Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

“I enjoy working with people.”

- HAL9000

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Are More Lockdowns Inevitable Or Can Other Measures Stop The Surge?
November 24, 2020

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Hat tip to Soylent News:

Says it all. Thank you.
I hope other Joe’s read this.

I wish Joe a speedy recovery so he can get back to his job at the factory…

Can i get my 1:51 back…NO!

And yet, the Centers for Disease Control in the USA will probably shorten their quarantine recommendation to just seven to ten days, for people who test negative after seven to ten days in quarantine.

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Yeah, there were initial fears that the intersection of COVID-19 and the flu season would be absolutely overwhelming to the medical system.
Thankfully, the measures we’re taking for the coronavirus are just as effective for stymying the seasonal flu.

@hank, your last two posts look like this in Firefox. (latest version)
You might want check out an image host like imgbb.com. I started using imgbb because some people were telling me they couldn’t see my images.

Looks like hank is posting Facebook images, which I can see fine, but clearly not everyone can.

@hank, I’m running Firefox ESR 52.9.0 (32 bits) and lately I’m having problems with some Imgur links. But your last two pictures are perfectly visible for me.

Bad news guys, I found the issue, and it’s not a compatibility problem. It’s a tracking-your-a$s problem. I have a plugin that cripples Facebooks ability to track my activity on BLF. If you can see hank’s images, facebook is watching you.

Oops, I’ll try to find an intermediate host. You mean not everyone in the world has a Facebook account? My gosh. My bad.

Let’s see if Postimage works:

In other news: Doctors warn about eye damage from UV lights to kill the coronavirus

I do have a facebook account. The problem isn’t a matter of being logged into facebook or not. (I actually am logged in to FB.) It’s a matter of dirty tactics used by Facebook to see everyone on BLF.

You can avoid Facebook’s massive tracking engine by never, never, never allowing “login using Facebook” on any site anywhere.
Yes, it’s tiresome to keep a password manager file up to date and use a unique login and password for every site you visit. So?

Facebook gets that login tool build into other people’s sites so whenever you use it anywhere, Facebook can collect your information.

And by the way if you use Facebook, log out of Facebook as soon as you’re done using it.

I will try to explain what has happened, though I am not an expert.

You shared a picture from Facebook with pure intentions. But that odd looking link Faccebook gave you isn’t an accident. It was engineered. It was engineered to contain your identity, as well as where and when you were on their site when you grabbed it.
But it doesn’t stop there. When you posted it into the forum on BLF, it became an embedded tracker. Now raccoon city, Henk4U2, and everyone else that clicked this page were reported to facebook.com as being seen here, and the times they were here. And facebook knows their REAL names, not their BLF names. How is that possible? Because cookies are not deleted, even when you log out of facebook. When their browser sent the request to load that Facebook image, it sent stored cookies that identify which facebook identity they are. Their was nothing racoon city and Henk4U2 could have done to stop this secret intrusion of their privacy, except for logging out of facebook, clearing their browser cookies manually, and never logging back into facebook.
Or in my case, I have an extension called Facebook Container that prevents my facebook cookies from being sent. In retaliation, Facebook denies my browser’s request to see the image because I didn’t identify myself with a facebook id. It’s Facebook’s way of trying to make me un-install my privacy plugin.

Corporate IT department won’t let you upgrade?

I found those Hank’s affiliated links kind of odd too. Now we know why, he was “contact tracking” you. :smiley:

Wow this guy was a researcher in 1980s?? That actually means something to me. That means he knows his stuff, he doesn’t just Google Sh…t like most people today. That’s before any of these phony”fact checkers” were even born.

Interesting, that makes sense that covid is more infectious than flu. I think the first covid tests where just testing if you have Flu or a Cold. If they found flu that means you are fine, because you can’t have Covid.

Actually there has been at least a claiming someone had influeza virus and sars-cov2 virus at the same time.
Their reasoning is rather odd, because more than one virus can be easily present in someone.

What I find interesting is that around here because of the use of masks, people are not really having a cold like last year when everyone was coughing by this time, well obviously not everyone is wearing a mask and some chose not to go out in public maybe, but especially on construction sites no is wearing a mask and other less obvious places I have seen large collectives not wearing a mask. Not that tons of improper mask wearing and improper sanitation habits wouldn’t be a common thing anyway.

I mean a mask seems to even have esoteric-like proprieties for some, something like a superstition almost, for example elders around here constantly wearing the mask on their chin only, they feel great because they have a mask so they are protected, yet that mask is not doing anything for them, neither for the others around them.

Oops. They mistakenly gave some people half-strength vaccine, and got better results from that group.

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