Source: Key Senate Democrat says he’ll block $2,000 stimulus checks – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Monthly Archives: January 2021
AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts record on National Guard in DC
Liar – you sent them down to Capitol and your lawyer cried out
trial by combat!

President Donald Trump is claiming that he immediately dispatched the National Guard and police to tamp down the chaos at the Capitol this week
Army head says Nat. Guard may be allowed to carry guns in DC – The Washington Post (No, no, no, no! This is what police are for. No threat of military takeover please.)
Seychelles to start vaccinations with Chinese-made Sinopharm

The Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles says it will begin administering COVID-19 vaccinations on Sunday with the 50,000 doses it has of the Chinese-developed Sinopharm vaccine
WHO: Amid short supplies, vaccine doses can be 6 weeks apart – The Washington Post – (sounds good but could well lead to many, many people just having 40/50% protection and be open to infection because of false sense of protection… AKA: Bad idea!)
“WHO’s recommendation at present is that the interval between doses may be extended up to 42 days (6 weeks), on the basis of currently available clinical trial data,” it said, adding: “Should additional data become available on longer intervals between doses, revision of this recommendation will be considered.”
Hard-hit Britain, for example, has decided to delay for as much as 12 weeks — and data from that expansion could help contribute to possible revisions in the WHO recommendation, said WHO spokeswoman Dr. Margaret Harris.
Source: WHO: Amid short supplies, vaccine doses can be 6 weeks apart – The Washington Post
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Coronavirus: 9,535 daily cases, 318 hospitalizations reported in Ohio
Ohio recorded 9,535 daily cases of coronavirus Friday, the second highest number of cases reported since Christmas, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Since the pandemic began, Ohio has reported 762,603 total cases.
Source: Coronavirus: 9,535 daily cases, 318 hospitalizations reported in Ohio
The man who stormed Pelosi’s office and a West Virginia lawmaker are among those arrested. – The New York Times
A lawmaker from West Virginia and a man who broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and posed at her desk were among those arrested on charges related to the siege at the Capitol, federal law enforcement officials announced on Friday as they promised an exhaustive investigation into the violence. The authorities also found 11 Molotov cocktails and a semiautomatic rifle in the truck of a 70-year-old man from Alabama who was also arrested, according to prosecutors. He also had two handguns. Hundreds of prosecutors and F.B.I. agents have been assigned to work the investigation and were pursuing dozens of cases, Ken Kohl, a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, said in a briefing with reporters. “We are far from done,” added Steven M. D’Antuono, who runs the F.B.I.’s Washington field office.
Sweden passes law allowing coronavirus lockdowns, expects to use it soon – The Washington Post – (better now than not at all)
Australia: Brisbane To Enter 3-Day Lockdown Over Detection Of COVID B.1.1.7 Variant Virus
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The more transmissible B.1.1.7 COVID variant – which was first detected in the UK, and has now been identified in more than 40 countries – has raised concerns it might eventually become the dominant strain worldwide.
Even though it has not been linked to more severe illness, and there are hopeful signs the current vaccine will be effective against it, a substantially more transmissible virus remains a serious threat and could easily overwhelm local health delivery systems.
Two days ago Denmark – which has detected fewer than 100 cases – estimated it could become their dominant strain in as little as a month from now (see Denmark: Statens Serum Institute (SSI) Estimate Of COVID Variant B.1.1.7 Growth).
For countries who have successfully achieved low levels of COVID-19 transmission – and have only found only a few cases of the variant virus – there remains hope it may still be possible to contain, or at least slow, the spread of this more daunting variant
While Australia has detected the variant in a small number of quarantined arrivals into the country, until yesterday they’d never detected a case outside of quarantine. Yesterday that lucky streak ended with the detection of the variant in a quarantine hotel employee,who was presumably infectious for several days before being identified.
This January 7th alert from Public Health Australia.
A public health alert has been issued for locations across Brisbane following the identification of a positive case in a quarantine hotel employee.
The 20-29-year-old woman was unknowingly infectious from 2 January 2021 and tested positive for COVID-19 on 6 January 2021.
Those who have been to the below locations during the relevant time periods, regardless of whether they have symptoms, are asked to come forward for testing and isolate until they receive their results.
Critically, even if a negative test result is received, people are asked to continue to monitor for symptoms and get retested if necessary.
Greater Brisbane 3-day lockdown
Greater Brisbane will go into lockdown for three days, while contact tracers work to ensure the UK variant of COVID-19 is not circulating in the community.
From 6pm tonight, Friday 8 January, until 6pm Monday 11 January people in the local government areas of Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Redlands and Logan will be required to stay at home except for the following reasons:
- Shopping for essentials, food and necessary supplies
- Medical or healthcare needs, including compassionate requirements
- Exercise with no more than one other person, unless all from the same household
- Providing care or assistance to an immediate family member
- Work, or volunteering, or study if it is not reasonably practicable to work or learn remotely
- Child custody arrangements
- Legal obligations
- Visit for end of life
- Attend funeral or wedding in line with restrictions
Masks will also need to be worn everywhere in those local government areas except if people are at home.
Cafes, pubs and restaurants will be open only for takeaway and delivery services.
Funerals will be restricted to 20 people and weddings to 10, including the celebrant and two witnesses.
All essential businesses remain open. If you need to leave Greater Brisbane for an essential purpose, such as to work, to return home or to access healthcare, you should limit your movements for those three days wherever you go.
We’re also asking anyone who was in Greater Brisbane on or since 2 January, to follow the same lockdown rules where they are now. Only leave your home for the essential reasons and wear a mask.
Get tested
If you have any symptoms at all, get tested immediately and quarantine at home until you receive a negative result.
List of restrictionsThe full list of restrictions include:
- No more than two visitors to the household per day (in addition to anyone else currently staying in the household), excluding care workers or volunteers
- All businesses that can remain open must adhere to social (physical) distancing and continue operating under a COVID Safe or Industry Plan
- Restaurants and cafes to provide takeaway and delivery services only
- Cinemas, entertainment and recreation venues, gyms etc to close
- Places of worship to close
- Weddings involve a maximum of 10 people, including the celebrant and witnesses
- Funerals involve a maximum of 20 people
- Mandatory mask wearing anywhere outside of your home
- No visitors to aged care facilities, hospitals, disability accommodation services or correctional facilities.
Whether or not is is reasonable to expect that Australia – or any other country – can keep the B.1.1.7 variant out of their nation’s population over the long term is debatable.
But Australia – which quelled two modest spikes of COVID in 2020 – has remarkably brought down their daily case counts to the low double, or even single digits (see epi curve below).
Meaning every delaying tactic, and every measure they can take to potentially slow its spread, gives them more time to roll out COVID vaccinations (now expected to begin in February) to their front line workers, and general population.
And that’s a hard earned luxury few other countries can take advantage of right now.


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