November 29, 2020
The MoA Week In Review - Open Thread 2020-94
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- November 23 - Pandemic Freedom
- November 27 - The Vaccine Competition Will Be Ruthless
Related:
Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing medical facilities to occupancy limits - WSWS
Why are the Free Traders All Protectionists? Vaccines and Sharing Knowledge (Fun for Thanksgiving) - CEPR
Russia says its COVID vaccine is 95% effective. So why is there still Western resistance to it? - CBC
- November 24 - Another Look At Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Team
Related:
Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball - Black Agenda Report
Potential Biden Officials’ Firm Is Promising Big Profits Off Those Connections - David Sirota / Daily Poster
- November 25 - Israel Is (Again) Pushing For War On Iran
- November 27 - Iran's Top Nuclear Scientist Assassinated As Israel Tries To Provoke War
Related:
Overview: nuclear scientists as assassination targets - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Opinion: Gangsters Without A Code - National Justice
EXCLUSIVE: Saudi crown prince was reluctant to back US attack on Iran - Middle East Eye
Government secretly deployed British troops to defend Saudi Arabian oil fields - Independent
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Other issues:
Syria:
- New Israeli attack | Airstrikes target pro-Iranian militias in Al-Bukamal countryside, killing some 20 militiamen of “Zaynabiyoun Brigade” - SOHR
- Is Turkey gearing up to attack the Syrian Kurds again? - Ahval
Civil War:
- For What Are America's Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War - Matt Taibbi
When leaders run out of unifying myths, division is the last currency. Why this Thanksgiving, America is a "death cult" versus "radical socialists" - Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on Biden, Trump, Israel/Palestine, Assange & Censorship (vid) - Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper / Rolling Stone
Covid-19 Transmission:
- Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2 - Science
Based on detailed patient and contact tracing data in Hunan, China we find 80% of secondary infections traced back to 15% of SARS-CoV-2 primary infections, indicating substantial transmission heterogeneities. Transmission risk scales positively with the duration of exposure and the closeness of social interactions and is modulated by demographic and clinical factors. - A helpful calculator:
Why Is the Risk of Coronavirus Transmission so High Indoors? - Die Zeit
Whenever people gather in closed spaces, the infection risk climbs. Our interactive tool shows how the coronavirus spreads. Find out how safe your environment is. - The number of complains about scented candles which don't smell correlates with Covid-19 infections.
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n - Kate Petrova
Opioid crimes:
- McKinsey advised Purdue to offer rebates for opioid overdoses - Axios
- McKinsey Presentation - High impact interventions to rapidly address market access challenges (pdf)
- From a Reddit comment
> What's hilarious is that it looks like McKinsey gave Purdue advice between 2008-2010 on how to boost up opioid sales, when apparently both the client and firm knew that such a strategy would lead to overdoses, then came back in 2017 to essentially give Purdue a PR strategy on how to apologize for all the people they killed. This was when everyone and their mother knew that Purdue was facing an existential legal crisis. So you paid McKinsey to dig you a hole, then paid them to help you climb back out. <
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Trump voters hate Harris with a passion.
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Dec 3 2020 17:02 utc | 201
Those folks have remarkably short fuse, and let their passions fly.
National Review December 3, 2020 11:08 AM
...lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, along with activist Ali Alexander, have urged Georgia Republicans to boycott the runoffs to protest alleged widespread voter fraud in the state.
Powell and Wood held a rally outside of Atlanta on Wednesday to urge the state’s Republican voters to withhold their support for Loeffler and Perdue unless the pair begin calling on Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to investigate their baseless claims that the state’s voting systems were hacked.
“I would encourage all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all unless your vote is secure,” Powell said. “There should not be a runoff. Certainly not on Dominion machines.”
Wood, for his part, suggested that Kemp be imprisoned for certifying the election results and refusing to indulge the Trump campaign’s claims that Democrats “stole” the election.
“As far as I’m concerned, lock him up,” [Trumpette] Wood said of Kemp.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Dec 3 2020 21:20 utc | 201