Comcast removed their data caps during the COVID-19 crisis and their network is “performing well,” begging the question of why Comcast has data caps. Well, duh, they have caps to make more money. Somehow Comcast will try to indicate financial losses due to them removing the caps.
I am very disappointed to learn that Apple has acquired Dark Sky and decided to discontinue it’s Android application. I’ve been a happy user of Dark Sky on my Android smartphone and Wear OS watch for several years, and find it to be the best weather app on Android. I I guess I will be seeking a replacement.
So, Oakland County, Michigan has posted cases by zip code. Not sure I am better off informed or blissfully unaware.
In Michigan, almost all Lower Peninsula counties now have at least one positive test result for COVID-19. Four Upper Peninsula counties have a positive result.
Oakland County Michigan, which is the county I live in, has significantly improved their COVID-19 data visualization. What is ominously missing is any recovery data. A newsletter that I received from a local TV state stated that recovery data has not yet available within Michigan.
Vince Gill is such a good singer.
Last time I watched Vince and Amy at the Opry, it was in person.
Do Republicans really believe that money is more important than human life?
Oakland County, which I live in, is requiring “essential” businesses to screen their “essential” employees every day. First, I think essential is too broadly defined. Second, the screening should include checking employee temperatures.
Upgraded my iPad Pro 10.5 to iPadOS 13.4 so I can see how well a mouse works. I paired an old Logitech travel mouse and it works fine. One difference is the scroll button works in the opposite direction and there doesn’t appear to be an option to change that. I can change the scroll speed. Having a mouse renews my interest with using an external keyboard of which I have two both needs charging. (Shows you how much I have used them.)
Is it just me or does it seem as though On This Day has stopped working?
Reuters: United States could become coronavirus epicenter: WHO Making America Great Again!
The Man Who Saw The Pandemic Coming by Nautilus is a great article. I’ve been writing about the lessons we should learn from COVID-19, the biggest of which is that we are all connected such that a virus on the other side of the globe can find it’s way to you in the United States. At the heart of this is putting our heads in the sand in the name of “America First,” which is the same mentality that existed prior to World War II and lead to World War II. As memories of the atrocities that occurred during during World War II fade we have been moving back in to an isolationist shell that puts all our lives in danger. Just because you don’t like the implications of this does not mean ignoring will cause it to go away. It’s time to wake up, put on our big boy and girl pants and deal with reality.
Second, governments and society by and large are governed by inertia. We don’t change and adapt and evolve very quickly. And we’re barely cognizant as a global society that the world we’re living in today is fundamentally different than the world our species has ever lived in. You know that old saw that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will leap out. But if you take that same frog and put it in a pot of ambient water and slowly crank up the temperature, it will stay in that water and boil to death. It loses perspective on the changing environment around it. We’re that frog in the ambient water. We’re oblivious to the conditions that have enabled zoonotic viruses to become integrated into us.
The federal government’s response to COVID-19 makes total sense given that it’s currently lead by people who don’t believe in federal government. Another lesson we should learn from what we are going through is that there is a legitimate need for a federal government.
Right now your best chance at survival depends on how the governor of the state you live in is leading the response. It’s as if after Pearl Harbor we left it to the governor of Hawaii to deal with the response.
This in the United States of America.
Still think we are making America great?
Remember all those claims that with socialized medicine will come death panels? We do not have socialized medicine right now but the defacto death panels are coming.
Last I looked it was state governors making orders to shelter at home, not POTUS, so if Trump says we all can go back to normal next week, does that really matter?
Perhaps the most important lesson we all should learn from COVID-19 is that we are all connected. Even something as small as a tiny virus on the otherside of the globe can affect you, and thus we can no longer think and act like we are on an island. You might not be sick, and you might not have COVID-19, but we all need you to stay home and do your part because what you do matters to everyone. If you truly believe that “all lives matter” now is the time to act on that belief.
I don’t understand why people are dying, but I can follow the person who gives me a pattern for life.