D&D and the rising pandemic

[cbwjm]

1pm briefing season 3. NZs favorite show.

How about South Island becomes independent? We'll take Jacinda, you can have Judith? Deal? We have cookies (Cookie time factory).

Looks like we need to wait another hour for the update. Way to keep us in suspense.

The student was also on AUT campus while infections, only around 10 minutes or so, so low-risk of infection for casual contacts but still I'd be worried if I was around there at the time.

 

[Zardnaar]

On behalf of the North Island, I'm going to have to decline taking Judith. Maybe we can ship her off to Stuart Island.

I know we have the Chelsea sugar factory, could be the basis for trade between the north and south islands. Cookie time needs to get sugar from somewhere.

Touche. Can't do that to Stewart Island. I think the Auckland's are uninhabited.

 

[Zardnaar]

Looks like we need to wait another hour for the update. Way to keep us in suspense.

The student was also on AUT campus while infections, only around 10 minutes or so, so low-risk of infection for casual contacts but still I'd be worried if I was around there at the time.

Reddit saying it's linked to defense force cluster. Guess we'll find out with 2pm update.

Wonder who comes out, Ashley it's serious, Jacinda lockdown?

 

[cbwjm]

Reddit saying it's linked to defense force cluster. Guess we'll find out with 2pm update.

Wonder who comes out, Ashley it's serious, Jacinda lockdown?

I think the article said the minster of health and another doctor. Though who knows, Jacinda and Ashley might pop out and be all "Surprise! It's lockdown 3.0!"

 

[Zardnaar]

I think the article said the minster of health and another doctor. Though who knows, Jacinda and Ashley might pop out and be all "Surprise! It's lockdown 3.0!"

Did you ever by into what she is about to say by how she's tied her hair?

 

[cbwjm]

Did you ever by into what she is about to say by how she's tied her hair?

I didn't even realise that was a thing. Is it like if she has it tied back she's about to drop another lockdown?

 

[cmad1977]

News outlets here are reporting that 1600 people are being hospitalized per day on average, and that mobile morgues are being set up in Texas. Currently the State of Texas alone has more cases of Covid-19 than the entire country of Italy.

It's not even noon, and already we've passed 110,000 new cases for today. They are predicting 200,000 new cases per day as early as next week.

So much for "flattening the curve." It looks like Americans got tired of Covid-19 so we just decided it was over. Or we decided it was all a political stunt, or that it was all a hoax or "liberal conspiracy," as if a friggin' virus was a stranger on the Internet that they could argue with. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people have died but whatever, nothing anybody can do about that, these things happen, anyway did you hear about Trump's latest lawsuit?

It's frustrating to live in a country where people are so enamored with "free speech" that they think their opinions are equally valid as science, that they stop listening as soon as they hear something they don't like. People (and elected officials) in America treat facts and safety guidelines like a pick-and-choose salad bar, to the ruin of all.

Damn it.

It’s not that we “got over it” it’s that a very particular group of people sharing a particular political ideology refused to do the bare minimum to protect the lives of other Americans.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It’s not that we “got over it” it’s that a very particular group of people sharing a particular political ideology refused to do the bare minimum to protect the lives of other Americans.

In part because wearing a mask and washing your hands isn’t the same kind of heroic fantasy fuel as camoflage flak vests and AR-15s. The heroism involved is too mundane and ho-hum.

 

[Zardnaar]

I didn't even realise that was a thing. Is it like if she has it tied back she's about to drop another lockdown?

Something like that. I wasnt to convinced.

 

[cmad1977]

Or, actually put an effort into teaching people some critical thinking skills.



Make that critical thinking, and a hefty dose of civics courses.

The issue with teaching critical thinking/basic logic in school(and it should be a required high school course) is that kids then go home and ask their parents questions that their parents are t equipped to answer. Parents get mad, complain....
and there goes critical thinking.