Ramblings and Curated Info For "Interesting Times"
The big umbrella for Coronavirus related stuff
What we’re seeing is almost every country experiencing rises in infection rates as soon as they lift restrictions, unless they’ve managed complete elimination. And even then, New Zealand after – what, four months without any cases? – has recorded a four new cases and had to lockdown Auckland hard and the rest of the country … Read more
(That isn’t written by some slimy Murdoch rag…) People blame our State Premier Daniel Andrews for everything. Not reacting quickly enough, reacting too severely, overreacting, not reacting strictly enough, being a dictator (yep seriously, it rankles some people enough that they almost invoke Godwin’s Law) and Dog knows what else. But you know what? It’s … Read more
Coronavirus: How it spreads by four different ways in restaurants Feces. Because of course if they tested the sewage they could get a week start on outbreaks but who has time to do something useful and possibly life-saving for their population, right? I recall reading a little while back that testing the sewage of individual … Read more
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new-coronavirus-could-have-been-percolating-innocently-in-humans-for-years It may have come from a far less harmful virus that has been around in us for a while. Sort of like flu. Some who had it may have had a mild flu or just a cough, then that was it. But as it was transmitted between people it would have mutated. Viruses mutate … Read more
https://www.sciencealert.com/can-people-spread-the-coronavirus-if-they-don-t-have-symptoms Interesting and brief article on why wearing masks is better than lockdown, better than social distancing, better than anything else we have at the moment.
Today I fly by the seat of my pants, no prep article available. Losing my inspiration with it actually. Only so much you can say about the state of the world before you find yourself repeating “it’s fecked, we’re fecked” in a hopeless mumble, over and over. I mean – look at it. LOOK AT … Read more
So yes, Ghostie was pretty much my familiar, my kitchen familiar. And I was devastated when he passed away a few years ago. But a year and a half later, we had the opportunity to take two kittens to replace our old bois. Wife’s old boi also had passed away, coincidentally almost a year to … Read more
Dear children, today’s sermon is about the animals of the Earth. For I’ve walked among them as one, and it’s been good. (To clarify, we ALL walk among them, you’re never more that a few metres from a rat or a spider or any of up to several hundred creatures, even in the metropolitan areas.) … Read more
The thing that causes animal -> human transmissions of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses is contact between animals and humans. To be perfectly honest, I don’t understand the statistics behind this, the official descriptions of the mechanisms that facilitate such transmissions, or why we as intelligent thinking beings can’t get the simple facts into … Read more
If I can go back now to the Brave New World After Coronavirus. It’s not just a great thought experiment in social engineering. It’s been done to us already to advance certain hoarding persons’ agendas, to prevent advancement of quality of life for all alive. We’ve been born to it, been exposed to ti in … Read more