Best Lock Down Ever

[Matthew Carpenter]

lol!
Indeed.

The misinformation is frustrating, to say the least.  We've all had to struggle with 
what to do in this age of "fractured truth."

Great to hear from you guys tho.  

COVID19 has been ... inconvenient, but not too bad for me.  More upsetting is just 
how political we've allowed it to become.  I don't trust our scientists blindly, and 
we've clearly screwed a *few* pooches over this, but the politicization of COVID19 
has been baffling.  Everyone hates everyone who thinks different than them, and 
with Facebook they must tell everyone they've ever communicated with... all the 
time... without thinking.  (yes, overgeneralization, I know some reasonable people 
too)

Some areas people are dying more than others.  Some friends have much closer 
ties to people who have suffered greatly, and some friends haven't known anyone.  
I live in a red-necky area, where it's not manly to wear a mask, so people aren't.  
"Hell, it's downright unAmerican to wear a mask!"

I don't care where you fall.  I'd like for people to just stop being assholes, and 
maybe discuss why they think the way they do.  We're all stuck with conflicting data 
from different sources.  So let's talk respectfully about why we place trust in the 
data from one source more than another, why we, upon preponderance of the 
evidence we are considering, think the way we do.  And allow others to do the 
same, please?  

And please don't quote Rush Limbaugh as a credible source.  If he said it, find out 
why, find *his* source.  Let's drive the facts down as close to the raw data (with 
appropriate context) as we can, so we can evaluate things together, in a somewhat 
normalized fashion.

</rant>

Still Kubuntu and Ubuntu, Servers and Desktops, and embeddedy things deployed 
on customer's locations.  Loving my latest DELL, XPS 15 7590.  Still hacking away at 
embedded systems.

Take care all,
Matt

On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 7:03:26 PM EDT James McDonald via Linux-users 
wrote:


Two statisticians went  duck hunting. One shot a metre high the other shot a metre 
low. And they both exclaimed “bullseye”
 
 
*From:* Terence <terence.john at gmail.com> 

*Sent:* Monday, 21 September 2020 9:09 PM

*To:* Linux Users (formerly Caldera) discussion <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>

*Cc:* Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>; James McDonald 
<james at toggen.com.au>

*Subject:* Re: Best Lock Down Ever
 
Here in the south-west UK Covid cases are very few, and although there are some 
inconveniences for me , they are minor compared to other areas.
 
And being on my own since my wife dies (2001) and my children went off to 
university the "anti-social isolating" bit has not really affected me. There are some 
stupid figures being bandied about, and I mean stupid. A friend's son crashed his 
bike and died in hospital from his injuries, but as he tested positive on arrival for 
carrying Covid his death is counted as a Covid death. All deaths within a twenty-
eight day period after testing positive, whether or not showing any symptoms, are 
also counted. Heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, falling down stairs, all are Covid 
deaths...
 
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain....
 
But we have the internet to keep us all in touch. Good to hear from you chaps, stay 
well.
 
Terence
 
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 04:06, James McDonald via Linux-users <linux-users at linux-
sxs.org[1]> wrote:
That was a well written article. Talk about a multi-variant problem.

It also seems the virus likes cool weather. Our northern (warmer) states have a lot 
less restrictions than we do in Victoria.

Stay safe all.

-----Original Message-----From: Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com[2]> Sent: 
Monday, 21 September 2020 11:13 AMTo: Linux Users (formerly Caldera) discussion 
<linux-users at linux-sxs.org[1]>Cc: James McDonald 
<james at toggen.com.au[3]>Subject: Re: Best Lock Down Ever

America is an unmitigated disaster.  See https://www.theatlantic.com/health/
archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/[4]
linux-users at linux-sxs.org[1]> wrote:>> Hi Personages of the Linux SxS list,>>>> 
Here in Melbourne we are in “stage 4” lock down. Meaning only one person being 
allowed to go out for essentials and at the moment 2 hours of socially distanced 
exercise per day.>>>> How is everyone faring?>>>> I had one friend catch COVID-19 
on a cruise liner and it almost killed him. Family in other parts of the world (London) 
have lost close friends.>>>> Others say it’s all a government conspiracy to curtail 
our freedoms & control us. What do you think?>>>> I have purchased and built a 
new computer and dual screen set-up for what I call my COVID cave. Running 
Fedora 32 and VMWare Workstation Pro for running M$ guests.>>>> I hope this 
email finds you all well. Stay safe>>>> My semi-annual list post is now 
complete.>>>> James McDonald>> Melbourne Australia>>>> 
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