On 1/28/20 10:10 AM, coderman wrote:
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:58 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote: ...
Here is some context w/ a range of R0s:" https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-coronavirus-no-need-to-panic.html
epidemiology; a science (and technology) well suited to saving human lives!
(i was wondering when someone would bring R0 into this :)
Also see what Theodore Roszak said about the "Rule of 'Experts', aka Technocracy... his tirade reads more like a Luddite treatise. what he fails to understand is that technology
Don't change the topic. TECHNOCRACY. The inculcated belief that that so-called experts and the technology THEY PROFIT FROM (often at the expense of better technologies not as PROFITABLE to them and their rich fuck friends who own governments and armies and pigs with guns) are infallible. TECHNOLOGY Tools Rr Ps. Sorry Not Sorry Roszak didn't write it in Python3 guy. Learn to read plain English. Pps. Know why vaccinations are so popular. Because SOMEONE has to stay home and take care of the kids when they have the Common Childhood 'Diseases' made uncommon by vaccinations ... because grandma's been stuffed into a nursing home senile from a life of eating food cooked in aluminum (for a start) and the family will end up living in a fucking doorway if either of the wage slaves (assuming an intact family... a REALLY BAD BET today in most industrial societies) misses time off from work.
is a tool: decentralized and in the hands of individuals, they are the empowered ones!
when concentrated into highly centralized authoritarian structures, often tied to the state like good members of fascist corporatism, technology is every bit the horror described.
build decentralized systems to empower individuals!
then, technology and technocrats your ally...
best regards,