and, september is now updated. for a long time.
1) https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2014/09/
2) https://musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.com/2014/09/
3) https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/2014/09/
4) https://jessicamurraytravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/
september was again lengthy due to a lot of posts, and the document i'm generating them from is now far more than 75% done so this should pick up soon. i hope.
Monday, July 6, 2020
bob rae is a liberal party insider of the highest level, with all kinds of personal ties to the shady desmarais clan, which seems to be the high priesthood of canadian colonialism. he's been deployed in recent decades as a soft face for hard power, being used to negotiate with the native americans, or to document human rights abuses in bangladesh (no doubt while carrying out some corporate espionage for power corp). i've generally advised not to trust bob rae; he will appear to you in an appealing manner, and he will talk your ear off about whatever it is that you want to hear, but he firmly represents the deepest bowels of canadian colonialism, which is the petro-state.
that said, he's a smart and capable policy wonk and sending him to the united nations is consequently a fairly good position for him. this is perhaps a surprisingly appropriate appointment.
that said, he's a smart and capable policy wonk and sending him to the united nations is consequently a fairly good position for him. this is perhaps a surprisingly appropriate appointment.
at
16:16
is the coronavirus airborne?
i think that depends on your definition of 'airborne', and that trying to work these questions out in the popular press risks losing the important subtleties associated with them.
the virus appears to be more contagious than was previously thought at this point, and that may be due to a mutation that happened in europe a few months ago. if that strain has been further selected for over the last few months, perhaps even aided artificially by human behaviour like social distancing, then the increased contagiousness of the virus may be a characteristic of an upcoming second wave.
but, does that meet the scientific definition of "airborne"? that is a more difficult question and one that wonks are going to probably spend quite a time working out, in reverse.
so, i wouldn't expect a firm answer on that question for quite a while, actually.
but, it may be prudent to adjust to the reality of a more contagious virus than we saw previously.
i think that depends on your definition of 'airborne', and that trying to work these questions out in the popular press risks losing the important subtleties associated with them.
the virus appears to be more contagious than was previously thought at this point, and that may be due to a mutation that happened in europe a few months ago. if that strain has been further selected for over the last few months, perhaps even aided artificially by human behaviour like social distancing, then the increased contagiousness of the virus may be a characteristic of an upcoming second wave.
but, does that meet the scientific definition of "airborne"? that is a more difficult question and one that wonks are going to probably spend quite a time working out, in reverse.
so, i wouldn't expect a firm answer on that question for quite a while, actually.
but, it may be prudent to adjust to the reality of a more contagious virus than we saw previously.
at
15:50
listen, i don't doubt that masks, if worn sensibly by a substantive amount of the population, would reduce the spread of the disease. i would argue that, unless we want to commit to wearing masks all of the time, it's just a stop-gap measure. but, i don't doubt the abstract premise.
like it was with social distancing, though, the way we're doing the mask thing actually has the potential to make it worse.
i was handed masks by two different store attendants on friday, a gift i refused on both occasions. i'm asthmatic, you see. but, the way the masks were handed out seemed to me more likely to spread the disease than prevent it's spread, given that these attendants were in high traffic areas and the masks were just handed to me loosely, after the actual masks had been pawed all over by these employees. so, i'm in essence being asked to put this device on my face that's been grab-handed all over by somebody at a heightened risk. no thank you.
i'm seeing reports about handing out masks at drive thrus. well, the whole fucking point of the drive thru is that people are isolated in their cars; if you send a guy around with masks, you're just creating a transmission vector.
and, of course, people are going to, in truth, do things like reuse masks and put them in their pockets and stuff, which is just going to make things worse, as their masks act like a wet mop in pulling virus particles out of the air.
i don't really see the utility of mask-wearing at this time. transmission rates in this community seem to be low to non-existent, and i've been self-isolating for months. i would consider that to be a drastic step, and i'm not nearly concerned enough to take it.
but, is a push to use masks in this way likely to be effective? i worry that the pro-active approach mandated in the public health law may have the effect of increasing spread, even if the voluntary recommendation, itself, is reasonable for those that are responsible about it.
like it was with social distancing, though, the way we're doing the mask thing actually has the potential to make it worse.
i was handed masks by two different store attendants on friday, a gift i refused on both occasions. i'm asthmatic, you see. but, the way the masks were handed out seemed to me more likely to spread the disease than prevent it's spread, given that these attendants were in high traffic areas and the masks were just handed to me loosely, after the actual masks had been pawed all over by these employees. so, i'm in essence being asked to put this device on my face that's been grab-handed all over by somebody at a heightened risk. no thank you.
i'm seeing reports about handing out masks at drive thrus. well, the whole fucking point of the drive thru is that people are isolated in their cars; if you send a guy around with masks, you're just creating a transmission vector.
and, of course, people are going to, in truth, do things like reuse masks and put them in their pockets and stuff, which is just going to make things worse, as their masks act like a wet mop in pulling virus particles out of the air.
i don't really see the utility of mask-wearing at this time. transmission rates in this community seem to be low to non-existent, and i've been self-isolating for months. i would consider that to be a drastic step, and i'm not nearly concerned enough to take it.
but, is a push to use masks in this way likely to be effective? i worry that the pro-active approach mandated in the public health law may have the effect of increasing spread, even if the voluntary recommendation, itself, is reasonable for those that are responsible about it.
at
01:46
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