[ by Charles Cameron — not exactly surprising ]
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Here’s the tweet that set me searching:
To laugh or cry or rage. That is the question. pic.twitter.com/PWJ4zrcYRQ
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) April 5, 2020
And here are the results I came up with:
First, the prophecy:
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Next, the defiant pastor:
And last, the debate:
[ by Charles Cameron — in these days of #COVID19 ]
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Bikini eyes burqa and vice versa:
Question:
I mask my face against the coronavirus.
I mask my face against the leering male gaze.
I’m a male — what should I do?
[ by Charles Cameron — a silly little, fun little, scary little DoubleQuote ]
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April opens with Animals in the Street:
Reclaiming territory from the sprawl..
What’s a DoubleQuote? Well, for one thing it’s a little work of art — “conceptual art”. Got it?
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Sources:
MS News, Wild goats take over Welsh town amid coronavirus lockdown SacBee, Coyotes prowl empty San Francisco streets as coronavirus locks down city
[ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliThordarson, and a great video titled Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague ]
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Scientific clarity:
On the one hand, the science seems crisp and certain:
This diagram is taken from a fascinating twitter-thread on why soap works better on dissolving viruses than alcohol posted by Palli Thordarson, a chemistry professor at the University of New South Wales..
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Human fallibility:
On the other, failures in human diagnostics, labeling, communications &c are far lrss reliable. I thought this quote, from the film Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague, was worth repeating here:
In the buildup to great catastrophes, everything goes wrong: small things as well as big things go wrong. You have little misunderstandings and chains of misunderstandings. And some things we’ll never know the answer to..
This quote should make us tremble.
It is taken from plague historian Michael Bliss, in the movie Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague, currently free o0n Amazoin Prime.
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