You see, one reason I resent the #Mamala and #MamalaHarris hashtags is that, for all I don't like Kamala Harris, now I can't help but be on the lookout for really crude misogynist attacks on her. Like, I just checked if this Gorka video titled "Mamala Kamala" is a blowjobs joke.
I think it's not, but it opens with a woman calling in to say that Kamala Harris is a bad example to her daughters because she got to her position (says the woman) by "opening her legs." Gorka doesn't challenge it, but cries victim that he can't second that because of censorship.
I gave up listening at that point, but it sounds to me like
a. There's no "'mámala' is blowjob in Spanish" jokes;
b. They'd make one if they knew about it.
I ran a (still crude) analysis of how the CDC's new Community Levels map would have performed in Puerto Rico's Omicron wave. It wouldn't have hit "High" (= masks required) until at least Dec. 27, by which point the case rate had risen by 5,800% in two weeks.
Notes:
1. Case rates are my own analysis of my latest Puerto Rico Dept. of Health Bioportal data. Test sample date, 1-3 days ahead of official data. (I hope to refine this to contemporaneous data.)
2. Hospital admissions: HHS
3. Hospital occupancy: Puerto Rico DoH dashboard
In real life, I and other Puerto Rico specialist COVID-19 analysts, with much faster data than the official count, were freaking out by December 14, two weeks before the new Community Level framework would have turned orange.
Esto es una especie de blitzkrieg informático por parte del CDC. No dejan tiempo para análisis y debate público sobre si este indicador está bien diseñados. Ahora tengo que irme de corre-y-corre a implementarlos para ver cómo aplican a Puerto Rico. Suerte tengo las métricas.
Los que me leen mucho sabrán que tengo un issue contra la métrica de positividad de pruebas. Pero en este caso es un desastre que el indicador nuevo no incorpore positividad, porque una forma sencilla y maliciosa de reducir este nivel es no hacer pruebas.
Puerto Rico; Remember Gregorio Matias, the cop senator who once shot a dude for being Dominican? Today after chasing a black Infiniti Q50 with tinted windows, San Juan police arrested his 27 year-old son and a 2nd man, with drugs, ski mask, body armor and a full auto modded Glock
Gregorio Matías, before the statehooders’ party appointed him senator, was a police union leader. He replaced senator Abel Nazario, who was convicted of illegally appropriating federal funds.
3. The USA claimed that because of the 1865 Confederate takeover, Puerto Rico was part of the USA, labeled the Yauco rebels as secessionists and went to war against them
What’s going on here is a rather tortured analogy for how Taiwanese independentists see the People’s Republic of China’s policy toward them.
Anti-prostitution advocates have been plastering the press with the claim that Spain "the third biggest centre for prostitution in the world, behind Thailand and Puerto Rico." The Puerto Rico bit caught my eye, so I checked... and it's made it up, I believe.
The source for the claim appears to be a blatant misreading of a p. 49 of the UNODC 2010 report "The globalization of crime," that cites sundry figures for men who claim to have paid for sex in their lifetime, and makes no attempt to rank countries. unodc.org/unodc/en/data-…
The footnotes in the UNODC report seem to cite a 1998 book published by Prometheus Press. But the citation is wrong; it's a book **chapter** in a compilation of articles.
Are all these sundry sources comparable and exhaustive? I don't think so.