Pierre Delecto

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[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@LACountyRRCC Random question -- is there an order you generally count ballots in?

(e.g., do you count ballots that are mailed-in first and then ballots that were cast via drop-box/vote centers, or do you just count all the ballots at once?)

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@stevenadamswv Interesting article!

Is there any per-county breakdown in early voting? Just curious if the Mooney-McKinley matchup is drawing any increased turnout in the 2nd district

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Update: Biden no longer going to Wilmington. “The President had a family-related issue that was going to take him to Wilmington, DE tonight but he will no longer be going and will remain in Washington, DC tonight,” the WH says.

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@kcelections Thanks so much! Definitely a nail-biter!

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@hjessy_ @Jason825 Thanks for compiling all of this

Do you know if these are election day votes or mail ins?

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@AsInMarx @SpecialPuppy1 Could be Bibb/Kelley, but there's a typo here. Here's the current results

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@jensteer I think you mis-typed the Kucinich number. Currently at 19.5%

[Jeremy Chrysler @jeremychrysler]

Why admitting Covid is Airborne is hard. A 🧵 and 6k word piece on the curious history of airborne transmission.

Evidence that Covid spreads through the air is strong but airborne protections are lacking. I wanted to understand why, and was surprised...
https://t.co/WBuDgwEQZk

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Some of the new Texas laws that went into effect today

• 6-week abortion ban
• 21+ can carry handguns without training or license
• limit teachers from discussing systemic racism in class
• pro teams required to play national anthem before games https://t.co/S4bG4ZDDsC

[Taniel @Taniel]

Tragic, if predictable, when prominent legal liberal voices use their platforms to direct most punitive instincts against decision to free someone after 53 years (based on so much that happens in 53 years) — as if so much wasn’t stacked against parole, esp. when politically risky

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

These are the kind of data that need to be communicated to the public, as tracked by Oregon
Yes, with Delta the breakthrough cases have increased but the benefit of vaccination has gone up markedly
https://t.co/UpVFb6M1DZ

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

It would be hard to envision this happening in the post-vaccination era, each day getting worse than anytime since the pandemic began

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

Don’t worry, the nudge guys still have a few ideas:
- serving the vax on a smaller plate
- putting the vax at eye level in the store
- leaving the lid to the vax jar open, rather than closed
- putting up signs saying “well over 60% of people don’t like covid”

[Liz Wolfe @LizWolfeReason]

I'm becoming increasingly annoyed by the "masks are no real imposition" crowd. Yeah, they're a relatively easy & low-cost protective measure, but they take something significant––but hard to measure––away from human interaction. We can't see other people's reactions, we can't

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Leaked CDC slides on delta variant got you concerned?

I find the slides insightful & largely reassuring

Bottom line

Delta variant is a problem

Vaccines prevent vast majority of infections, transmission

And nearly all hospitalizations, deaths

Thread

https://t.co/Du2UVzZZBl

[Pierre Delecto @StrongDemocrat]

@kaitlancollins This is so insanely dumb and it is disturbing the Biden administration is keeping this policy.

Germany is on the travel restrictions list but Botswana (with 35x the cases) is not.

Just COVID theatre with significant costs to those waiting to be reunited w/ loved ones

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

There were ~240,000 reported Delta cases in the US last week (and probably another ~2 million unreported Delta infections) but yeah let's keep those Delta-carrying Europeans out!

[Nathan Howard @SmileItsNathan]

Images with friends and family of farmworker Sebastian Francisco Perez, who died last weekend along with about 100 others in the western heatwave

Perez turned 38 the day before his death while tending to a commercial nursery growing shade trees

For @AP
https://t.co/kq1L0mdWOt