How COVID-19 is affecting society

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FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic — FBI

As large numbers of people turn to video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms to stay connected in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, reports of VTC hijacking are emerging nationwide.

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As individuals continue the transition to online lessons and meetings, the FBI recommends exercising due diligence and caution in your cybersecurity efforts. The following steps can be taken to mitigate teleconference hijacking threats:

• Do not make meetings or classrooms public. In Zoom, there are two options to make a meeting private: require a meeting password or use the waiting room feature and control the admittance of guests.
• Do not share a link to a teleconference or classroom on an unrestricted publicly available social media post. Provide the link directly to specific people.
• Manage screensharing options. In Zoom, change screensharing to “Host Only.”
• Ensure users are using the updated version of remote access/meeting applications. In January 2020, Zoom updated their software. In their security update, the teleconference software provider added passwords by default for meetings and disabled the ability to randomly scan for meetings to join.
• Lastly, ensure that your organization’s telework policy or guide addresses requirements for physical and information security.

 

[Salome]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There's no button to press for this.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti-Gay Agenda

Volunteers are required to agree to a statement of faith in which marriage is defined as "exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female" and the unrighteous are sentenced to "everlasting punishment in hell."

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On Tuesday morning, a makeshift tent hospital in Central Park will begin treating overflow patients from Mount Sinai, as the spread of COVID-19 begins to overwhelm local hospitals. Announcing the 68-bed respiratory unit this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the relief organization, Samaritan's Purse, responsible for funding and erecting the facility.

The mayor did not mention that the group is led by Franklin Graham, a notorious anti-LGBTQ and Islamophobic preacher with a track record of using humanitarian missions to proselytize an evangelical agenda.

Graham, the son of prominent minister Billy Graham, has specifically sought to recruit Christian medical staff to the Central Park facility. According to the group's website, all volunteers, including health care workers, should read and adhere to a statement of faith, in which marriage is defined as "exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female" and the unrighteous are sentenced to "everlasting punishment in hell."

At least the pandemic means his tour of the UK, scheduled for this summer, isn't likely to happen.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I'm starting to understand why a lot of people here in the US have been stocking up on guns and ammo these past several weeks.

Isn't one of the most famous American idioms "an armed society is a polite society", which originally came from Robert Heinlein?

 

[Fionalein]

It's amazing how many "smart" people turn out to be lumberingly stupid.

Coronavirus: Red Bull boss Helmut Marko wanted drivers to get exposed to coronavirus | Sporting News

Red Bull boss Helmut Marko has revealed that he pitched an idea to have his drivers get exposed to coronavirus whilst the season was suspended.

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The owner of the Red Bull drinks company is known to flirt with nazi slurs and fascism... applied Darwinism sounds like something they would do.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[detrius]

I feel sorry for the people who are supervising the CCTV monitors.

Their extremely boring job just got way more boring.

 

[Sredni Eel]

If we learn anything from this pandemic, it's get the people off the ship as quickly as possible and spread them out. The same logic applies to large office buildings, shopping malls, or any other place with lots of people - get them out and separate them.

If we learn anything from this pandemic, it's to let the cruise ship industry die. Seriously, why would anyone go on a cruise?
It's an expensive floating hotel system that has been rife with norovirus before Covid19 settled in and asked it to hold its beer.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti-Gay Agenda

Volunteers are required to agree to a statement of faith in which marriage is defined as "exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female" and the unrighteous are sentenced to "everlasting punishment in hell."

gothamist.com

At least the pandemic means his tour of the UK, scheduled for this summer, isn't likely to happen.

There's a lot of LGBTQ+ people in the healthcare field, especially in large cities. Forcing them to utter an oath of self-damnation so they can risk their lives to help??? Seriously?

I hope he chokes to death on his own toxic sputum.

 

[Rose Karuna]

If we learn anything from this pandemic, it's to let the cruise ship industry die. Seriously, why would anyone go on a cruise?
It's an expensive floating hotel system that has been rife with norovirus before Covid19 settled in and asked it to hold its beer.

We have a lot of friends who are retired and just really love cruising but my experiences with it haven't been that terrific. First of all, you have to pay for the bar and damn, is that expensive, even if all you have is a cocktail and a glass of wine at night.

Then, if you do get something like a salmonella from the food they are preparing for you and go to the ship's doc (like my friends did on the last cruise I was on back in 2000), they charge you a minimum of $600 each and that was 20 years ago so it's probably a lot more now. In fact, cruise ships remind me of flying, they charge you for every little damn thing that they possibly can.

Also, my husband and I both hated having to sit at dinner with complete strangers, being forced to have our pictures taken before we could sit for dinner, being cooped up on the ship and we also hated when we went to shore, having to be back on the ship by a certain time. It just doesn't fit our temperament. Why would I want to go on vacation to relax and "get away" with thousands of other people constantly in my space?

We're the type of people who like to do a bit of research on where we visit, get off the plane, take the public transport (it's always an adventure), land at a hotel or airbnb, drop off our stuff and then just start wandering around and stopping into places like shops and museums.

So for those that love cruising, I hope enough cruise lines survive for you. It's just not for me.

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Beebo Brink]

If we learn anything from this pandemic, it's to let the cruise ship industry die.

The profusion of cruise lines mean they're always cutting corners to make a profit in a highly competitive industry and the loser is always the passenger. A few cruise lines going out of business would probably improve the industry standards considerably (but also raise prices out of the reach of many people, but honestly, you don't NEED a cruise trip).

As I think I've mentioned before, my wife used to work as a machinist in a ship yard (so much for her MFA), and she saw the dark underbelly of cruise liners (figuratively AND literally). They register overseas to escape U.S. Coast Guard regulations and safety standards; they spend their money on the top decks to dazzle the passengers, but skimp on the actual workings of the ship; they pay their crews slave wages and treat them like indentured servants. When you're on a ship, you're shit out of luck as a victim of a crime (including murder) because there's no clear jurisdiction over shipboard events and the caption can (and often does) simply ignore what happened. And of course, you're trapped if anything goes wrong.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Sredni, the circumstances are dreadful, but it is very nice having you around more.

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

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OMG Bezos' bias must be seeping into Alexa!

 

[Sredni Eel]

This makes me happy beyond compare.

 

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CNN anchor Chris Cuomo diagnosed with coronavirus; he will continue working from home

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Covid-19.

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