im just gonna push a little excerpt from the morning brew here ... it's become "my eye on America" lately ... i know its full of ad, but im very well trained in between the lines and even the full-of-ad and sponsored is full of information
you can get it here , i hear its quite popular lately and i can see why
it shows more about america and its cans and cant's than it probably realizes, even in presentation, the whole as a whole ... and the information ofcourse , BUT
you don't say : here
WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE THE PANDEMIC IS OVER?
(quote from morningbrew)
Energy: The Saudis have seen enough—they’re pressing OPEC and allies to increase oil production in August as demand for fuel bounces back from pandemic lows. Members will talk it out on Wednesday via videochat.
COVID-19 updates: Yesterday, Florida reported the largest daily increase in infections of any state since the pandemic began (more than 15,000 new cases). Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he expects the "apex" of cases in the South to hit in two to three weeks.
does any of this spell incompatible to you ? contradictory ? paradoxical ?
am i weird again?
yea, but im not anti-american, i just think they earned a darwin award the size of the liberty statue and it probably should be replace but its no better here :
excerpt from the decision of june 24th:
Message from the Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès
The National Security Council, extended to include the ministers-president, reached an agreement to proceed with phase 4 of the phasing-out from 1 July, on the basis of the agreement of the GEES experts, who refers to the favourable evolution of the epidemiological situation.
The six golden rules remain in force:
compliance with hygiene measures;
preferably organize activities in open air;
taking extra precautions for people who are in high-risk groups;
respecting safety distances;
the enlarged bubble, which is increased from 10 to 15 different people per week, in addition to your family. As a reminder, this is an individual right;
group activities may not involve more than 15 persons, including children. This applies to all informal gatherings, whether they take place indoors or outdoors.
Are allowed to open under certain conditions:
swimming pools and wellness centres;
amusement parks and indoor playgrounds;
theatres and cinemas;
casinos and gaming halls;
conference rooms;
reception and function rooms with a limit of 50 people.
One of the conditions is that protocols are followed. In addition, the general rules already in force for other activities, such as the mandatory observance of safety distances, the introduction of time slots and crowd management, the cleaning of infrastructure and the wearing of face masks are still strongly recommended.
The following activities may not yet be resumed at this stage:
activities linked to nightlife, such as nightclubs;
mass events.
Nevertheless, it will be possible to organise activities with an audience present from 1 July, subject to certain conditions laid down in protocols.
For regular events held in permanent infrastructures such as theatres, cinemas, stands and congress halls that are organized, protocols will be developed with the competent ministers and GEES experts.
For one-off events taking place in the public space an online tool (matrix) will be available from 1 July, which will serve as a reference for local authorities when granting permits for these events. Clear rules will also have to be applied.
All these events are subject to a capacity limit:
200 people indoors;
400 people outdoors.
This capacity limit will be increased in August to 400 people indoors and 800 people outdoors, provided the health situation allows for it. An exception to exceed this limit may be requested for permanent infrastructures with a seated public, subject to safety regulations.
The maximum number of attendees for outdoor events also applies to demonstrations. These must always be the subject of a request for permission from the local authorities. In any case, they must always be static and take place in an area where safety distances can be observed.
At the same time, in addition to the resumption of these activities, certain protocols will be relaxed from 1 July:
The possibility to go to the store with people from the contact bubble and without time limit. Safety distance always applies.
Lifting the restriction on the number of market stalls. Health protocols and measures continue to apply.
i know none of these people are experts in pandemic crisis management (it would be kinda hard to get a phd in that BEFORE 2021 ... probably before 2025 seeing as how things are going
but where do they get those numbers ?
your bubble is now not 10 but 15 .. (not 9 or 8 ... not 16 , not 14, 10 and 15 ... is that a diceroll ? is there some reasoning behind it, some kind of a formula on how things spread outward that makes these numbers the scientifically acceptable limits ?
I think they just slap something on it ... AND LETS NOT FORGET TO OPEN DISNEYLAND WHILE WERE AT IT ...
no nightclubs BUT
you can have events with 200 people (not 201 ... no, 200!)
so
i know they dont know what they're doing since no one has ever done it before
but there have to be certain kind of patterns to these things so whats the reasoning ? whats the calculation
the calculation said :"we have voted with the union and the union decided we want disney land open"
ah thats not belgium
ah no its not
???!
?????
??
never mind .. .i just euh
personal bubbles
well, nothing is enforced either
it was in the first two months
somewhat, now and then as an example on the 6 o clock to keep it from escalating and
"wearing masks is advised"
not mandatory for personnel in public places
CERTAINLY NOT for visitors
...
???
am i weird again ?
"its too hard, right ?"
and thats why kennedy went to the moon in the 1960s
and you
60 years later
went back to the stone age ?
NEVER MIND
tired
not gonna waste a new post on it but more contradiction
or maybe just more segregation :
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/652002/EPRS_BRI(2020)652002_EN.pdf
"gradually diminishing"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105
"in most of the world, the virus is not under control and is "getting worse."
(this is where the quantum foam respondents on slashdot go "but who believes the who anymore" ... ever since the election was won, somewhat before that, the place looked like it was taken over by gunwielding conservative americans ... its still there, you have to scroll down 10 answers ...
but contradictory ... getting better < - > getting worse ... so far Schengen ? or maybe "Schengen only" then ?
hm ... SO , does that mean EU will get closer to china since all traffic from both the americas will be prohibited ?
Strange Days ...
how :
The University of Washington predicts the death toll could hit 175,000 by October - though it says this could be reduced to 150,000 if 95% of Americans wear masks in public.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump wore a mask in public for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
so the man DOES have a sense ... of reality and stuff and how he's actually influencing (lol ... well not very lolly, but he used to be, i think he was hilarious before this pandemic and the subsequent looting rights movement .. seeing as he didnt start wars with fallout overhere, yea i do, i think he was ... very entertaining)
hm hm
i do, and here too, im just nagging and annoying and i should just shrug like everyone b/c everyone fails to see the world through my eyes and in this case
what i see
is an exercise in pandemic
not the real thing yet
and it already shows
its game over for half the planet on that day , you say if ?
if say when
... if i were nature
this would be my reaction too, its only natural
yea well ... in the meantime all my "im gonna re-format and install, upgrade everything to L-Mint 20 and internally fileserve my own ass since the cloud is not to be trusted and basically it costs less over time if you buy SSD's yourself given the price per gigabyte and lifespan for drives that are mainly used for backup and occasional access, not as 'working' stations" -good intention has at least gotten to the point where i shoved a dimm onto a mainboard and copied some files from one drive to another
... but
i don't know what math teachers you all have had but
i don't see how this spells "better" ... Europe got a refugee problem
they won't stop
and this is all "not SARS3" yet
i don't think anyone that matters
is taking it seriously enough
hmmmm
what happened to always positive ? i didnt know that could go this far but i have another installment in the aftermath of the mayan prophecies and satya Yuga ?
as the road to the underworld opened
if you look at the animated graph at the bottom of the bbc article linked here, ... (i consider bbc to be more or less reliable no matter what i say about what they write)
the evolution chart
I'd almost think the ghosts of the natives have risen to take back what is theirs with a grudge ... death by disease
too morbid ?
time will tell ... you know ... nothing says this HAS to reach a limit at some time, the classic herd immunity ... it all depends on how fast the mutations go roundabout and how fast they turn into something your own immune system doesn't recognize as the thing it fought off last time ... add on top of that lung damage++ (and maybe brain-damage) for every infection with a rising chance of death for every year one gets older PLUS double whammy in flu season ?
time will tell ...
hmmm
ah noez ... that's okay, the natives werent black and imported ... its all fine, no need to cause a fuss about that ...
ahem ...
its all about the fashionable trend
as usual
isn't it ?
yea, ive always been great at popular opinion and running behind the angry mob ...
it must have helped my life a lot, ...
is what you look like
but most wont say it ... its not cool to not be down , even with the carnage and the ones who actually dont wanna
uddd .... i gotta find something else to talk about ... like in a month when the tourists come back
and then december-january ...
but MAYBE the aliens will and although UFO sightings did seriously grow less
naw ... if you wanna study up on old-world culture and try to understand the U in E.U. ... the pdf linked is number 4 in a series and each one should have something about the respective constitutions of the member countries mentioned, especially the part that relates to "state of emergency" or similar ("doctrine of the state of necessity" ...)
the main point would be that each and every single state has its own constitution ... and all E.U. laws are actually frameworks that have to be molded by each and every single country
it's very efficient usually ...
(i think in belgium there is no such thing as a state of emergency but only the option to give the government undefined power for a limited time period ... where nothing, powers or time period are actually defined but they have to go through a whole series of checks (in their own institutions ofcourse) basically they can do what they want if they deem it necessary)
i think thats the giste ...
reality is different
:)
its something else than friends on tv ... it will certainly help you understand the U is different than the U you hold to be self-evident
now ... if i dont mind and i dont mind, before the post hits 64 kb again ...
of course undocumented shoppers lol :)) the automated checkout facial recognition wasn't working!
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