First things first: deep breath. Today numerous outlets called the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, which sent the country and the world into a frenzy, and Biden and Harris made powerful speeches to accept the nominations. The current administration is acting exactly as expected and refusing to concede while also insisting that they will "begin prosecuting" their lawsuits on Monday. As I warned Nova earlier this week, no matter what happened with the election, the next 3 months could prove to be the most excruciating of this presidency and of the pandemic.
Still it was an exciting day. I had been up all night and when I did finally fall asleep, it was to people honking and noisemaking throughout my neighborhood. I snoozed in and out of the afternoon (lady cramps can be debilitating even during happy times) and I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm, but we're still in the middle of a pandemic. I'm not 100% sure, but looking back at old charts, today's total of 540 new cases, even with a previous testdump, is our highest number since August 7th, our hospitalizations are over the county's trigger, and businesses might want to prepare for next week's possible closures. I tried to fiddle with the numbers again but I still think I'm not doing the right math, but if I am, we're definitely sliding back, even with the adjustment factor. Maybe going out in large, chanting groups isn't exactly the way to fight the pandemic even though we're all ecstatic. Lots of news and reading today, though I'm sure you've already drank in your fill of information and punditry today.
- Election/Political News:
- The First Black Woman President Is Here: The Ascendancy of Kamala Harris to the White House is More Radical Than We Think - Rebecca Solnit via LitHub (11.6.2020)
- Kamala Harris, shattering racial and gender barriers, makes history as first woman vice president - Yahoo! News (11.8.2020)
- Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity. He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises. - The New York Times (11.8.2020)
- Planned Parenthood Election Endorsements & Results
- Van Jones' Emotional Statement on Election (YouTube)
- Brady Campaign To End Gun Violence Election Victories
- Our Vision for a Just Future: An urgent, transformative action agenda for a more equitable and compassionate nation - SPLC
- Confront hate and build trust in democratic ideals;
- Promote a fair and equitable criminal justice system while working to end mass incarceration;
- Promote a just, humane and welcoming immigration system;
- Expand ballot access and eliminate discriminatory barriers to voting;
- Combat discrimination and promote health, safety and opportunity in the workplace, schools and communities.
- #ClimatePresident Action Plan
- Declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act
- Keep fossil fuels in the ground
- Stop fossil fuel exports and infrastructure approvals
- Shift financial flows from fossil fuels to climate solutions
- Use the Clean Air Act to set a science-based national pollution cap for greenhouse pollutants. Then, use all Clean Air Act programs to drive emissions towards zero economy-wide
- Power the electricity sector with 100% clean and renewable energy by 2030 and promote energy democracy
- Launch a just transition to protect our communities, workers, and economy
- Advance Climate Justice: Direct federal agencies to assess and mitigate environmental harms to disproportionately impacted Indigenous Peoples, People and Communities of Color, and low-wealth communities
- Make polluters pay: Investigate and prosecute fossil fuel polluters for the damages they have caused. Commit to veto all legislation that grants legal immunity for polluters, undermines existing environmental laws, or advances false solutions
- Rejoin the Paris Agreement and lead with science-based commitments that ensure that the United States, as the world's largest cumulative historical emitter, contributes its fair share and advances climate justice
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- 5,863 New Cases/956,957 Total Cases (0.6% increase)
- 73 New Deaths/17,939 Total Deaths (0.4% increase)
- 3.3% 14-day test positivity rate
- San Diego County Stats
- State Data:
- 484 New Cases/59,143 Total Cases
- 3 Deaths/907 Total Deaths
- 8.7 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 10/24, Assessed on 11/4. Unadjusted Case Rate Using Linear Adjustment)
- 3.2% Test Positivity (Based on week ending 10/24, Assessed on 11/4)
- 5.3% Health Equity Positivity (Based on week ending 10/10, Assessed on 10/27)
- County Data:
- San Diego County COVID Update - County News Center
- 540 New Cases/59,656 Total Cases
- 1 New Daily Deaths/908 Total Deaths
- 4% Daily Test Positivity/3.6% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/3.2% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 7.4 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 10/24, Assessed on 11/4. County is reporting unadjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.
- Case Investigation is 96%
- 6 New/33 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Increasing Hospitalizations: 17.6% (This is above the trigger. "Hospitalizations" have changed definition: before, anyone hospitalized for COVID-19 more than 2 weeks was no longer counted as hospitalizations. Now they do, so the niumbers are not a complete picture on new hospitalizations necessarily, but counting all accurately.)
- Universities:
- COVID-19:
- Making pandemic ‘personal responsibility’ optional a grave mistake - WyoFile (11.3.2020)
- BBC correspondent: 'Long Covid has left me exhausted for seven months' - BBC (11.7.2020)
- A Very Dark Pandemic Winter Is Nigh: A deluge of Covid-19 hospitalizations is a warning that a surge in deaths is coming - Medium (11.6.2020)
- Texas hits 1 million Covid-19 cases, the most in the nation - NBC News (11.6.2020)
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— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 7, 2020
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