Parallax View - part the twenty third

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:

  >= 1,000 - 250
100 to 999 - 1,250 

(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,074. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH₂O 2020's perpetual lying.

[8 September, some numbers]
Well, as was predicted, the knuckledraggers have created what is likely the superestspreader event so far in Covid. Good work, Radical Rightwing Rednecks. We who are about to die, give you the finger.

The 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota in August, which drew more than 400,000 people, has now been linked to more than 250,000 coronavirus cases, according to a study by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

Using anonymized cellphone data from the rally, researchers from the University of Colorado Denver, Bentley University, University of California San Diego and San Diego State University found the bikers, who were filmed and photographed in crowded bars, restaurants and outdoor venues mostly without face masks, allowed for many of the "worst-case scenarios" for "superspreading."