No, but it could cause problems. HBO Real Sports recently had an interesting segment on a spring training baseball game in Florida. This is the abbreviated version. A few minutes long. The last part shows how they can track people through cellphones. Again, this is just a spring training baseball game attended by less than 10,000 people
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That train sailed about fifteen years ago. Cell phones have always tracked you, but it did get better with GPS sensors. The whole big brother fight is over and done with. Your information is out there, and it's for sale. Snowden is a traitor. Facebook maintains profiles on people who never even register an account. Alexa and Siri are always listening and always learning.
May as well move on from that one. Time to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
Anyone here that wouldnt?
Just noticed the IHME site now has recommended safe dates to ease social distancing based on date for the model to reach 1 case per million! Shows Texas recommended not to ease until 14 June! Good Grief!
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That has been my observation and experience as well.
Any ambitious foreign power has but to observe our current state of panic and disarray over this current tempest in a teapot and it'd be hey presto, Red Dawn in short order. With just a little softening up from some germ warfare spread by drones over NYC, LA, Chicago, and Miami. We'd be on the brink of collapse before they put boots on the ground.
Something-something first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye something-something. Not to get all biblical on you and $h!t you understand.
It's not a foreign power. There is an enormous difference between ideology and natural threats. No one (or very few people) are running around with the express intention of spreading a virus, because people value their own health and act rationally by avoiding infecting others. A foreign power is the exact opposite, it's people with an ideology which is explicitly does not value your health and therefore confrontation by force is inevitable.
Perhaps. It is certainly lower on the self-righteous volume dial, but it still relies on the premise that someone “rational” knows better than someone “irrational”. Those are arbitrary definitions and relative to someone else’s perception. One persons trash is another’s treasure and all that.The more knowledge and capacity for rational thought a society has, the less governing it needs.
Do you find this statement less infuritating?
I personally find many reactions to the current crisis to be quite “irrational” while many others like yourself find them quite reasonable. Which one of us requires less governing?