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Aug. 12th, 2020 09:32 pm
Well, well
I’m trying to follow sister B and my older BiL on their outdoor adventures. That’s why I now can say that fishing is like dating apps. Nothing happens. Except that was just the first day I was fishing, I got nothing. The second day we were fishing I got 19 mackerels, that was fun. Plus complaining about dating apps, that might as worst be seen as me fishing for comments claiming I shouldn’t give up, and that I’m a catch. “Fishing” and “catch”, I only should also have find out a way to include the phrase: “the one that got away”.
Anyway picking mushrooms in the forest is sometimes like watching art at a gallery. One stand on the same spot and looks around wondering: “How long am I supposed to look around before giving up and say were are no chanterelle here / giving up and tell myself I find this boring?” Well, besides that, when finding the right place it’s easy to find chanterelles.
Then it’s difficult to not write about covid. Or in this case mostly quote professionally writers. First the thing about media. A journalist/poet/debater/etc wrote about the thing I tried to write about yesterday, the media: “The media apparatus is simply ill-suited to handle events that extend over many years, and the pace of news dissemination has also increased rapidly in just the last ten years. The media wants quick, concrete answers to incredibly complex questions: Was it wrong or right to shut down or not shut down? The media is unable to deal with uncertainty-” Yep, the question is if the suffering from the virus plus the suffering from lockdowns togheter is less than the suffering that should have been the consequence if we had used to the old plans for pandemic influenza*, plans that didn’t included lockdowns? That’s something that perhaps can be discussed until the end of humanity. Uncertainty.
Then I can link to this. Why Sweden is different when it comes to covid. Just one quote from the article: "It is notable that Anders Tegnell, who in our interview last week comes across as a perfect exemplar of unflappable lagom, naturally uses the vocabulary of the Left. The rationale behind his strategy he couches in egalitarian terms — closing schools, for example, would put unacceptable pressure on poorer and single parents as well as hitting disadvantaged children hardest, just as more dramatic lockdowns would most impact the poorest and most vulnerable in society."
Back in 2014 we had an Ebola epidemic in West Africa. When two American got sick the US send a military plan to get them to the p4** lab in Atlanta and experimental treatment. Impressive and that was familiar to us who know the US from movies. That’s how movies had shown us how the US would handle disasters.
If the above is American as it is in movies. A press conferences there poor children is mentioned, is Sweden like it was on our school classes.
* Of course I know this isn’t an influenza. To me as a layman the new corona virus seems to be "better" than pandemic flu, since pandemic flus kills children.
** Is it called p4 lab? At work we have a p2 lab, that we just call p2.
Anyway picking mushrooms in the forest is sometimes like watching art at a gallery. One stand on the same spot and looks around wondering: “How long am I supposed to look around before giving up and say were are no chanterelle here / giving up and tell myself I find this boring?” Well, besides that, when finding the right place it’s easy to find chanterelles.
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Then it’s difficult to not write about covid. Or in this case mostly quote professionally writers. First the thing about media. A journalist/poet/debater/etc wrote about the thing I tried to write about yesterday, the media: “The media apparatus is simply ill-suited to handle events that extend over many years, and the pace of news dissemination has also increased rapidly in just the last ten years. The media wants quick, concrete answers to incredibly complex questions: Was it wrong or right to shut down or not shut down? The media is unable to deal with uncertainty-” Yep, the question is if the suffering from the virus plus the suffering from lockdowns togheter is less than the suffering that should have been the consequence if we had used to the old plans for pandemic influenza*, plans that didn’t included lockdowns? That’s something that perhaps can be discussed until the end of humanity. Uncertainty.
Then I can link to this. Why Sweden is different when it comes to covid. Just one quote from the article: "It is notable that Anders Tegnell, who in our interview last week comes across as a perfect exemplar of unflappable lagom, naturally uses the vocabulary of the Left. The rationale behind his strategy he couches in egalitarian terms — closing schools, for example, would put unacceptable pressure on poorer and single parents as well as hitting disadvantaged children hardest, just as more dramatic lockdowns would most impact the poorest and most vulnerable in society."
Back in 2014 we had an Ebola epidemic in West Africa. When two American got sick the US send a military plan to get them to the p4** lab in Atlanta and experimental treatment. Impressive and that was familiar to us who know the US from movies. That’s how movies had shown us how the US would handle disasters.
If the above is American as it is in movies. A press conferences there poor children is mentioned, is Sweden like it was on our school classes.
* Of course I know this isn’t an influenza. To me as a layman the new corona virus seems to be "better" than pandemic flu, since pandemic flus kills children.
** Is it called p4 lab? At work we have a p2 lab, that we just call p2.