Posted by: tashi
Posted by: Kieran
Come on you know what I was meant to say. Stop being a dick.
The point I'm making is nothing was said about the Covid situation and the protest here. But as soon as the beachfest went down everyone is jumping up and down with pitchforks.
If that’s being a dick than I guess I’m a dick. And you’re way too fucking sensitive. I don’t know you so I have no idea what you mean to say, all I have is what you actually do say.
I don’t know about NBR, but I personally objected to the risk involved in protesting to people around me, and didn’t participate because of it. I also requested that my staff get tests if they participated.
If you want to understand why people would object to this, consider the importance of a drum circle vs that of fighting white supremacy, consider how much people like to make fun of hippies, consider the recent increase in cases, and consider how it looks when you criticize people fighting for their rights vs how it looks when you make fun of wooks.
The differing responses are predictable, really.
Yeah, you're right. You don't know me. But then I don't know you. (You actually know slightly more as you know my name, unless yours is Tashi?)
I can only go on past interactions we've had in the past and there's been a few in this thread where we have differing views on this. So after I replied to Chups first comment, I thought this made it clear that it was a mistake. So I thought you were being a bit of a dick to raise it. If that's me being too sensitive, then I guess I was being too sensitive.
Anyway, I read a good article from The Times today about superspreaders. One of the takes from it was where it's more likely you can get infected, and this is indoors and not outside.
“Superspreading becomes more and more important the rarer the disease gets,” Professor Hunter said. “Given that these cases can double every three or four days, by the time you actually realise you’ve got a problem you’ve got quite a few cases out there, and trying to tackle them all before they spread the infection becomes a race against time. And it is one you won’t always win.”
This is what superspreaders do. They are a source of uncontrolled instability in a superficially stable system.
What do we do with this information? The first thing to realise is that there is no such thing, in isolation, as a superspreader. Some epidemiologists talk of superspreading events, rather than people. To thwart the virus, stop the events. Put everyone in masks, control large gatherings, keep the windows open.
In a recent paper produced for Sage, Dr Kucharski and his colleagues listed the worst places for clusters. Few will be surprised by the list they produced. “Hospitals, elderly care, worker dormitories, food processing plants, prisons, schools, shopping, religious events and ships” came top, closely followed by “weddings, sport, bars, shopping, conferences and work”.
All good Chup. Dam auto correct on my phone. It's not the first time its got me in bother.
