2 million purchase awarded him a roll of duct tape, instructions on how to \u2018install\u2019 the banana properly and, most importantly, a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the artwork, when reproduced by Sun, as an original work of Cattelan\u2019s, CNBC reported. The soon-to-be devoured banana wasn\u2019t included in his winnings, as the fruit tends to rot quickly. But the value of the artwork isn\u2019t in the banana itself \u2014 it\u2019s derived from the certificate accompanying the purchase.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m not sure this business scales.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematical Thinking Isn\u2019t What You Think It Is\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/mathematical-thinking-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-20241118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to [mathematician David Bessis], the way math is taught in school emphasizes the logic-based part of this process, when the more important element is intuition. Math should be thought of as a dialogue between the two: between reason and instinct, between language and abstraction. It\u2019s also a physical practice of sorts, like yoga or martial arts \u2014 something that can be improved through training. It requires tapping into a childlike state and embracing one\u2019s imagination, including the mistakes that come with it.\u201d BESSIS: \u201cWhen you do math, you\u2019re exposed to the human thought process in a way that is really pure. It\u2019s not just about understanding things, but about understanding things in a very childish, deep, na\u00efve, super clear, obvious way. It\u2019s very good training for creativity. It\u2019s a scaffold for your imagination.\u201d \u2022 Bessis is French, and the article is accompanied by photos of Paris (and Bessis) that are so Parisian I want to find an art house cinema and start watching Truffaut movies. And start smoking cigarettes.<\/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-11-20-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia-283x300.jpeg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cI decided to try opening this email account on my dying computer since I was able to use it\u2019s Picasa on some photos, and what do you know? Today it is working. This is Thunbergia growing in a lovely garden on Naples Island in Long Beach (CA).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kind readers, we are almost there with plant photos. Thank you! But one thing: I\u2019m mostly seeing handles or email addresses that I already know. If you haven\u2019t sent in a plant photo to Water Cooler, why not try it? It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s fun, and you get some nice compliments! (If you need directions, see below.)<\/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. Material here is Lambert\u2019s, and does not express the views of the Naked Capitalism site. If you see a link you especially like, or an item you wouldn\u2019t see anywhere else, please do not hesitate to express your appreciation in tangible form. Remember, a tip jar is for tipping! <em>Regular positive feedback both makes me feel good and lets me know I\u2019m on the right track with coverage<\/em>. When I get no donations for three or four days I get worried. 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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. 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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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Northern Mockingbird, Damon-Garcia Sports Field, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#transition\">Trump border czar beats chest.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#resistance\">Resistance 2.0<\/a> funders and NGOs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\"> Mathematical thinking <\/a>.<\/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=\"59.472275334608\">\n<p>\u201cTrump Border Czar: If Sanctuary Cities Do Not Assist, We Will Go Into The Community To Find Criminal Illegal Immigrants\u201d (transcript) [Laura Ingraham, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/11\/20\/trump_border_czar_if_sanctuary_cities_do_not_assist_we_will_go_into_the_community_to_find_criminal_illegal_immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cIncoming Trump \u201cBorder Czar\u201d and former acting director of ICE Tom Homan laid out his plan to deport illegal immigrants in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham.\u201d \u2022 Homan may indeed be an effective administrator, but there\u2019s nothing in this chest-beating interview to prove it. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nullification-Crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201csanctuary cities\u201d are an updated version of Calhoun\u2019s nullification doctrine<\/a>, I oppose the concept. But I\u2019m gonna have to get my knee seen to, the way Ingraham and Homan are pounding on it.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cchaos\u201d talking point, a hardy perennial:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s daily chaos circus is already back in full force\u201d [Aaron Rupar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/trump-gaetz-hegseth-chaos-factory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Public Notice<\/a>]. \u201cVoters may have been willing to risk it all for slightly lower egg prices, but regardless of what they thought they were doing, they\u2019re getting a chaos machine \u2014 and that sort of thing gets exhausting pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos reigns supreme in Trump\u2019s Washington\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/22\/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-cabinet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cTrump has achieved historic political success by following his instincts \u2014 and his instincts tend to favor maximum chaos\u2026. If past is prologue, the pace of chaos is unlikely to relent even after Trump gets his Cabinet in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Maybe I didn\u2019t get the memo, but is there anything more chaotic than risking World War III by trying to achieve escalation dominance over a nuclear power, in their own back yard? And how about genocide? Is genocide chaotic or no? Anyhow\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaybook: What Trump learned from Gaetz-gate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/11\/22\/what-trump-learned-from-gaetz-gate-00191212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c[E]ven Trump has his limits on drama. For years, the conventional wisdom around Trump is that he has a sweet tooth for chaos and that his appetite is bottomless as long as he ultimately gets the outcome he desires. But Gaetz-gate suggests that when that chaos becomes a distraction \u2014 or worse in his eyes, when it makes him look bad \u2014 he\u2019s willing to cut bait and head home.\u201d \u2022 And\/or he\u2019s listening to Susie Wiles.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/ro-khanna-elon-musk-doge-defense-00191053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018I think Elon may get frustrated fairly quickly,\u2019 Khanna said on today\u2019s POLITICO Tech podcast. \u2018I mean, let\u2019s see if he can get defense cuts. My guess is that there are going to be a lot of the people on that committee [who] are going to want even more defense spending. It\u2019ll be a test.\u2019\u2026 Khanna represents a large swath of Silicon Valley and has known Musk for years. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1857924169393975482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent exchange on X<\/a>, Musk\u2019s social media platform, the pair appeared to agree that the Defense Department was spending too much money on large defense contractors. Khanna has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/khanna.house.gov\/media\/ros-op-eds\/why-i-was-proud-be-lone-vote-against-defense-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted against expanding the Pentagon\u2019s budget<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as new DOGE subcommittee chair\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-ramaswamy-doge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNBC<\/a>]. \u201cRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., have met with Ramaswamy and his team and are \u2018already working together,\u2019 a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday. Comer aims to establish the subpanel early next year, the source said. Greene\u2019s group will be dubbed the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, allowing it to share the DOGE acronym with the outside-of-government entity commissioned by President-elect Donald Trump.\u201d \u2022 MTG = Cover against\/discipline from the base?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"85.727332630469\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Need Their Own Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/11\/22\/democrats_need_their_own_donald_trump_151987.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cPerhaps the greatest indictment of Democrats\u2019 competence is the rise of Donald Trump. After eight years of Barack Obama \u2013 an exemplar of well-polished progressivism \u2013 the American people elected a man with no government experience, whose campaign focused on the failures of the ruling elites of both parties. Entrenched Republicans were, in fact, as disdainful of Trump as Democrats were. Then, despite titanic efforts to undercut and delegitimize him at every turn, this quintessential outsider led a largely successful administration. Polls suggested he was likely to be reelected before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Trump was returned to office earlier this month because many Americans remembered the policies of the man Democrats dismissed as a failed real estate developer and superficial reality TV star as far more effective than those advanced by his highly credentialed opponents.\u201d More: \u201cAll of which is to say, Democrats need their own Trump \u2013 a wrecking ball who will challenge the party\u2019s dogmas; a disruptive outsider who can force them out of their ideological cul-de-sac. The radical transformation Democrats need seems beyond the capacity of the party\u2019s entrenched leadership: To expect people who cannot admit error to change their minds and ways seems like wishful thinking. They probably don\u2019t need a Trump-like figure to win elections, but they need one to find a way to govern effectively.\u201d \u2022 The hour has produced the man: Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColumn: The Trump landslide that wasn\u2019t\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/newsletter\/2024-11-21\/2024-election-chabria-column-trump-national-vote-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>]. \u201cBut as more of the popular vote is counted, it turns out that Trump\u2019s victory came with the slimmest of margins \u2014 a few hundred thousand votes in key places slid him into office. The Cook Political Report, considered to be the expert on these things, has Kamala Harris earning 48.24% of the popular vote as of Wednesday, compared with 49.89% for Trump. That\u2019s a difference of about 2.5 million votes out of about 155 million counted\u2026. [Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Price School of Public Policy] points out that Republicans also won control of both houses of Congress, which gives Trump a \u2018trifecta, and its power.\u2019 But Republicans did it with about 31% of eligible voters going for Trump. About 30% went for Harris. Though voter turnout was strong, an alarming 36% of eligible voters didn\u2019t bother to cast a ballot, she said.\u201d \u2022 A \u201clandslide\u201d election 2024 was not. Decisive, it was, at least at the presidential level. These days, 49.89 \u2013 48.24 = 1.65% <em>is<\/em> decisive. So is winning all seven swing states. So is winning both houses of Congress. Even more important, the \u201ccoalition of the ascendant,\u201d the identity-based strategy Democrats have been using since at least 2008, finally crashed and burned. Oh the bright side for Democrats, many of their candidates ran ahead of Harris, suggesting that the top of the ticket was indeed problematic <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL No duh!<\/sub>. (At the non-Presidential level, \u201cprogressive\u201d causes did well, and Democrats held on to all their governorships.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Red Wave Didn\u2019t Hit Statehouses in This Election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/state-houses-trump-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats\u2019s state power is shaping up to be the strongest counterweight to the Trump administration. When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, there were just 29 Democratic legislative majorities in the states, and only six states had Democratic governing trifectas. That meant there were only so many opportunities for the states to quickly or effectively counter the damaging effects of MAGA federal policy. This time around, Democrats are in a much stronger position. Thanks to a decade of making investments and gains\u2014including our 2024 wins\u2014Democrats will hold nearly 40 majorities in our statehouses and are ready to combat the worst of the Trump presidency. We\u2019ve also nearly tripled our number of governing trifectas to 15 states, including big blue powerhouses like New York, California, and Illinois with large populations and booming economies. Case in point: California alone is the fifth-largest economy in the world. That means . If Trump goes full steam ahead on the many extreme and dangerous promises made during the campaign\u2014including Project 2025\u2014Democrats in state legislatures are ready to pump the brakes.\u201d \u2022 And see below from the Washington Examiner on the \u201cGovernors Safeguarding Democracy\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrow the Groups Under the Bus!\u201d [Ruy Teixeira, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/throw-the-groups-under-the-bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Liberal Patriot<\/a>]. \u201c. The time, energy and resources spent on the Democrats\u2019 cultural left agenda is time, energy, and resources taken away from promoting the economic welfare of the working class. Working-class voters are well aware of this tradeoff, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-common-sense-problem?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">progressive activists<\/a> and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/the-democrats-progressive-organization?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Groups<\/a>\u2018 are not. As a result, working-class voters tend to connect their economic criticisms of the Democrats to the party\u2019s apparent preoccupation with cultural issues pushed by their liberal college-educated supporters\u2014issues working class voters either don\u2019t care about or are actively hostile to. This connection is clearly dragging the Democrats down with these voters.\u201d More: \u201cDemocrats have lost the plot in the view of more and more nonwhite, especially nonwhite working-class, voters. How can they find it again? The obvious answer would be to sever the party\u2019s connection to unpopular and unworkable social policies and . The simplest way to do this, in turn, would be to forcefully denounce said policies and unambiguously break from the forces in the party that are pushing these policies\u2014\u2019the Groups\u2019 and their allies that insist being a Democrat is inseparable from being a progressive as they define it. But this is hard because it entails conflict and conflict with the Groups is something Democrats have been determined to avoid. This is foolish, not least because the theory upon which this deference was based\u2014that the Groups actually represented groups of voters\u2014was incorrect.\u201d \u2022 Oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe End of Denial: How Trump\u2019s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party\u2019s break with reality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EhqX2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Magazine<\/a>]. \u201cIn truth, the MAGA faithful are not among the city\u2019s upper-middle-class liberals in any meaningful way. Neighborhoods like Park Slope are some of the only ones in the city that remained dark blue this cycle. It was instead the areas of the city where some of the least wealthy and least white reside that broke hardest toward Trump. These neighborhoods, and the reasons they voted as they did, have been out of the field of vision of many of the very people, here in the country\u2019s media capital, who have tasked themselves with reporting on, understanding, and explaining American politics. This myopia reflects a Democratic Party that in losing touch with such places is in danger of forgetting its reason for being.\u201d \u2022 Not so. The Democrat Party is the party of the PMC. That <em>is<\/em> its reason for being, and the party has by no means forgotten that. (Another way of saying this is that the problems of the Democrat Party are the problems of the PMC itself, boiling down to a failure to deliver a humane, non-crapified baseline of services in every system where it handles governance, especially healthcare, but also education, human resources, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"80.276276276276\">\n<p>\u201cBillionaire Musk foe bankrolls second Trump resistance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3235838\/billionaire-musk-foe-bankrolls-second-trump-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>]. A maze of NGOs: \u201cPierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and a backer of progressive groups spearheading anti-Elon Musk campaigns, is behind a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3228243\/democratic-governors-announce-alliance-counter-trump-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> new initiative led by Democrats<\/a> aiming to champion the second Trump resistance, records reveal. The initiative, called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/democratic-governors-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">profiled<\/a> in the New York Times last week as a newly-formed vehicle for Govs. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Jared Polis (D-CO), and other governors to \u2018protect the rule of law\u2019 in states and push back on the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. On its website, GSD calls itself a \u201cnonpartisan alliance\u201d of leaders, though it is unclear what Republican officials, if any, are involved with the group. But, according to nonprofit donation software records, GSD is not technically a stand-alone organization. Rather, the Trump resistance operation is under the umbrella of a Governors Action Alliance project sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/charity.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Impact<\/a>, a Virginia-based charity. In September, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund, a private foundation steering the left-wing billionaire\u2019s fortune, routed $500,000 to the Governors Action Alliance to support \u2018coordinating and strengthening the work of governors to address specific threats to American democracy,\u2019 Democracy Fund\u2019s grants database shows. Omidyar\u2019s ties to the Trump resistance group, which operates under its parent umbrella alongside an effort called the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, is a window into how billionaire progressives are ramping up campaigns to combat speculated GOP plans on abortion, immigration, and other issue areas. Democrats are enlisting high-powered lawyers, while , the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/16\/us\/politics\/democrats-anti-trump-battle-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a> also reported.\u201d And: \u201cOmidyar\u2019s group routed $750,000 in April to a project called Free Election Fund, which is associated with Marc Elias, the Democratic superlawyer who pushed the discredited Steele Dossier aiming to link Trump to Russia falsely in 2016\u2026 The Free Election Fund used to be called the Democracy Docket Legal Fund. It is housed under the Hopewell Fund, a group managed by an influential Democratic-aligned consulting firm called Arabella Advisors. In 2020, Omidyar\u2019s Democracy Fund also granted $1.5 million to the Elias-linked legal group \u2018to detect and combat suppressive voting laws and practices through litigation,\u2019 records show. GSD, the group co-chaired by Pritzker and Polis, says on its website that it will \u2018.\u2019 The group will also aim \u2018to protect executive agencies, elections, state courts, and other core democratic bodies,\u2019 GSD adds on its website.\u201d \u2022 Oh, <em>play<\/em>books [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gx046Lo1v_4?si=v0O_vHo9mF-kKp5z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">musical interlude<\/a>]. This is the Times article cited by the Examiner\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ntr2G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cDemocratic officials, activists and ambitious politicians are seeking to build their second wave of opposition to Mr. Trump from the places that they still control: deep-blue states\u2026. Some of the planning in blue states began in 2023 as a potential backstop if Mr. Trump won, according to multiple Democrats involved in different efforts. .\u201d Gad. More: \u201cThe Democratic effort will rely on the work of hundreds of lawyers, who are being recruited to combat Trump administration policies on a range of Democratic priorities. Already, advocacy groups have begun workshopping cases and recruiting potential plaintiffs to challenge expected regulations, laws and administrative actions starting on Day 1.\u201d But: \u201cSome of the first maneuvering by top Democrats began this past week, when Mr. Pritzker and Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado announced the formation of a group called Governors Safeguarding Democracy. Its unveiling followed several days of behind-the-scenes drama, as several fellow Democratic governors declined to join the group, at least for now. A draft news release listed six other governors as members of the coalition led by Mr. Pritzker and Mr. Polis. But four of them \u2014 Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania \u2014 declined to join, according to people briefed on the discussions. Govs. Tony Evers of Wisconsin and Josh Green of Hawaii were also named on the draft news release, but neither has yet agreed to join the group. Alex Gough, a spokesman for Mr. Pritzker, said that the group had been working with 20 governors\u2019 offices but that \u2018not all of these governors wish to be named publicly at this time for understandable reasons, including the potential threats states are facing.’\u201d \u2022 Or maybe the reluctant governors don\u2019t want to sign on to Pritzker 2028?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBury the #Resistance, Once and For All\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/bury-the-resistance-once-and-for-all\/ar-AA1uuykM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nation<\/a>]. \u201cIn late September, I warned about the reemergence within the Democratic coalition of the failed #Resistance mindset that defined the 2016 election and the response to Donald Trump\u2019s first term. Among that movement\u2019s defining features were trying to shame or scare voters into voting against Trump, rather than for the Democrat, an over-reliance on pop culture signifiers rather than policy, and a hope and a prayer for the system, in particular prosecutors and the FBI, to deliver us from evil\u2026. Rather than engage in meaningful self-reflection, though, many top Democrats are looking for someone other than party leadership and their own candidate to blame. Just like after Clinton\u2019s 2016 loss, they\u2019re landing on the progressive wing of the party and voters from marginalized groups.\u201d \u2022 Surely one needs to include financing in a list of \u201cdefining features\u201d? As above?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spook Country<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"15.608671484158\">\n<p>\u201cDOJ Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/doj-apparatchiks-told-to-lawyer-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Declassified with Julie Kelly<\/a>]. \u201cThe resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the government\u2019s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/raw-investigates\/sedition-hunters-january-6-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">paid<\/a> the \u2018sedition hunters\u2019 as FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.\u201d Nice precedent there. More: \u201cMark Zaid, an attorney who represented self-described Ukrainian \u2018whistleblower\u2019 Eric Ciaramella, prompting the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, just told both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/11\/politics\/video\/mark-zaid-advises-clients-leave-country-trump-revenge-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a> and Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/11\/18\/targeted-by-the-trump-administration-00189878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">magazine<\/a> that government officials worried they will be pursued by a Trump DOJ or Republican Congress should travel \u2018outside of the country\u2019 right around Inauguration Day.\u201d And: \u201cBut why would anyone else leave the country around Inauguration Day? To wait and see if Trump signs an executive order authorizing an investigation of everything from the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukrainian impeachment operation to the coverup of the Biden family corruption ring? To wait and see if the acting attorney general appoints a special counsel to investigate Smith\u2019s team as well as the events of January 6? And therein lies the justified panic within the DOJ and national security state. The ground is fertile for multiple investigations with legitimate criminal liability for top officials including Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DC US Attorney Matthew Graves in addition to line prosecutors and investigators.\u201d<\/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>Morbidity and Mortality<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"13.885714285714\">\n<p>\u201cOil and gas well proximity linked to higher rates of COVID-19 mortality\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-oil-gas-proximity-linked-higher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org<\/a>]. \u201cBut a new study by Timothy Archer and colleagues is the first, to the authors\u2019 knowledge, to study whether proximity specifically to oil and gas development could also be linked to higher rates of COVID-19. The researchers studied COVID-19 case and death rates during the first year of the pandemic (February 2020 to January 2021), focusing on California communities located within 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) of active oil and gas wells. In addition to COVID-19 case records, the researchers\u2026. In communities within 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) of an actively producing well, COVID-19 cases were 34% higher and mortality rates were 55% higher in the first four months of the pandemic. Though the results did not show a significant association between well production and COVID-19 cases over the entire year, mortality rates were higher in the areas with the highest production.\u201d \u2022 Hmm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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=\"10.894941634241\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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=\"3.6666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> 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 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-2-300x214.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 21:<\/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 21:<\/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-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-9-300x190.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-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 802w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-624x479.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\"\/><\/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=\"2.6111111111111\">\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 18:<\/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 16:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-2-300x189.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-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1-300x196.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=\"3.5862068965517\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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\"> 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=\"178.09673444239\">\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>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA eyes new Boeing 737 MAX pilot instructions after smoke emergencies\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-weighs-new-boeing-737-max-pilot-instructions-to-avert-safety-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe Federal Aviation Administration is weighing whether to require all pilots of 737 MAX aircraft to take off with the air flow from the main engines into the aircraft\u2019s interior turned off \u2014 to avoid a risk of smoke flooding the plane if one of the engines hits a bird. Such a change in takeoff procedure for pilots would be temporary until Boeing comes up with a permanent fix. Devising that could further delay certification of the Renton-built MAX 7 and MAX 10 models. The FAA said in a statement Thursday that it \u2018will convene a Corrective Action Review Board in the coming weeks to examine the data and develop a path forward\u2019 and assess the options to prevent the risk of smoke entering the cockpit or passenger cabin. In the meantime, the FAA said that because pilots have been alerted to the procedure they should follow if smoke enters the plane, \u2018this is not an immediate flight-safety issue.\u2019 The proposed FAA action is a response to the safety risk exposed by two serious incidents on Southwest Airlines MAXs last year. In those two incidents, a bird collided with an engine during takeoff and the damage caused an oil leak. The oil ignited in the hot engine, sending heavy smoke and fumes into the interior of the airplane. Airflow off an aircraft\u2019s engines \u2014 known as \u201cbleed air\u201d \u2014 is normally directed to the airplane interior and passed through air conditioning packs to control the air pressure and temperature inside.\u201d \u2022 Still nothing from Gates or the Seattle Times on Ortberg\u2019s \u201cstop bitching\u201d pep talk. Odd!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing inks contracts worth more than $4B for KC-46s, P-8s\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2024\/11\/boeing-inks-contracts-worth-more-than-4b-for-kc-46s-p-8s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breaking Defense<\/a>]. \u201cThe Pentagon this week awarded Boeing a pair of separate contracts for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers and seven P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, deals that are collectively worth more than $4 billion. Although both contracts had been expected under existing plans, getting the deals signed is good news for Boeing, whose defense arm logged $2 billion in losses for its last fiscal quarter and which is facing company-wide layoffs\u2026. \u2018This $1.67 billion contract for seven additional P-8A Poseidons not only reinforces the U.S. Navy\u2019s commitment to maintaining a robust maritime presence but also highlights Boeing\u2019s dedication to delivering safe, reliable platforms that enhance the Navy\u2019s operational capabilities, readiness and effectiveness,\u2019 [said] Tory Peterson, vice president and P-8 program manager at Boeing.\u201d \u2022 \u201cUndefinitized\u201d? Is that a word?<\/p>\n<p>The Bezzle: \u201cA perfect storm is brewing for Bitcoin\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/a-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CoinTelegraph<\/a>]. \u201cBitcoin is the world\u2019s most reflexive asset today. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved options for several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Once issued, these options lead to gamma squeezes, acting like reflexivity. Together, that\u2019s reflexivity squared, leading to unprecedented price movements\u2026. Financial markets are deeply influenced by human behavior. George Soros famously coined the concept of \u201creflexivity\u201d to describe the circular relationship between perception and reality in financial markets. Bitcoin exemplifies this concept more than any other asset: As its price rises, the asset garners increasing attention, which leads to further investment, driving prices even higher. Prominent investors such as Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett have criticized Bitcoin because of its reflexive nature. They have argued that it lacks intrinsic value because its price seems to move based on perception. But that is precisely the point: Bitcoin is the most reflexive asset because its supply is genuinely finite, more finite than precious metals or top-performing equities. The scarcity of Bitcoin is what makes it fundamentally valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201c\u2018A place of joy\u2019: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03784-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature<\/a>]. \u201cIn the two weeks since the US presidential election, the platform has grown from close to 14 million users to nearly 21 million. Bluesky has broad appeal in large part because it looks and feels a lot like X (formerly known as Twitter), which became hugely popular with scientists, who used it to share research findings, collaborate and network. One estimate suggests that at least half a million researchers had Twitter profiles in 2022\u2026. Daryll Carlson, a bioacoustics researcher at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, says she noticed the largest influx of users on Bluesky after the US election. Musk has become closely aligned to president-elect Donald Trump. For Carlson, Bluesky offers a space to engage with other scientists, as well as artists, photographers and the general public. \u2018I\u2019d really like it to continue to be a place of joy for me,\u2019 she says.\u201d \u2022 Just like the Kamala campaign\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 61 Greed (previous close: 57 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 51 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 22 at 1:12:19 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World\u2019s Oldest Forest Is Here in the Hudson Valley\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/hvmag.com\/life-style\/oldest-forest-world-cairo-hudson-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hudson Valley<\/a>]. \u201cOn the floor of an abandoned quarry in Cairo, in Greene County, researchers have found the earliest tree fossils yet discovered anywhere in the world. Dating back roughly 387 million years, the find has thoroughly rewritten the story of the origins of trees. One researcher called the discovery nothing less than \u2018mindblowing.\u2019\u2026 After beginning studies in the region in 1993, the collective made significant inroads in 2007 and 2008 when they learned to recognize the bases of two types of fossil trees. According to [Christopher] Berry, one is the large rooting system of the Archaeopteris tree, while the other is the dish-like imprint of the Cladoxylopsid tree, which contains hundreds of radiating roots\u2026 It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important things that has happened in the history of the world. Those early trees absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which led to a rapid cooling favorable to more complicated forms of animal life. The shade provided by the broad, flat leaves of taller trees protected critters on the ground from the sun, and the roots limited soil erosion. \u2018The arrival of these forests was the creation of the modern world,\u2019 Berry told Smithsonian Magazine.\u201d And: \u201cEventually, the remains of those early plants and trees, compacted over hundreds of millions of years, became the coal deposits that fueled the Industrial Revolution, returning the carbon they had absorbed into the atmosphere, thereby triggering the present age of global warming.\u201d \u2022 Oh. Anyhow, here\u2019s a picture of a fossilized root system:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fossil_roots-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/11\/17\/salmon-return-to-lay-eggs-in-historic-habitat-after-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a>]. \u201cA giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, males butt into each other as they jockey for a good position to fertilize eggs. These are scenes local tribes have dreamed of seeing for decades as they fought to bring down four hydroelectric dams blocking passage for struggling salmon along more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) of the Klamath River and its tributaries along the Oregon-California border. Now, less than a month after those dams came down in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in cool creeks that have been cut off to them for generations.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Less than a month!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan who spent $6.2 million on banana duct-taped to wall says he\u2019s going to eat it\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/man-spent-62-million-banana-duct-taped-wall-says-going-eat-rcna181172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. Grocery inflation just hit its peak after a single banana was sold for $6.2 million Wednesday. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun dropped over $6 million on the piece of produce \u2014 because it was duct-taped to a wall. The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan. \u2018In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture,\u2019 he said. Sun\u2019s snacking won\u2019t change the value of his investment, however. His $6.2 million purchase awarded him a roll of duct tape, instructions on how to \u2018install\u2019 the banana properly and, most importantly, a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the artwork, when reproduced by Sun, as an original work of Cattelan\u2019s, CNBC reported. The soon-to-be devoured banana wasn\u2019t included in his winnings, as the fruit tends to rot quickly. But the value of the artwork isn\u2019t in the banana itself \u2014 it\u2019s derived from the certificate accompanying the purchase.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m not sure this business scales.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematical Thinking Isn\u2019t What You Think It Is\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/mathematical-thinking-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-20241118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to [mathematician David Bessis], the way math is taught in school emphasizes the logic-based part of this process, when the more important element is intuition. Math should be thought of as a dialogue between the two: between reason and instinct, between language and abstraction. It\u2019s also a physical practice of sorts, like yoga or martial arts \u2014 something that can be improved through training. It requires tapping into a childlike state and embracing one\u2019s imagination, including the mistakes that come with it.\u201d BESSIS: \u201cWhen you do math, you\u2019re exposed to the human thought process in a way that is really pure. It\u2019s not just about understanding things, but about understanding things in a very childish, deep, na\u00efve, super clear, obvious way. It\u2019s very good training for creativity. It\u2019s a scaffold for your imagination.\u201d \u2022 Bessis is French, and the article is accompanied by photos of Paris (and Bessis) that are so Parisian I want to find an art house cinema and start watching Truffaut movies. And start smoking cigarettes.<\/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-11-20-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thunbergia-283x300.jpeg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cI decided to try opening this email account on my dying computer since I was able to use it\u2019s Picasa on some photos, and what do you know? Today it is working. This is Thunbergia growing in a lovely garden on Naples Island in Long Beach (CA).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kind readers, we are almost there with plant photos. Thank you! But one thing: I\u2019m mostly seeing handles or email addresses that I already know. If you haven\u2019t sent in a plant photo to Water Cooler, why not try it? 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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. 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. 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