Bird Song of the Day
From a park in Asunción, Paraguay.
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
Alert reader RockHard says the spike in the Northeast is from Pennsylvania. And so it is. Here is the data for the Northeast:
If the Pennsylvania data is good, we need to do whatever they’re doing. But I don’t think it is good. From the Daily Item: “Pennsylvania state officials say more than 7 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered and a quarter of the state’s population is fully vaccinated after another 84,000 shots were given on Saturday.” The Daily Item again: “The state is receiving nearly 680,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines on Monday.” But are those vaccines, as we horridly say, “in arms”? Vaccinations cannot have increased by more than an order of magnitude sudden
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MSNBC s Heilemann: Don t Give GOP Credit If They Dump Gaetz! (Never Mind Halperin)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of Substack’s biggest names, makes between $80,000 and $160,000 a month in subscriptions to his newsletter. …
Substack, a newsletter platform whose model is based on paid subscriptions, is flying particularly high. It announced on Tuesday that it was raising a further $65m from investors, in a round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will reportedly value it at $650m. Established in 2017, Substack now has more than half a million subscribers double what it had in December. And some of its biggest names are making out like bandits.
Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who in October resigned from The Intercept, the online media platform he co-founded, citing “repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity”, has between 20,000 and 40,000 paid subscribers to his newsletter, each contributing at least $5 a month. Once Substack has taken its standard 10 per cent c