Cable news is not a good source of information probably.
― silby, Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
sigh.
Dr. Anthony Fauci now going into “modified quarantine” after being in close proximity with the White House staffer who was positive, @jaketapper reports. Fauci joins CDC’s Dr. Robert Redfield and FDA’s Dr. Stephen Hahn who are also in quarantine as a result.— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) May 10, 2020
― maura, Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
Kind of a chilling article, I worry about this stuff a lot more than hostile AI taking over the world:
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/1/21243148/why-some-labs-work-on-making-viruses-deadlier-and-why-they-should-stop
― o. nate, Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
clemenza, I have the same feeling you do sometimes about that stuff, the coverage does seem a lot more incendiary and unhelpful than it *should* be, but I think a lot of it comes from growing up with old school cbc news, which truly was what tv news should be. I hate to encourage current crits of them, and yet, it’s not what it was.
― Kim, Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
I think a lot of it comes from growing up with old school cbc news, which truly was what tv news should be
i would like to see this! the closet thing i knew growing up was the macneil/lehrer newshour, which i found boring as a kid and then missed when both of them were gone.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
The one thing I'm mad at myself for not pointing out sooner to that Woodstock douche is by Woodstock, there was already a vaccine. Actually was a vaccine after the first wave
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 May 2020 09:08 (three years ago) link
xps: Honestly, I only wish I could pay $0.70/mo in carrier fees to CNN without paying $2/mo in carrier fees to Fox News. I haven't had cable since I left my parent's home, and it's not like there's any lack of news competing for my attention...
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
the macneil/lehrer newshour
the newshour does a pretty good job, considering its limited budget when compared to cable and broadcast network news, or a newspaper-of-record like NYT or WaPo, but its reliance on filling much of its allotted time by interviewing experts to act as explainers is a weakness as well as a strength. Actual reportage is very rare.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I agree. But sadly, that’s the best I can think of for American network/public television. I was trying to think of what we have that can stand up to my idea of whatlevel-headed straightforward CBC news from a few decades ago
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
damn Sanpaku, i wasn't aware of this. sad
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
I feel like the American 60 minutes is still good. Idk they’re probably doing something awful I don’t perceive
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
I didn't watch a lot of CBC news, Kim--for me, it'd probably be memories of staid old Cronkite growing up. Anyway, it's not like I don't get reeled in by the very thing I'm complaining about; I've posted about murder hornets four or five times this week.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
won't someone think of the killer bees
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
I'm rooting for the killer bees to kill the murder hornets, then I want Godzilla to kill them all.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
this Plandemic/Mikovits shit is the most successful disinfo/propaganda campaign I've ever seen.
― akm, Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
i had to stop watching CNN because it seems to be all Cuomo all the time now
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
tbf i only started watching CNN like two months ago when the pandemic hit so maybe it's always been like this
There’s was an idiot parade in melbourne this weekend and depressingly, but expectedly, the plod didn’t arrest and fine as many people for breaching social distancing as they did at the asylum seekers rights protest a few weeks back (where isolation was maintained by doing it in cars)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Took a trip to the burbs to buy and deliver groceries to the gf's parents this morning and there was an old white guy in the parking lot protesting the SIP and yelling right wing talking points. I yelled at him to stop being such a selfish baby and shut the fuck up and go home. A few other people in the parking lot applauded but it didn't seem to phase him. hopefully if enough people react the same way he can be shamed into confining his bullshit to social media.
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
only 750 new deaths reported in the US, the lowest single day total since late March. 20,000 new cases also the lowest new case total since around the same time period.
I know 3-day averages more indicative than 1-day, but this is a significant reduction. I don't have a lot of faith that this will continue cos of states like Georgia, but I hope I'm wrong.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
xpost even if it didn't phase him, good on you for doing that. and nice to see other people applauded rather than booing you, which indicates not everybody is a complete moron.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Canada's daily cases have really stabilized too and are starting to move down.
http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/
Half of that anomalous spike on May 3 had to do with some delayed reporting. This is the week where there's a lot of gradual reopening, though, so fingers crossed.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 May 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
Massively signal-boosted into old-person Facebook by QAnon groups per some disinfo person on Twitter
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
I really love how the selling point is "it got banned from YouTube 5 times!! Come find out what **they** don't want you to know!!" as if the entire fuckin YouTube corporation is in on it
― frogbs, Monday, 11 May 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
i've somehow avoided seeing anyone share it
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Monday, 11 May 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
me neither, though I've seen tons of people reference the thing
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
I know 3-day averages more indicative than 1-day, but this is a significant reduction.
The 7-day average (which better solves the weekend/weekday reporting lags) currently showing -7.55% downtrend... which is good, but nowhere near great. Tuesday will show a much clearer indication of what happened Fri-Mon.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 11 May 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
this is an interesting page for looking at international comparisons over time -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51235105
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:40 (three years ago) link
in singapore they have robot dogs who will find you if you're not standing 2 metres apart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuR7N6E2LA
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Death rate per 100,000 people in the UK is 47. In my area it's 120.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
A few news stories of note:
https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/natasha-daly-national-geographic.php
Daly has debunked claims about a new and glorious presence of ducks in the fountains in Rome (they are there, but they always were), peacocks in India (again, they live there), dolphins swimming through Venice (the photos in question were actually taken in Sardinia), deer on an Indian highway (it’s Japan, and the photo is years old). “Conservationists say that, actually, we’ve changed ecosystems on earth to the point where they can’t recover without our assistance and help,” she said. “So to have that sort of mindset that we just need to do nothing, it almost undermines the really real and important work that conservationists do.”
“Conservationists say that, actually, we’ve changed ecosystems on earth to the point where they can’t recover without our assistance and help,” she said. “So to have that sort of mindset that we just need to do nothing, it almost undermines the really real and important work that conservationists do.”
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw1r9xyXVA9CjeMP2V8xr1ZszLr4ZgCOtHB7kLTzPaGrXd9A/viewform?mc_cid=611c522843
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Violence in Germany by anti-quarantine protestors against the mediahttps://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-anger-foments-violence-against-journalists/a-53383927
A crew from the TV broadcaster ZDF had finished filming a so-called Hygiene Demonstration on May 1 for the satirical "Heute Show" ("Today Show") when it was set upon by some 15 hooded people, possibly with malice aforethought. Several members of the crew were injured, some severely. According to media reports, the attackers used metal bars and cudgels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/health/coronavirus-plague-pandemic-history.html
In Florence, wrote Giovanni Boccaccio, “No more respect was accorded to dead people than would nowadays be accorded to dead goats.” Some hid in their homes. Others refused to accept the threat. Their way of coping, Boccaccio wrote, was to “drink heavily, enjoy life to the full, go round singing and merrymaking, and gratify all of one’s cravings when the opportunity emerged, and shrug the whole thing off as one enormous joke.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
speaking of plagues in italy, anyone who hasn't read the LRB article about 1629 in florence really should:https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-conversations/four-hundred-years-of-quarantine
there is a podcast episode with the author here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-conversations/four-hundred-years-of-quarantine
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
How would I explain to the robot dog that I'm standing close to my wife, with whom I also sleep?
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
very respectfully
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
oh cool, Black Mirror episode is here
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
also ED 209 will be patrolling the streets
very good, short article on how this could play out.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/health/coronavirus-pandemic-curve-scenarios.htmllmao @ the idea that “herd immunity” could have ever been mentioned as a strategy. look at the graph. it will take years and years to even get to 55%.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
WATCH: Protesters calling for gyms to reopen in Florida are doing squats and push-ups outside the Clearwater courthouse https://t.co/3BVzxHQPEJ #Florida #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/3cjgQ6kaM8— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) May 11, 2020
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Clearwater, home of the sea org
― silby, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
imagine having a customer base that is so dedicated that they gather together in dangerous conditions outside of your place of business to do the thing that they want to pay you to do inside of your building, if it only it were less dangerous
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
it's like standing outside of a Cold Stone eating homemade ice cream and demanding to be let inside so you can pay them for ice cream
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Are these folks dupes or trolls?
― DJI, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Or a smooth combination of both?
They are not incredibly bright
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
I hadn't missed hardly a day at the gym for three months when this came along, but if it reopens, that's extremely low on my priority list. Twice-a-day walks are filling the void just fine in keeping off the weight I'd lost.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Walk plus ring fit plus no restaurants means somehow I'm not fatter than before,
― DJI, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
you should protest in front of nintendo headquarters! end social distancing so you can play ring fit!!
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
They aren’t there, they’re working from home.
― silby, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
that didn't stop the brave clearwater gym protesters
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
I thought this was a good overview of what we currently know about where risks of transmission are highest:
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
TLDR: Transmission through the air in an enclosed space is a high risk. Just breathing the same air can do it if you spend enough time there. Sneezing or coughing increases the risk significantly.
― o. nate, Monday, 11 May 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link