(All stores – even grocers and pharmacies – are closed in Norway for 5 days starting today in honor of a fairy tale.)
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Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the ‘iMask’
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Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much
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Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all
Gates is basically bank-rolling factories for seven potential COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines, in the hope one or two are eventually viable even if it means blowing billions on the others.
The great Elon Musk, having been forced to shut down his factory under California’s lockdown, has bought 1,000 “FDA-approved ventilators” and sent 40 of them to New York City, which promptly explained that they aren’t powerful enough to use on coronavirus patients. In fact they could actually spread the virus further, health officials warned. The machines are used for sleep apnea, not keeping people’s lungs going.
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Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä has said that production will start in Finland within a few weeks. The contract announced will not, however, cover all of the nation’s projected needs during the coronavirus epidemic. The government is now in talks with at least two other possible domestic manufacturers.
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"The use of temporary broadcast identifiers and Bluetooth technology for contact tracing seems to be a useful path to achieve privacy and personal data protection effectively.
That sounds like phones will be running Bluetooth beacons and reporting who else gets within 30 feet.
- A massive invasion of privacy.
- A huge job to turn that data into information.
- Useful for other purposes, so it’ll be leaked or be justified for some other problem.
- Easy to bollix.
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“The biggest general question turns on whether these seizures and reallocations are being conducted according to some coherent plan or whether the secrecy is a screen for redistributing them on a preferential basis.”
I know which option I’d bet on.
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In Canada I’d say keep one moose apart, but sadly most Canadians have not encountered a moose in person, so one outstretched hockey stick apart will have to do.
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Later on Wednesday evening, Suomen Kuvalehti magazine reported that Tiina Jylhä , a tabloid celebrity and plastic surgery business owner based in Estonia, claimed she was cheated out of being paid millions of euros for the consignment.
The money went instead to Onni Sarmaste , a heavily-indebted payday loan operator, after he gave the agency a different, Belgian account number rather than hers.
According to Jylhä, Sarmaste was only due to receive a commission on the deal but instead took the whole advance payment.
Sarmaste told SK that he planned to buy the equipment from Jylhä’s firm but she was unable to provide the items.
He also claimed that Jylhä and her partner Tapani Valkonen had hired the Hells Angels to collect five million euros from him, and that his window had been smashed on Monday.
The National Emergency Supply Agency declined to comment to Suomen Kuvalehti.
Suomen Kuvalehti is not a tabloid.
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Yeah, I bailed on Costco in M*********a this morning. They hadn’t closed off enough of the parking lot to allow for proper spacing, everyone was bunched up, the employees had lost control of the queues and the crowd was getting testy. A number of people were there in the crowd for whom comprehension was apparently a struggle. Being 2m tall, I suppose the measurement comes more easily to me than most.
Nope… not staying.
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You are kind to give such people the benefit of a doubt. I wish I could be so generous, and I thank you for once again inspiring me to try to see bureaucrats from your perspective. In some cases though, I believe this simply is not warranted.
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(wrt Sinclair here, this assumes that “man” hasn’t been bought by whichever corporation that stands to financially benefit from that bureaucrat’s inaction/action)
Punctuated equilibrium evolution (as a working reality, not a theory) is painful and fkd up and my guess is it’s gonna kill a significant number of humans this year/decade. Dammit.
ETA: grammar
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Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CDC Says
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