Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

correct, for some reason they were keeping track but only counting hospital deaths in their daily numbers

 

The dude has some cojones, he definitely wants to be a dictator.

Brazil's Bolsonaro withdraws name of family friend as top cop

 

Must be getting more high tech. Just a few weeks ago I heard they were putting old school seals on doors of home quarantine folks.

In South Korea you're forced to install an app to track your whereabouts, I think China is doing something similar and other countries are starting to pick it up too.

Like it or not, there's no perfect solution. Something needs to be sacrificed between liberty, life, and happiness (economics). You choose the poison.

 

Man, this is getting bad. 3 million dead??

 

When I was a band director, I always told the kids why it was so important we dressed appropriately for concerts. If we walk onto the stage looking like we know what we are doing, when we make mistakes (and we will, that is part of being human), the audience will already have in their minds that we know what we are doing and will accept our mistakes as just those things that happen sometimes.

If we don't dress appropriately, and we walk onto the stage looking sloppy, when those same mistakes happen, the audience will think to themselves, I expected that from this group.

 

Interesting. I’m of the opinion that people are generally more forgiving of mistakes by student musicians, especially kids, where the level of expectation is not quite that of a professional orchestra, especially one performing on a regular basis with all of the systems and support staff one would expect to find in a highly compensated and highly trained “team” of professionals.

Are we now conditioned to expect intentionally misleading and inaccurate performances from the mainstream media?

 

Or perhaps one shouldn’t tune in to CNN and other networks expecting a classically trained pianist but rather just a middle school rapper?

 

They had the numbers next to him and obviously it was almost 3 million that have been confirmed to have the disease. You would have to try hard to be mislead by that.

 

Why on earth would CNN use the # of cases as the # of deaths? Surely that are not that poorly run, absent of controls to avoid such a misrepresentation?

 

Somebody typed the wrong thing in the chiron. Again, the numbers are right next to his head. I don't understand how it caused you confusion. Believe it or not, you too have probably typed things imperfectly (like that post where you typed "that" when you probably meant "they" as the subject of your second sentence). I guess we could ask whether you know English or chalk it up to the fact that people make occasional mistakes.

 

A parable.


A man who was traveling came upon a farmer working in his field and asked him what the people in the next village were like. The farmer asked "What were the people like in the last village you visited?" The man responded "They were kind, friendly, generous, great people." "You'll find the people in the next village are the same," said the farmer.

Another man who was traveling to the same village came up to the same farmer somewhat later and asked him what the people in the next village were like. Again the farmer asked "What were the people like in the last village you visited?" The second man responded, "They were rude, unfriendly, dishonest people." "You'll find the people in the next village are the same," said the farmer.

 

No confusion here. I’m confused as to why you think there’s confusion.

I do type poorly, but I’m not CNN, thankfully.

 

Which graphic was obvious, the larger one taking up most of the width of the screen at the bottom of where Wolf was talking or the one to the side with "TOTAL CASES" in a smaller font?

I agree that such a mistake warrants forgiveness. But it is interesting to see where people are willing to be forgiving in light of such a mistake.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Every number is next to him and they have been for weeks. Again, it would be pretty hard to be mislead here.

 

So then there was no possible confusion. Then what is the problem here? That somebody typed something poorly once?

 

This is such a silly argument.