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Yes, but you are commenting on something which is a subset of a major problem. The same issue applies to politics, business, in fact most human endeavours. We lose sight of the essence of what we do.
Gilbran - "your work is your love made real". Modern society values the result, not the product. Will I ever again be moved by the realisation of some perfection in computer software? I doubt it. Will I again be moved when I listen to the Moonlight Sonata? Without doubt.
Sic gloria transit mundi.
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Quote: the best way to prevent infection is to avoid being exposed to the virus
Well, f***ing duh!
Thank you for your great contribution to the well-being of your fellow man. Now f*** off back to kindergarten.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the best way to prevent infection is to avoid being exposed to the virus
With all of the unwarranted hysteria around this thing, it's not that bad for someone to show some common sense. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: ... avoid being exposed to the virus
always wear a hat!
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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lopatir wrote: always wear a hat!
So it's not as bad as HIV.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A hat of the proper kind is quite valuable against HIV.
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I am the same, this kind of stupidity really annoys me.
However, I also understand that these kind of statements are caused because the general public reader is even more stupid. What is common sense to some of us is unfortunately not common sense to the majority.
People will lick toilets then complain when they get ill saying "well, nobody said NOT to lick them". Then next week there will be a sign "DO NOT LICK TOILETS. MAY CAUSE SICKNESS". 
Living on this planet is a daily struggle.
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musefan wrote: However, I also understand that these kind of statements are caused because the general public reader is even more stupid. What is common sense to some of us is unfortunately not common sense to the majority.
We have a regular event at our local Club for which we use a supplier to bring in food and I get the joy of doing the admin.
This week I had a phone call as a gentleman was desperate to change his order of chicken to fish as he considered chicken too high a coronavirus risk.
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I guess the sensible thing to do in that situation is just bite your tongue, agree to process the request, and try and forget the conversation even happened as soon as possible 
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tell him fish has a higher risk of Ross River,
if he chooses beef, JKD (or whatever it's called now)
...
I mean just for the fun of it put him off off all the choices except tofu.
later on when eating remark loudly how "juicy" your [choice of] meat is.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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lopatir wrote: just for the fun of it put him off off all the choices except tofu.
... Then tell him it's Chinese.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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musefan wrote: What is common sense to some of us is unfortunately not common sense to the majority.
Very true. The posters made in India about the virus feel very obvious but still, it's much needed. Just thinking about the folks in rural areas. They are the majority.
And most importantly think about our Prime Minister and all the politicians. They would be the number #1 consumer for these posters. 
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musefan wrote: People will lick toilets then complain when they get ill saying "well, nobody said NOT to lick them". Then next week there will be a sign "DO NOT LICK TOILETS. MAY CAUSE SICKNESS"
But those of us who have enough sense to have read reports about research into toilet seats know that it's safer to eat our lunch off them than off our desks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess that explains why they make plates out of the same material they make toilets.
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 I'll have to remember that one!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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musefan wrote: Then next week there will be a sign "DO NOT LICK TOILETS. MAY CAUSE SICKNESS"
I'm blaming your legal system where you can sue for anything and actually expect to win often enough.
Then again, Alex Jones is selling Anti Corona toothpaste... 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I'm blaming your legal system
Hey! The US might be trying to take over the UK, but we aren't quite there yet 
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I have a good friend who works as a barrister in Leeds.
The stories he's told me implies that the US should be very very afraid of taking over.
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Remember that most warnings signs are there because someone has actually tried to do what the sign's warning you about.
Think about that.
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You may think of that when you consider moral laws, laws that makes "unnatural" acts illegal.
If it really was the case, that the acts were unnatural, people wouldn't act that way, there wouldn't be any need to make it illegal. Just let people behave naturally! Yet, scores of nations have found a need to curb the way people naturally behave, labeling it "unnatural" behaviour.
In scores of cultures, people do behave in ways that we (un)naturally behave ... and it turns out not to cause any problem at all, in those cultures. Then we arrive with our claims that those acts are really unnatural and immoral and we must throw people in the pit for doing what has been perfectly normal, with no devastating effects, at least not until we appeared on the scene.
Today, the Norwegian media are full of messages from the authorities: There is no reason whatsoever for you to stock up a lot of food in your home! Food stores will remain open, in spite of Corona. We repeat: Do not stock up food. ... So before the day is over, the food stores will be scraped empty of all at least all canned and dried food, and a lot of other stuff as well. Any sign "Do not touch this sign" is an invitation to touch it. I think signs and moral laws have something in common: Warning against it makes it a lot more tempting to do it.
The purpose of laughable signs (and laws and whatever) is not primarily to keep people from doing silly things, but so that you can say: Don't blame me for them doing it! I had put up a sign!
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Member 7989122 wrote: The purpose of laughable signs (and laws and whatever) is not primarily to keep people from doing silly things, but so that you can say: Don't blame me for them doing it! I had put up a sign!
That is the bottom line: Cover your ass. Rest of the world be damned.
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I'll give you a quote Quote: People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
That is true, I've seen it to many times in my life. Technically they are not idiots of stupid, but it is hard to tell when they follow the first fool to speak up.
I've never been a sheep, but most people are. We just have to learn to live with it. Unfortunately the majority rules, even if they are sheep.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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One of the posters made by our HR, reads "Avoid contact with the infected people".
Felt like asking "Sure, what LED color do they glow on their heads?"
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Truth....
Here in Atlanta, we've shutdown an entire county full of schools while they "clean" and "disinfect". Apparently, a teacher came to work already feeling ill, and by the afternoon was hauled away in an ambulance. And this person teaches... What officials may not realize is that as soon as the children come back to school, the germs and virises will be back. They already know that there is almost no impact on the young (Who is getting sick? A look at coronavirus risk by age, gender, and more[^]).
Then there is the guy who felt ill, had himself tested and got on a plane where he received the test results. Some days, my head hurts from the stupidity.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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