Afternoon folks!
This week I have three playlists for you. There's more Chuck Berry. There's the part of a more than 50 year old Al Green album that some alleged copyright holder says is okay for people to listen to, and there's an Animals album.
Enjoy!
Fast 5 months since the first diary of The Dose was published by JtC. The request was made to the weekly Open Threaders to post one for COVID discussions in addition to our regular regular diary.
For the most part I had been able to ignore the COVID issues, others covered the subject adequately. My personal plan was developed in April 2020 with the intent to follow for about 2 years then reevaluate based on contemporary pandemic info. Per info supplied by C99 participants added povoiodine gargle and nasal spray after being in high risk locations and have built a robust portable air filter system to move into a building or room when visitors can not stay outside. The N95 mask used on town trips since February 2020 has been reclassified by the CDC as a respirator. Fits the current theme masks do not provide adequate protection, so why bother.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
It has been along week and my mind has been basically blank coming up with a topic for today's thread.
Probably need more caffeine than my home roasted coffee is supplying. Taste is great, but no buzz or jitters.
Let's imagine that the universe is a living entity and every heavenly body in the universe is but a cell comprising the totality of said entity. What kind of cell in that living entity would the earth be?
How will future historians view the internet? Will it be viewed as uniting or dividing humankind?
Is mankind doomed? If so, what besides greed is the damning factor?
Is the internet causing people to have split personalities with differing online and real life personas? Do people act differently online than they would face to face? If so, why? And how does that portend for the future?
In the future if the internet leads to a one world consciousness, like the Borg, which yin and yang aspect will win out, good or evil?
An open thread for gentle discussions of all things Covid.
The current state of global affairs, the Covid crisis, the Ukraine war drum beating, the media flickering from 'scary' thing to 'terrifying' thing and back again, dementia Joe Brandon and his cabal is getting me down. I hope some of these are not doing the same to you. In an effort to lift hearts and minds for a bit I want to tell a story, in a really cheezy kinda Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon saga way, about my wonderful farm dog, Jaska, and one of her farm friends - the rooster Buford.
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A place to post awareness on the ongoing covidis issues.
