THERE THEY GO AGAIN.

It's been at least a month since the Milwaukee Bucks won the professional basketball championship.  The usual neurotic cat ladies made the usual neurotic noises about all those celebrating fans crowding into the Deer District to enjoy the game and the victory celebration.  Superspreader event?  You decide.  "As of [August 3], the Wisconsin Department of Health Services had identified almost 500 attendees who later contracted covid."  That gets a dyspeptic Daily Kos diarist (is there any other kind?) excited.  "If you choose to remain maskless and unvaccinated while packed in like squeaky cheese curds with thousands of screaming strangers, you might be a COVID-riddled dumbfuck."  I need a magnifying glass to see the day-on-day change in deaths in all of Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, the insurgents at Twitchy want to dunk on Dukes County, Massachusetts (where the Obama birthday party took place) as another superspreader event.  Sorry, no.  "An average of 6 cases per day were reported in Dukes County, a 2,050 percent increase from the average two weeks ago. Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 1 in 12 residents have been infected, a total of 1,502 reported cases."  Yes, and if you start from a low base, you can get what looks like a massive percentage increase, in much the same way that allowing four earned runs in two-thirds of an inning can destroy your earned run average.  I'd need a microscope to see the day-on-day change in corona deaths in all of Dukes County, let alone on the Vineyard.

Will all of you neurotic cat ladies stop trying to scare us?