#tell me she doesn’t ‘’’’’trust’’’’’ what’s in the vaccine against the illness that is killing her brother in law??

[yikesola]

-_-

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

How’ve you never been a Draco anti? Just cause he was a teenager doesn’t mean he had the right to make disgusting racist comments and do other ignorant shit. Age is just a number. I don’t mean that in a creepy sexualising way or anything but there’s never an age where it’s okay or acceptable to be racist and just be a terrible person overall. Sorry I’m all for respecting opinions and whatever but I really can’t comprehend how you apparently didn’t go anti for him. You called him insufferable in the Malfoy TLSQ but that wasn’t even him at his worst 😒

(Going under the cut, this became a #LongPost)

Did I say that? I don't doubt it but I have no memory of this and I don't really think I'd agree with that description anyway. Because he really wasn't insufferable during that quest, you're right. He was pretty spoiled for sure, and if anything I was pleased to see that side of him which the films could occasionally downplay. Like, don't get me wrong, Jason Isaacs is amazing, but he has specifically talked about his motivation during interviews, how he wanted to build sympathy for Draco by being such a cruel father. Which is just...not the kind of dynamic Lucius and Draco had, and I've talked about this before, but Lucius abusing Draco is just very out-of-character if you ask me. It's also the secret backstory of every cheesy Draco redemption fanfic ever and by no means is that limited to his character, but he's a prominent example of the trope. Ben Solo is another.

As far as the books go, Draco is another character like Snape where he gets downplayed. In the early books, he was such a pain in the ass, but I never took him seriously as a threat even as a child. I knew enough about bullying to recognize how small he felt on the inside. In no way does this make it okay for him to behave the way he does in books 1-5, I'm just saying that he was scarcely a character that I would even argue earned the title of "villain." He was Harry's school rival. The worst thing he did, by far, was the entire framing of Buckbeak. Painting this narrative of him being the innocent victim of a savage monster, with Hagrid as the negligent fool who let it happen. Draco felt humiliated and wanted revenge, and he saw an opportunity to try and get Hagrid fired. And amazingly, despite an entire classroom of witnesses who can verify that Hagrid did everything by the books and that Draco's own arrogance got him just a minor scratch....he is still, even next year, telling people like Rita Skeeter about the Hippopriff attack. How is he getting away with that? Well, I say this, and then I remember that the man behind the "Anti Vaccine" study had his license revoked after it was debunked and yet he continued to give lectures about the dangers of vaccines...

Boy, I'm getting off topic. Draco's character just doesn't bother me that much because I don't take him seriously. The Buckbeak Incident was his worst moment by far, but he remains a stagnant character for the first five books. And god damn, how can I not empathize with him starting in Half Blood Prince? Voldemort selects him for a mission that he fully expects to result in his death, all to punish Lucius. It is made very clear to Draco that he must murder his school Headmaster, Albus freaking Dumbledore. I have already on many occasions, documented how much this world reveres him as an all powerful, omniscient force of nature. I doubt I need to reiterate just how daunting and impossible this task would and did start to feel for Draco. But the consequences for failure were plainly stated. Either Dumbledore had to die, or Draco and his parents would die. He was all of sixteen years old, and he was cornered by Voldemort, when his family was already deeply involved with the Death Eaters.

I hold nothing against Draco for any choice he made in HBP. What was he supposed to do? He was trapped. He had no reason to trust Snape or Dumbledore, and they were probably his only lifelines. Even if he had managed to escape Voldemort, his parents would still have been in danger. Dumbledore offers them protection up in the Astronomy Tower, but how does Draco know he's telling the truth? How does he know that to be a promise that Dumbledore can keep? In the end, he couldn't do it. He didn't have it in him to take Dumbledore's life. Despite all that pressure on him. I think that means something. The stress of trying to carry out the mission was making him physically ill. Oh, and this was the year that Harry hit him with Secumsempra. Probably the stupidest thing Harry ever did, and I'd say it leaves them even for Ron and the poisoned mead, however indirectly. After Snape kills Dumbledore, Draco just tries to keep his head down. All he can do is nod or shake his head whenever Voldemort addresses him at Death Eater meetings.

When The Golden Trio is captured and taken to Malfoy Manor...Draco's fear, and his growing moral conflict, show themselves again. He cannot commit to identifying Harry, even though we're meant to assume he knew damn well that it was Harry. Now, sure. You can argue that he wanted to wait and be absolutely sure before they went as far as summoning Voldemort. Or you can argue that he just didn't want Voldemort to show up because he was frightened of him. I think that's more likely. Because Harry under a stinging hex is one thing, but Hermione? When asked if Hermione was who they thought she was, he once again gives an evasive "Yeah, it could be." Like it's not clear as day. Draco flip-flops a lot during Deathly Hallows. He does try to capture Harry during the Battle of Hogwarts...and a childhood best friend dies before his very eyes. Ultimately, Harry's choice to save Draco winds up being a positive inversion of his choice to save Wormtail. Saving Wormtail guaranteed Voldemort's return. Saving Draco, on the other hand, ensured Narcissa's cooperation, and thus, it bought enough time for Neville to kill Nagini, and doom Voldemort once and for all. Harry saving Draco made all the difference.

In canon, Draco is little more than a sleazy coward. His story echoes that of Regulus, and sometimes I like to imagine what it would be like if he had taken on a more heroic role toward the end and had a more complete redemption. That said, I don't strictly speaking, mind that he didn't. I love the image of the Malfoys just huddled together after the battle, unsure if they're welcome or not, but no one is actually sparing them a thought. I also like final shot of them in the film, where they just up and leave. That works for them. There was apparently a cut scene where Draco was supposed to throw Harry his wand and properly defect...and while that would have been pretty cool, again: He didn't need a full redemption necessarily. The books kind of ran out of time, especially since there was no eighth year. Draco was not emotionally ready to do the right thing. But he had learned enough about himself and the world to know that he was uncomfortable doing the wrong thing. It's easy to parrot the slurs you're taught from the cradle, but as you get older and are expected to start participating in hate crimes and things of the like...you might begin to realize just how fucked up it all is. Even if the realization is slow. Even if you're not brave enough to take a stand.

TL;DR: Early books Draco is annoying, but no more so than a fly. I just kind of brush him off. Late books Draco is actually a very compelling character and he has my sympathy.

[tiaramaki]

It’s funny in a morbid way when I think about how the same people were/are using me and others like me (who cannot be vax’d without harm or death) as a shield for over a year. Only to ignore what the CDC said about the virus still being transmissible among those who got both doses.

The state I live in is mostly double-dosed and had previously had the mask mandate, made even to those with respiratory and audio-processing disorders. It’s a blue state. And what did the people who said they care about me do after the vaccines were made available and mask mandates were no longer in effect?

Walk around stores and public places without a mask. Even long after the CDC published this with the director’s statement:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0730-mmwr-covid-19.html

Which means that they’re just as much of “plague rats” as they imply people like me to be.

Those of us who cannot be, and are not, vaccinated because of chronic illnesses or disabilities or having adverse reactions in the past, are considered unvaccinated. In social media, there’s mostly just talk about unvaccinated and vaccinated; us cannot-be-vaccinated are just either an afterthought or a shield. Even Biden didn’t even mention us in his statement when he announced the mandates, so of course I can only assume he’s hoping we’ll be made vaccinated regardless. When people want harm to come to those unvaccinated, they’re implying people like me and my mom don’t deserve to be here, to have a job, to have a house, to be considered human (considering many of them think we’re “burdens” and shouldn’t have ever been born, I can’t say I’m surprised).

There are “refusers” who are considered as such because they can’t get a medical exemption from their doctors, even with underlying issues that make vaccinations dangerous or deadly to them. Just because a pandemic is happening, doesn’t mean that doctors and nurses suddenly stopped considering themselves smarter than the patients who come to them. My mother was previously told that she shouldn’t get the vaccine because the bottom muscles of her heart are dead, she has COPD (this was especially fun during the mask period because she had trouble breathing even without wearing it, and the ableism the people who supposedly “cared about saving lives” showed her that they didn’t actually care about her, and neither did my state) and her physical body and organs are all messed up from her fall. Recently, the doctor 180′d on it and told her to get it in spite of her physical health issues. Meanwhile, I’m high-risk and have a good chance of dying to the vaccine’s side effects since I’m susceptible to heart attacks, stroke, nerve damage, and can’t heal as fast if I get myocarditis and pericarditis from it.

So every time I read or hear people say “just take the vaccine,” they’re basically telling people like me to kill ourselves. Also assuming the people they’re talking to are somehow able-bodied, acting jusst like the ableists they rail against, not knowing a single lick of the life or health of the person they’re talking to.

To be blunt, my mother and I have a chance to die whether we’re vaccinated or not. Dead from the vaccine’s side effects that our bodies can’t handle because of health issues, or from being a breakthrough case that turns deadly because we’re high-risk cases; dead from Covid from being a high-risk case, or being killed by those who see us as inhuman because we couldn’t get it because enough Western humans see in dichotomies.

Since many seem to refer to the CDC and trust the science, it’s clear they don’t actually care about us who can’t be vaccinated, not like they claim. Even after the director’s statement on Delta transmissions being unhindered from the vaccine, the vaccinated rarely wear masks anymore. They’re just as capable of passing it on to us when they’re infected as everyone else, but they want only us to wear them despite their claims that the vaccine is effective in helping reduce Covid deaths (and data seems to show this as the case, but there’s still a transparency issue going on with full information, especially the fact that there’s still none about long-term effects, which the FDA at least admitted in its press release about the Pfizer being approved).

And I have a feeling that once we’re no longer useful as an argument point, they’ll throw us aside for “being unvaccinated” regardless of our medical conditions. Or maybe even put us in those “shielding” camps that the CDC had been considering back in July, if they actually do those.

[dreamingofscully]

6x01 - “The Beginning” - X-Files Rewatch

Hope you enjoyed the optimism at the end of my season 5/FTF summary post. Haha, did you think that would last? 

Mulder piecing together the X-Files. I don’t think this is the only thing he’s been doing to put the their work back together, but I’ll avoid detailed speculation at the moment.

At the meeting: Scully arriving late, sitting quietly. She knows she can’t give Mulder the answers he wants, feels terrible about it. She comes at it from a scientific viewpoint, remembering his words to her (he completes her, makes him a whole person), remembering the proof she was able to give him in “The End”.

Mulder feels betrayed, though. She presumably didn’t mention what she saw or back him up, just focused on the evidence. After everything they went through, knowing what she saw, she still can’t admit it, she still remains rigidly focused on evidence rather than experience. She still can’t believe and he still can’t share his wonder with her. It cuts him deeply after the transformative and utterly undeniable experience that they shared.

Here’s some thoughts about what Scully’s thinking:

Scully was very ill in Antarctica, her memories are fuzzy and she’s not sure if she can trust them. If she did say something about what she saw, she was probably questioned pretty intensely. Being unsure herself, it would be hard for her to be steadfast in her convictions. She believes Mulder, she trusts him, but it’s hard for her to admit it without something concrete. She was hoping the vaccine/medical evidence would speak for itself.

She’s scared to believe, of opening up to things she can’t explain. She doesn’t want to abandon her science, thinks it's what Mulder wants from her, and it's safe to focus on it, so she does. 

Regardless of these things… she should have backed Mulder up. He knows this, and it’s difficult for him to get over, so he says and does some pretty harsh things this episode. 😕

Standing close when they look at the nail.

Poor Gibson. What CSM did to him… just pure evil. When they’re at the house he tells them to leave, knowing Mulder and Scully are there, wanting to protect him. Love that kid. He must get his first glimmer of hope here, knowing that if he escapes they can help him. 

The conversation between Mulder and Scully outside of the house.

Scully is unchanged. She’s trying to understand Mulder’s theories through the lens of science, to be what he said he valued about her in FTF.

Not too long ago Mulder had his worldview shattered. He was skeptical but found his way back to believing again - through his experiences. Mulder finds it hard to understand how she remains so static after all this time and especially after all they saw and experienced in FTF. SHE TOLD HIM SHE SAW THE SHIP.

You can see her side: that she wants to play Devil’s Advocate - balance his wild theories. Give him the proof and evidence he needs to back up his ideas.

What really hurts for Mulder isn’t her insistence on always going back to science, but that she can’t admit to herself, or him, what she saw and believes.

Mulder is wrong because he doesn’t express to her the real reason for his frustration. He brings it back to the science and her insistence on proof, but what bothers him is that she doesn’t seem able to change, and he doesn’t understand why. He was hopeful after FTF that now they could move forward, they could finally be on the same page a bit more, but if she can’t believe now - will she ever? 

Mulder feels more alone than ever.

Scully takes his hand to emphasize her words, to remind him of what he said about needing her rationalism and science. He looks at their hands, together, but throws her words back to her anyway, unable to express why he’s frustrated (either because he can’t or doesn’t understand it himself). His petulant “your science is wrong” is confusing and hurtful for Scully.

Standing closely by the fire trucks and by the car.

Scully’s tenderness with Gibson. Her anger at what they did to him (as read by Gibson). Leaning over and touching his chest. She is SO GOOD AND NATURAL with children, breaks my heart.

Gibson to Scully: “You already know, you just don’t want to believe it.”

He’s saying what Mulder knows/thinks about Scully’s denial, which frustrates him even more.

Mulder is so used to looking like an idiot - for putting himself out there and not really caring what other people think. It means everything for SCULLY, the one he thinks most highly of, to believe him, to believe IN him. He thinks of her resistance as a personal attack. It isn’t, but Scully can’t verbalize how difficult it is for her to believe. She should at least do that instead of hyper-focusing on the science.

Standing close and talking near Gibson’s bed. (LOL he can still hear you, idiots.) They are real stupid idiots this episode in more ways than one. 😫

Scully tries desperately to give Mulder proof and give him back the X-Files. If she could at least do that, when she is unable (unwilling?) to give Mulder the belief that he wants from her, maybe things would get back to how it was.

Diana coming to the motel room at night. Telling Mulder what he wants to believe. Manipulating him, that it’s okay for her to take over the X-Files because they discovered them together. Implying that she has just as much a right to them, even though she abandoned Mulder and their work soon after this discovery.

Mulder is initially skeptical, but he can’t resist believing her because of their history. He can’t believe she would act against him. He has a history of being easily manipulated, and the one who can convince him otherwise isn’t his favourite person at the moment.

It’s easy and comfortable for Mulder to be with someone who believes like him. It doesn’t make it the BEST choice, but I think it’s understandable - especially with his current emotional state about Scully.

That Mulder chooses to go with Diana really hurts Scully. It’s like a reversal of Mulder’s choice in “The End”. Scully doesn’t completely understand the relationship between Mulder/Diana, doesn’t understand why Mulder isn’t more wary of her. She’s also concerned about Diana backing him up. Her only experience with her as an agent is Diana getting shot while protecting Gibson (who ended up getting butchered by terrible people).

Gibson’s words - that she’s using him as well - hurts her. He’s right, though. She’s desperate to get proof for Mulder, to get the X-Files back and prove that it doesn’t matter if she believes if she has evidence. Ultimately, though, the comment is unfair. If it came down to protecting Gibson or hurting him, she’d always choose the former.

Mulder touching more things he shouldn’t. (x3) Also, it just feels gross seeing him wandering around the nuclear plant with Fowley instead of Scully. Just so wrong.

It’s uncharacteristic of Scully to have left Gibson without protection. She’s angry at herself more than anything when he goes missing - and I’m sure she can’t help but compare her carelessness to Diana’s in losing him.

After everything, Mulder and Scully get punished further.

The Ending Scene

“It would help if you'd shut the door. It would make it harder for them to see that I'm totally disregarding everything I was told.” - Mulder “Everything WE were told, Mulder.” - Scully

Mulder’s use of “I” instead of “we” really hurts.

Scully pointing out Diana’s duplicity and Mulder continuing to support her. 

“Agent Fowley took me to that plant at great risk to herself where I saw something that you refuse to believe in. Saw it again, Scully. And though it may not say it in her report, Diana saw it, too. And no matter what you think she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it isn't true.”

He’s lashing out, here. His defense of Diana has less to do with his feelings about her and more about his feelings about Scully, his hurt that she can’t believe him or support him. Scully’s disbelief, or her refusal to admit belief, hurts him more than any possibility that DIana could betray him because, quite simply, Scully means way more to him than Diana does, or ever did.

Mulder also makes the mistaken assumption that it is “easy” for Scully to believe. Scully, conversely, doesn’t try to make things easier by telling him why she can’t.

Scully keeps trying to get through to him. His words hurt. They were MEANT to hurt. So, she pulls out the “trust” card.

“It comes down to a matter of trust. I guess it always has.” - Scully “You asking me to make a choice?” - Mulder “I'm asking you to trust my judgment. To trust me.” - Scully

Before Mulder sees what’s in the file, that she’s found evidence that she’s been so desperate to obtain, MULDER MAKES HIS CHOICE - AND IT IS NOT SCULLY. He says he doesn’t trust her, essentially.

“I can't accept that. Not if it refutes what I know to be true.” - Mulder, when she hands him a file, asking him to trust her.

Talk about OOF. Mulder’s choice will affect Scully for a long time. They don’t talk about it, but Scully’s trust in Mulder, in her belief that he trusts her, has been badly damaged. I can forgive Mulder for his actions and words in the rest of the episode, but this final scene just kills me, and I think Scully takes it really hard.

I really hate seeing them at odds with one another. 😭

Side Note: I just want to comment that my perspective on this episode dramatically shifted after coming back to the fandom and rewatching. Also, having it pointed out to me that Scully tells Mulder in FTF **THAT SHE SAW**. I used to be in the “Mulder is a giant asshole” camp, full stop. But while he is still an asshole, it’s a bit more nuanced here. The final scene in this episode is the only true moment where his words and actions are almost unforgivable, but the rest I find (mostly) understandable. Just… realize how big of a deal this is to someone like me who is a huuuuuge Scullyist.

[stephenmccull]

What the Slowing Vaccine Rates Mean for One Rural Montana County

KALISPELL, Mont. — The covid vaccination operation at the Flathead County fairgrounds can dole out 1,000 doses in seven hours. But demand has plummeted recently, down to fewer than 70 requests for the shots a day.

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So, at the start of May, the northwestern Montana county dropped its mass vaccination offerings from three to two clinics a week. Though most of those eligible in the county haven’t yet gotten a dose, during the final Thursday clinic on April 29, few cars pulled up and nurses had time to chat between patients.

“It’s a trickle,” said Flathead City-County Health Officer Joe Russell. “Not enough people will get vaccinated to reach herd immunity, not in Flathead County and maybe not in Montana.”

Daily covid vaccination rates are falling nationwide. Gaps in vaccine uptake are starting to show, especially in rural America. That leaves many communities grappling with an imperfect pandemic endgame.

Flathead stands out as one of Montana’s most populated counties to fall behind. There, 25% of people had been fully vaccinated by May 10. To compare, nearly 33% of Montanans were fully vaccinated, and that figure is closer to 35% nationwide.

Flathead County is a medical destination for the top corner of the state, a gateway to Glacier National Park and neighbor to two tribal nations. It’s Montana’s fourth-largest county by population with more than 103,000 people, yet it’s rural — 18 people per square mile. It’s also conservative, with the majority of residents voting for former President Donald Trump last year. National polling has shown rural Americans and Republicans to be among the most resistant to getting vaccines.

Russell said he hopes at least 40% of Flathead County residents eventually get the shots. That’s well below the 70% to 80% believed to be needed to create widespread protection from the pathogen that has stalled normal life.

Public health experts worry about reservoirs of the virus fueling outbreaks. That possibility further strains year-old tensions in places such as Flathead County, where strangers and family members alike can be split on whether the virus is a threat and the decision to wear a mask marks where people stand. Covid vaccines are the latest phase of that divide.

Cameron Gibbons, who lives outside Kalispell, has worried about how covid could affect her 13-year-old son. He’s had coughs turn into lung infections that landed him in the emergency room for trouble breathing, so the family has played it safe during the pandemic.

“We haven’t seen family in a long time because they haven’t chosen to be careful, which is OK, as long as when we get back to normal we can all set our differences aside,” Gibbons said. “Now there’s this judgment of ‘Oh, you got the vaccine.’”

Some of Montana’s most vaccinated places overlap with tribal nations. Chelsea Kleinmeyer, the health director of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, said the tribes’ members seemed to largely accept vaccines after the pandemic disproportionately sickened and killed Native Americans. But the reservation crosses four counties, including Flathead.

“We travel to those counties every single day,” Kleinmeyer said. “It goes back to: Are we really protected against this virus, these variants, if we don’t achieve herd immunity?”

States are shifting from mass clinics to bringing shots to where people are, but that strategy, too, can be unpredictable. The same day of the county’s final Thursday clinic, the local health system hosted a walk-in clinic in the middle of the Flathead Valley Community College campus in Kalispell. Most of the chairs for people to wait 15 minutes post-shot remained empty and, by early afternoon, the clinic had to send 200 doses to the county health department to avoid wastage.

Although organizers had hoped to vaccinate at least 100 people that day, Audra Saranto, a registered nurse who heads Kalispell Regional Healthcare’s vaccination team, said she counts the college event as a success — 50 people got vaccines who might otherwise not have.

The health system may host similar clinics at major job sites, like for a lumber company. A mobile team will offer shots in busy places like farmers markets, even if it means risking people not following up for a second dose.

It’s not surprising that covid vaccinations aren’t universally accepted yet in this divided county. Flathead’s board of health deadlocked over mask rules and crowd size limits amid the area’s worst covid outbreaks. Two top county health officials resigned in the past year. Thousands of people have signed dueling petitions to remove or keep one board of health member who had stirred doubt over covid-19 cases and opposed mask rules.

And the city of Kalispell is home to state Sen. Keith Regier, a Republican who repeated false claims on the Senate floor last month that covid vaccines may contain microchips to track people. Regier said in an interview he was “offering caution in how we progress with this vaccination.”

Meanwhile, Whitefish, roughly a 20-minute drive from Kalispell, has maintained a mask ordinance that has outlasted the statewide mandate. Banners downtown show local leaders asking people to mask up so people can pray together and keep schools open. Even so, the rule isn’t always followed there.

At the county’s final Thursday clinic, John Calhoun, 67, undid his pearl snap shirt to get his second shot and joked with the nurse, “I’m doing this so Joe Biden doesn’t throw me in jail.”

Calhoun said he hopes being vaccinated will help him ease tensions the next time someone tells him to wear a mask. He believes covid-19 is real but doesn’t think it’s as serious as health officials claim, even though he has diabetes, a risk factor for covid complications.

“Nothing seems to bother me all that bad,” Calhoun said. “I had a horse fall on me, broke my hip, and once stabbed myself with a hunting knife. All that caused me a bit of a problem, but other stuff just doesn’t bother me.”

He decided to get the shot after an old high school friend with a degree in biochemistry told him it was important — an opinion Calhoun trusted over those of government-paid experts and liberal politicians who he said have used the pandemic to grab more power.

Calhoun said he’s still trying to talk his wife, Lola, into getting vaccinated to play it safe: “She’s one of those ladies that you don’t talk her into much.”

Lola Calhoun, 59, said she got her shingles vaccine within the past year because she trusts the protection it offers. When it comes to covid, she said she’d rather risk the virus than be injected with vaccines that feel too new, despite decades of research underpinning their unprecedented development.

“The covid vaccine to me is experimental and we are the case studies,” she said. “Maybe a year from now, I’ll see what happens to these people who got the vaccine.��

On a recent evening, Ray Sederdahl, 63, sat on his girlfriend’s Kalispell porch while his grandkids picked dandelions. The Air Force veteran said even if he wasn’t skeptical of the vaccines, he thinks of covid as an illness that’s much like the flu.

“The VA keeps trying to get me to schedule an appointment and I just say, ‘At this time, I’ll pass,’” Sederdahl said. “A lot of the older vets I talk to, they didn’t get it either, and they’re not gonna get it.”

To Sederdahl, things feel normal enough. Businesses are open and he doesn’t have to wear a mask most places.

Erica Lengacher, an intensive care unit nurse in Kalispell who has worked covid units and vaccine clinics, said she’s sad but not surprised that vaccine rates are slowing. But, she said, the overall feeling at the county’s vaccine clinics is hopefulness — people are still showing up, even if the crowds are smaller.

Lengacher said Flathead was hit so hard this winter, she hopes some natural immunity from those already infected, along with the growing vaccination levels, will be enough to hold off further outbreaks over the next few months.

“Just given our lifestyle — single-family homes, no public transportation, a few people per square mile — we may get away with it,” Lengacher said. “But there’s a big question mark of how variants show up here. There are just a lot of big question marks.”

As of May 10, the county had 116 confirmed active cases of covid, up from 71 on April 23.

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