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| james_s:
--- Quote from: maginnovision on July 08, 2020, 09:32:31 pm ---Realistically the outrage culture we're seeing right now, in any form it takes, is likely to be spurred on by COVID lockdowns, loneliness, depression, etc... They have nothing else to think about so it's all some people do. You start perceiving slights that aren't real, seeing racism in statues of black men, demanding people change their "racist" language so they don't spread racism like COVID. This will all filter back to peoples work if it hasn't already. I know Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube employees are definitely going to change things with their work due to the spreading COVID madness. It could be unrelated but seeing these things wax and wane over the years repeatedly this time seems different and it's definitely more widespread. --- End quote --- This sums it up pretty well. My thought on the statues is a bit like my thought on a mysterious lump that shows up on my body somewhere or a soft spot in the wood structure of my house. I don't actually have any real attachment to most statues and such, I could live with a random benign lump and my house won't fall down due to a little soft spot. However random lumps are rarely benign, and a little soft spot is usually the tip of the iceberg on a larger onset of rot lurking below the surface. They are symptoms of much larger and deeper problems which will fester and get far worse left unchecked. Today someone is knocking down a statue over some perceived wrong the person it honors once committed, tomorrow they are torching your house or slaughtering your dog over something your wife's cousin's friend wrote in an essay back in 4th grade. Knocking down the statue doesn't solve anything, whatever problem they are dealing with is still there so what are they going to do next? People have a tendency to believe that if something didn't work they just need to try harder. On top of all that, covid is unlikely to be going away any time soon so this is all likely to keep getting worse unless people put a stop to it now. Going out and protesting or rioting in large groups is quite literally going to both kill large numbers of people and increase the need for lockdowns and other restrictions, as well as creating further economic setbacks that will increase and prolong unemployment, it's all creating a positive feedback loop. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: DrG on July 08, 2020, 08:20:23 pm ---IT IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT STATUES but there you are talking about US and THEM and statues. --- End quote --- This is a thread about the impacts of covid on working from home, please stick to that. I don't want to have to lock this or start deleting posts. |
| SilverSolder:
It seems true that one impact of COVID and working from home is that it can be hard to avoid going crazy. Everyone probably has different coping mechanisms but I have found physical exercise and eating healthily to be essential for remaining sane during lockdown. I've never been fitter, and it is ridiculous that it took a pandemic to get me to figure this out, but there you go... |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: nctnico on July 08, 2020, 09:28:57 pm ---Statues of people should also be put in the right perspective and that is often lost in history. A more recent example is the statue of Arthur 'Bomber' Harris. The English RAF commander who was in charge of large bombardments of German cities which caused a great number of civilian cassualties in WW2. Some people say those bombings where uncalled for. I had the chance to ask my grandfather's opinion. Since he witnessed the horrors of the war first hand while being a forced laborer in Berlin he had a good view on what was actually happening and why. His opinion: 'They should have dropped more bombs. Anyone claiming otherwise is a complete and utter moron.' --- End quote --- Bomber Harris is a perplexing example. At the time most people in the know either thought his bombing program was immoral or was an ineffective use of resources. Some thought both. People like Winston Churchill were deeply troubled by what was going on, so even those in ultimate control were not proponents of the program. Still, nothing changed. This lesson of inaction in the face of a clearly screwed up program should have resonance right now. |
| Nusa:
The supply chain of major home appliances seems to be affected by the current situation. My neighbor had her old refrigerator fail a couple weeks ago, and when she went down to buy a new one at Home Depot nothing of interest was in stock and the floor models weren't for sale. She ordered one and it took 10 days to arrive, which happened yesterday. She didn't lose much food...I had room for her frozen stuff in my chest freezer, and most of her refrigerator stuff was drinks and condiments that didn't actually require refrigeration. |
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