teknoman2

the minister's brother didn't say anything. he started a company that made masks and the next day the government's policy on masks changed to facilitate his profits. as for that neighbor, he's not the only one who said that about the hospitals. i know people who work in hospitals and i have a friend in the police who said that some people are trying to sue hospitals about this practice of naming every death a covid case. my point in all this is that its hard to take the virus seriously when you see it being blatantly exploited for profit while you are sitting in your home with no job, no income and a constant bombardment by the media about how you will die if you get out. meanwhile, whenever i see a politician (or any celebrity) on tv, be it in a studio or on the street, no one is wearing a mask but i will get fined if i don't. also, i hear every day about some new case of some famous person who was diagnosed with covid... i've yet to hear about any one of them dying of it or even going to the hospital because the case was serious.

i didn't mention that one research to undermine the problem but to give an example of how sensationalist reporting makes things look worse than they are. i also question if that kind of exaggerated reporting is plain ignorance, clickbait or government sponsored. because one thing i didn't mention before is that the doctors who go on tv over here and talk about the virus, usually change their tune in line with the government's agenda... or the needs of those in office as is the case when the brother of a minister started overnight a mask making business and the next day the doctors' opinion changed from "masks are mostly useless but its better to have one than not" to "masks are very effective and should be obligatory" and by the end of the day there was an executive order to give a 150 euro fine to whoever was going around without a mask. another thing that i was told from a neighbor who has a funeral service business, is that some hospitals declare as covid deaths anyone who died of any cause as long as the relatives are willing to sign the paperwork (and they get paid to sign because a hospital with covid cases gets extra funding)

well, luckily i didn't have to format for the change of hardware. i was ready to do it but then i said "let's try booting it as is to see what happens". so windows just made some configuration changes, downloaded some files, restarted the system and now it all works fine without having to reinstall the OS and everything else from scratch. that was certainly not the case the last time i did a CPU change (back when win7 was still new)

any virus can be deadly, some are more than others. the point is that while this pandemic is ongoing and we are locked in our homes terrorized by the media saying "another one died-another one died", legislators vote away our rights without opposition and i fear we will come out of this quarantine in an authoritarian dystopia. in my country at least i see all sorts of things the government did using the virus to keep people from revolting. they repealed the law on overtime work, they cut pensions, they reduced salaries, they increased taxes, they moved public school teachers from being state employees to being municipal employees (meaning their pay is cut almost in half), they took funding away from public schools and diverted it to private schools (public schools will be at the mercy of the mayor's management skills and they will often be understaffed and without books). instead of hiring more doctors and buying ambulances (it takes 3 hours if you are lucky to have an ambulance come to your home in an emergency because there aren't enough) they diverted funds from the already understaffed public hospitals to gift equipment to private hospitals (who often send the serious cases away to a public hospital because they don't want the responsibility of the patient dying on them). and many more stuff like that but nobody speaks, nobody goes out to protest because if they do they risk getting the virus. EDIT: and they gave away a total of 20M euros to the media and to news sites (or even directly to high profile journalists) with no disclosure on who got how much or why so yes, i believe that the threat level is exaggerated because keeping us afraid to come out of our homes is very convenient to those in power. and since you made a car analogy, there are people who drive drunk out there. will you stay at home all your life to make sure you don't get run over by some drunkard? you will keep an eye out for them as much as you can and go about your day and if you happen to get hit well, bad luck. same thing with any virus, the only way to prevent infection is to live locked up in a sterile room. either that or you take some precautions and go about your day and if you happen to get infected well, bad luck. as for the 100 people tested, yes that's the report i'm talking about. 100 people are a very small sample size to give any definitive results in any medical research and i was not referring to the researches when i said "speculation or fabrication" i was referring to the media. the scientists probably said "this may happen to some" and the media reported "this will happen to all". and to go full tinfoil hat here for fun, why should i believe that the numbers and results reported by the media are real or more so that this test even happened... this is what you get when you have the news reporting system equivalent of the boy who cried wolf.

there are people who don't need laws because they willingly do the right thing there are people who don't care about laws and will do evil at will the laws are for the 3rd and biggest group of people who would do evil but are afraid of the potential punishment and hold back regarding the virus itself, denying its existence is stupid. it exists and there is more than enough evidence of it. what i'm skeptical of however, is the level of threat. i believe that government and media are exaggerating about how dangerous the virus is and i find some of the reports on the matter questionable at best. there was a report lately that asymptomatic patients can develop serious heart problems in the future because of the virus and my question was "where did they find a large enough sample size of asymptomatic patients to test and come up with this finding?". asymptomatic patients don't even know they are sick so nobody will check them for the virus much less test the effects of the virus on them and even less the long term effects considering that the virus is new. this finding that was reported as fact, is at best speculation and at worst fabrication.

before marriage, the relationship is like walking a dog off leash. you are always careful to keep the dog safe. after marriage, the relationship is like having the dog tied in the back yard. you are relaxed in the knowledge that the dog isn't going anywhere but if you relax too much you may find the dog strangled by the leash.

i finished my latest civ5 campaign, i finished the original Thief (had played the second game at the time but never the first) which was a chore at times as enemies had the bad habit of randomly going on full alert for no reason (fortunately in 2 they had fixed that) and i made backups of everything important on the new SSD i got. tomorrow i finally say goodbye to my old FX 8350 and switching to Ryzen 3600. i had the parts 3 days now but i wanted to finish the above games before switching since i have to format the current SSD that contains everything since the old HDDs are dead (one of them was 12 years old, i'd say it lasted long enough)

one of the kittens got it's leg stuck in a chair and was screaming in pain and panic as it was dangling from the side with its leg twisted and mama cat looking helpless. took some effort to grab the kitten in a way that prevented the flurry of claws from tearing my hand apart but i managed to get it out (it was even swinging punches at its mom). it ran and hid as soon as i let it on the ground. at least the leg seemed to be fine.

i wish there was a way to stop myself from being a meatbag

i can't remember the name but they were made by a famous fashion designer.

i wish i had my phone to film it. a cat in my yard has 2 kittens and one of them decided to ignore the hissing and growling of another cat who was telling it to stay away, so that cat gave it a slap on the face... and all hell broke loose as the mother went into a frenzy and rushed the other cat.

your laws of nature do not apply to me because i didn't study law