How COVID-19 is affecting society

[danielravennest]

You are thinking to small. I would suggest napalm and thermite.

Its a national historic landmark, so those would not be allowed. A thorough cleaning is fine though.

 

[bubblesort]

Yosemitie Bear died on Saturday. He may have died from corona. (I think he died from corona)

If you don't remember, Yosemitie Bear gave us this display of pure bliss 10 years ago:


From what I remember, according to the first article I read about this over the weekend, on Yahoo news, he had a fever and breathing problems, so he got a corona test, but died waiting for a result. I read that yahoo article two days ago. Since then, the parts of the Yahoo article that discuss his health problems have been removed. It looks like the article has been chopped in half. I looked around a bit, and according to buzzfeed, the result came back, and he tested negative for corona. I don't trust buzzfeed one bit, though, due to past experiences.

Neither the Yahoo, nor the Buzzfeed articles post screen caps of the FB posts in question, so I tracked down Bear's FB memorial page and dug through it a bit. I can't tell if going over a dead man's facebook page is creepy or just a normal way to pay respects in a socially distanced world. In the past, even before social distancing, I've seen people memorialized on the internet by reposting them, as a way to remember them, so I guess I'll go with respectful.

Yosemitie Bear was an avid facebook user. His last post was a selfie from a butterfly festival.

Anyway... the post that seems to be causing the confusion is this one.

The following exchange in the comments show that it took days to get a test. From what I can tell, and he never got results from that test, but a chest x-ray did not show corona. This strikes me as weird. If we can detect corona with chest x-rays, then why do we swab?

I took this screen cap just now, so 1w ago in the cap indicates Tuesday, May 5.

I don't think we can know for certain, but to me, just given his symptoms, it seems likely he died from corona.

One last thing I ran across while digging through bear's facebook: Yosemitie Bear was kind of a transhumanist... maybe? This comment was also under the post where he talks about fever and congestion. Bear believed in reincarnation, but he also believed that he could reawaken his spirit with a youtube video playlist, after he's reborn. I've seen a lot of wild transhumanist ideas regarding immortality bouncing around SecondLife, but Bear's view on the intersection of spirituality and technology seems pretty unique to me. If reincarnation does exist, this seems like a very appropriate way for Yosemitie Bear to come back.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[bubblesort]

Update... I found out he did get test results! This is from a totally different post I overlooked earlier. Turns out, Yosemitie Bear did not have corona, but he did have a "ticking bomb in his chest". Sounds like a heat condition to me.

So I was wrong... no corona.

 

[Pamela]

The problems with all those arguments are:
1) it's still exposing the workers to COVID19
2) People who have, or had, the virus can shed virus a lot longer than two weeks after, like in the area of a month (37 days was the figure).
So a month and a half to be safe, or two months (my brother's opinion).

Yes, I guess I still don’t get it ( involves math).

 

[Soen Eber]

I could go with an exorcism, a Native American cleansing ceremony, and whaz'shiznames brain donated to science when the time comes. We're overdue because of Cheney anyways.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I found this:

Bryan Adams under fire for ‘racist’ tweet blaming ‘bat eating b*******’ for coronavirus

Canadian singer/songwriter also urged said ‘bastards’ to go vegan

www.independent.co.uk

That would be the one.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

and whaz'shiznames brain donated to science when the time comes

I'm afraid the donation would come up rather short.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Useful:

 

[Sid]

I'm afraid the donation would come up rather short.

But it would come with a huge ego though.
I wonder if they have enough storage room for that.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

New US coronavirus hotspots appear in Republican heartlands

Surge in infections in red state towns and rural communities as rise in cases contradicts Trump assertion of rapid decline

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

New campaign on Twitter

 

[Kara Spengler]

Yeah, I boggle at car ads. In most jurisdictions they are closed anyways. The remaining ones do not need to advertise, people will find them.

 

[Kara Spengler]

New campaign on Twitter

What happens when I am not awake yet. I read that as Mathew Waterhouse (he monitors twitter so rarely but at least Tegan replies to me) and my first reaction was 'when did he change his icon'.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why this ICU nurse treating Covid patients could be deported

Jonathan Vargas Andres is one of many 'Dreamer' nurses awaiting a key Supreme Court decision.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Police vow to break up planned anti-lockdown protests in UK cities

Identity of organisers is unclear, but experts warn of cross-pollination with far-right ideas

www.theguardian.com

 

[Romana]

Police vow to break up planned anti-lockdown protests in UK cities

Identity of organisers is unclear, but experts warn of cross-pollination with far-right ideas

www.theguardian.com

"Bright to you by Satan" the sign says.
Do they really believe that? I thought Evangelical nuttiness was US thing.

 

[Dancien]

"Bright to you by Satan" the sign says.
Do they really believe that? I thought Evangelical nuttiness was US thing.

You get enough people together to have the same nutty thoughts then Evangelicalism happens. It's why I enjoy paganism. There is no unified nuttiness.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

"Bright to you by Satan" the sign says.
Do they really believe that? I thought Evangelical nuttiness was US thing.

No one seems too sure who's organising it, though the fascist Britain First group is certainly involved.

It's the sort of thing that appeals to all sorts of crazies, from fascists of various flavours, to libertarians, to anti-vaxxers, to 5-G conspiracy theorists, to coronavirus truthers... nutcase central.

ETA I seem to remember that the Britain First woman who's publicising this is also an evangelical Christianist, rather as Daesh are evangelical Muslims, though Britain First isn't itself an explicitly religious party.