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Sunday, March 22, 2020

well, it's a little slow coming, but it is at least the right choice, finally. again, though - the first thing they closed was bars and ...

it's baffling. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/03/21/coronavirus-whitmer-updates-order-assemblies-exempt-churches-p...

well, cuomo? you gonna act or not? i'm not losing any sleep over it.

imagine a world without old people, fat people or smokers at all . i don't want to get your hopes up - it's not that lethal.

imagine a world with less old people and less fat people. less smokers, maybe, too? hrmmn. maybe that's not so bad.

governments that insist that we get through this together, while refusing to protect the vulnerable, are going to see a lot of dead geriatri...

this isn't an issue that we solve with cooperation and teamwork and hard work. that's the wrong model for this problem. this is an i...

and, that's the path of least resistance. what will you do when there is no longer a path of least resistance, and people start rioting?...

do you know what's going to start happening soon, if it isn't already happening? people are going to figure out which states are ope...

do you really think the whole world is going to sit inside for the next two years to protect some fucking geriatrics from the common fuckin...

You would think there was nothing going on in parts of New York City," he said in a news conference Sunday. "You would think it wa...

"(It's) time to recognize it's not only about the old folks, it's about your impact in their lives. Don't be selfish,...

i'm no doubt going to find myself producing all manners of angry, cynical rants as i'm locked up inside for who knows how long. this...

no, really. you hear people talk about "faith in humanity", but i thoroughly reject the concept of faith, so if ever had faith in ...

we're really quite stupid creatures. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-28/coronavirus-panic-caused-by-probability-negle...

we should be playing probabilities & taking chances, not resorting to base absolutism.

listen, i don't have any interest in being responsible. fuck you and your conservative bullshit - i'll be as irresponsible as i...

they should have purposefully exposed them weeks ago so they'd be immune and ready to go when it peaks. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta...

"this isn't the flu, it's a different virus" you're right - it's not the flu. it's the common cold.

i want to be clear. we know that this virus only targets people that are old, or people that have underlying conditions. we know that the ...

you're going to have to tie me down and sedate me to accept this vaccine.... i will fight you off.

we know the drug companies have politicians across the spectrum in their back pocket. somebody like gavin newsom or andrew cuomo takes order...

i do not wish to be reliant on drug manufacturers to develop a vaccine to protect me from a weak virus. i want to build natural immunity. ...

i've wondered a few times... who is writing these policies? who benefits? there is only one beneficiary in this absurdity, and it...

expect this: if the government won't take the aggressive steps required to protect the elderly from the general population, which is in ...

*sigh* the idea that the public response to this virus can or should be about minimizing transmission is idiotic. we already know that alm...

what did spock say? he said that the individual rights of the many overpower the individual rights of the few. this is utilitarianism. it...

if you look in the literature, you'll see references to this historical grouping of anarcho-collectivism. this refers to a type of ...

to an anarchist/communist, collectivism is synonymous with fascism - it's the use of state power to deny rights, and is never justified,...

this is the kind of thing that you'd expect to happen in a country like iran, but i've said that so many times, now, that i'm st...

i repeat: i would advise you to keep your status unknown as much as is possible, so that it is not used against you in order to restrict you...

as it is, due to the violent and authoritarian overreaction by law enforcement in this country, i would advise against seeking testing or ot...

these elderly people don't care about me at all. i'm not sacrificing shit for them unless you put a gun to my head and force me to, ...

do you work in public health? are you frustrated by this? then get the fucking point already and order a lockdown for the elderly. stop livi...

and, am i worried about this thing hurting me ? well, i posted the probabilities. and, frankly, i think i already beat it. i...

this is the actual reason i didn't get tested when i got back from detroit last week. i didn't really think something like this w...

"It's a question of respect. The rights of individuals stop when the impact of the community is very high." wrong.

if you're going to tell me that i'm going to lose basic rights after a positive test, the solution is to avoid testing, so you won...

well, after reading this, you can be sure i'm not getting tested. this is exactly the wrong thing to do.... https://nationalpost.com/ne...

so, i'm done cleaning up from the start of february until the day of the debussy show. i was hoping to finish this before i stopped to...

if he does catch it, he's in for a fight.

well, they keep delaying the primaries. he's in a very high risk category. it's entirely plausible. then, what if sanders dies from ...

what if biden dies of covid-19? he's 78 years old.

fwiw, if there was any question about my health over the last few days, i think i'm back up to being at about 90%, now. what i'm d...

if you lose your job, you might not get it back. memories of 2008..... https://singularityhub.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-may-mean-automation...

Saturday, March 21, 2020

maybe they shouldn't have been allowing people into nursing homes, and letting old people interact with the general population? https://...

is there a possibility for critical mass to develop as a response to the government's overreaction? is this something for the left to po...

ok. let's try again to refocus, and let's hope the machine stays stable while i do.

governments right now are being forced to make a choice, and they are irrationally choosing the few over the many. but, it's not sustai...

a more exact hospital comparison would be if you suppose that the power's out and you're on battery power and you have to make a ch...

the ideal would be to not have to decide, and if you don't have to decide you should not. but, if you must decide, if you have no choic...

"you could walk away from the switch." well, then you're deciding to let it hit the five instead of the one. "that's ...

"but, the lone trolley walker was healthy, too. there's no reason to think that person would have died if you didn't pull that ...

i know that religious people are going to tell me i'm terrible. but, i think they're stupid. so, we can agree to be mutually baffled...

if you knew the fat man had cancer, then you would be obligated to push him in front of the train, for sure.

i want to work through the conversation article a little bit. i mentioned that i don't like how the thing is framed, and i think that fo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/study-of-the-day-almost-everyone-would-kill-1-person-to-save-5/250066/

i would like to see the system take aggressive steps to protect the vulnerable. i'm not advocating cutting them loose. but, do i think t...

"but, all life is sacred." eh. i'm not following you on that one. there's a lot of scenarios where i'm perfectly cont...

if anything, we're perhaps failing the trolley dilemma. i've never liked the way this is framed, and have tended to push back on it....

it's the old cliche. if you could kill one person in order to save 999 would you do it?

we are forcing 99.9% of the population to sacrifice and suffer for the benefit of 0.1%, under the threat of violence if they don't compl...

is there a prisoner's dilemma around covid-19? no. i gain nothing by co-operating - i have to sacrifice, entirely. and, i don't see ...

i'm skeptical that they actually slowed it down much at all. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237544-who-expert-we-need-more-testin...

so, you idiots shut the world down because you didn't want to discriminate against the elderly. what do you do when it doesn't work?...

those numbers in south korea are climbing back up....

i had to take a detour there to write some documents. the court is insisting that i file motions via consent, but i can't because i'...

Friday, March 20, 2020

i'll actually probably end up eating a lot less and lose a lot of weight. and, i'm going to officially declare myself straight-edg...

stop. this disease is never going to go away. deal with it.

ok, i need to focus. i'm going to be stuck inside all summer and there's nothing i can do about it. i don't want to go outside...

it's looking increasingly likely that if we let the politicians direct events then this is going to end in about two years with a mandat...

what i'm waiting for is data out of south korea, today.

so, what the chinese appear to be doing is flipping the situation over. they are currently blaming all new cases on foreigners, just like ...

see, how do you react to this kind of stupidity? she's not ignorant - she knows you're immune once you beat it. why would she say ...

it's ostrich logic - stick your head in the sand, until it goes away.

if you think we can just shut everything down for a few weeks and the virus will go away somehow then you're just demonstrating your ign...

listen, i'm not disputing that this is going to be hard. the system is going to deal with a lot of people that are older and a lot of p...

i get a check for $1169 from odsp deposited into my account on or around the last day of every month. so, i will get $1169 deposited on marc...

it really is a dramatic party reversal. 20 years ago, you would have expected republicans to think this was the beginning of an end times ...

let's imagine this, actually. let's get cybernetic. if you have a patient that is fucked by this and is having a hard time prod...

that's a treatment that we might see in not too long for this, for those most fucked by it - a blood infusion. "blood letting? leec...

they never followed through with it... there isn't one. oops? https://fortune.com/2020/02/18/coronavirus-sars-vaccine-development/

are they even trying to administer the sars vaccine? well?

so, 1) while existing immunity from the 2003 sars can potentially defeat weak cases of covid-19, 2) the new virus is different enough that t...

ok. no. the new virus seems to have changed it's geometry just enough that the old antibodies are going to have a hard time with it. thi...

i repeat: this study indicates that antibodies present in the survivors of the 2003 sars outbreak should defeat the new virus, in sufficient...

so, what this is saying is that the antibody can neutralize the virus, but only at low concentrations. when you have partial immunity l...

so, somewhat hilariously, the article being run in parallel by a few right-wing british papers seems to have picked out the wrong post in th...

i wish the daily mail would have sourced this better; the link to the telegraph article isn't any better. i know these are sketchy sourc...

i wonder if the situation in south korea, who wasn't affected by the 2003 outbreak (unlike singapore or taiwan) is being misunderstood. ...

so, that was my laptop test post. let me brush my teeth and hunker down on this. i've got the battery back in the laptop to protect ...

i want to weigh in a little on the question of targeting benefits v universality, because it's just another example of the skewed spectr...

i found the hearing request form, on the other side of the room, behind something. there's no way i put it there. but, thanks for br...

so, i am for real mere moments from getting back to focusing on this. the divisional court is closed for at least two more weeks, so i have ...

Thursday, March 19, 2020

like most people, my weight fluctuates mildly. over the last ten years or so, my bmi has fallen in the 18-22 range when it's been teste...

"We're seeing younger patients, one a 29-year-old, some in their 40s, 50s. " Dr. Adam Jarrett, the center's chief medical ...

so, perhaps we can add obese people to the list that currently includes the elderly and those with preexisting conditions. do i care more ab...

33% of americans aged 45-64 and 29% of americans aged 30-45 are considered obese. again: these numbers are different from everywhere else in...

so, there are claims that upwards of half of the patients being treated for covid-19 in the united states are under the age of 60. this is ...

given the science here, and the mathematical likelihood of most people getting substantively sick, this stupid fiasco is already exceedingly...

the readable version. great. so, test me. and, let me live again. "but, i didn't get sick. that means i have to stay i...

so this is what i wanted to see. boris johnson - who i will repeat is surprisingly and refreshingly ahead of the curve on this - has labeled...

if bernie's like your unstable uncle, biden's like your senile grandfather.

hey, kids, it's... guantanamo joe! "uhh. congress made me do it. and that one time back in 1873, i remember that..anyways." (p...

here's your answer, i guess. https://71republic.com/index.html@p=28588.html

you know, i wasn't taking tulsi gabbard very seriously, but she was supposed to be the anti-war candidate, right? it's a little odd ...

this is really the truth. we're all modeling. we're all guessing. and, these lawyers (at best.) in charge of the political ...

well... how many people have the flu at any given time? google's not helping.

2% of the people in the detro metro area would be 85,000 people infected. there's roughly 100 known cases in all of michigan. if 85% of ...

lol. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51956510

it's not a question of "staring down death", it's a question of understanding the probability. what is the probabilit...

"So again, I'm going to call on that generation ... not only calling on you to heed what's in the guidance, but to really ensur...

is it just me, or does that fauci guy sound like a pack a day smoker?

there are 0 confirmed cases in the windsor-essex region. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-braces-for-heavy-hit-from-unprecede...

well. there's an incentive to get tested. hey dougy, how's about sweetening the deal a little? https://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...

some more actual science. and, this is a prominent publisher. this one basically says that suppression is futile, because there's m...

i'm also going to ask another question. hong kong is being presented as a model of success as a result of it's draconian response. ...

i would predict that it is highly likely that you'll see some further hotspots develop in china fairly soon, perhaps on the other side o...

the reality is that there are likely millions of people already infected in europe. with 3,000 deaths in italy, and a fatality rate of 0.6%...

99%, huh? i can't hit that link, so take this for what it's worth. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-wh...

this is some actual science. it suggests that the mortality rate in china is probably about the same as the published rate in south korea - ...

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

do i believe that china just stopped transmission? not really. they more likely stopped publishing data. when iran was suspecte...

"you think having a beer is more important than saving old people?" well, beer's done me more good in my life. i might say tha...

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-220.html

the managers at that retirement home in bc should be charged with criminal negligence (leading to murder) for not taking the clear and obvio...

this is not a country-wide emergency that affects everybody. this is a crisis in a small group of vulnerable people that require targeted a...

it's the only place in the country that should clearly, unquestionably be locked down, and they're letting people in. but, you'r...

i saw a report on cbc the other day that actually suggested they were letting people into this retirement facility in bc, where 6 of the 9 c...

there has been one death in ontario so far, a 70+ year-old who died before he even got his test results back, because he waited too long to ...

and, now they're resorting to fox news style disinformation to justify their unscientific, puritanical, fascistic dictates. it's sad...

ok. i'm getting the laptop back up, now. and, i've got a month worth of posts to clean yup, again. lol.

this feels like a fascist coup, in slow motion.

is this the stand? or is it more like the handmaid's tale? well? they canceled drinking. what's next?

hail whitmer! hail!

all hail rev whitmer!

this is not science. this is puritanism.

more idiocy. These restrictions do not apply to the following locations: office buildings, grocery stores, markets, food pantries, pharmacie...

so, the latest stupid thing is moving students out of their dorms and sending them home. where are these 20-somethings most likely to intera...

of course it's not working. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/europe/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-intl/index.html

one wonders what the outcome would have been if the constitution hadn't failed. would there be a more integrated social payer system? wo...

does cold weather kill viruses? yes. sort of. first, viruses tend to react badly to water. when you hear about water-borne viruses,...

this is a catastrophe. and, you shouldn't blame foreigners - you should blame your own government.

i need to create and send out some more documents tonight before i hunker down and get to work.

and, what's worse? the government is no doubt going to blame it's botched strong-arm, authoritarian policies on a public that wouldn...

we could have just quarantined the elderly. but, no. we decided on Strong Leadership instead. and, this is what we get for it.

and, let's be clear for context - what's happening in the market is not similar to 2008 or 1987. not any more. the infamous 1929 cra...

if you were to transfer me $5000 tomorrow, i'd say "thanks" and then wait for the bars to reopen to spend it. what else am i g...

i don't oppose this, don't misunderstand me. but, instead of quarantining the people that are at risk and allowing immunity to ...

i really think that the boomers need to shut up and listen to young people, on this: our patience is not infinite, and we won't abide by...

the divisional court appears to be completely closed. alright. i'm not happy about any of this, and i hope that the government falls ove...

and, i just checked the exchange rate. yikes. if it wasn't clear 20 years ago, it should be now: there should be a concerted effort by t...

a lot of the kids that carry this have no symptoms. you have no idea if they have it or not.

and, what is that going to do to some of these people? imagine this. first, the government cancels the schools and daycares, leaving you to ...

so, they have closed both daycares and schools in ontario... expect this to happen soon: a sharp rise in cases where grandparents contract t...

and, if you leave people in a situation where they have to go to work and can't find child care, what are they going to do with the kids...

something else they're doing in the uk is allowing exclusive access to grocery stores for seniors during specific hours. this is a smart...

there's different arguments about the schools. one is that you don't want the kids spreading it. but, i'm not sure that kee...