Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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JACK, you're in full denial mode.
Cuomo said what he said because that's what his department heads told him.
And people aren't quoting the NYTimes, they're quoting Cuomo. That's why they're all saying the same thing. If news sources were all quoting Cuomo and saying DIFFERENT things, that would be a problem.
But they're using completely different wording, different paragraphs, even highlighting different summaries, not only different from the NYTimes, but from each other.
It's pretty easy to see they're not quoting the NYTimes, each other, or anything else, except Cuomo.
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Quote:This ain't Australia; Taiwan is tracking only quarantined people, not everybody:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In Taiwan, coronavirus pandemic is playing out very differently. What does life without a lockdown look like?
Cellphones tracked, restaurants with X's taped on every other chair, thermometers to enter a building. Taiwan shows that the post-virus normal is different.
Taiwan appears to have emerged from the crisis relatively unscathed. It managed to keep its 11 million-strong labor force working and its economy running.
It has recorded only about 400 cases of coronavirus and six deaths. But with no vaccine in sight, Taiwan is taking no chances. And if its example is any guide, the new normal — life without a lockdown — won’t look much like the old normal at all.
Here’s how Taiwan does it: www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwanese-authorities-stay-vigilant-virus-c
risis-eases-n1188781
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Despite what Cap'n Crunch says, that should be pretty terrifying to you.
Australia (thankfully) backpeadled their decision to make a Coomph tracking app mandatory.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/piracy/coronavirus-governmen
t-considers-making-mobile-tracking-app-mandatory/news-story/f2cacdf3ef3dbc844664ae9f648620cfQuote:
The Prime Minister has conceded the government won’t force Australians to download tracking software after it was viewed by many as a draconian measure to trace coronavirus cases in the community.
On Friday, Scott Morrison said he wanted to make the app compulsory if enough people didn’t sign up for it because at least 40 per cent of the population needs to be on board to make it effective.
But in a tweet this morning, he confirmed it “will not be mandatory”.
That doesn't mean that they won't try guilting the hell out of you to download and use it though.Quote:
“I know this would be something they might not normally do at an ordinary time but this is not an ordinary time,” he said.
“If you download this app you’ll be helping save someone’s life.”
If I were an Australian Citizen would I be forced to have the app if the law passed as well, even though I don't have or ever intend to have a cell phone again? Would I be forced to go out and buy one and pay a monthly plan out of my own pocket to install this tracking app?
As an aside...
Has anybody else who lives in an area that never has helicopters flying by had a lot of chopper activity? At least 3 per day are flying over the vicinity of my house this week, and that's just the ones flying close enough to be audible.
I could probably count on one hand how many I've noticed in 8 years of living here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Arriving passengers at the airport must hand over their mobile phones so health authorities can record the details and use the GPS signals provided by telecoms operators to track the phone’s owners — and make sure they stay isolated during 14 days of mandatory quarantine. . . .
Even with cellphone tracking, someone needs to enforce quarantine guidelines. In Taiwan, local officials have been enlisted to help.
Taiwan's borough chiefs, the lowest level elected officials, now must call people quarantined in their jurisdiction twice a day to make sure they are not fooling authorities by leaving their tracked phone at home while they go out.
This turned out to be quite a headache for Tseng Chiung-mei, a Taipei borough chief who at one point had to check on more than 100 quarantined people.
"Each day my borough’s director and I were making endless phone calls," said Tseng, adding that many of those quarantined in her borough were single people with no family to help them.
“They would call me and ask me to help them buy a boxed meal, instant noodles or a thermometer, because they couldn’t go out,” Tsen
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Six had an interesting thought that I've been noodling about ever since. He said that the "lockdown" has been in place for 8 weeks ... long enough to form new habits.
What are some of the negative habits being reinforced?
Well, beating up on your significant other, maybe.
Drinking.
Spending endless hours on the internet.
But what about postive habits?
Cooking and eating at home, with the family.
Spending time with your kids.
Walking the dog.
Gardening, cleaning, or home improvement.
NOT running to the store to buy the latest purse or drill if you need a "lift'.
NOT running off to the casino for a little fun.
It's not all negative. People are saying they see kids playing in the streets again, like they used to see. I've seen it myself: Mom, watching the kids from down the length of the street.
I hope the biggest habit that breaks is mindless consumerism.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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This is in response to all of the celebrities who, seeing no oppty to stick their faces into the public eye, are tweeting and instagraming endlessly about Covid-19.
Who the fuck cares about them? Maybe another positive result will be diminishing celeberity worship.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Six had an interesting thought that I've been noodling about ever since. He said that the "lockdown" has been in place for 8 weeks ... long enough to form new habits.
What are some of the negative habits being reinforced?
Well, beating up on your significant other, maybe.
Drinking.
Spending endless hours on the internet.
But what about postive habits?
Cooking and eating at home, with the family.
Spending time with your kids.
Walking the dog.
Gardening, cleaning, or home improvement.
NOT running to the store to buy the latest purse or drill if you need a "lift'.
NOT running off to the casino for a little fun.
It's not all negative. People are saying they see kids playing in the streets again, like they used to see. I've seen it myself: Mom, watching the kids from down the length of the street.
I hope the biggest habit that breaks is mindless consumerism.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Well...
It hasn't been 8 weeks yet. It just feels like it.
Another habit I've noticed that a lot of people have is that they forget what day it is.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This is in response to all of the celebrities who, seeing no oppty to stick their faces into the public eye, are tweeting and instagraming endlessly about Covid-19.
Who the fuck cares about them? Maybe another positive result will be diminishing celeberity worship.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Nice. I can dig it.
Saw this one the other day by one of my YT favs.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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HAHAHA! No kidding!
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Oh, another GOOD habit people might be forming: Getting enough sleep!
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That's going to vary wildly on the person.
I had a lot of free time before this, even when I was working, but my sleep habits have never been normal. I benefit from being alone though, so I can just sleep whenever I feel like it so it's not a problem.
There's also depression. I know my old man and my brother are depressed right now. Dad's like a Netflix zombie and pumps himself full of legacy media at this point because there's nothing better to do, and my brother needs social interaction more than anybody I know and I'm afraid that if this goes on too long he might go back to drinking. There have already been days I've talked to him and he sounded really strange. Sometimes his medicine does that to him, but it was worse than that... He said there are times now where he's been up 3 days straight again, which is something he was doing back in his drinking days and one of the reasons he started drinking a bottle of vodka every day.
For him, it's not just the church stuff and volunteer work that he was doing and no longer can, but my old man would go down there ever 3 or so weeks and I'd go down there about 4 times a year and now my old man isn't even doing that. The last time he went down with my brother he bought him about 5 times the stuff they usually get and told him it would be a while before he was back.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Obviously these are weak people, lacking in self-motivation and self-discipline, who deserve to die.
SIX .... I know my old man and my brother are depressed right now. Dad's like a Netflix zombie and pumps himself full of legacy media at this point because there's nothing better to do, and my brother needs social interaction more than anybody I know and I'm afraid that if this goes on too long he might go back to drinking. There have already been days I've talked to him and he sounded really strange. Sometimes his medicine does that to him, but it was worse than that... He said there are times now where he's been up 3 days straight again, which is something he was doing back in his drinking days and one of the reasons he started drinking a bottle of vodka every day.
For him, it's not just the church stuff and volunteer work that he was doing and no longer can, but my old man would go down there ever 3 or so weeks and I'd go down there about 4 times a year and now my old man isn't even doing that. The last time he went down with my brother he bought him about 5 times the stuff they usually get and told him it would be a while before he was back.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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