By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chook Music of the Day
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Stewart Park, Tompkins, New York, United States. “Initially recorded on 35mm movie; tape pace famous as 46 cm/s…. .” The Macauley Library is a library within the fullest sense of the phrase.
“Once I Turned a Birder, Nearly Every part Else Fell Into Place” [Ed Yong, New York Times]. Readers will recall Yong as one of many few reliable mainstream journalists on Covid. The entire piece is value studying in full, and it’s so beautiful I hate to extract something from it. However wants should: “Birding has tripled the time I spend open air. It has pushed me to discover Oakland in methods I by no means would have: Wonderful scorching spots lurk inside industrial areas, sewage therapy vegetation and random residential parks. It has proved extra meditative than meditation. Whereas birding, I appear impervious to warmth, chilly, starvation and thirst. My senses focus resolutely on the current, and the same old hubbub in my head turns into quiet. Once I spot a species for the primary time — a lifer — I course with adrenaline whereas being totally serene. I additionally really feel a a lot deeper connection to the pure world, which I’ve lengthy written about however at all times remained barely distant from…. Once I step out my door within the morning, I take an aural census of the neighborhood, tuning in to the chatter of creatures that had been at all times there and that I might need beforehand ignored. The passing of the seasons feels extra granular, marked by the arrival and disappearance of explicit species as a substitute of a lot slower adjustments in day size, temperature and greenery. I discover myself noticing small shifts within the climate and small variations in habitat. I take into consideration the tides.” • Do we’ve got any birders within the readership?
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chook Music of the Day
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Stewart Park, Tompkins, New York, United States. “Initially recorded on 35mm movie; tape pace famous as 46 cm/s…. .” The Macauley Library is a library within the fullest sense of the phrase.
“Once I Turned a Birder, Nearly Every part Else Fell Into Place” [Ed Yong, New York Times]. Readers will recall Yong as one of many few reliable mainstream journalists on Covid. The entire piece is value studying in full, and it’s so beautiful I hate to extract something from it. However wants should: “Birding has tripled the time I spend open air. It has pushed me to discover Oakland in methods I by no means would have: Wonderful scorching spots lurk inside industrial areas, sewage therapy vegetation and random residential parks. It has proved extra meditative than meditation. Whereas birding, I appear impervious to warmth, chilly, starvation and thirst. My senses focus resolutely on the current, and the same old hubbub in my head turns into quiet. Once I spot a species for the primary time — a lifer — I course with adrenaline whereas being totally serene. I additionally really feel a a lot deeper connection to the pure world, which I’ve lengthy written about however at all times remained barely distant from…. Once I step out my door within the morning, I take an aural census of the neighborhood, tuning in to the chatter of creatures that had been at all times there and that I might need beforehand ignored. The passing of the seasons feels extra granular, marked by the arrival and disappearance of explicit species as a substitute of a lot slower adjustments in day size, temperature and greenery. I discover myself noticing small shifts within the climate and small variations in habitat. I take into consideration the tides.” • Do we’ve got any birders within the readership?
In Case You Would possibly Miss…
(1) Ed Yong on birding (beneath each “Search for the Helpers” and “Birdsong of the Day”).
(2) Doubling grid capability with higher cables.
(3) Feathers over the millenia.
Search for the Helpers
See Ed Yong on birding just below the Birdsong of the Day:
Actually grateful to Jenny for scripting this nice piece concerning the Spoonbill Membership – our little enterprise to run birding journeys for Bay Space of us with lengthy COVID and different energy-limiting persistent diseases.
(And I hope somebody fulfils Molly Adams’s want of beginning a NY chapter.)
— Ed Yong (@edyong209.bsky.social) Apr 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Neat concept, too.
My electronic mail handle is down by the plant; please ship examples of “Helpers” there. In our more and more determined and fragile neoliberal society, on a regular basis regular incidents and tales of “the communism of on a regular basis life” are what I’m in search of (and never, say, the Purple Cross in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza).
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Biden Administration
These are the ships that might have bulit that pier off Gaza:
USNS 2nd Lt John P Bobo Has Engine Fireplace and Aborts Gaza Mission | Standing of Different Ships
1️⃣ USAV Besson delayed in Azores
2️⃣ USAV Wilson Wharf caught in Tenerife
3️⃣ USNS #Bobo engine hearth and return to Jacksonville https://t.co/JV9IFcCess— Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Transport) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️ (@mercoglianos) April 18, 2024
Little doubt there’s a Plan B, however nonetheless….
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, April 5
Right here this Friday’s RCP ballot. Trump remains to be up in all of the Swing States (extra right here), main with one exception: PA. I’ve highlighted it once more, (1) as a result of BIden is now up there, and (2) it’s an outlier, has been for weeks. Why isn’t Trump doing effectively there? (I’ll work out a greater means to do that, however for now: Blue dot = transfer towards Biden; purple dot = transfer towards Trump. No dot = no change (presumably as a result of state polls are usually not that quite a few so removed from election day).
* * * Trump (R): “Trump juror beforehand arrested for ripping down right-leaning political adverts dismissed from trial” [FOX]. “[Juror #4] was excused from the jury in former President Trump’s felony trial on Thursday after it was revealed the person was as soon as arrested for tearing down right-leaning political commercials…. Juror #2, a girl who lived on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect and works as a nurse, returned to court docket Thursday morning and stated that after additional thought, she had issues about being honest and balanced within the case. ‘I undoubtedly have issues,’ she stated, noting that her household and mates questioned if she was serving on the jury [because news stories revealed her appearance]. ‘I don’t assume I may be honest.’” • To the Prosecution’s credit score, they participated in axing #4. Extra on the jury:
They embrace a lawyer, a hedge funder, an funding banker, a girl in publishing, a instructor turned stay-at-home mother, and a retired school administrator. And in accordance with @nytimes, these are usually not the jurors Trump’s in search of.https://t.co/hUvOC7PmRt
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 18, 2024
Stable PMC, seems to be to me.
Trump (R): “Second juror dropped from Trump’s hush cash trial: Dwell updates” [The Hill]. “5 jurors have to date been picked, after two already-selected jurors had been dismissed earlier Thursday. There are 13 juror picks extra to go for a panel that may embrace six alternates, whittled down from a whole bunch of New Yorkers referred to as to serve… ‘I nonetheless have a flip telephone,’ one potential juror famous as he indicated he doesn’t take heed to any podcasts. He additionally made clear he ‘solely’ will get his information from the New York Every day Information and the New York Put up. Among the many potential jurors’ questions is the place they eat the vast majority of their information.” • A juror after NC’s coronary heart! (Nonetheless feeling my means on the sourcing right here; the reporting on this dwell weblog is healthier than FOX, and simpler to observe than the Twitter, so I could make The Hill my main supply. Readers?
Trump (R): Trump utilizing his telephone in court docket:
OMG 😂 Trump’s ‘hush cash’ NYC trial dwell updates: Ex-prez kicks off ‘hush cash’ felony trial by taking telephone name inside courtroom in flagrant violation of the principles 😂 https://t.co/MxZG0XxyvG
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) April 18, 2024
Dude, sleeping is okay. However a telephone is an excessive amount of.
* * * Trump (R): “‘Smiling his ass off’: How Trump used the New York bodega go to to return to type” [Politico]. “Exterior the Sanaa Handy Retailer, the Harlem bodega the place clerk Jose Alba fatally stabbed a buyer who was attacking him — and who was initially charged with homicide, earlier than the costs had been later dropped — Trump was again on acquainted floor….. On Tuesday, Trump stated he’ll ‘marketing campaign regionally‘ throughout the trial. And the bodega go to was probably simply the primary of many such appearances. His advisers have stated, even on some trial days, to anticipate in-person and digital occasions…. However as he spoke with reporters in New York, a bastion of Democratic politics, Trump’s learn of the information panorama — if not the political one — appeared spot on. Within the media capital of the world, Trump stated he suspected there was ‘extra press right here than there may be if I went out to some good[ha] location.’ ‘He’s proper,’ stated Dave Catalfamo, a Republican guide in New York…. However irrespective of the place viewers stood on Trump, they may a minimum of see in his look on Tuesday the type of joy-riding former president they acknowledged…. The go to, stated Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist based mostly in New York, was a signature instance of Trump utilizing ‘nationwide tv protection as an promoting instrument with out having to pay for the gross ranking factors.’ ‘He’s very sensible,’ Sheinkopf stated. ‘Anyone who understates his capability to make use of PR versus normative political strategies is improper. He’s superb at it, and what it does … it wipes away the issues that individuals are making an attempt to do to undercut his capacities.’” • Trump as grasp retail politician; who knew?
Trump (R): “A hanging distinction on Trump trial day” [Washington Examiner]. “The situation of a Democratic district lawyer, Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg, placing Trump on trial amid a presidential marketing campaign is hanging partly due to a brand new survey displaying a plurality of the general public believing the Trump presidency was higher for America than the presidency of Trump’s opponent, the sitting President Joe Biden. The information is deep inside a New York Occasions-Siena ballot that discovered the Biden-Trump race total virtually precisely tied, with Trump main Biden by a single share level, 46% to 45%. Later within the ballot, the pollsters requested these two questions: ‘Do you usually keep in mind the years that Donald Trump was president as largely good years for America, largely unhealthy years for America, or not likely good or unhealthy?” and “Do you assume the years that Joe Biden has been president have been largely good years for America, largely unhealthy years for America, or not likely good or unhealthy?’ Trump had a strong benefit in voters’ recollections, with 42% saying his presidential years had been largely good years for America, whereas simply 25% stated Biden’s presidential years have been largely good for America. Trump additionally had a strong benefit on the opposite aspect of the reply, with 33% saying his presidential years had been largely unhealthy for America, whereas a a lot bigger 46% stated Biden’s presidential years have been largely unhealthy for America. Trump’s benefit in voters’ recollections is sort of throughout the board.”
* * * Biden (D): “Biden claims uncle vanished after crashing in space of New Guinea with cannibals; navy has totally different story” [FOX]. “Biden instructed the [Pittsburgh] steelworkers that after D-Day, his mom’s 4 brothers volunteered to affix the navy. A kind of uncles, he stated, was Ambrose Finnegan, who glided by the nickname Bozey. ‘He was a hell of an athlete, they inform me, when he was a child,’ Biden stated, including that he was within the Military air corps, which was in place earlier than the Air Power got here alongside. ‘He flew these single-engine planes as reconnaissance over battle zones, and he obtained shot down in New Guinea. They by no means discovered the physique as a result of there was once, there have been loads of cannibals, for actual, in that a part of New Guinea.’ … The Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company has a unique report of what occurred to Biden’s uncle. The location stated on Could 14, 1944, an airplane carrying a crew of three and one passenger, recognized as Finnegan, left Momote Airfield on Los Negros Island for a courier flight to New Guinea. ‘For unknown causes, this airplane was pressured to ditch within the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,’ the report reads. ‘Each engines failed at low altitude, and the plane’s nostril hit the water laborious.’ The report additionally stated three males did not emerge from the sinking wreck and had been misplaced within the crash, whereas one crew member survived and was rescued by a barge. Finnegan has not been related to any of the stays recovered from the realm after the battle and remains to be not accounted for, in accordance with the report.” • Cannibalism within the zeitgeist, I swear. And floating round in Biden’s mind.
* * * Kennedy (I): “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will get spot on Michigan’s poll as Pure Regulation Get together nominee” [Detroit News]. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom some specialists view as a possible spoiler on this 12 months’s race for the White Home, would be the Pure Regulation Get together’s nominee for president in Michigan. Kennedy’s marketing campaign introduced the information Thursday, a day after members of the Pure Regulation Get together in Michigan held a conference the place they formally picked him…. The Pure Regulation Get together’s web site touts plans to decrease taxes, to make educating ‘an honored occupation with commensurate compensation’ and to enact packages ‘to cut back stress within the particular person and all through society.” • The “web site” is the nationwide Pure Regulation Get together’s web site, however the nationwide social gathering dissolved most of its state chapters in 2004, although Michigan remains to be energetic. Be that as it might, the stress reducer touted on the nationwide social gathering’s web site is Transcendental Mediation™. So.
* * * PA: “Trump’s struggle for Pennsylvania” [Unherd]. The outline of Trump’s speech in Lehigh County’s Schnecksville is tremendous, however that is the meat of the piece:
Each [Biden and Trump] will probably be preventing laborious for the overwhelmingly white, working-class vote within the state. Traditionally, Lehigh Valley was populated by the Pennsylvania Dutch, described by one native historian as ‘essentially the most conservative individuals in America.’ However, in recent times, the make-up of the area has begun to vary. Over the past couple of many years, the Valley has develop into the East Coast’s ‘supply-chain empire’ for transporting one-click items on interstate highways. Given its proximity to New York and Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley serves as a node for 100 million individuals residing on the jap seaboard to obtain their deliveries, bringing new jobs and income to the area. That has additionally brought on a inhabitants growth, a lot of it pushed by Latinos who moved to the realm in quest of work. Allenstown is now a majority-Hispanic metropolis — a demographic that Trump has been actively making an attempt to court docket. A latest ballot discovered that the GOP contender now edges out Biden amongst Hispanic voters, with 46% supporting the previous president. A separate ballot exhibits that 42% of Latinos now assist a border wall — up 12 factors from December 2021. In a state the place Latino political energy is rising, this might pose a risk to Biden’s re-election prospects.
And of the rally-goers:
However it isn’t his enchantment to Latinos that makes Trump rallies so totally different from some other. It’s how he electrifies a phase of the inhabitants in a means that no different politician can. These are individuals who weren’t fascinated by politics earlier than Trump and, troublingly, received’t be fascinated by it after him. In some respect, it’s a revolt of the disenfranchised.
“A revolt of the disenfranchised….” you’d assume anyone would do one thing about that…
Republican Funhouse
“Doing ‘the correct factor’ could price Johnson his speaker’s gavel” [CNN]. “It took lower than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to achieve his existential second. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful however acquainted crossroads the place he should both select to honor a traditional imaginative and prescient of US nationwide pursuits or aspect with the wrecking ball antics of his social gathering’s far-right bloc…. Now, as Johnson tries to go billions of {dollars} in support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — important to defending US allies from Russian, Iranian and Chinese language totalitarianism and preserving US energy and status – he’s having to place his personal job on the road to confront GOP extremists who accuse him of betraying the social gathering’s base. ‘Whenever you do the correct factor, you let the chips fall the place they might,’ Johnson stated in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday forward of three vital days that might determine whether or not he can cling to his gavel.” • It’s extremely unlikely that billions for a shedding battle in Ukraine and a genocide in Gaza will “protect” “US energy and status” (although maybe I’m not being cynical sufficient. A “wrecking ball” appears completely acceptable, although it will be my choice to see it swung by the left, had been there any such animal.
“Josh Hawley’s Labor Revolution” [Compact]. “As Batya Ungar-Sargon has written in these pages, at this time’s GOP is a ‘working-class social gathering with no working-class agenda.’” Yeah, like possession and management of the technique of manufacturing. However I digress (besides not, actually). Extra: “However there are vital exceptions to this pattern, and few shine as brightly as Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) with regards to standing up for wage-earners and forging alliances with organized labor. Over the previous few months, these efforts have earned Hawley justified reward—and donation {dollars}—from the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters. Most not too long ago, the Teamsters’ political motion committee provided $5,000 towards Hawley’s re-election marketing campaign in recognition of his assist for hanging auto employees, amongst different labor teams. It’s a uncommon feat for a Republican lawmaker at a second when partisanship continues to divide the GOP from organized labor, even because the social gathering beneath Donald Trump continues to consolidate its assist amongst union households…. The Hawley-Teamster alliance demonstrates that it’s attainable for Republicans to win labor’s assist, offered each camps are ready to take trust-building steps. For Republicans, it isn’t sufficient to merely make imprecise pro-worker noises that quantity to a lot culture-war vibes. . For unions, in the meantime, it likewise means a willingness to privilege bread-and-butter points over the progressive shibboleths that too usually lead the mainstream of the labor motion to behave as slavish adjuncts of the Democratic Get together.” • And “preventing towards” the “progressive shibboleths” with distractions like DEI. What this text is admittedly arguing for is a pivot from the tradition wars, and about time, too.
Democrats en Déshabillé
“The very brief Mayorkas impeachment trial, defined” [Vox]. “On Tuesday, Home Republicans despatched two articles of impeachment towards Mayorkas to the higher chamber, and on Wednesday, senators had been sworn in as jurors for a trial. The articles accuse Mayorkas of failing to implement immigration legal guidelines, making false statements to Congress, and obstructing oversight into DHS insurance policies, all prices he denies. On Wednesday, the Senate rejected each articles, voting 51-48 alongside social gathering strains to deem the primary ‘unconstitutional; and 51-49 to dismiss the second article and adjourn the trial earlier than it even actually started. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted current on the primary article… whereas the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas was designed to solid unfavorable consideration on the Biden administration as Trump navigates numerous authorized scandals of his personal, Senate Democrats’ fast dismissal has dulled a lot of its influence.” • Efficient after they wish to be….
“Moskowitz confronts Greene on Ukraine, Nazi remarks” [The Hill]. “Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in a Wednesday listening to about her false claims that Nazism was rampant in Ukraine — an argument continuously touted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his nation’s invasion of Ukraine.” • The problem the place is that Nazism is rampant in Ukraine (see NC right here, in a put up that accommodates quite a few examples of Ukraine’s Azovs being referred to as Nazis within the US press, when it was permitted to take action). In the meantime, who Moskowitz?
Too unhealthy to see The Hill taking in AIPAC’s laundry.
Pandemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the handle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
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Maskstravaganza
“Is It OK for Internists to Put on Masks Endlessly?” [Catherine Sarkisian, MD Sensible Medicine]. Sarkisian is a geriatrician at UCLA Well being. “I used to be joyful to see that the VA now not requires employees or sufferers to put on masks. Sufferers who’re coughing are requested to put on masks, and employees who’re sick are instructed to remain dwelling.” 4 years into the pandemic, and Physician Sarkisian stays resolutely ignorant that SARS-CoV-2 spreads each a- and pre-symptomatically. I pity her sufferers, coping with somebody so ignorant. Extra: “I used to be sad to see that almost all medical doctors nonetheless put on masks. For the house-officers on my staff, this included carrying masks in our non-public convention room. I labored with one house-officer for a whole week, and .” (Notice Sarkisians barely, er, masked want to assert her authority over the house-officer — “Let me see your smile!” — by making it extra probably she would give you the option, if contaminated, to contaminate them.) This
lietrope drives me up the wall. Masks — apart from industrial-strength Darth Vader masks, not at challenge right here — cowl the mouth and nostril. They don’t cowl the eyes, that are — observe me intently, right here, Physician, since you appear to have forgotten the anatomy a part of your medical schooling — a part of the face and are (“the home windows of the soul”) able to expressing the total vary of human emotion. Half the planet wears masks frequently, together with in hospital settings ffs. Extra: “Hiding your face out of your attending and colleagues is one factor, however the extra vital questions is: what influence does carrying a masks have on our capability to offer excellent affected person care? for our sufferers who’re sick and alone within the hospital to by no means see a human face?” • Man, that’s a toughie. Throughout Delta, it will have felt a hell of so much higher to see HCWs carrying masks than coughing your lungs into bloody mush. And at this time it feels so much higher than neurological and vascalar harm, plus Lengthy Covid. There’s most likely extra and worse, however I can’t go on. “I used to be joyful to see HCWs blithely infecting sufferers with an airborne pathogen, whereas smiling” [pounds head on desk].
Elite Maleficence
WHO truly strolling again airborne transmission, after having admitted they had been improper to suppress it:
Two interviews with @JeremyFarrar.
Earlier than and after changing into @WHO‘s Chief Scientist.
Notice the distinction…
*At the moment Jeremy Farrar will probably be internet hosting the brand new WHO report on the proposed terminology for pathogens that transmit by way of the air. Register right here: https://t.co/QaYcmEvPgV pic.twitter.com/VPylztrhEL
— Maarten De Cock (@mdc_martinus) April 18, 2024
The brand new WHO report, a thread:
It is out! The @WHO‘s new wordsmithing report on airborne transmission. I’ll perform a little dissection on the great and the unhealthy, who wins and who loses. 1/ https://t.co/QMaOKA76yH pic.twitter.com/7uKFu1ZtdS
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca (@jvipondmd) April 18, 2024
Extra:
The nice: An express acknowledgment that COVID is airborne. We have identified this from the start, however solely within the final month has the WHO actually stopped hedging the language on this. No apology for the influence of the error although. That may have been good, if wholly surprising. 4/ pic.twitter.com/NrU0p1m87z
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca (@jvipondmd) April 18, 2024
And extra:
extra unhealthy: Multi-disciplinary engagement. glorious to have airborne scientists right here. Nonetheless lacking some key disciplines: no engineers, no occupational hygienists (the true masks specialists). We’d like all brains engaged on depraved issues. 6/ pic.twitter.com/g5zPgJQEls
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca (@jvipondmd) April 18, 2024
HICPAC will probably be joyful. I’ll should learn the report myself within the close to future…
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new at this time; all others are usually not up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a stage far above valleys beneath Trump. Not an amazing victory. Notice additionally the realm “beneath the curve,” in addition to taking a look at peaks. That space is bigger beneath Biden than beneath Trump, and it appears to be rising steadily if inconsistently.
[2] (Biobot) No backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will probably be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Appears like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
[4] (ER) CDC appears to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I feel in favor of this factor. I’ll attempt to affirm. UPDATE Sure, go away it to CDC to kill a web page, after which announce it was archived a day later. And heaven forfend CDC ought to clarify the place to go to get equal knowledge, if any. I favored the ER knowledge, as a result of it appeared actually laborious to recreation.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Flattening out to a non-zero baseline. I suppose to a tame epidemiologist it seems to be like “endemicity,” however to me it seems to be like one other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.
[8] (Cleveland) Flattening.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Nonetheless down.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally.
[11] Appears just like the Occasions isn’t reporting dying knowledge any extra? Perhaps I would like to return to The Economist….
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States Preliminary Jobless Claims [Trading Economics]. “The variety of individuals claiming unemployment advantages within the US was unchanged from the prior week at 212,000 for the interval ending April 18th, beneath market expectations of 215,000. Moreover, persevering with claims had been loosely unchanged at 1,812,000 initially of the month, beneath market expectations of 1,818,000, to indicate that the unemployed are discovering jobs at a wholesome tempo when in comparison with historic requirements.”
Manufacturing: “United States Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index within the US rose 12 factors to fifteen.5 in April 2024, effectively above market expectations of 1.5. It was the third consecutive optimistic studying and the very best since April 2022… The survey’s broad indicators for future exercise fell however remained optimistic, suggesting continued expectations for progress over the following six months.”
Retail: “Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Collect Intel on Rivals” [Wall Street Journal]. “The operation, referred to as Large River Companies Worldwide, sells round $1 million a 12 months of products by way of e-commerce marketplaces together with eBay, Shopify, Walmart and Amazo beneath model names comparable to Fast Cascade and Svea Bliss. “We’re entrepreneurs, thinkers, entrepreneurs and creators,” Large River says on its web site. ‘We’ve a ardour for purchasers and aren’t afraid to experiment.’ What the web site doesn’t say is that Large River is an arm of Amazon that surreptitiously gathers intelligence on the tech big’s opponents…. The story of Large River presents new perception into Amazon’s elaborate efforts to remain forward of rivals. Crew members attended their rivals’ vendor conferences and met with opponents figuring out themselves solely as staff of Large River Companies, as a substitute of revealing that they labored for Amazon. They got non-Amazon electronic mail addresses to make use of externally—in emails with individuals at Amazon, they used Amazon electronic mail addresses—and took different extraordinary measures to maintain the challenge secret. They disseminated their experiences to Amazon executives utilizing printed, numbered copies relatively than electronic mail. Those that labored on the challenge weren’t even supposed to debate the connection internally with most groups at Amazon.” • Oh, “Large River.” I get it. Musical interlude.
At the moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 35 Worry (earlier shut: 34 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 46 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Apr 18 at 1:04:37 PM ET.
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