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No, what I'm implying is that If I jump off a 17 story building and it later turns out that I test positive for covid, the cause of my death sure isn't covid.

Is it worth it to learn C in 2020 ? Will it still be a prominent language for systems programming in the future ?

Interesting perspective. In what ways do you think our lives will be changed forever ?

> Most of these don't look so intractable any more, even if we haven't solved them, yet.

who's we ?

It will be interesting to see what hackers are going to come up with in the future to circumvent these new ways of social control.

the video is unavailable outside of the US

dies with != dies of

I wish I could share your optimism

keyword here is confirmed. Many of us carry the virus and are untested (or "unconfirmed") so that 5% number is likely to massively decrease to around 0.5% at some point if (second keyword), governments decide to implement large scale testing.

I may have misinterpreted the author's intentions, but I think it was sarcasm.

What I'm worried about is the number of people who will suffer as a consequence of this worldwide lockdown.

Depression, loneliness, suicide, addictive behaviours (alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs), high stress due to varying economic factors, panic (media induced) etc ...

Personally I use pocket to keep track of my bookmarks. They provide both search and tagging functionalities and the app is very fast and intuitive to use.

I'm not sure if they integrate with zappier but I would be surprised if they didn't.

Would you mind providing proof ?

Well the Chinese have been able to successfully contain the disease after a 60day lockdown so it shouldn't take more than that. Unless of course there's an agenda we're not aware of.

This virus has been circulating Europe for more than two months now and people keep parroting the same old "in two weeks time, expect 600K deaths because its exponential" line.

It's like some of you WANT this doomer scenario to play out. If anything, this crisis seems more like one of purpose than a sanitary one.

To everyone who's reading this: stay safe, spread positivity and most importantly find your purpose.

And to the Swedes: keep being awesome, I hope you come out of this stronger because we're definitely going to need new furniture when this whole thing blows over :)

We'll see how it turns out for them. But so far, it doesn't look like they're about to be decimated anytime soon.

McDonald's and KFC: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-urge-...

> The news media simply does a terrible job of communicating what exactly these "lockdowns" mean.

The news media have no incentive to rationally analyse facts and put them in perspective. They need panic and confusion so we continue to click on their substance-less articles and videos.

In times of confusion like this, go directly to the official sources (WHO, ministry of health, NHS etc) and skip the "journalists" altogether, this will have a significant positive impact on your mental health.

Stay safe everyone

Exactly, this anti russia / china rhetoric has become pathetic.

that's not what the WHO says

except virus != ill != death

virus != ill != death. But I get your point.

Well that's pretty much the case everywhere in the "free world"

What's the alternative ? Mass hysteria ? Hoarding of basic necessities ? It's like people feed off of this apocalyptic porn atmosphere, very disturbing.

It's been weeks now that people have been throwing the same line: "well wait and see in two weeks".

According to official stats, there are 17k deaths worldwide at the time of writing for 450k confirmed cases, assuming the number of cases grows exponentially, the death rate will eventually be much lower than what people are projecting.

Yes, the doomer narrative is getting old very quickly. Everyone and their mothers are running formulas in Excel to try and prove that in 50 days 3.4783 billion people will be wiped out if you go out to buy groceries.

Let the experts do their work, take your precautions and everything will be fine.

Infected != Ill != death

I wonder if this situation will push them even further in the direction of drone delivery.

I'm taking a free online course called English for Journalism, created by the University of Pennsylvania. It's pretty good so far.

It does not change the fact that there are other viruses which are far more deadly than SARS-CV2.

Should we go into full lockdown everytime there's an outbreak ? This is a very legitimate question to ask.

> That's only done on a targeted basis to people who are being monitored. Your location history however is being passively tracked.

Except Amazon was caught with their hands in the cookie jar listening on 'regular' people's private conversations on more than one occasion.