Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I'd go with misspelt.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Yeah me too. C'mon windy lift your game.

Yeah, a throw-back to my days of doing 'merica-speak. In other forms of the language your version would be adequate .

Originally Posted by 101RRS

Not mutated - just a different strain - just as Caucasian is not a mutation of African but is just a different strain of Homo Sapien. As yet a mutation for the virus has not been detected but that does not mean it has happened.

COVID has mutated. [ according to this. I don't think it has been scientifically verified. ]
18 August 2020.
Coronavirus: Mutated virus strain spreading around the world

"Caucasian " does not indicate anything real. Why do we keep using it?

"To answer that question, it is helpful to understand where the term came from and its impact on our society. The term “Caucasian” originated from a growing 18th-century European science of racial classification. German anatomist Johann Blumenbach visited the Caucasus Mountains, located between the Caspian and Black seas, and he must have been enchanted because he labeled the people there “Caucasians” and proposed that they were created in God’s image as an ideal form of humanity.

And the label has stuck to this day. According to Mukhopadhyay, Blumenbach went on to name four other “races,” each considered “physically and morally ‘degenerate’ forms of ‘God’s original creation.’” He categorized Africans, excluding light-skinned North Africans, as “Ethiopians” or “black.” He divided non-Caucasian Asians into two separate races: the “Mongolian” or “yellow” race of Japan and China, and the “Malayan” or “brown” race, which included Aboriginal Australians and Pacific Islanders. And he called Native Americans the “red” race."

EDIT. Mukhopadhyay is indeed a person.

Supratik Mukhopadhyay | LSU Computer Science and Engineering

Originally Posted by 4bee

Blimey SQ one can say ARSE on here if it suits one, that is.

Thank you 4Bee, I'm being Politically Correct - for those sensitive souls who MIGHT stumble upon our Secret Society of Deranged Masochistic Addicts...and be "offended".

Plus it's a good alternative when you're in unknown (?) 'mixed company'. - can't possibly get into trouble with SWMBO.


(Actually, came from a previous employer and I use it in Remembrance, a Masochist who had a D2 (personal use) AND a Classic...- for business / 2 tonne 'Plant-Towing' vehicle. Only breakdown was a BOSCH ign. coil.)

Just a heads up.

What will change at 1am Thursday 1 October 2020

Because of the reduced risk of COVID-19 transmission in northern New South Wales, the following changes have been made regarding the border zone:

• The New South Wales border zone (PDF) will be extended
• The Queensland border zone will no longer exist
• Queensland residents will be able to travel anywhere in the New South Wales border zone for any purpose
• New South Wales border zone residents will be able to travel anywhere in Queensland for any purpose.

The direction has also been updated to provide a right of entry to people coming to Queensland to respond to an emergency energy, drinking water, sewerage, liquid fuel, resources or telecommunications event.


.Border restrictions (1 October 2020) | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government

Originally Posted by 4bee

One wonders whether Days Off are programmable that coincide with, Race Days, Footy GFs Grand Prixs,that sort of stuff.

They won’t get away with that here!!!
A sick day like that always comes with a mandatory certificate from a Dr, and if they don’t present it, they don’t get paid - simple.

So a day at the footy or whatever costs them $700

Not trying to hijack the thread, but sometimes I think we - including me - need to lift the Quality of our Ranting....

This example of frustration... is an interesting read. Nope, not getting into a stoush as to how reliable he/they/Left Wing/Right Wing Press, is, but his choice of targets and how he gets stuck into them is a nice 'diversion' from the usual presentations in our media.
And there's no argument that a majority of journalists and their Editors are 'Technological Imbeciles'. e.g. Ship/boat speeds expressed as "knots per hour" Or a 'Ratio' getting a % sign added to it...

. I reckon that since he's got the background AND some $$$ great toys, he gets to snipe at both extremes of scientific arguments. - Then it morphs into Politics, but hey, he's 'Merican !

STUPID-19 strikes again: Fox News, conservative media and independent media get it WRONG when reporting CDC fatality data … they’re off by two orders of magnitude – NaturalNews.com

This was the thing that wound him op :- COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios | CDC




Now back to The Donald's "Wuhan Flu"

Originally Posted by Tombie

They won’t get away with that here!!!
A sick day like that always comes with a mandatory certificate from a Dr, and if they don’t present it, they don’t get paid - simple.

So a day at the footy or whatever costs them $700

Ditto here.
We're allowed one or two a year without a certificate and that's it, otherwise it's leave without pay

EDIT. Mukhopadhyay is indeed a person.

[/FONT][/COLOR]Supratik Mukhopadhyay | LSU Computer Science and Engineering[/QUOTE]

Agreed... There's a Medical Practice near me, replete with even more unpronouncable names.


Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University


Educational Background
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Max-Plank Institute for Computer Science
and University of Saarland, Germany, 2001

... etc etc

And that, Ladies & Gennelmens, is a perfect example of sloppy presentation... misspelled... "Max Planck"

Max Planck | Biography, Discoveries, & Quantum Theory | Britannica