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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:To everyone that's filled with woe and despair, get out and loving volunteer. Action is always preferable to inaction and it doesnt have to be active participation at the front lines. Action allows you to build a tiny semblance of control or at least make you believe you control a tiny part of the ongoing chaos instead of sitting at home feeling helpless and unable to change the impending doom that appears to be on the way. I plan on helping out with water or clean up when I get back to land. lightpole fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Bell_ posted:I was reading on Economic Times the other day that Vietnam claimed zero deaths with a population of nearly 100 million bordering China Of course it's possible but from all accounts I've seen, they have handled it much better. My buddy has been there with his wife's family for the last 6 months or so and is reluctant to return to the US at this point. It's still a communist government though so there are some tradeoffs. Asian governments generally take pandemics a little more seriously than the west since they have encountered them more recently.
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facialimpediment posted:The argument against Fauci lying: I seem to remember at the beginning it was to discourage ordinary people that could social distance from wearing them to save masks for first responders or others that couldn't. In the US, where face masks arent common, N95s were seen as the only really effective protection and then only if you followed proper protocols. Theres a much greater understanding and evidence of the importance of even just a cloth barrier and people can point to data showing this. People are getting death threats for requiring or wearing masks even with the data. Fauci has spent the entire year working to overcome the administration's prejudices and has been hamstrung at times. He has been the director of infectious diseases for 36 years, I dont see how anyone can call him a Trump toady. Fauci has done the best he can while the administration continues sticking its dick in every light socket it can find.
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Jun 23, 2020 20:41
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Super Rugby has been live for the past 2 weeks and the Euro soccer leagues are playing to empty stadiums right now.
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Jun 25, 2020 18:19
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shame on an IGA posted:That's still generous, there's a networked multimillion dollar machine at my facility running NT 3.5 The outgoing head engineer from the port of long beach was presenting to our class on their terminal upgrades which were going to be completely autonomous a la Rotterdam. I started asking about any security they had in place as the attack against Maersk had just happened and his response was "I'm sure the IT guys have something". The system is so weak and has no protection, the attack on Maersk was crippling and just about shut down operations for an extended period and it wasnt extremely sophisticated. This doesnt even begin to get into the power plant poo poo. When I started at the power plant of a major hospital the chief engineer was livid as he was calling in IT for the 2nd or 3rd time due to the shift engineers browsing porn and getting viruses on the workstations in the control room. Theres no software protection but even worse theres no protection from employees being dumb which is even more likely. I'm still surprised there is no mandatory high school or college class on basic cyber security.
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Wait till you hear about his phone calls to foreign leaders. Hes getting poo poo on and I hope it's not too early and at least some of it actually sticks.
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