D&D and the rising pandemic

[Umbran]

That's the point. 91 people confirmed by test to have it after recovering out of 376,000 people altogether. The odds there are just as likely to be coincidence due to faulty tests or any other number of reasons that wouldn't apply to a broader population. Get back to me if/when they find more.

I'm not sure that's right. The point is that very few people later get retested after recovery. So, to get 91 is probably a disturbingly large number of the retests...

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I've been joking on other forums that New Zealand should run the world as everyone else is so bad at it.

In 1776 US had 4 million people. We've got 5. Give us our own continent and 200 years.

Might have to annex Canada and Norway. We'll need help to run the world.

I can promise the velvet glove, milk powder, Rugby with nice biscuits and chocolate. NFL will be banned though replaced with Rugby. Baseball also banned you get cricket.

Tbh, i would prefer a global drop in population. Not a rise.

Obligatory "not advocating genocide. Just talking about people just having a tendancy to feel like having children a just a little less for a few generations or some magical thinking like that which has no rational explanation and would never happen but is what id like to see. Clearly no genocidal rhetoric here. Dont suddenly start saying i said something like that."

Statement which is directed at no one in particular. Just obligatory. And a chore.

Leave norway alone! Iceland will have no military if norway is gone!

This whole comment is supposed to be a joke. Except the first line. Kinda do think we are getting to the point where we REALLY dont need more humans nearly as much as we need less humans.

 

[Hussar]

This is particularly amazing!

Apple, Google bring COVID-19 contact-tracing to 3 billion people

Amazing and amazingly terrifying at the same time. Yes, I know they say they cannot access the data, but, WOW, that's a LOT of data to put in anyone's hands.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure that's right. The point is that very few people later get retested after recovery. So, to get 91 is probably a disturbingly large number of the retests...

Yep.

Because even in countries where they’re testing the hell out of the population, the number of tests available is a limited resource. So the conventional wisdom is that you assume that those recovering don’t need to be retested.

But if post-infection patients can relapse- especially if they can become contagious again- then Covid-19 is MUCH nastier than we realized, and we need to ramp up the amount of testing. Everywhere.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

There are two schools of thought on this:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
—John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
—Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Chapterhouse: Dune

Personally, I find that there is truth in both statements—power is, indeed, an intoxicant that easily corrupts those that hold it, but it also a siren's song to those whose hearts are already corrupt.

im of a 3rd school of thought on this. But im 100% certain if i said my opinion on it i would get banned. Actually, im pretty sure i MYSELF would ban me if i was the mod on that one if i was seen saying it outloud lol.

 

[tomBitonti]

I'm not sure that's right. The point is that very few people later get retested after recovery. So, to get 91 is probably a disturbingly large number of the retests...

Which is perplexing. I‘d want to select several populations of statistically significant sizes and give them all tests on a regular basis. That seems to be the only way to measure true Infection rates and true symptom distributions. I’d also want the entire population to wear location and proximity sensors during the testing period. All of this should be within the means of several countries, and doable with current technology.

Be safe, be well,
Tom Bitonti

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Because they’re not YOUR politicians!

It’s an old political science truism that incumbents have an advantage because the people who voted for them kinda blind themselves to the flaws everyone else sees.

Ummm...i dont think ive ever read about a politician that i liked.

In the last 11 or so centuries.

Unless we count ones that are politicians indirectly? Then there is a handful. (I like paracelsus. He is in that handful)

Look. Basically you cant apply some typical rules like that one to me. Im one of those few people they completely dont apply to. And no. This is nkt narcissistic arrogance. Im a human for whom being called neurodivergent would be a hilarious understatement.

I never associate myself to parties because they are filled with people who have a lower iq than i even when you add pairs of them together. I dont really suffer a bias of one politician being mine and the other not being mine quite the way most people do because i hate them all with equal malice. Even playing field. Even when one does something i want (lol, rare, and usually accidental) i hate them exactly as much. I know better than not to. There are just far too many dimensions to my opinions for me to be pinned anywhere on the left to right spectrum.

I am repulsed so badly by group think that i cant bring myself to take advantage of it even though its easy.

 

[Hussar]

Well, @tomBitonti, it's not really a tech issue but a social one. How many rights are you willing to give up? Because, that's what it comes down to. You're saying that we should lowjack the entire population, allowing the government to track your movement 24/7. While the idea and the motive behind it might be pure, the invasion of privacy to that degree will never pass the bar.

 

[Zardnaar]

We're allowed to go for walks, just maintain distance.

Going a bit crazy. Nice day.

Random park I've never seen before.

Lots of people out walking often with dogs.
Street parties are becoming a thing. Deck chairs get taken out sit in street. This lady was singing a'la Italy. Not big on apartments here.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well, @tomBitonti, it's not really a tech issue but a social one. How many rights are you willing to give up? Because, that's what it comes down to. You're saying that we should lowjack the entire population, allowing the government to track your movement 24/7. While the idea and the motive behind it might be pure, the invasion of privacy to that degree will never pass the bar.

Well they tightened restrictions here and are looking at getting that Singapore app they use or building something similar.

Day 17 on my South Pacific Police State (SPPS).

Give me liberty or death!!! Well you're getting the second part.