Friday, April 9, 2021

Noah and Colbert on vaccinations vs. a possible fourth wave of COVID update the pandemic for Flashback Friday

I told my readers "Stay tuned for a look back at the most popular posts about the pandemic for tomorrow's Flashback Friday," repeating myself about "the retrospective I'm planning for Flashback Friday tomorrow about the pandemic" in yesterday's Weekend Update on Sidney Powell being sued by Dominion updates 'SNL' on the 2020 election and its aftermath for Throwback Thursday. I'll write about those popular posts from the tenth year of the blog over the jump, but first I'm sharing The Daily Show with Trevor Noah's A Race to the Finish: The Coronavirus Vaccine vs. The Fourth Wave.

After a weekend of Easter gatherings and spring break trips, the U.S. gears up for a fourth coronavirus wave.
Michigan is still making the news, ten days after I posted The U.S. passes 30 million reported COVID-19 cases as cases spike in Michigan, a pandemic update. That's because the local outbreak has been getting worse with MLive reporting Michigan reports 7,819 new coronavirus cases, 73 deaths Thursday, April 8. According to the interactive graphic at the article, that's nearly as many cases as the seven-day rolling average of 6,825 last November 16th. Michigan could easily pass the peak of 7,270 from November 21, 2020. Also, the interactive graphics at NBC News show that the U.S. has passed 31 million confirmed cases. Yikes!

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert joined in by opening last night's episode with the musical question Is A Fourth Wave Coming?



Get the shot or surf on your couch!

I agree with that message. My wife and I are scheduled to get our second shot one week from today. We've had enough of staying from home.

Speaking of vaccinations, the same day The Daily Show uploaded the first video, Noah asked Vaccine Passports: What Are They, And Why Does Fox News Hate Them?

Take a look into the world of vaccine passports: what they are, why Republicans and Fox News are having a meltdown about them, and the potential equity problems associated with them.
Leave it to the comedians to educate their audience about why the reality-based community might have issues with using smartphones as vaccine "passports" because they exclude low-income people.

Speaking of comedy educating about the unequal social effects of the pandemic, The Daily Show's Desi Lydic explained How the Pandemic Drives More Women to Leave the Workforce.

Desi Lydic investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting working women.
The interview segments perfectly illustrate the problem. My reaction as a empty-nester working at home is say I'm laughing because it hurts too much to cry.

I conclude today's selection of clips with The Daily Show’s Bracket of Bulls**t: Pandemic Edition WINNER.

What was the most annoying thing that happened during the pandemic? Michael Kosta and Roy Wood Jr. reveal the winner of The Daily Show’s Bracket of Bulls**t: Pandemic Edition!
Pull up your mask!

Follow over the jump for the most read entries about the pandemic from the tenth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.


The most read entry about the pandemic during the tenth year of this blog was CNBC explores why coronavirus is more dangerous for diabetics from April 6, 2020. It earned ~1,410 default and 1554 raw page views by March 20, 2021 to rank tenth overall and eight among entries posted during the blogging year just ended. The entry also had 8 comments, tying for second most comments on an entry posted during the tenth year and fourth most comments overall. The post ranked number one for April 2020 with 1,388 default and 1,473 raw page views by the end of the month. It ended the 2020 calendar year with ~1,410 default and ~1,540 raw page views to rank eleventh overall and ninth among entries posted during 2020. It earned its page views first by my sharing the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page and political groups on Facebook and MeWe, then by Infidel753 sharing it at his blog.

I covered the next two most read entries about the pandemic yesterday, 'SNL' opens with Pence getting vaccinated then looks back at Trump's presidency from December 20, 2020 and 'Saturday Night Live' opens with a vaccine announcement and makes fun of election lawsuits and Space Force in a coronavirus holiday episode from December 13, 2020. The former was the eleventh most read entry of the tenth year of the blog acording to its ~1,400 default page views, while its 1444 raw page views ranked it twelfth overall and tenth among entries actually posted during March 21, 2020 to March 20, 2021. The latter earned ~1,320 default and 1402 raw page views to rank 13th overall for the year according to both measures and eleventh among entries posted during the last blogging year.


17 (15/13). A third entry from "Saturday Night Live" concentrated on the pandemic, SNL at Home on last week's coronavirus news from April 26, 2020. It was the second most read entry of April 2020 with 1,197 default and 1,208 raw page views by the end of the month. It continued gaining readers through the end of the year to become the eighteenth most read overall and the sixteenth most read of all entries posted during 2020 with ~1,210 default and ~1,290 raw page views by New Year's Eve. It ended this blog's tenth year with ~1,210 default and 1326 raw page views to rank seventeenth overall according to default page views, fifteenth according to raw page views, and thirteenth among all entries posted during the tenth year of this blog. It earned its page views my sharing the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page and political groups on Facebook.


Seth Meyers takes closer looks at Trump's response to the coronavirus from March 24, 2020 was the most read entry during March 202 with 1,086 default and 1,089 raw page views by the end of the month. It ranked 20th overall and eighteenth among all entries posted during 2020 with ~1,090 default and ~1,140 raw page views. The entry fell out of the default top 20 for the past year, but ranked 21st overall and nineteenth among entries posted during the blogging year with 1145 raw page views, so it continued to accrue page views past the end of March. It earned its page views my sharing the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page.


Pandemic effects from and on space, an April asteroid flyby, and NASA at Home for Apophis Day on Monday the 13th on April 13, 2020 ended April 2020 in fifth place with 833 default and 866 raw page views. While it did not make the top 20 list for 2020, the post finished the blogging year with 995 raw page views to rank 24th overall and 22nd among entries posted during the tenth year of this blog. It earned its page views my sharing the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page. I might recycle this entry in a retrospective about the environment.


The last entry I'm listing because of its page views is John Oliver and Washington Post examine coronavirus misinformation from April 25, 2020. It actually had more page views and ranked higher than the previous entry at the end of the month both were posted. It had 890 default and 892 raw page views to be the fourth most read post during April 2020. It gained 100 more raw page views by March 20, 2021 to end the blogging year with 992 raw page views to rank 25th overall and 23rd among entries posted during the blogging year. It earned its page views my sharing the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page.

Finally, Trump airs his grievances about the pandemic relief package for Festivus from December 23, 2020 tied for third among most saved pins for the current blogging year with one save during December 2020.

The next retrospective should be about the 2020 election and the actions that led to impeachment for Throwback Thursday next week. Until then, stay tuned for a climate update tomorrow.

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