From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!peer02.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx29.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: From: Rick Newbie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 13:23:02 UTC Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 06:23:01 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 3380 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2196907692 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58675 Date: 2020-05-13T06:23:01-07:00 List-Id: > Just as a local note, Sweden, with its limited shut-downs, has had about > 5 times more covid-19 deaths per population than Finland, where I live, > which did more extensive shut-downs. And New York which has one of the most stringent lock down regulations of the world has a 4 times higher death count per capita than Sweden which has basically no lockdown as you observed. I don't think the numbers are obtained in a manner that is even reminiscent of anything science related anywhere in the world. They are merely numbers that various governments and organizations pull out of the air. > Eh? He had one-one-one (I assume) meetings with a lover, that's hardly > breaking much social isolation. Problem was, the rapacious British > press, always hungry for scandal, got to know of it. But he was single-handedly responsible for the shutdown of the Western World and the destruction of our economy. He is the one who's mangled code was taken as a basis to put millions of people out of work, destroy hundreds of thousands of small businesses and he is also responsible for the millions of people who will lose their homes and be kicked out on the streets once the protective measures run out. Not to mention a whole generation of children that will grow up mentally damaged and deprived of all social interaction. There is a reason prisoner advocacy organizations call isolation imprisonment a form of torture! I think Mr.Ferguson's act has to be measured against a slightly higher scale than the acts of normal people. It's called lead by example. If somebody tells me that millions of people are going to die unless we lock ourselves in our homes until a vaccine is found and then goes out and meets another man's wive in a lover's nest thus breaking his own rules I can not help but wonder how much he believes in his own predictions. We live in a world that makes no sense anymore and where our leaders are acting out of sheer panic. Look up the psychological mechanisms of panic and you will easily identify many of the symptoms in today's politics all around the world. If the one man who's work started it all leads his own doom-and-gloom prediction ad absurdum by blatantly disregarding everything he said, that is counterproductive to any attempt to stemming back that panic