Cyber Spies and the Coronavirus

@pugwash

Panic does no one any good.  "But if no one is worried, that's when you should worry" - 3Blue1Brown

@robo-pi

I knew that learning about Log(e) 2.71828.... would come in useful one day!

I can use it as a placebo, just like "duck and cover" during the cold war!

Posted by: @pugwash

I knew that learning about Log(e) 2.71828.... would come in useful one day!

Exactly.   If you feel yourself getting sick, just switch over to a logarithmic mindset and everything will look just dandy. ? 

@robo-pi

Bill Gates and other elites have been known to openly discuss the reduction of world population - Watch this an then make up your own mind:

Was the Corona virus deliberately unleashed?

Posted by: @frogandtoad

Bill Gates and other elites have been known to openly discuss the reduction of world population - Watch this an then make up your own mind:

Bill Gates has been giving public lectures and TED talks for years on the unpreparedness of most nations to deal with a pandemic.    So how can that be considered to be a "coincidence" with this recent corona virus outbreak?   Sounds like Bill Gates was simply right all along.

Posted by: @robo-pi

Posted by: @frogandtoad

Bill Gates and other elites have been known to openly discuss the reduction of world population - Watch this an then make up your own mind:

Bill Gates has been giving public lectures and TED talks for years on the unpreparedness of most nations to deal with a pandemic.    So how can that be considered to be a "coincidence" with this recent corona virus outbreak?   Sounds like Bill Gates was simply right all along.

You are free to believe what you want to believe, but please do note that Mr Gates will give you nothing in return for your support for him, and his only goal is to indoctrinate you to trust in him!

I'm just highlighting what has been publicly recorded by the Bill Gates foundation (don't shoot the messenger), and by media all over the world, so if you are privy to information that we the people (WORLDWIDE) are not privy to, then please do educate us with empirical facts, and evidence that we can use to bring these bastards down!

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is merely a privately funded Think Tank! For what it is worth!

What we need in this world is pragmatism. Call me delusional but until we sort out the following problems, we're f*****d!

Our politicians(natural born liars) need to be honest to the people they serve(an illusion, I know), playing down a serious situation while the scientists are telling us a different story only that causes uncertainty in the general population.

We need to prioritise public health above economics, I haven't figured out how the people at the top think, but to drag their feet on protecting the general public will only increase the amount of time it takes for the economy to bounce back to normal.

Furthermore, we are heading full speed into a climate crisis of hitherto unknown proportions and all our dumbass leaders can do is dither and procrastinate.

And when politicians have the gall to say "if you don't like what I am doing, you can vote me out of office", that makes ME want to take up arms and shoot the bastards, because it is a downright lie. The longer that somebody is in public office and toes the party line, the more the party protects them and makes sure that their seat of office or constituency in the next election, is a "safe seat"!

I am also afraid that if politicians f**k up, they get promoted. Take Ursula von der Leyen, a walking disaster of a German Defence Minister, who left the German military in complete disarray to become the President of the European Commission. God help us!

A BJ in the Oval Office is far preferable to a BJ in No. 10. ? ? ? 

@pugwash

Well our TOP BANANA is in a world by himself anyway!  ? 

@pugwash Wholeheartedly agree!
@codecage Our top banana is no better... actually, they're all rotten to the core and deserve to hang from light poles! 🙂

Posted by: @frogandtoad

I'm just highlighting what has been publicly recorded by the Bill Gates foundation (don't shoot the messenger)

I appreciate your message.  ? 

The fact that I draw different conclusions should be no reflection on you.   I saw absolutely nothing in the video you linked to that would even remotely suggest that there was a connection between the Bill Gates foundation and the introduction of Covid-19 into Wuhan China. 

Since you like messages and don't want to shoot the messenger I would like to share a message with you.  You can draw from this video anything you so desire.  Just for the record, I see this video as being far more realistic.  It also suggests that this Covid-19 virus isn't likely to be the last bio-hazard we encounter.  Instead of hanging Bill Gates, we'd be far better off addressing the real source of the problem.  Just my opinion for whatever it might be worth,

Posted by: @pugwash

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is merely a privately funded Think Tank! For what it is worth!

Exactly.

Another Walmart Pick-up.

I just thought of a couple more things wanted to get.  So I made another small pick-up order at Walmart.  The minimum order at my Walmart is $30 and this order came to $40 so I'm good. ? 

This time I'm just going to go over and grab the order and come straight back home.  No need to go into the store today.  Then I should be good for at least 3 months!  I can go into self-quarantine!  Too bad everyone isn't doing this.  People are still just going out normally.  That's not going to last much longer.

Our country (here in the USA) is NOT prepared for this outbreak.   The virus is basically spreading unchecked at an exponential rate.  Our hospitals and stores aren't even reacting to this yet.   Apparently they are going to wait until everyone is infected and then close their doors.  Not meant to panic people, but the only smart things to do is to close the doors FIRST!  Before everyone is infected.  Places like Walmart are already set up for this kind of pick-up scheme.  Why not close the doors to the stores and make the pick up service mandatory?  Keep the masses out of the stores.

Sure, they would need to hire more employees to do that shopping, but at least the employees would  be isolated from the public to some degree.  They could even have the employees tested before they come into the building.

Oh wait!  I forgot, there aren't enough test kits!

Yep, we're ill-prepared to be sure.

Hang on!  This isn't going to be pretty.   The USA is about to become another Italy.   I  have serious doubts that my attempt to self-quarantine will even be successful.  I have an idiot cousin who just stopped by yesterday.  He wasn't here but for a few minutes.  And during that time we talked about the corona virus.

His thoughts:....

He honestly believes that he is immune to the virus completely because he claims to have an excellent immune system.  I told him that's nice but he could still carry the virus and infect other people with it.  He said, no, he can't catch the virus because of his super-human immune system. ? 

So there we have it folks.  All my efforts to avoid contamination will be for naught because I have an idiot cousin who thinks he can't get or spread the virus.  I'll probably end up getting it from him.  Dag blast it!

That's really all it takes.  One person who thinks they are an exception and won't take precautions and we all die. ? 

This really isn't about the individual.  Even if a person thinks they are at low risk they can still spread the virus to others who may be at high risk.   My cousin may become my death sentence.  If he thinks he's immune to it he'll most likely contract it because he's not going to take any precautions at all.  That's the world we live in. 

Even if you take all the necessary precautions it only takes one idiot to break your bubble.

@robo-pi

On another thread your poem did shine
It spoke of the virus, though its not yet rife
But this does not quite chime, with the @pugwash line
To look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright si-ide of life
la de da, la de da de da
Always .....

With Python anaconda, though @frogandtoad may bridle,
You should be using Py-thons IDE,
This may make your progress long, but its a nod to Eric Idle,
The monty python author of this song,

Always look on the bright si-ide of life
la de da, la de da de da
Always .....

As we made Bill Gates so rich, it's a bleeding shame
If he now wants us all out the way
If euthanasia his game, he will take blame
As I wont buy Windows anymore

(so there!)
Always .....

So if this disease was sent, by B Gates to Asia
He will wont be counted as my friend
But its not every day, we can get euthanasia
We usually plough on to the end

(could be a silver lining)
Always...

To avoid virus Corona I'll go out of my way
To succumb I will really deplore
If I go I'll manure, and the daisies I push
Will be bigger than ever before

Oh yea
Always look on the bright si-ide of death
la de da de da,

I'll die, I'll die, I know I'll die
but not before I buy my Pi
I need to program one last line
so when I die I'll be sublime

And though I'm not a pious guy
I'll go to heaven in the sky
and there I'll find my robot dream
an android angel so supreme

She'll teach me how to speak
like a true computer geek
in binary words fit for nerds
and I'll learn it in a week

We'll then be sent to outer space
to a planet that's forbidden
for evil dudes with attitudes
of them it will be ridden

We'll program all our prose
with a thorn-less garden rose
and live a life of happiness
with no need to wear our clothes

A life of bliss eternal
in a quad-core Python kernel
a simulated ecstasy
in a never-ending journal

So bring it on Corona!
I'm ready for the end
this life is just a nightmare
that I will soon transcend ? 

@robo-pi

The USA is about to become another Italy.

No way Jose!

The food in the States will NEVER be that good! ? ? ?