2:00PM Water Cooler 1/24/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Chook Tune of the Day

Assorted Thrush, Snohomish, Washington, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Guidelines. “Pure vocalization. Tune from a male chicken perched on the highest of a tall leafless deciduous tree. Spacing between notes a lot nearer collectively than regular music; maybe that is daybreak music (although no such vocalization is described in BNA) or subsong.” Subsong?

Politics

“However what’s authorities itself, however the best of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51

“Right here’s meals for thought, had Ahab time to assume; however Ahab by no means thinks; he solely feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

Biden Administration

“Biden Brings in a Marketing consultant” [Franklin Foer, The Atlantic]. “In most press accounts concerning the impending appointments, Zients’s main bond to Biden is the time he spent because the White Home COVID czar—an intense 15 months, throughout which they masterfully rolled out vaccines after which typically sputtered of their quest to conquer the pandemic. However one other expertise will inform their relationship—a relationship that arguably will dictate the contours and decide the success of the final two years of Biden’s time period.” “Typically sputtered”? When the adults within the room slaughtered extra People than Trump? Extra: “The place Klain hardly ever hesitates to steer into an argument, Zients cuts a extra genteel presence. He likes to invoke managerial maxims. (He tells workers that they need to “run over the hill,” by which he means they need to err on the facet of overreacting and overplanning.) Guided by acute emotional intelligence, he cultivates an aura of humility. He types himself a mere facilitator, an issue solver who prefers to maintain issues easy by relentlessly specializing in the few issues that matter.” • Rattling. What’s that slurping sound? Commentary:

The reply to this must be that Zients is a supreme bullshit artist with no respect for human life who has a demonstrated capability to implement insurance policies with catastrophic horrific outcomes and in some way obtain basically zero criticism from anybody with any sort of energy pic.twitter.com/f0pEdRi39R

— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) January 23, 2023

“Biden’s Subsequent Chief of Workers Is a Catastrophe within the Making” [Jeet Heer, The Nation]. The scum additionally rises: “On Sunday, multiple information shops announced that Zients was about to be tapped to be the brand new White Home chief of workers, changing Ron Klain, who has introduced that he’s stepping down…. In a word to me, Hauser summed up the case towards Zients: ‘Biden at his greatest has picked battles with company America, from the tax plan funding the IRA to appointing regulators like Rohit Chopra, Gary Gensler, and Lina Khan to tackle predatory habits. With restricted legislative potentialities over the subsequent 24 months, Biden can solely attain populist bona fides towards populist wannabes Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump by unleashing the manager department towards company miscreants. Sadly, most of the most promising targets for Government Department scrutiny are industries Zients has gotten wealthy from, together with personal fairness, well being care, and Huge Tech. Will Zients activate folks like himself, or will he acknowledge implicitly that his riches got here at society’s expense and unleash the Government Department to implement current limits on company greed stringently?’ If appointed, Jeffrey Zients would be the White Home chief of workers as Biden gears up for reelection in 2024. The strongest case towards Zients is a straightforward political one. How will Biden be capable of current himself because the champion of working People when his chief of workers is a plutocrat whose corporations have a popularity for preying on People in moments of medical emergency? Zients would supply an irresistible goal for Republicans. His elevation to the publish of chief of workers is an unforced error.” • Holy moley, Zeints would possibly wish to bust the railroad unions!

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, it appears that evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I should do this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Occasion (“the Democrat Occasion is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated post, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Occasion is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Occasion is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Occasion didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working elements of the Occasion reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Occasion (ka-ching, however not completely) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Word, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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*** crickets ***

Gonna go forward and say there’s a fairly main subject w the US left when life expectancy appears like this and plenty of main left orgs, media shops, politicians and activists not solely don’t have anything to say about it however are actually defending Biden over weak ppl , pls be severe pic.twitter.com/EuNCdAam9p

— Julia Marie (@julia_doubleday) January 23, 2023

“Rebranding rift guts Blue Canine Dem ranks” [Politico]. “Congress’ influential Blue Canine Coalition is getting chopped almost in half after an inside blow-up over whether or not to rebrand the centrist Democratic group. Seven of the 15 members anticipated to affix the Blue Canine this yr, together with Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), are departing after a heated disagreement over a possible title change for the average bloc. For now that’s left the Blue Canine with seven, all male members — their smallest roster in almost three a long time of existence. One freshman member stays undecided. On the core of among the breakaway Blue Canine’ calls for was a rechristening because the Widespread Sense Coalition that, they argued, would have helped shed the group’s popularity as a socially average, Southern “boys’ membership.” Blue Canine have lengthy stood for fiscal accountability and nationwide safety, points with broad Democratic enchantment, however some members felt the title had a unfavourable connotation that saved their colleagues from becoming a member of. A majority of different members disagreed, saying they noticed no motive to toss out a longstanding legacy.” • It’s the circle of life. These guys by no means final; Rahm Emmanuel’s crop failed, too. They get in, hinder, and lose as a result of they suck. Hilarously, .

RussiaGate

“Charles McGonigal, indicted ex-FBI head, helped set off ‘Russiagate’ probe” [New York Post]. “The previous FBI official busted Monday for allegedly taking illegal foreign payments performed a key function within the bureau’s controversial ‘Russiagate’ probe of former President Donald Trump — and a ‘defensive briefing’ of ex-rival Hillary Clinton’s attorneys. Charles ‘Charlie’ McGonigal, 54, was among the many first FBI officers to study that Trump marketing campaign adviser George Papadopoulos advised an Australian diplomat that Russia had ‘political filth’ on Clinton. FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jonathan Moffa advised Senate Judiciary Committee staffers in 2020 that he received a July 2016 e mail from McGonigal which ‘contained basically that reporting, which then served as the idea for the opening of the case.’ The FBI investigation, dubbed ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller and a 22-month, $32 million probe of Russian meddling within the 2016 election and potential ties to associates of Trump, now 76. Shortly earlier than Mueller was appointed, McGonigal additionally despatched a message to an FBI colleague that mentioned how brokers had been interviewing another Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.” • McGonigal appears to have been a busy man:

2/ McGonical, a former NY FBI agent allegedly labored for Oleg Deripaska after Deripaska was sanctioned in 2018, which calls into query his ethics in 2016 as nicely. https://t.co/K2AdRkDOvY

— [email protected] ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) January 23, 2023

Realignment and Legitimacy

“The Altering Face of Ignorance” [Emily C.R. Tilton, New Work in Philosophy]. “At this time’s feminists are nicely conscious of those dangers and are striving to make feminism extra inclusive; they’re rightly petrified of repeating previous errors. Nevertheless, a well-liked technique adopted in gentle of this concern is irritating feminist targets, moderately than facilitating them. This technique includes invoking what I name the sturdy epistemic drawback thesis (SEDT) to justify opting out of discussing intersectional types of oppression (Tilton forthcoming). The SEDT holds that dominant social positions place sturdy, substantive limits on what the socially dominant can learn about oppression that they don’t personally expertise—first-personal expertise of oppression is to be taken to be obligatory for understanding it. With the SEDT in hand, privileged feminists are outfitted with an excuse for silence: in the event that they tried to debate types of oppression that they don’t expertise, they’d inevitably mess it up. Since they don’t wish to repeat previous errors, it appears greatest that they depart that work to another person…. So, the significance of intersectional work is acknowledged, however then shunted off to overburdened and underrepresented members of multiply-marginalized teams. This provides the phantasm that modern feminists are taking intersectionality severely, whereas the truth is feminist philosophy proceeds as ordinary.”

“Skepticism and human motive” [Crooked Timber]. “[W]e don’t want sturdy assumptions about particular person rationality to assume that social reasoning processes can, underneath the best circumstances, work fairly nicely…. On this account, we advance causes, not as a result of we’re logically making an attempt to puzzle out the world, however as a result of we wish to justify ourselves. Meaning, amongst different issues, that our causes are sometimes illogical and at odds with the proof, in ways in which we’re ourselves incapable of seeing and understanding. Our causes are biased. Up to now, so skeptical. However the place it will get attention-grabbing is once we begin trying not simply at how people give causes, however how they consider causes which were given by others. And right here, Mercier and Sperber argue that we’re fairly good. We might have ‘myside bias’ – i.e. we aren’t sharp-sighted concerning the flaws in our personal arguments – however the experimental proof means that we’re readily in a position to see the issues within the arguments of these whom we disagree with. That in flip signifies that even when particular person reasoning is mainly flawed, collective reasoning, underneath the best circumstances, can work very nicely. With the best sorts of group constructions, and a naked minimal of goodwill or mutual endurance, we are able to appropriate one another’s errors, every, via frank and forthright criticism, obliging every to acknowledge the weaknesses in their very own arguments, and enhance them. …. What this suggests (as we argue within the forthcoming piece) is a sort of certified optimism about democracy. If you happen to can assemble group establishments that oblige this type of debate, whereas making it tougher for folks to cluster round their shared misconceptions, you’ll be able to assemble comparatively unbiased collective reasoning on the muse of extremely biased particular person reasoners. After all, determining learn how to construct such establishments is a difficult analysis agenda in itself. ” • Hmm. I’d think about the individuals who fund analysis agendas would have one thing to say about this? (It happens to me {that a} real left — not an NGO left — would possibly nicely have a analysis agenda of its personal. One factor the blogosphere taught or ought to have taught us — and our fight against the landfill in Maine taught me — is that boring normals can get fairly sharp at analysis.

#COVID19

Lambert right here: I’m however a humble tapewatcher, however in contrast to Eric Topol, I’m not calling a surge, as a result of the final peak was Biden’s Omicron debacle, and after an Everest like that, what’s left? Topol’s view is the institution view: Hospital-centric. Mine is infection-centric. I don’t see the common acceleration or doubling in circumstances that I’d count on to see primarily based on previous surges.

I’m calling a “One thing Terrible.” It’s gonna be unhealthy, in some new approach, and we don’t understand how, but (however see right here for immune system dysregulation, which is trying fairly terrible).

Keep secure on the market!

• It appears a whole lot of good-thinking image manipulators are panicking concerning the phrase “kraken,” and so are dog-piling T. Ryan Gregory, who coined the phrase:

Personally, I like “XBB.1.5”; it sounds just like the title of a Okay-Pop band. But when establishments like WHO thinks human-readable names are good, however have determined that “Omicron is Omicron” — demonstrably not true, because the variants have totally different properties — and so is failing to dwell as much as its obligations, then what’s so flawed about others stepping in? Right here is the very best unhealthy take I noticed:

Maybe there’s a stage of French irony I missed right here, however naming variants of a deadly pathogen after painters and flowers, simply to maintain issues gentle, appears…. misguided.

• “Why no Pi? Variants are nonetheless caught on Omicron whilst coronavirus continues to mutate” [CNN]. “WHO quietly stopped designating Variants of Concern or Variants of Curiosity classes that decision for brand new Greek names. As a substitute, it created a brand new class, Omicron Subvariants underneath Monitoring, to sign to public well being officers which of those spinoffs must be watched – which could sound so much like the explanation to designate variants of curiosity and variants of concern within the first place. The group left the door open to designate new names if it deems a variant to be sufficiently totally different, nevertheless it hasn’t seen the necessity to do this for greater than a yr. But the coronavirus has continued to evolve, changing into extra transmissible and extra immune-evasive over time. These modifications have been consequential, too. As Omicron has mutated, for instance, immunocompromised sufferers have misplaced key therapies just like the long-acting antibodies within the preventive Evusheld. All the monoclonal antibodies developed to assist folks with extreme Covid-19 infections have misplaced their punch towards the newest subvariants. The mRNA vaccines have additionally been up to date in an effort to raised defend folks from the at the moment circulating viruses that trigger Covid-19. Nonetheless, WHO says it doesn’t see a necessity to tell apart between them. ‘However the WHO has stopped naming them at this level, so [people] get a false sense of safety,’ [Bette Korber, a laboratory fellow and variant specialist at Los Alamos National Laboratory] mentioned. Persevering with to make use of the Omicron title makes it sound just like the virus isn’t altering anymore, ‘however the truth is, it’s altering massively.’ Korber mentioned she’s been in public lectures the place ‘superb docs’ have mentioned, ‘Nicely, now it’s not evolving anymore. It’s simply been Omicron for over a yr, so that you don’t have to fret about that anymore.’”

• And the fourth — or the category from which the fourth is drawn — drives the primary three:

• Air circulation in closed areas (which is that this account’s mission in life to clarify). Thread:

• “Adams Home Put in — Then Eliminated — an $8,900 Covid-19 Air Disinfection System” [The Crimson]. “In July, as the brand new semester loomed, directors in Adams Home put in a set of air disinfection gadgets that gave the impression to be part of the answer to stopping the unfold of the virus in the home. The value tag was simply shy of $9,000 — a decreased fee. However the gadgets — which had been put in in the home’s eating corridor and decrease frequent room — lasted only a few weeks. Lower than a month into the the semester, Harvard shut them off, following a advice from the College’s Coronavirus Advisory Group. By the tip of December, they had been eliminated completely. The gadgets, which resemble fluorescent lamps, use germicidal ultraviolet gentle to disinfect the air. As soon as airborne pathogens are uncovered to a sure stage of UV radiation, they’ll develop into inactivated and not contagious. However in line with Adams Home College Dean Salmaan Keshavjee, the College’s Covid advisory group decided that the set up of the brand new gadgets was pointless on prime of current air flow techniques. 13 UVGI items had been put in in July by AeroMed Applied sciences, which manufactures the gadgets. UVGI has been researched and used to “eradicate airborne pathogens” for over 70 years, in line with the CDC. Adams College Dean Salmaan Keshavjee wrote in an e mail that the choice to put in the expertise got here from a “collaboration” with one of many outgoing college deans on the time, John G. ‘Sean’ Palfrey ’67. Keshavjee, a world well being professor, wrote that research demonstrating {that a} sure kind of UV gentle can inactivate viruses like Covid-19 helped inform the choice. He added that the fixtures had been in areas the place folks can be consuming with out masks: the eating corridor and decrease frequent room.” • (The gadgets are additionally put in on the Cambridge Mates Faculty, so Cambridge — and I do know this may shock you — is just like Newton.) Commentary:

Is sensible to me. (I don’t stan for UV as a result of I haven’t had the time to review up. However no one is suggesting this set up was hazardous in any approach.(

• I genuinely don’t perceive why the idea of layered safety is so onerous to understand. But such appears to be the case:

An extended thread of references:

• “Potential long-term results of SARS-CoV-2 an infection on the pulmonary vasculature: Multilayered cross-talks within the setting of coinfections and comorbidities” [PLOS Pathogens]. “One element of the extended pathology following acute SARS-CoV-2 an infection could also be a persistently injured pulmonary vasculature.”

• “Main alterations to monocyte and dendritic cell subsets lasting greater than 6 months after hospitalization for COVID-19” [Frontiers in Immunology]. From the Summary: “[W]e present right here that alterations within the immune panorama stay greater than 6 months after extreme COVID-19, which might be indicative of ongoing therapeutic and/or persistence of viral antigens.”

Case Knowledge

BioBot wastewater data from January 23:

Lambert right here: For now, I’m going to make use of this wastewater information as the very best proxy for case information (ignoring the scientific case information portion of this chart, which for my part “goes unhealthy” after March 2022, for causes as but unexplained). Not less than we are able to spot tendencies, and evaluate present ranges to equal previous ranges.

Transmission

Right here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to group transmission (the “purple map,” which is the map CDC wants only hospitals to look at, not you.) The map is alleged to replace Monday-Friday by 8 pm:

The earlier map:

NOTE: I shall most actually not be utilizing the CDC’s new “Community Level” metric. As a result of CDC has mixed a number one indicator (circumstances) with a lagging one (hospitalization) their new metric is a poor warning signal of a surge, and a poor method to assess private danger. As well as, Covid is a illness you don’t wish to get. Even in case you are not hospitalized, you’ll be able to endure from Lengthy Covid, vascular points, and neurological points. That the “inexperienced map” (which Topol calls a “capitulation” and a “deception”) continues to be up and being taken severely verges on the felony.

Positivity

From the Walgreen’s test positivity tracker, printed January 24:

-1.0.%.

Wastewater

Wastewater information (CDC), January 20:

Easing off, although you do should surprise what’s the purpose of a nationwide system the place half the nation has gone darkish.

January 17:

NIOT UPDATED And MWRA information, January 19:

Lambert right here: Nonetheless uptick within the north. Nevertheless, just some the scholars are again; BU classes begin January 19; Harvard’s January 22.

Variants

Lambert right here: It’s past irritating how gradual the variant information is. Does no one within the public well being institution get a promotion for monitoring variants? Are there no grants? Is there a single lab that does this work, and all people will get the outcomes from them? [grinds teeth, bangs head on desk]. UPDATE Sure. See NC here on Pango. Each Friday, a stately, tutorial tempo completely incompatible with defending your self towards a variant exhibiting doubling habits.

NOT UPDATED Variant information, nationwide (Walgreens), January 9:

Lambert right here: BQ.1* and XBB nonetheless dominate. Nevertheless, CH.1.91 seems for the primary time at 1.9%. That’s somewhat unsettling, as a result of a Tweet in Links, January 11 from GM drew consideration to it (“shows such a excessive relative development benefit”) and in Water Cooler, January 18, from Nature: “CH.1.1 and CA.3.1 variants had been extremely proof against each monovalent and bivalent mRNA vaccinations.” Now right here is CH.1.1 within the Walgreens variant information. Let’s see what CDC does with it tomorrow. The Covid variant practice all the time leaves on time, and there’s all the time one other practice coming!

Lambert right here: Wierdly, the display shot about has been changed at this time by information from “10/7/2022.” (It’s clearly not present information; BQ.1* and XBB don’t dominate.

NOT UPDATED Variant information, nationwide (CDC), December 31 (Nowcast off):

BQ.1* takes first place. XBB arising quick. CH.1, in contrast to the Walgreens chart, doesn’t seem. (For BQ.1/XBB and vaccine escape, see here.) Right here is Area 2, the Northeast, the place each BQ.1* and XBB are mentioned to be increased, and are:

Makes clear that Area 2 (New England) varies vastly from the nationwide common. Wouldn’t or not it’s attention-grabbing if we ended up with totally different variants dominating totally different elements of the nation.

• As a test, since New York is a BQ.1* hotbed, New York hospitalization, up to date January 19:

• Hospitalization information for Queens, up to date January 20:

Deaths

Dying fee (Our World in Data):

Total: 1,129,1451 – 1,128,807 = 338 (338 * 365 = 123,370 deaths per yr, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would love, although they’ll speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could should determine that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission achieved” for this explicit tranche of dying and illness).

Lambert right here: Deaths lag, and now we’ve got some affirmation that no matter we simply went via is lowering.

It’s good that for deaths I’ve a easy, day by day chart that simply retains chugging alongside, in contrast to every little thing else CDC and the White Home are screwing up or letting go darkish, good job.

Stats Watch

Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Manufacturing Exercise Index within the Richmond space decreased to -11 in January of 2023 from 1 in December, the bottom since Might 2020 and beneath market expectations of -5.”

The Bezzle: “The Crypto Trade’s Favourite Financial institution Is in Deep Hassle” [New York Magazine]. “The excellent news concerning the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire is that its failure didn’t ship shock waves via the whole monetary system and create a contagion. A key motive is that almost all banks have refused to cope with crypto. Not too long ago, U.S. banking regulators even discouraged them from doing so. However one small California financial institution apparently determined it was higher to danger having to beg for forgiveness than anticipate permission. In recent times, La Jolla–primarily based Silvergate went all in on crypto, forging relationships with greater than 1,600 gamers within the business, from hedge funds to exchanges to token tasks…. Intelligencer has obtained paperwork displaying that, along with FTX, Silvergate has been the go-to financial institution for greater than a dozen crypto corporations that ended up underneath investigation, shut down, fined, or in chapter.” • So, to be clear, the regulators protected the banks, and never the poor shlubs (disproportionately Black and decrease earnings) who received scammed.

Tech: “Lab-grown meat strikes nearer to American dinner plates” [Reuters]. • “I’ll have that with a facet of bugs!”

Labor Market; “Firms Lower Temp Staff in Warning Signal for Labor Market” [Wall Street Journal]. “Employers are shedding short-term employees at a quick fee, an indication that broader job losses might be on the horizon. Within the final 5 months of 2022, employers minimize 110,800 temp employees, together with 35,000 in December, the biggest month-to-month drop since early 2021. Many economists view the sector as an early indicator of future labor-market shifts. Short-term employment declined earlier than some latest recessions and through financial slowdowns. Short-term employees, sometimes employed via staffing companies, are straightforward for corporations to carry on board—and let go. ‘For me, it’s an actual warning signal,’ mentioned James Knightley, chief worldwide economist at ING. ‘.’” • So the narrative drives the market, not the market the narrative? Huge if true.

At this time’s Worry & Greed Index: 63 Greed (earlier shut: 64 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 64 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 24 at 1:53 PM EST.

The Gallery

Edward Hopper?!?!?!?!?

This appears like business artwork; there’s house for textual content at left. And certainly “from about 1906 to 1925, Hopper discovered little assist for his private work, and earned his residing by creating cowl and story illustrations for American periodicals.” Reasonably like that different well-known American realist, Andy Warhol.

Zeitgeist Watch

The issue with SUVs is that they’re not deadly, along with being bloated:

I really like that they’re promoting to “Mothers.” Bear in mind “soccer mothers”?

Information of the Wired

“Correct Pastry-Consuming Etiquette, In keeping with a Royal Butler” [Fresno Bee]. “‘Girls and gents, please keep in mind that whereas having a pastry within the morning, you solely take one,’ he says within the video.” • What. This being my day’s contribution to “Feel Good Fresno Week.” Readers?

1492 pitch deck:

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