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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, 350 South Madison Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles, 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=\"#blame\">Blame cannons thunder <\/a> after Kamala campaign team podcast.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#assassination\">Investigation into attempts to assassinate Trump <\/a> seem curiously silent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing delivery, layoff woes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally I avoid transparently feel-good stories, but since it\u2019s the holidays:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9756097560976\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.60162601626\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">London please help. I\u2019m praying for a miracle, I\u2019ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I\u2019m devastated <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRNWly3sx1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/DRNWly3sx1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861334796070232497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8639575971731\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.303886925795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: I\u2019ve found the locket, and the chain can be easily replaced. Thank you, everyone. I\u2019m so touched by your responses and beyond relieved to have found it\u2014it\u2019s hard to put into words. \ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861357027546591436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>A fine example of Graeber\u2019s \u201cthe communism of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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><a name=\"assassination \"\/>Trump Assassination Attempts (Plural)<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11.495495495495\">\n<p>I\u2019d sure like links for all this, but nevertheless accumulation of detail is impressive:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"821\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Makes me wonder if the Trump transition team\u2019s reluctance to have the FBI do background checks for incoming administration officials and nominees is related to, well, all this. And the Crooks investigation seems to be moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/07\/mobile-data-reveals-someone-who-regularly-visited-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awfully slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.648207663782\">\n<p>Who did this:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4473684210526\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.6315789473684\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>\u2018 message to supporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5xMUGTtkz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/x5xMUGTtkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1861550359161745529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Sound up, definitely. This frame:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As readers know, I oppose remote diagnosis. But I\u2019ve gotta say\u2026 If I were in a bar, and caught a glimpse of that face across the room, I\u2019d think the bartender hadn\u2019t been keeping track. Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7753303964758\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.3259911894273\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kamala Harris video is pulled from a grassroots event she did \u2013 I\u2019m not sure amplifying it is the right move. Some messages are just for your supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang\ud83e\udde2\u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1861752439759618495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang seems like a nice person, but if the idea was to make sure Kamala never rean again, amplifying this video was <em>exactly<\/em> the right move.<\/p>\n<p>Four days earlier:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.8803418803419\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.1709401709402\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EBONY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@EBONY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Oo4hWQDZX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/0Oo4hWQDZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1860025483141751178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDownfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\u201d (video) ShoeOnHead, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?si=3NepuSB0Ka4ZzvSx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>]. Several readers have posted on this \u201cDem\u00f6d\u00e4mmerung\u201d*-themed video, so here it is. NOTE * I like this umlauts, so I\u2019m keeping them, pedants beg\u00f6ne).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Downfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fine use of anaphora!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong\u201d (transcript) [Pod Save America, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast\/exclusive-the-harris-campaign-on-what-went-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crooked Media<\/a>]. \u201cIn this candid [oh yeah] interview, the leaders of the Harris-Walz Campaign speak for the first time about the challenges they faced and why they made the decisions they did. Dan sits down with Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter to talk about the campaign\u2019s roadmap, their approach to nontraditional media outlets like Joe Rogan, the voters they most needed to win over, why they fell short in the end, and what Democrats should do differently next time.\u201d There\u2019s a lot to dislike, but this caught my eye in the transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11\">\n<p>[PLOUFFE] I just thought at the end of the day, particularly because Trump did not close well, I thought, and I thought Kamala Harris closed well, Trump was reminding people some of the things they don\u2019t like about him. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump closed great. First, McDonalds, then the garbage truck. What\u2019s wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<p>Learned nothing, forgotten nothing:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3846153846154\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.4\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you have 90 minutes and want to learn about the DC swamp scumbags who run campaigns, watch this PodSave interview with the top 4 Kamala consultants.<\/p>\n<p>All self-congratulatory. Not one admission of error. Endless excuses for their $1 billion failure:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1861779607063548011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9871794871795\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.632478632479\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So the Harris campaign was The Producers irl. They knew they were blowing through $1.5 billion in 15 weeks with no chance of winning, and to make sure they lost they brought the Cheneys and Richie Torres on stage. The point was to wash as much stupid money as fast as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1861588219298554100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>But surely it would have been better to launder all the stupid money, but also to win?<\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.8696275071633\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.395415472779\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mistake here is to think American politics divides along conservative\/moderate\/liberal lines. The more salient spectrum is prosystem\/antisystem. Trump dominated with antisystem voters, gaining hard with people who also liked & voted for Tlaib, AOC, RFK Jr. & Gabbard. Unless\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeerJeet\/status\/1861242688978235548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Heer\u2019s \u201csystem\/anti-system\u201d binary seems like a more precise, on-point version of \u201cChange vs. More of the Same\u201d (assuming that \u201cchange\u2019 is not <em>necessarily<\/em> systemic, a dubious assumption at this point).<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>TikTok in the campaign. From a campaign staffer, so cum grano salis. Nevertheless:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8262711864407\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.203389830508\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala advisor Stephanie Cutter: “I can’t tell you how many friends of mine or nieces and nephews would say to me ‘you know I’m getting these things from Trump all the time on TikTok.'” <\/p>\n<p>I was one of the two guys who ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@TeamTrump<\/a> TikTok account. Keep in mind that Kamala\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klIKpegcu3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/klIKpegcu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1861548961451921780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"38.619940029985\">\n<p>\u201cThe Resistance goes quiet\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/24\/resistance-trump-protests-womens-march?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Resistance, a political movement to protest Trumpism online and in the streets. There\u2019s still plenty of resistance to Trump across the country, but little mass mobilization\u2026. An event scheduled for January \u2014 dubbed \u2018The People\u2019s March\u2019 \u2014 will inevitably be compared to the massive Women\u2019s March eight years earlier, which garnered hundreds of thousands of participants and spurred nationwide sister marches\u2026 \u201cThe exhaustion is real\u201d among those who organized against Trump during his first term, only to see him elected again, [Tamika Middleton, managing director at Women\u2019s March] says. \u2018Part of what is beautiful about what mobilization offers inside of these moments, is that they activate and bring in new people who have new energy.’\u201d \u2022 We\u2019ll see. Personally, I think the scope of Trump\u2019s victory \u2014 a win in the popular vote, all seven swing states \u2014 removed a lot of the rationale for resistance initially. We\u2019ll see what January brings (besides lawfare and oppo).<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cresistance\u201d per se, but the same people using the same tactics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 Dirty Tricks Playbook?\u201d [Matt Taibbi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Racket News<\/a>]. \u201cThe newly released court docs bear out the fact that there was deep concern within the blue activist world about the third-party run. A memo sent from political strategist Lucy Caldwell to Dmitri Mehlhorn, aide to billionaire donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, described No Labels as a \u2018looming forest fire\u2019 that would be a \u2018nuclear grade threat\u2019 if it nominated a candidate and reached a \u2018live campaign environment.\u2019 To prevent that, Caldwell proposed a protracted campaign of \u2018brand destruction,\u2019 using \u2018controlled burns\u2019 to put the fire out long before the election. As Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson put it less subtly in a tweeted video last April, No Labels needed to be \u2018burned to the fucking ground politically.’\u201d And after an 80-minute conference call between Democratic Party-aligned activist groups, \u201cformer Emily\u2019s List chief <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306212504\/https:\/\/emilyslist.org\/our-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emily Kane<\/a>, now of Third Way, wrote a letter after the discussion reported on by Semafor, summing up the conclusions of what she called, in the subject line, the \u2018Anti-No-Labels Coalition meeting.\u2019 Notably acknowledging they were indeed \u2018working together as a broad coalition\u2019 to \u2018fight the anti-democratic operation that is No Labels,; it added without irony that this fight for democracy should also include \u2018deterring other third party presidential efforts.’\u201d \u2022 Politics ain\u2019t beanbag. But just don\u2019t call yourselves Democrats, uppercase or lowercase D.<\/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. 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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>Elite Maleficence<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>Everything\u2019s going according to plan:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Even though the Covid numbers seem low, please remember that the data is not nearly as good as it once was, that it lags, and that the downside risks of catching Covid are considerable. For those who have developed their own personal protocols, I wouldn\u2019t relax them. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.91650671785\">\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 18<\/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-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4-300x202.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-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><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6842105263158\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">center <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 16<\/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=\"3.8666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10-300x189.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=\"2.7951807228916\">\n<td valign=\"top\">center National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 23:<\/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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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> November 4:<\/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> November 4:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2-300x167.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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3-300x187.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-ed-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"151.81693347306\">\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>GDP: \u201cUnited States GDP Growth Rate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/gdp-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe US economy expanded an annualized 2.8% in Q3 2024, the same as in the advance estimate, compared to 3% in Q2. Personal spending increased at the fastest pace since Q1 2023 although it was revised slightly lower from the advance estimate (3.5% vs 3.7%). It was boosted by a 5.6% surge in consumption of goods (vs 6% in the advance estimate) and a robust spending on services (2.6%, the same as in the advance estimate). Government consumption growth was unrevised at 5%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States Initial Jobless Claims\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/jobless-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cUS initial jobless claims held steady at 213,000 for the week ending November 23rd, below market expectations of 216,000. The results extended the view that the US labor market remains at historically strong levels despite the aggressive tightening cycle by the Federal Reserve in the last quarters, adding leeway for the central bank to slow the pace of monetary loosening should inflation remain stubbornly high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Durable Goods Orders\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/durable-goods-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cNew orders for manufactured durable goods in the US rose by 0.2% over a month to $286.561 billion in October 2024, following a revised 0.4% decrease in the prior month and missing market forecasts of a 0.5% growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Chicago PMI\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-pmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Business Barometer, also known as the Chicago PMI, slid to 40.2 in November 2024, down from 41.6 in September and falling short of market expectations of 44. This left the index 2.7 points below the year-to-date average. The latest reading signaled that Chicago\u2019s economic activity contracted for the 12th consecutive month, and at a notably sharp pace, marking the steepest decline since May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201c\u2018Expansionist\u2019 Emirates unveils first A350 and waits on arrival of longer-range version\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/airlines\/expansionist-emirates-unveils-first-a350-and-waits-on-arrival-of-longer-range-version\/160905.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FlightGlobal<\/a>]. \u201cPhilippe Mhun, Airbus executive vice-president for programmes and services, declines to say how many A350s it will hand over to Emirates next year, but says the carrier will account for a \u201clarge part\u201d of 2025\u2019s output \u2013 somewhere in the region of 25-30%\u2026. Clark says the carrier remains \u2018expansionist\u2019 but requires additional capacity to meet its goals. \u2018We are a frustrated entity because we need airplanes and we need them tomorrow.\u2019 Had Boeing managed to keep to the original timeline for the 777X \u2018we would have had 85 777Xs by now\u2019, says [Emirates president Sir Tim Clark]. Boeing\u2019s latest forecast is for 777X deliveries to start in 2026, although with Emirates third in line to receive the twinjet, its deliveries are likely to be towards the back end of the year at best.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLaid-off Boeing workers worry for themselves, and the company that cut them\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/laid-off-boeing-workers-worry-for-themselves-and-the-company-that-cut-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cLayoff notices came in the form of phone calls, 10-minute calendar holds and scripted conversations with managers. One worker left with a gifted bottle of whiskey. Another wasn\u2019t even allowed to keep the cardboard box they had used to collect their belongings. Some workers had prepared for the news; Boeing executives had spent weeks talking about reducing inefficiencies and focusing on the core parts of the struggling business. Others were blindsided, relying on years of positive reviews and, in some cases, assurances their jobs were safe\u2026. [The Everett-based worker] said he can\u2019t help but feel that \u2018there\u2019s not much runway\u2019 left for the company. \u2018There\u2019s a level of care and a level of knowledge that just won\u2019t be there.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA Says No Immediate Fix Needed For Boeing 737 MAX Engine Smoke In Cabin After Bird Strike Incidents\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-says-no-immediate-fix-needed-boeing-737-max-engine-smoke-cabin-bird-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simple Flying<\/a>]. \u201cThe FAA\u2019s Office of Accident Investigation and Prevention recommended software changes to the engine\u2019s bleed air system\u2019s response to a bird strike. The office\u2019s recommendation read that the required design change would detect the immediate impulse of a bird strike or fan blade loss event and automatically close the affected engine\u2019s Pressure Regulated Shutoff Valves (PRSOV) or trip the associated air conditioning pack.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-team-recommends-boeing-max-design-change-and-notify-pilots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on the leaked memo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLife is better without Boeing, airline executive says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/easyjet-ceo-airbus-boeing-comparison-1851709216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quartz<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing\u2019s ongoing struggles have disrupted airlines racing to replace aging fleets worldwide, but easyJet has avoided both those troubles and the engine issues plaguing some Airbus operators. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Chief Executive Johan Lundgren expressed thanks that he had Airbus planes with CFM International engines\u2026. [Some] airline executives, like United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby, have publicly called for a new competitor to displace the global Airbus-Boeing planemaking duopoly.\u201d \u2022 Too bad about Bombardier. Embraer? China?<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201cDrake takes Kendrick Lamar rap feud to US courts\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/drake-takes-kendrick-lamar-rap-004121669.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo News<\/a>]. \u201cLamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d which accused Drake of having relationships with underage girls, enjoyed huge commercial and critical acclaim, exceeding 900 million plays on streaming platform Spotify and earning multiple Grammy nominations, including song of the year. But in the first of two court filings this week, Drake on Monday accused Universal Music Group (UMG), which distributed the song, of charging Spotify unusually low prices to license the track, in return for the streamer widely recommending the track to its subscribers. According to a court document filed in New York, Drake also accused UMG of using automated computer \u2018bots\u2019 to artificially inflate the supposed number of times the song has been streamed on Spotify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Statistics: Speaking of GDP:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.9606299212598\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.40157480315\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a great example of why GDP per capita is not a good measurement of quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The standard of living in Mississippi is much worse than that of France.<\/p>\n<p>US GDP is absurdly exaggerated, not only because the dollar is the global reserve currency, but also due to the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ZmWqdA1lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ZmWqdA1lp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminNorton\/status\/1860219202101215536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 64 Greed (previous close: 64 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 49 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 27 at 2:10:45 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter (1):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5827586206897\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.3793103448276\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Claude Monet “The Road in front of Saint-Sim\u00e9on Farm in Winter”, 1867. Oil on canvas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mrPtuvtdyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/mrPtuvtdyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul (@_pgb__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pgb__\/status\/1665690876046131209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Winter (2):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1134453781513\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.563025210084\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winter in Broughton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXMtrmt7Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/wXMtrmt7Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L. S. Lowry (@lowryartist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lowryartist\/status\/1861798914090791199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the concept of a \u201cpamphlet launch\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9638554216867\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1506024096386\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Event flyer for my pamphlet launch in Brooklyn. Come by, say hi, get offline. See you soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j09KqZ6WKX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/j09KqZ6WKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Lamm (@AugustLamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustLamm\/status\/1856005761198948584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-moved-uk-election-1989325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she left the country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7486338797814\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.087431693989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday, P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, Cuddle McSnugglestuff. You don\u2019t need to know why. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamDiddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@iamdiddy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Ellen Show (@EllenDeGeneres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EllenDeGeneres\/status\/794616153112879104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something big coming down the pike?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScale-invariant topology and bursty branching of evolutionary trees emerge from niche construction\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1915088117#sec-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PNAS<\/a>]. You\u2019ll like this, if this is the sort of thing you like. The closing paragraph: \u201cOur results show that niche construction is more than a feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes arising when their timescales are not widely separated. Niche construction not only leads to a perturbation in the evolutionary trajectories of all components of an ecosystem, but also creates an indelible footprint on the evolutionary process that cannot be eliminated, even for very long times. These memory effects manifest themselves through the anomalous scaling laws that characterize observed phylogenetic trees.\u201d \u2022 What intrigued me was a sentence in the Abstract: \u201cPhylogenetic trees describe both the evolutionary process and community diversity,\u201d but apparently \u201ccommunity\u201d is not used in a sociological sense.<\/p>\n<p>Dad.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.2048192771084\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.855421686747\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CP4hMUiljE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/CP4hMUiljE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoContextBrits\/status\/1861503891709272331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<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-11-28-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From NYT_Memes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NYT_Memes writes: \u201cFound this after rain last week. Sudden explosion of mushrooms.\u201d Fungi are honorary plants.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, 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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Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Northern Mockingbird, 350 South Madison Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles, 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=\"#blame\">Blame cannons thunder <\/a> after Kamala campaign team podcast.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#assassination\">Investigation into attempts to assassinate Trump <\/a> seem curiously silent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing delivery, layoff woes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally I avoid transparently feel-good stories, but since it\u2019s the holidays:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9756097560976\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.60162601626\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">London please help. I\u2019m praying for a miracle, I\u2019ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I\u2019m devastated <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRNWly3sx1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/DRNWly3sx1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861334796070232497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8639575971731\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.303886925795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: I\u2019ve found the locket, and the chain can be easily replaced. Thank you, everyone. I\u2019m so touched by your responses and beyond relieved to have found it\u2014it\u2019s hard to put into words. \ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861357027546591436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>A fine example of Graeber\u2019s \u201cthe communism of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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><a name=\"assassination \"\/>Trump Assassination Attempts (Plural)<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11.495495495495\">\n<p>I\u2019d sure like links for all this, but nevertheless accumulation of detail is impressive:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"821\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Makes me wonder if the Trump transition team\u2019s reluctance to have the FBI do background checks for incoming administration officials and nominees is related to, well, all this. And the Crooks investigation seems to be moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/07\/mobile-data-reveals-someone-who-regularly-visited-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awfully slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.648207663782\">\n<p>Who did this:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4473684210526\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.6315789473684\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>\u2018 message to supporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5xMUGTtkz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/x5xMUGTtkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1861550359161745529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Sound up, definitely. This frame:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As readers know, I oppose remote diagnosis. But I\u2019ve gotta say\u2026 If I were in a bar, and caught a glimpse of that face across the room, I\u2019d think the bartender hadn\u2019t been keeping track. Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7753303964758\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.3259911894273\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kamala Harris video is pulled from a grassroots event she did \u2013 I\u2019m not sure amplifying it is the right move. Some messages are just for your supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang\ud83e\udde2\u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1861752439759618495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang seems like a nice person, but if the idea was to make sure Kamala never rean again, amplifying this video was <em>exactly<\/em> the right move.<\/p>\n<p>Four days earlier:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.8803418803419\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.1709401709402\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EBONY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@EBONY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Oo4hWQDZX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/0Oo4hWQDZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1860025483141751178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDownfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\u201d (video) ShoeOnHead, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?si=3NepuSB0Ka4ZzvSx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>]. Several readers have posted on this \u201cDem\u00f6d\u00e4mmerung\u201d*-themed video, so here it is. NOTE * I like this umlauts, so I\u2019m keeping them, pedants beg\u00f6ne).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Downfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fine use of anaphora!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong\u201d (transcript) [Pod Save America, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast\/exclusive-the-harris-campaign-on-what-went-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crooked Media<\/a>]. \u201cIn this candid [oh yeah] interview, the leaders of the Harris-Walz Campaign speak for the first time about the challenges they faced and why they made the decisions they did. Dan sits down with Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter to talk about the campaign\u2019s roadmap, their approach to nontraditional media outlets like Joe Rogan, the voters they most needed to win over, why they fell short in the end, and what Democrats should do differently next time.\u201d There\u2019s a lot to dislike, but this caught my eye in the transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11\">\n<p>[PLOUFFE] I just thought at the end of the day, particularly because Trump did not close well, I thought, and I thought Kamala Harris closed well, Trump was reminding people some of the things they don\u2019t like about him. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump closed great. First, McDonalds, then the garbage truck. What\u2019s wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<p>Learned nothing, forgotten nothing:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3846153846154\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.4\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you have 90 minutes and want to learn about the DC swamp scumbags who run campaigns, watch this PodSave interview with the top 4 Kamala consultants.<\/p>\n<p>All self-congratulatory. Not one admission of error. Endless excuses for their $1 billion failure:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1861779607063548011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9871794871795\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.632478632479\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So the Harris campaign was The Producers irl. They knew they were blowing through $1.5 billion in 15 weeks with no chance of winning, and to make sure they lost they brought the Cheneys and Richie Torres on stage. The point was to wash as much stupid money as fast as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1861588219298554100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>But surely it would have been better to launder all the stupid money, but also to win?<\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.8696275071633\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.395415472779\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mistake here is to think American politics divides along conservative\/moderate\/liberal lines. The more salient spectrum is prosystem\/antisystem. Trump dominated with antisystem voters, gaining hard with people who also liked & voted for Tlaib, AOC, RFK Jr. & Gabbard. Unless\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeerJeet\/status\/1861242688978235548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Heer\u2019s \u201csystem\/anti-system\u201d binary seems like a more precise, on-point version of \u201cChange vs. More of the Same\u201d (assuming that \u201cchange\u2019 is not <em>necessarily<\/em> systemic, a dubious assumption at this point).<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>TikTok in the campaign. From a campaign staffer, so cum grano salis. Nevertheless:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8262711864407\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.203389830508\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala advisor Stephanie Cutter: “I can’t tell you how many friends of mine or nieces and nephews would say to me ‘you know I’m getting these things from Trump all the time on TikTok.'” <\/p>\n<p>I was one of the two guys who ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@TeamTrump<\/a> TikTok account. Keep in mind that Kamala\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klIKpegcu3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/klIKpegcu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1861548961451921780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"38.619940029985\">\n<p>\u201cThe Resistance goes quiet\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/24\/resistance-trump-protests-womens-march?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Resistance, a political movement to protest Trumpism online and in the streets. There\u2019s still plenty of resistance to Trump across the country, but little mass mobilization\u2026. An event scheduled for January \u2014 dubbed \u2018The People\u2019s March\u2019 \u2014 will inevitably be compared to the massive Women\u2019s March eight years earlier, which garnered hundreds of thousands of participants and spurred nationwide sister marches\u2026 \u201cThe exhaustion is real\u201d among those who organized against Trump during his first term, only to see him elected again, [Tamika Middleton, managing director at Women\u2019s March] says. \u2018Part of what is beautiful about what mobilization offers inside of these moments, is that they activate and bring in new people who have new energy.’\u201d \u2022 We\u2019ll see. Personally, I think the scope of Trump\u2019s victory \u2014 a win in the popular vote, all seven swing states \u2014 removed a lot of the rationale for resistance initially. We\u2019ll see what January brings (besides lawfare and oppo).<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cresistance\u201d per se, but the same people using the same tactics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 Dirty Tricks Playbook?\u201d [Matt Taibbi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Racket News<\/a>]. \u201cThe newly released court docs bear out the fact that there was deep concern within the blue activist world about the third-party run. A memo sent from political strategist Lucy Caldwell to Dmitri Mehlhorn, aide to billionaire donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, described No Labels as a \u2018looming forest fire\u2019 that would be a \u2018nuclear grade threat\u2019 if it nominated a candidate and reached a \u2018live campaign environment.\u2019 To prevent that, Caldwell proposed a protracted campaign of \u2018brand destruction,\u2019 using \u2018controlled burns\u2019 to put the fire out long before the election. As Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson put it less subtly in a tweeted video last April, No Labels needed to be \u2018burned to the fucking ground politically.’\u201d And after an 80-minute conference call between Democratic Party-aligned activist groups, \u201cformer Emily\u2019s List chief <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306212504\/https:\/\/emilyslist.org\/our-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emily Kane<\/a>, now of Third Way, wrote a letter after the discussion reported on by Semafor, summing up the conclusions of what she called, in the subject line, the \u2018Anti-No-Labels Coalition meeting.\u2019 Notably acknowledging they were indeed \u2018working together as a broad coalition\u2019 to \u2018fight the anti-democratic operation that is No Labels,; it added without irony that this fight for democracy should also include \u2018deterring other third party presidential efforts.’\u201d \u2022 Politics ain\u2019t beanbag. But just don\u2019t call yourselves Democrats, uppercase or lowercase D.<\/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>Elite Maleficence<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>Everything\u2019s going according to plan:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Even though the Covid numbers seem low, please remember that the data is not nearly as good as it once was, that it lags, and that the downside risks of catching Covid are considerable. For those who have developed their own personal protocols, I wouldn\u2019t relax them. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.91650671785\">\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 18<\/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-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4-300x202.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-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><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6842105263158\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">center <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 16<\/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=\"3.8666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10-300x189.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=\"2.7951807228916\">\n<td valign=\"top\">center National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 23:<\/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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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> November 4:<\/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> November 4:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2-300x167.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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3-300x187.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-ed-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"151.81693347306\">\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>GDP: \u201cUnited States GDP Growth Rate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/gdp-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe US economy expanded an annualized 2.8% in Q3 2024, the same as in the advance estimate, compared to 3% in Q2. Personal spending increased at the fastest pace since Q1 2023 although it was revised slightly lower from the advance estimate (3.5% vs 3.7%). It was boosted by a 5.6% surge in consumption of goods (vs 6% in the advance estimate) and a robust spending on services (2.6%, the same as in the advance estimate). Government consumption growth was unrevised at 5%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States Initial Jobless Claims\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/jobless-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cUS initial jobless claims held steady at 213,000 for the week ending November 23rd, below market expectations of 216,000. The results extended the view that the US labor market remains at historically strong levels despite the aggressive tightening cycle by the Federal Reserve in the last quarters, adding leeway for the central bank to slow the pace of monetary loosening should inflation remain stubbornly high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Durable Goods Orders\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/durable-goods-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cNew orders for manufactured durable goods in the US rose by 0.2% over a month to $286.561 billion in October 2024, following a revised 0.4% decrease in the prior month and missing market forecasts of a 0.5% growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Chicago PMI\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-pmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Business Barometer, also known as the Chicago PMI, slid to 40.2 in November 2024, down from 41.6 in September and falling short of market expectations of 44. This left the index 2.7 points below the year-to-date average. The latest reading signaled that Chicago\u2019s economic activity contracted for the 12th consecutive month, and at a notably sharp pace, marking the steepest decline since May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201c\u2018Expansionist\u2019 Emirates unveils first A350 and waits on arrival of longer-range version\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/airlines\/expansionist-emirates-unveils-first-a350-and-waits-on-arrival-of-longer-range-version\/160905.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FlightGlobal<\/a>]. \u201cPhilippe Mhun, Airbus executive vice-president for programmes and services, declines to say how many A350s it will hand over to Emirates next year, but says the carrier will account for a \u201clarge part\u201d of 2025\u2019s output \u2013 somewhere in the region of 25-30%\u2026. Clark says the carrier remains \u2018expansionist\u2019 but requires additional capacity to meet its goals. \u2018We are a frustrated entity because we need airplanes and we need them tomorrow.\u2019 Had Boeing managed to keep to the original timeline for the 777X \u2018we would have had 85 777Xs by now\u2019, says [Emirates president Sir Tim Clark]. Boeing\u2019s latest forecast is for 777X deliveries to start in 2026, although with Emirates third in line to receive the twinjet, its deliveries are likely to be towards the back end of the year at best.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLaid-off Boeing workers worry for themselves, and the company that cut them\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/laid-off-boeing-workers-worry-for-themselves-and-the-company-that-cut-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cLayoff notices came in the form of phone calls, 10-minute calendar holds and scripted conversations with managers. One worker left with a gifted bottle of whiskey. Another wasn\u2019t even allowed to keep the cardboard box they had used to collect their belongings. Some workers had prepared for the news; Boeing executives had spent weeks talking about reducing inefficiencies and focusing on the core parts of the struggling business. Others were blindsided, relying on years of positive reviews and, in some cases, assurances their jobs were safe\u2026. [The Everett-based worker] said he can\u2019t help but feel that \u2018there\u2019s not much runway\u2019 left for the company. \u2018There\u2019s a level of care and a level of knowledge that just won\u2019t be there.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA Says No Immediate Fix Needed For Boeing 737 MAX Engine Smoke In Cabin After Bird Strike Incidents\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-says-no-immediate-fix-needed-boeing-737-max-engine-smoke-cabin-bird-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simple Flying<\/a>]. \u201cThe FAA\u2019s Office of Accident Investigation and Prevention recommended software changes to the engine\u2019s bleed air system\u2019s response to a bird strike. The office\u2019s recommendation read that the required design change would detect the immediate impulse of a bird strike or fan blade loss event and automatically close the affected engine\u2019s Pressure Regulated Shutoff Valves (PRSOV) or trip the associated air conditioning pack.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-team-recommends-boeing-max-design-change-and-notify-pilots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on the leaked memo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLife is better without Boeing, airline executive says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/easyjet-ceo-airbus-boeing-comparison-1851709216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quartz<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing\u2019s ongoing struggles have disrupted airlines racing to replace aging fleets worldwide, but easyJet has avoided both those troubles and the engine issues plaguing some Airbus operators. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Chief Executive Johan Lundgren expressed thanks that he had Airbus planes with CFM International engines\u2026. [Some] airline executives, like United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby, have publicly called for a new competitor to displace the global Airbus-Boeing planemaking duopoly.\u201d \u2022 Too bad about Bombardier. Embraer? China?<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201cDrake takes Kendrick Lamar rap feud to US courts\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/drake-takes-kendrick-lamar-rap-004121669.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo News<\/a>]. \u201cLamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d which accused Drake of having relationships with underage girls, enjoyed huge commercial and critical acclaim, exceeding 900 million plays on streaming platform Spotify and earning multiple Grammy nominations, including song of the year. But in the first of two court filings this week, Drake on Monday accused Universal Music Group (UMG), which distributed the song, of charging Spotify unusually low prices to license the track, in return for the streamer widely recommending the track to its subscribers. According to a court document filed in New York, Drake also accused UMG of using automated computer \u2018bots\u2019 to artificially inflate the supposed number of times the song has been streamed on Spotify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Statistics: Speaking of GDP:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.9606299212598\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.40157480315\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a great example of why GDP per capita is not a good measurement of quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The standard of living in Mississippi is much worse than that of France.<\/p>\n<p>US GDP is absurdly exaggerated, not only because the dollar is the global reserve currency, but also due to the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ZmWqdA1lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ZmWqdA1lp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminNorton\/status\/1860219202101215536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 64 Greed (previous close: 64 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 49 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 27 at 2:10:45 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter (1):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5827586206897\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.3793103448276\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Claude Monet “The Road in front of Saint-Sim\u00e9on Farm in Winter”, 1867. Oil on canvas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mrPtuvtdyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/mrPtuvtdyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul (@_pgb__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pgb__\/status\/1665690876046131209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Winter (2):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1134453781513\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.563025210084\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winter in Broughton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXMtrmt7Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/wXMtrmt7Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L. S. Lowry (@lowryartist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lowryartist\/status\/1861798914090791199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the concept of a \u201cpamphlet launch\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9638554216867\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1506024096386\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Event flyer for my pamphlet launch in Brooklyn. Come by, say hi, get offline. See you soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j09KqZ6WKX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/j09KqZ6WKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Lamm (@AugustLamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustLamm\/status\/1856005761198948584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-moved-uk-election-1989325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she left the country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7486338797814\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.087431693989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday, P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, Cuddle McSnugglestuff. You don\u2019t need to know why. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamDiddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@iamdiddy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Ellen Show (@EllenDeGeneres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EllenDeGeneres\/status\/794616153112879104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something big coming down the pike?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScale-invariant topology and bursty branching of evolutionary trees emerge from niche construction\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1915088117#sec-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PNAS<\/a>]. You\u2019ll like this, if this is the sort of thing you like. The closing paragraph: \u201cOur results show that niche construction is more than a feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes arising when their timescales are not widely separated. Niche construction not only leads to a perturbation in the evolutionary trajectories of all components of an ecosystem, but also creates an indelible footprint on the evolutionary process that cannot be eliminated, even for very long times. These memory effects manifest themselves through the anomalous scaling laws that characterize observed phylogenetic trees.\u201d \u2022 What intrigued me was a sentence in the Abstract: \u201cPhylogenetic trees describe both the evolutionary process and community diversity,\u201d but apparently \u201ccommunity\u201d is not used in a sociological sense.<\/p>\n<p>Dad.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.2048192771084\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.855421686747\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CP4hMUiljE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/CP4hMUiljE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoContextBrits\/status\/1861503891709272331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<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-11-28-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From NYT_Memes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NYT_Memes writes: \u201cFound this after rain last week. Sudden explosion of mushrooms.\u201d Fungi are honorary plants.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, 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, 350 South Madison Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles, 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=\"#blame\">Blame cannons thunder <\/a> after Kamala campaign team podcast.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#assassination\">Investigation into attempts to assassinate Trump <\/a> seem curiously silent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing delivery, layoff woes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally I avoid transparently feel-good stories, but since it\u2019s the holidays:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9756097560976\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.60162601626\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">London please help. I\u2019m praying for a miracle, I\u2019ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I\u2019m devastated <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRNWly3sx1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/DRNWly3sx1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861334796070232497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8639575971731\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.303886925795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: I\u2019ve found the locket, and the chain can be easily replaced. Thank you, everyone. I\u2019m so touched by your responses and beyond relieved to have found it\u2014it\u2019s hard to put into words. \ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/P0beVjOQuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Horgan (@katharinehorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katharinehorgan\/status\/1861357027546591436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>A fine example of Graeber\u2019s \u201cthe communism of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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><a name=\"assassination \"\/>Trump Assassination Attempts (Plural)<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11.495495495495\">\n<p>I\u2019d sure like links for all this, but nevertheless accumulation of detail is impressive:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"821\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/elliott_trump-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Makes me wonder if the Trump transition team\u2019s reluctance to have the FBI do background checks for incoming administration officials and nominees is related to, well, all this. And the Crooks investigation seems to be moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/07\/mobile-data-reveals-someone-who-regularly-visited-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awfully slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.648207663782\">\n<p>Who did this:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4473684210526\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.6315789473684\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>\u2018 message to supporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5xMUGTtkz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/x5xMUGTtkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1861550359161745529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Sound up, definitely. This frame:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/kamala_face-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As readers know, I oppose remote diagnosis. But I\u2019ve gotta say\u2026 If I were in a bar, and caught a glimpse of that face across the room, I\u2019d think the bartender hadn\u2019t been keeping track. Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7753303964758\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.3259911894273\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kamala Harris video is pulled from a grassroots event she did \u2013 I\u2019m not sure amplifying it is the right move. Some messages are just for your supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang\ud83e\udde2\u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1861752439759618495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang seems like a nice person, but if the idea was to make sure Kamala never rean again, amplifying this video was <em>exactly<\/em> the right move.<\/p>\n<p>Four days earlier:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.8803418803419\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.1709401709402\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EBONY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@EBONY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Oo4hWQDZX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/0Oo4hWQDZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1860025483141751178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"blame\"\/><strong>Deploy the Blame Cannons!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDownfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\u201d (video) ShoeOnHead, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?si=3NepuSB0Ka4ZzvSx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>]. Several readers have posted on this \u201cDem\u00f6d\u00e4mmerung\u201d*-themed video, so here it is. NOTE * I like this umlauts, so I\u2019m keeping them, pedants beg\u00f6ne).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Downfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkUkEvf7Ma4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fine use of anaphora!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong\u201d (transcript) [Pod Save America, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast\/exclusive-the-harris-campaign-on-what-went-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crooked Media<\/a>]. \u201cIn this candid [oh yeah] interview, the leaders of the Harris-Walz Campaign speak for the first time about the challenges they faced and why they made the decisions they did. Dan sits down with Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter to talk about the campaign\u2019s roadmap, their approach to nontraditional media outlets like Joe Rogan, the voters they most needed to win over, why they fell short in the end, and what Democrats should do differently next time.\u201d There\u2019s a lot to dislike, but this caught my eye in the transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"11\">\n<p>[PLOUFFE] I just thought at the end of the day, particularly because Trump did not close well, I thought, and I thought Kamala Harris closed well, Trump was reminding people some of the things they don\u2019t like about him. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump closed great. First, McDonalds, then the garbage truck. What\u2019s wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<p>Learned nothing, forgotten nothing:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3846153846154\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.4\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you have 90 minutes and want to learn about the DC swamp scumbags who run campaigns, watch this PodSave interview with the top 4 Kamala consultants.<\/p>\n<p>All self-congratulatory. Not one admission of error. Endless excuses for their $1 billion failure:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/PbLsZcsjIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1861779607063548011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.9871794871795\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.632478632479\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So the Harris campaign was The Producers irl. They knew they were blowing through $1.5 billion in 15 weeks with no chance of winning, and to make sure they lost they brought the Cheneys and Richie Torres on stage. The point was to wash as much stupid money as fast as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/oCfucY6e1O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1861588219298554100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>But surely it would have been better to launder all the stupid money, but also to win?<\/p>\n<p>Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.8696275071633\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.395415472779\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mistake here is to think American politics divides along conservative\/moderate\/liberal lines. The more salient spectrum is prosystem\/antisystem. Trump dominated with antisystem voters, gaining hard with people who also liked & voted for Tlaib, AOC, RFK Jr. & Gabbard. Unless\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uaecbukdxH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeerJeet\/status\/1861242688978235548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Heer\u2019s \u201csystem\/anti-system\u201d binary seems like a more precise, on-point version of \u201cChange vs. More of the Same\u201d (assuming that \u201cchange\u2019 is not <em>necessarily<\/em> systemic, a dubious assumption at this point).<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>TikTok in the campaign. From a campaign staffer, so cum grano salis. Nevertheless:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.8262711864407\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.203389830508\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala advisor Stephanie Cutter: “I can’t tell you how many friends of mine or nieces and nephews would say to me ‘you know I’m getting these things from Trump all the time on TikTok.'” <\/p>\n<p>I was one of the two guys who ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@TeamTrump<\/a> TikTok account. Keep in mind that Kamala\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klIKpegcu3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/klIKpegcu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1861548961451921780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"resistance\"\/>The #Resistance<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"38.619940029985\">\n<p>\u201cThe Resistance goes quiet\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/24\/resistance-trump-protests-womens-march?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Resistance, a political movement to protest Trumpism online and in the streets. There\u2019s still plenty of resistance to Trump across the country, but little mass mobilization\u2026. An event scheduled for January \u2014 dubbed \u2018The People\u2019s March\u2019 \u2014 will inevitably be compared to the massive Women\u2019s March eight years earlier, which garnered hundreds of thousands of participants and spurred nationwide sister marches\u2026 \u201cThe exhaustion is real\u201d among those who organized against Trump during his first term, only to see him elected again, [Tamika Middleton, managing director at Women\u2019s March] says. \u2018Part of what is beautiful about what mobilization offers inside of these moments, is that they activate and bring in new people who have new energy.’\u201d \u2022 We\u2019ll see. Personally, I think the scope of Trump\u2019s victory \u2014 a win in the popular vote, all seven swing states \u2014 removed a lot of the rationale for resistance initially. We\u2019ll see what January brings (besides lawfare and oppo).<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cresistance\u201d per se, but the same people using the same tactics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 Dirty Tricks Playbook?\u201d [Matt Taibbi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Racket News<\/a>]. \u201cThe newly released court docs bear out the fact that there was deep concern within the blue activist world about the third-party run. A memo sent from political strategist Lucy Caldwell to Dmitri Mehlhorn, aide to billionaire donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, described No Labels as a \u2018looming forest fire\u2019 that would be a \u2018nuclear grade threat\u2019 if it nominated a candidate and reached a \u2018live campaign environment.\u2019 To prevent that, Caldwell proposed a protracted campaign of \u2018brand destruction,\u2019 using \u2018controlled burns\u2019 to put the fire out long before the election. As Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson put it less subtly in a tweeted video last April, No Labels needed to be \u2018burned to the fucking ground politically.’\u201d And after an 80-minute conference call between Democratic Party-aligned activist groups, \u201cformer Emily\u2019s List chief <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306212504\/https:\/\/emilyslist.org\/our-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emily Kane<\/a>, now of Third Way, wrote a letter after the discussion reported on by Semafor, summing up the conclusions of what she called, in the subject line, the \u2018Anti-No-Labels Coalition meeting.\u2019 Notably acknowledging they were indeed \u2018working together as a broad coalition\u2019 to \u2018fight the anti-democratic operation that is No Labels,; it added without irony that this fight for democracy should also include \u2018deterring other third party presidential efforts.’\u201d \u2022 Politics ain\u2019t beanbag. But just don\u2019t call yourselves Democrats, uppercase or lowercase D.<\/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>Elite Maleficence<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>Everything\u2019s going according to plan:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/damage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Even though the Covid numbers seem low, please remember that the data is not nearly as good as it once was, that it lags, and that the downside risks of catching Covid are considerable. For those who have developed their own personal protocols, I wouldn\u2019t relax them. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"10.91650671785\">\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 18<\/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-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-4-300x202.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-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><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6842105263158\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> November 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">center <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 16<\/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=\"3.8666666666667\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> 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-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-10-300x189.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=\"2.7951807228916\">\n<td valign=\"top\">center National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> November 25:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> November 23:<\/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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-3-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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> November 4:<\/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> November 4:<\/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-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-2-300x167.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-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-3-300x187.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-ed-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-2-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"151.81693347306\">\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>GDP: \u201cUnited States GDP Growth Rate\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/gdp-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe US economy expanded an annualized 2.8% in Q3 2024, the same as in the advance estimate, compared to 3% in Q2. Personal spending increased at the fastest pace since Q1 2023 although it was revised slightly lower from the advance estimate (3.5% vs 3.7%). It was boosted by a 5.6% surge in consumption of goods (vs 6% in the advance estimate) and a robust spending on services (2.6%, the same as in the advance estimate). Government consumption growth was unrevised at 5%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States Initial Jobless Claims\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/jobless-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cUS initial jobless claims held steady at 213,000 for the week ending November 23rd, below market expectations of 216,000. The results extended the view that the US labor market remains at historically strong levels despite the aggressive tightening cycle by the Federal Reserve in the last quarters, adding leeway for the central bank to slow the pace of monetary loosening should inflation remain stubbornly high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Durable Goods Orders\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/durable-goods-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cNew orders for manufactured durable goods in the US rose by 0.2% over a month to $286.561 billion in October 2024, following a revised 0.4% decrease in the prior month and missing market forecasts of a 0.5% growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Chicago PMI\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-pmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Business Barometer, also known as the Chicago PMI, slid to 40.2 in November 2024, down from 41.6 in September and falling short of market expectations of 44. This left the index 2.7 points below the year-to-date average. The latest reading signaled that Chicago\u2019s economic activity contracted for the 12th consecutive month, and at a notably sharp pace, marking the steepest decline since May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201c\u2018Expansionist\u2019 Emirates unveils first A350 and waits on arrival of longer-range version\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/airlines\/expansionist-emirates-unveils-first-a350-and-waits-on-arrival-of-longer-range-version\/160905.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FlightGlobal<\/a>]. \u201cPhilippe Mhun, Airbus executive vice-president for programmes and services, declines to say how many A350s it will hand over to Emirates next year, but says the carrier will account for a \u201clarge part\u201d of 2025\u2019s output \u2013 somewhere in the region of 25-30%\u2026. Clark says the carrier remains \u2018expansionist\u2019 but requires additional capacity to meet its goals. \u2018We are a frustrated entity because we need airplanes and we need them tomorrow.\u2019 Had Boeing managed to keep to the original timeline for the 777X \u2018we would have had 85 777Xs by now\u2019, says [Emirates president Sir Tim Clark]. Boeing\u2019s latest forecast is for 777X deliveries to start in 2026, although with Emirates third in line to receive the twinjet, its deliveries are likely to be towards the back end of the year at best.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLaid-off Boeing workers worry for themselves, and the company that cut them\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/laid-off-boeing-workers-worry-for-themselves-and-the-company-that-cut-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cLayoff notices came in the form of phone calls, 10-minute calendar holds and scripted conversations with managers. One worker left with a gifted bottle of whiskey. Another wasn\u2019t even allowed to keep the cardboard box they had used to collect their belongings. Some workers had prepared for the news; Boeing executives had spent weeks talking about reducing inefficiencies and focusing on the core parts of the struggling business. Others were blindsided, relying on years of positive reviews and, in some cases, assurances their jobs were safe\u2026. [The Everett-based worker] said he can\u2019t help but feel that \u2018there\u2019s not much runway\u2019 left for the company. \u2018There\u2019s a level of care and a level of knowledge that just won\u2019t be there.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cFAA Says No Immediate Fix Needed For Boeing 737 MAX Engine Smoke In Cabin After Bird Strike Incidents\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-says-no-immediate-fix-needed-boeing-737-max-engine-smoke-cabin-bird-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simple Flying<\/a>]. \u201cThe FAA\u2019s Office of Accident Investigation and Prevention recommended software changes to the engine\u2019s bleed air system\u2019s response to a bird strike. The office\u2019s recommendation read that the required design change would detect the immediate impulse of a bird strike or fan blade loss event and automatically close the affected engine\u2019s Pressure Regulated Shutoff Valves (PRSOV) or trip the associated air conditioning pack.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/faa-team-recommends-boeing-max-design-change-and-notify-pilots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on the leaked memo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cLife is better without Boeing, airline executive says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/easyjet-ceo-airbus-boeing-comparison-1851709216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quartz<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing\u2019s ongoing struggles have disrupted airlines racing to replace aging fleets worldwide, but easyJet has avoided both those troubles and the engine issues plaguing some Airbus operators. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Chief Executive Johan Lundgren expressed thanks that he had Airbus planes with CFM International engines\u2026. [Some] airline executives, like United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby, have publicly called for a new competitor to displace the global Airbus-Boeing planemaking duopoly.\u201d \u2022 Too bad about Bombardier. Embraer? China?<\/p>\n<p>Tech: \u201cDrake takes Kendrick Lamar rap feud to US courts\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/drake-takes-kendrick-lamar-rap-004121669.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo News<\/a>]. \u201cLamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d which accused Drake of having relationships with underage girls, enjoyed huge commercial and critical acclaim, exceeding 900 million plays on streaming platform Spotify and earning multiple Grammy nominations, including song of the year. But in the first of two court filings this week, Drake on Monday accused Universal Music Group (UMG), which distributed the song, of charging Spotify unusually low prices to license the track, in return for the streamer widely recommending the track to its subscribers. According to a court document filed in New York, Drake also accused UMG of using automated computer \u2018bots\u2019 to artificially inflate the supposed number of times the song has been streamed on Spotify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Statistics: Speaking of GDP:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.9606299212598\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.40157480315\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a great example of why GDP per capita is not a good measurement of quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The standard of living in Mississippi is much worse than that of France.<\/p>\n<p>US GDP is absurdly exaggerated, not only because the dollar is the global reserve currency, but also due to the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/J6OWZJqyjf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ZmWqdA1lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ZmWqdA1lp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminNorton\/status\/1860219202101215536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 64 Greed (previous close: 64 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 49 (Neutral). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Nov 27 at 2:10:45 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter (1):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5827586206897\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.3793103448276\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Claude Monet “The Road in front of Saint-Sim\u00e9on Farm in Winter”, 1867. Oil on canvas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mrPtuvtdyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/mrPtuvtdyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul (@_pgb__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pgb__\/status\/1665690876046131209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Winter (2):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.1134453781513\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.563025210084\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winter in Broughton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/bOGC3DQa2L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXMtrmt7Mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/wXMtrmt7Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L. S. Lowry (@lowryartist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lowryartist\/status\/1861798914090791199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the concept of a \u201cpamphlet launch\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9638554216867\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1506024096386\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Event flyer for my pamphlet launch in Brooklyn. Come by, say hi, get offline. See you soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j09KqZ6WKX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/j09KqZ6WKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Lamm (@AugustLamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustLamm\/status\/1856005761198948584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-moved-uk-election-1989325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she left the country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7486338797814\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.087431693989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday, P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, or as I call him, Cuddle McSnugglestuff. You don\u2019t need to know why. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamDiddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@iamdiddy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Ellen Show (@EllenDeGeneres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EllenDeGeneres\/status\/794616153112879104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something big coming down the pike?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScale-invariant topology and bursty branching of evolutionary trees emerge from niche construction\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1915088117#sec-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PNAS<\/a>]. You\u2019ll like this, if this is the sort of thing you like. The closing paragraph: \u201cOur results show that niche construction is more than a feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes arising when their timescales are not widely separated. Niche construction not only leads to a perturbation in the evolutionary trajectories of all components of an ecosystem, but also creates an indelible footprint on the evolutionary process that cannot be eliminated, even for very long times. These memory effects manifest themselves through the anomalous scaling laws that characterize observed phylogenetic trees.\u201d \u2022 What intrigued me was a sentence in the Abstract: \u201cPhylogenetic trees describe both the evolutionary process and community diversity,\u201d but apparently \u201ccommunity\u201d is not used in a sociological sense.<\/p>\n<p>Dad.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.2048192771084\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.855421686747\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CP4hMUiljE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/CP4hMUiljE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoContextBrits\/status\/1861503891709272331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<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-11-28-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From NYT_Memes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fungi_explosion-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NYT_Memes writes: \u201cFound this after rain last week. Sudden explosion of mushrooms.\u201d Fungi are honorary plants.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, 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. 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