Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Day 221: Constitutional Issues

Sweden, a nation of ten million people, has finally surpassed China, a nation of one billion people and the source of the novel coronavirus, in case count, putting them at #38 and #39 respectively. In #3 Brazil, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the president, has recovered from coronavirus with the help of hydroxychloroquine. In #41 the Netherlands, three more mink farms have been found infected and are being culled. (PlagueBlog hopes they don't do the same with people.)

Germ Boat #34 is HMS Queen Elizabeth, a UK aircraft carrier, currently grounded in Portsmouth over "fewer than ten" cases among the crew.

Here in the US, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have "walked back" their promised national mask mandate over that pesky constitution thing. Also, the right to bear nerf arms is under attack in Colorado, where a 12-year-old's green nerf gun was spotted briefly during fake online school, leading to a police visit, a five-day suspension, and his eventual withdrawal from the Hitler Youth school.

Massachusetts' cases are up a seventh of a percentage point today.

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