How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Murder

Genocide. Population density makes it worse in city areas, rather than harming, you know, real Americans.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I'm so fucking over this timeline.

Welcome to the Darkest Timeline. You can pick up your evil goatee on the way out of the study room.

<-- new avatar pic. Greenified because, well, it's my color.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Once the meat packers die or refuse to risk their mostly minority lives, meat plants will either close or scale back production so workers can have safe work conditions, which means high prices, probably permanently. Fine, we eat too much meat anyway. I was vegetarian for years, I know how to do that.

What I don’t buy is the “new normal” that involves upsurges in deaths. The GOAL is to save lives!

Wtf is wrong with people.

It would be interesting to analyze which diet is more socially distant friendly.

 

[Kara Spengler]

It is the "you can't tell me what to do" mindset. I encountered this when I worked at a chemical plant right out of high school. The company policy was no facial hair of any type as the respirators need to seal to save your life in case of a leak. As part of the Safety dept, we had the fun chore of telling these chemical engineers who were making 200K plus a year that needed to shave to save their lives. Amongst the polite replies we received, "company can't tell me what to do" "no girl is going to tell me what I can or can't do" "I've had this beard since ..." It sucked. Personally I couldn't care if they sufficated for the sake of the beard but any incident investigation would hold the safety dept at fault for failing to enforce policies {almost impossible to do in the good ol boy network) and open not just the company but the safety manager legal responsibility. My boss had ulcers the whole year I worked there an pretty much until he retired about 12 years later. I left after a year of this crap as I only want my own stupidity to impact my job performance and not the bearded brotherhood of ineptitude.

Simple solution. Just make a company policy that they have to be clean shaven for safety reasons and sign a document saying they were told such. They can choose to not do so but if the worst happens your dept has a cya legal document that shows they were acting against the policy.

 

[Pamela]

Texans on Twitter do not seem very eager to visit salons and barbershops when they open Friday.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Friday%20in%20Texas%22&src=trend_click

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Analysts Say Nearly 1 In 5 Wendy's Locations Out Of Beef

The coronavirus crisis has put a huge strain on the meat industry, which has warned of shortages in the coming weeks.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Governor of West Virginia is so over this shit.

I'm horribly rusty on my one semester of ASL... Did the interpreter sign that?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[Kara Spengler]

I'm horribly rusty on my one semester of ASL... Did the interpreter sign that?

Hmm, I did not see the 2 versions I could think of nor the one that non-asl people use. Then again, I am just waking up.

 

[Dancien]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sean-hannity-condemns-armed-michigan-protesters-puts-our-police-at-risk-071256303.html

What?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sean-hannity-condemns-armed-michigan-protesters-puts-our-police-at-risk-071256303.html

What?

Quote Origin: In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act – Quote Investigator®

quoteinvestigator.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A new trend due to Coronavirus are "data donation/contact tracing apps" which should help to prevent the spread of the virus. In Germany first the idea was to do it in a centralized manner, but now all have switched over to decentralized so far.

In the UK on the other hand a centralized model is being favored by the government. A test version of it has been published to Apple's and Google's app stores.

In rare agreement both Google and Apple are warning to use this app due to privacy concerns and big abuse potential, but the GHCQ tells the exact opposite.

Apple, Google and hundreds of privacy advocates have raised concerns that this risks hackers or even the state itself being able to re-identify anonymised users, and thus learn details about their social circles.

But NHSX has consulted ethicists and GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on the matter, and believes safeguards are in place to minimise the risk of this happening.

What else to expect from the country in Europe with most CCTV going on...

Coronavirus: UK contact-tracing app is ready for Isle of Wight downloads

Isle of Wight council staff and healthcare workers will be invited to start testing app on Tuesday.

www.bbc.com

 

[Kara Spengler]

Oh wonderful, the gchq weighs in on privacy. Next it will be the nsa saying it.

I think you still could make one that respected privacy but those agencies words on privacy are not ones I would regard as authorities.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well the fun part for me is that even Google thinks it is a bad idea. Google, the biggest private data hoarder on this planet.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Detailed analysis of the privacy and human rights issues raised by the centralised vs decentralised contact tracing models, balanced against the government's perfectly legitimate goal of protecting public health, by one of the UK's leading human rights lawyers, Adam Wagner

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If anyone has any references to explain, in a rigorous, non-dismissive way, why some people who should know better are so resistant to the idea of wearing a mask, I'd like to see it. I know some people whose line or work leads me to believe they are capable of understanding the purpose of the thing, but they seem irritated by the very thought of it.

As an example, I know someone of a technical bent, who has in fact invented technical gear and been employed by famous people, who is now a Trumper and refuses to wear a mask. In response to one of his videos I made what I thought was a super brief, non-condescending summary of the reason you wear a mask, and suggested he'd get better cooperation from people he approached if he wore one. He answered only a few of the hundreds of comments to his video, including mine, to say, very tersely, that he wasn't going to do that.

 

[Free]

I look forward to her "Stop Waving the White Flag: Why You Don't Want Pharmaceuticals" webinar.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dancien]

The Choice For These Workers: Return To Their Jobs Amid A Pandemic Or Lose Them

Carvana? How about NoVana.

 

[Essence Lumin]

The Ark Encounter and Creation Museum isn't making any money so are offering you and your family a lifetime pass for $3000.

Creationists Are Selling Absurdly Expensive Lifetime Passes to Ark Encounter