My post, to which you responded, did not advocate censoring anyone or anything. I simply pointed out that the discussion entitled "Sonoma County Covid-19 The Numbers" should be confined to that...

froth on his whiskers
a man in the pub explains
how high the tide was

David Cobb -- Global Haiku, edited by George Swede and Randy Brooks

David Cobb passed away last Friday. He was one of...

Trump firing Mark Esper is far more nuanced. Here is a fascinating article by Politico reporting on the chain resignations that followed Esper's firing, which took place immediately afterwards in the...

I can’t believe this conversation is still going on... and spans 4 pages.

The science is not in dispute- Masks prevent the spread of Covid indeed a lot of researchers seem to think that if 70% or...

Morning sun enters
like a broom. Light brushes dust
off the temple steps.

Yeshaya Rotbard - The Calligraphy of Clouds, 2007

I don't know anything about Rotbard other than what is written on...

Death rates rise dramatically when hospitals become over burdened. There are plenty of machines but when intensivists get in short supply death rates can double and greater. You can't just plug any...

I don’t see this as an issue at all. It was well known they did not get along. By all accounts he composed his resignation letter a couple minths ago. Updated it a few weeks ago.
This is just...

Yes, please limit this discussion to Sonoma County's COVID-19 case statistics.

Barry as our moderator can you not re=allocate these numerous comments to another coronavirus topic post ? This is supposed to be about the numbers.
Yes, my second request.
Thanks

This I will also point out... ..."Facism in USA is far from over", as Dogenzip so describes in the posting, in the "National & International Politics" category.
...

Autumn . . . the path now
wanders to oblivion
under every tree.

James Hackett (August 6, 1929 to November 9, 2015)

James Hackett was a significant and influential haiku poet. Hackett won a...

All I have been doing is passing on the information Sonoma County posts on their website in a form that's a bit easier to quickly evaluate. Graphs and charts interest me, especially when it directly...

ah, that finally clarified your point of view for me. I hadn't quite found the theme in your posts before.

To paraphrase, then, I hope accurately: Covid is being over-hyped and over-politicized....

Re:
socoexpat, I agree... ...Also, add to that:

The first 1 minute and 8 or so seconds of the video is exactly what I think that a Biden presidency, and for that matter, the foolishness...

it just means that the high-stakes elections keep rolling in. First, and really soon, the Georgian runoff elections, then in two years, midterms with the Senate at stake again. We better get used to...

Here is an old celebratory song that brings back some happy electoral memories:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DerVmiZeUDw

Good points all, James. I agree with you 100%. Now the hard work continues and as you made clear, it's not going to be easy. We have to roll up our sleeves now and get to work rebuilding this divided...

It seems pretty obvious to me that since the topic of GR Uke's posts is clearly the coronavirus, then all the info contained therein would also pertain to the coronavirus, unless otherwise stated.

good question, one worth answering someday.

However, this seems to be a lot of inside-baseball, because the problem seems to be incorrectly framed. We're talking about - what public policy...

The American people have defeated fascism! Trump defeated!

Democracy, justice, and decency have prevailed!

Here is Beethoven's, "Ode to Joy."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3sEE18WsE
...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpfb_B0vxY
<ytd-channel-name id="channel-name" wrap-text=""><yt-formatted-string id="text" title="" has-link-only_="">The Young Turks, </yt-formatted-string>Nov 5,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5euXPUwj4

A feather drifting.
A twig floating in the stream.
A wild goose flying.

Johnny D. - Poems One, 2008

Johnny D. is a British poet. As far as I know he has published only this collection. He...

Cases is an important data point to track the level of infection in a community. You want to know how prevalent it is and if it is increasing or not. But a much better measure of that is the...

The boys are in school;
fall leaves -- the only swimmers
in the swimming pool.

Margot Bollock -- Borrowed Water, 1966

For more information about 'Borrowed Water' see Hilda Aarons above. This...

Eating fish and chips,
two old sisters gently dab
ketchup from their lips.

Pat Boran - Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku, 2015

Pat Boran is an Irish poet. Bull Island is a small island near...

A winter sunset --
the day's unanswered questions
simply disappear

Priscilla Lignori - Beak Open, Feet Relaxed, 2013

Priscilla Lignori is a contemporary haiku poet living in New York's Hudson...

Yes, Sonoma County has been publishing that chart daily for many months. Goat Rock Ukulele began this discussion, and he has posted that chart daily, together with other valuable information he...

Yes, the polemicists have hijacked this discussion. It would be appropriate for our Moderator either to move off-topic posts elsewhere or, if that is too much of a bother, to delete them.

Emptiness -- you know
what I mean? Moonlight howling
in the room like snow.

Hayden Carruth -- Collected Shorter Poems 1946 - 1991

Hayden Carruth (1921 - 2008) was a well-known successful...

I also live outside of the Sebastopol city limits, but I work and shop in Sebastopol daily. Love the city. I think ranked choice voting is a good idea, for all elections.

room in the puddle
for your reflection, or mine
or maybe the moon

Susan August -- Haiku Distance, 2009

Susan August is a contemporary haiku poet living in the Bay Area. She has published...

I am not a resident in the city limits of Sebastopol, and no longer shop or visit there, but I applaud Micheal Carnacchi. I hope he gets the support he needs to prevail. I may yet return to visiting...

Seeing the thin elm
this dismal sunless morning,
I think of yellow.

Hilda Aarons - Borrowed Water, 1966

'Borrowed Water' is the first anthology of English Language Haiku (ELH). It was...

Turning from the page,
Blind with a night of labour,
I hear morning crows.

Amy Lowell -- What's O'Clock, 1925

Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) was born into a wealthy Boston family; some of her...

One bit of blue sky
then clouds over the city
twelve hundred years old.

Edith Shiffert -- The Light Comes Slowly

Edith Shiffert (1916 to 2017) was a well-known poet who published over 20...

SOS to Barry
with all due respect to the opinions shared here, wasn't this thread intended to simply be a daily bulletin of, COVID The Numbers?
How about re directing the cross talk and opinions...

:waccosun::waccosun::waccosun:

Let's keep this thread in General Community for Sonoma County Specific posts.

Any further not-Sonoma County specific posts will be excluded from the digest.
...

On a withered bough
A crow alone is perching,
Autumn evening now.

Basho - Translated by Kenneth Yasuda, Japanese Haiku, Its Essential Nature and History, 1957

There are many translations of...

ok, more math analysis. I'm far more likely to die by motorcycle than by drowning, but both of those are way higher than 0.1% -- for me. They're way lower than 0.1% for my wife, or probably for you,...

It has been a long time since I posted poetry here at Waccobb. My focus on poetry has shifted and these days I write, for the most part, haiku in the traditional three-line, 5-7-5, syllabic pattern....

I agree. I am an evidence-based physician who follows COVID-19 information closely. But NOT from the media. I follow research and reports from all over the world, often from sites not available to...

I agree that the rate of hospitalizations is a more useful metric than infection testing rates. For the U.S. the number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19 has been increasing for the past 3 weeks,...

I don't think it's quite that simple. It depends on who is being tested. At times they have tested all first responders or those in a certain community or those who work at nursing homes. These...

I'm sorry but I'm a bit baffled here. Is your point that rushed vaccines are a problem, or that somehow vaccines are available but it's being kept from us?

October 19

82 New Cases Reported In Sonoma County. Follow Cases in your zip code here https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35

5...

https://www.livescience.com/how-coronavirus-tests-work.html


“PCR tests work by detecting specific genetic material within the virus. Depending on the type of PCR on hand, health care workers...

The tests do not create cases. They identify infections that already exist. Please be clear with language.

As an evidence-based physician, I have to say that anyone who says today that the COVID-19 vaccines are "safe and effective" does not have the facts. We have not had enough time to demonstrate that....

This has probably already been said

Vote Biden

A Vote for anyone else is a vote for trump

even though California will Vote Biden
It needs an overwhelming mandate in numbers
as weight if...