Now we’re talking serious distance. Plus you have to paddle that last bit; I’m near a subway stop.
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Of all the things making this year feel like 1984 (the book), the scariest to me is the seeming unconcern in the US about the second spike. You can see it in many state’s charts; a bit of a bump two weeks after Mother’s Day, and now, two weeks after the “Re-Opening” there’s a climb again.
Can they really not see this? Are we supposed to ignore it?
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No need to worry about a second spike: most of the US is still relentlessly climbing the first spike.
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I really feel this way also. While I can’t speak for others, I notice it and feel hopeless and depressed about it. I imagine a lot of people do and some people probably employ some degree of denial to deal. As for leadership I don’t really know anymore even on a local level. It feels like we are left to our own devices… I mean this year has been a lesson in the consequences of a profound poverty of meaningful leadership.
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tl;dr
- a lot of people are still not getting into the “Reopening Fever”
- for something that spreads exponentially, dire trends will only look like noise right now
- not that we can trust anything the State of Georgia reports on this
- but if we get good measures over the next three months we might get a sense of how masks and distancing (of course not required or anywhere close to universally practices) can impact the rate of spread
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I used to be a bit misanthropic. I got around to have an existentialists attitude (keep rolling that stone…) and even started to like a lot of people, and parts of humanity in general… …
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“I’ve never been involved any sort of microchip-type thing,” he said, adding, “It’s almost hard to deny this stuff because it’s so stupid or strange.”
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That headline.
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How many times will that headline be retweeted and repeated as “proof” of the conspiracy? How many times has it already been? “Of course it’s hard to deny. Because it’s true!!”
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That is both fascinating and (as a fat, bald male with hypertension) terrifying. This virus does things I have never seen before.
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A friend of mine said something similar, and it got me thinking.
We are throwing resources at this virus which, I think, might be unprecedented. Hence, we discover stuff which we never have even thought about in regard to other viruses. (BTW, including dead ends, false alarms, and mental shortcuts.) In many cases, I would assume we don’t know anything about many other viruses because research is simply not needed or not lucrative if we have immunities, cures, vaccines and supporting medication.
Combine that and you get the impression that we have a supervirus.
I think I’ll have to discuss this with some people I know in related fields - I am by no means qualified to judge that line of thought.
Just BTW that piece: bets are on how many men will agree to be chemically castrated as a treatment against Covid-19, both in research and (if found to be effective) in treatment.
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I will give you $10 if you convince Trump to sell that as the new bleach enema to his acolytes.
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You can put me in for an additional $20.
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That’s an interesting piece of information. Thanks. Overlooked this.
Just a reminder: I mentioned racoon dogs farmed for due as a potential source of animal-human transmission in 2003. I also mentioned some Mustelinae being used in a study.
Biologically speaking, racoon dogs are much closer to dogs than to minks. Which might indicate that conditions in fur farming might play a role.
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Lese clickbaity, including the quote, and actually a good read:
ETA: point of minor criticism, the author should do a spell check also when they quote someone. Even conspiracy bullshit needs to be spelled correctly.
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