Jump to content

Neo

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    5,122

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Neo

  2. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted · Edited by Neo

    A tip of the hat to several of you who’ve quoted me or mentioned me.   Respectful, truly.

    For brevity, and to avoid the point - counter point this medium encourages, fosters, facilitates, etc ...

    I acknowledge what you just wrote.   I can acknowledge your points without asking a physician if he’s comfortable with the death of millions or suggesting he’s a monster.  Considering what he’s lived for two months, it’s not a stretch to consider the comments somewhere along the continuum between insensitive and cruel.  The comments were wrong as premise and wrong as insinuation, that rare double play that is form and substance, both.

  3. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

    Oh so how he words things is "rationale" and "courageous" but asking him a question about a possible outcome, that is a bridge too far. 

    Had you asked him a question about a possible outcome, it would not be a bridge too far.  I’m not sure whether or not you see the difference between what you asked originally or what you ask in your re-phrasing.  If you don’t, I can’t help.  If you do, you don’t want my help.

  4. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted · Edited by Neo

    4 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

    So you are comfortable with several million people dying? Is that correct?

    Those might not be the questions I’d ask if I wanted to know if someone had a limit calculation or methodology around herd immunity.  Call me a smooth talkin’ charmer ....

  5. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    I am afraid we’ve developed herd immunity ...  to a voice informed and experienced used courageously to speak rationally in terms of choices, outcomes, costs and benefits.  People have died in his hands.  We suggested he’s “ok” with it and called him a nut.

  6. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    10 hours ago, spndnchz said:

    My nephew has it. He’s 12

    still here after 4 days from getting tested. 

    Everything bad is double triple bad when it’s “the kids”.  My thoughts and prayers, which is everything I got, and all I got, at the same time.  I have two daughters that LOVE being Aunts!

  9. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    It's going to be a long time before we're going to be able to "rely on" things in any historic or meaningful sense of the word.   I'm not expecting that.   It'd be great if it comes, of course.   I won't look for it before I venture out because it won't be there.   And, to politicians promising or requiring undeliverable certainty, guaranty and safety, I say "a pox on both their houses", pun intended.

    In the meantime, there's going to be assumption of risk, individually and collectively, in your home and in your legislative hallways.    Good luck to all!

    A return to life with other human beings will require a venturing out amid risk.   The virus is no longer a DNA/RNA strand and the organs are no longer lungs and hearts.   The body is no longer a 44 year old man, or woman.  The virus is now economic calamity and it's spreading and killing.   The organs are businesses and other ways of livelihood.  The body is our community.

    Your lives are screwed up, short term.   Unrecognizably different, short and intermediate term.   Unknown, long term.

    Now, never underestimate man's ability to fight through something.   We could see tests and vaccines tomorrow, or in months.   I will dance ten jigs.   I'm just not counting on it or expecting it.   If one doesn't count on or expect something, what does one do?    He makes peace with his circumstances and he acts.

    Assumption of risk ... I'm ready to walk outside, today.  Admittedly, I have a "tear off the band aid if leaving it on will do little good" mentality.

  11. The even randomer thread

    in The Aud Club

    Posted

    19 hours ago, shrader said:

    The wife really needs to stop showing me the idiocy on our neighborhood Facebook page. The latest one (names are changed to protect the innocent morons)

    ”204 Street ave, we are at 402 Street ave and a package was delivered here by mistake and there’s no name on it”

    I’d light up that moron if I was on that page. If only each of the houses had numbers on the front telling you which house was which. Just walk the damn thing down the street and stop being so damn lazy. 

    Well, they may be ticking 240 and 420 Street Avenue off!

  12. The even randomer thread

    in The Aud Club

    Posted

    On 5/2/2020 at 1:40 PM, Tondas said:

    I'm old @ubkev, when I was a sophomore a UB, most of my classes were in Diefendorf Hall.  Main Street Campus 1981.  However, the student union had a great pool room in the basement.   Played pool all day for free.  Spent a lot of time working on my bank shots there by day and "other" shots at PJ Bottoms at night. 

    Ever go to The Hippodrome Billiard Academy?

  13. Report: “Another Disconnect” Between Botterill and Krueger

    in The Aud Club

    Posted

    1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

    Acrostic cheatery!

    Analytics are only
    Numbers if that's what you believe.
    Analytics are true
    Love if you wish them investigated.
    Your mileage may vary.
    Those numbers scream out
    "Improvement!" if only the team
    Could find some
    Secondary scoring.

    I thought of that one. But if I always took the easy path, I would become an agent of evil.

    Well done!


    Neo, BA, Statistics, SUNY Buffalo

  16. Don Shula

    in The Aud Club

    Posted · Edited by Neo

    Before there was Belicheck and his smug surliness, before there was Johnson and his outsized Texas celebrity, before there was Parcells and his condescending hubris, there was Shula.  Arms folded across his chest, hands on his hips, he presided over teams that stood in our way.  Often, the obstacle was their fifty being better than our fifty.  Occasionally, the obstacle was their one being better than our one.

    Don Shula went to Canton as Noll and Landry did, granite faced stoics.  They walked the sidelines with little animation.  Their faces live in my memory like Rushmore busts.  There were no sneers or shouts.  There were no thrown clipboards.  There were only leaders of men.

    I wonder, from time to time, how we would have known men of that era had there been 24/7/365 multi-media non-stop quotes, quips and film.  There wasn’t.  And so, I know them as quiet Field Marshalls, masters of the gladiators of my youth.  They are who I believed they were, not who they revealed themselves to be.  I was a boy.  They are Titans.

    • Like (+1) 1

  17. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Curt said:

    Contract tracing does not necessarily have anything to do with cell phone data.

    In some cases, in some places it is being done using cell phone data now.  It is often done by interviewing to gather info about all the places where someone went during a given time period.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/10/814129534/how-the-painstaking-work-of-contact-tracing-can-slow-the-spread-of-an-outbreak

    Thank you, yes.   The “good old fashioned interview” was something I was aware of.   It’s the cell phone aspect I feel and write about.

  18. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

    Contact tracing has been a staple of public health for decades. Maybe it needs a rebranding, but all it means is you're notified if you were in close contact with someone who's tested positive. You don't get their name. Don't you want that?

    Based on cell phone data?  Maybe I misunderstand what it is ... i have some research to do.

    For instance, if i’m in a restaurant that 100 other people visit on May 1, none known to me ...  do i get a text based on iPhone location data?   Am I required to “come in”?   Are MY contacts notified?

  21. COVID-19

    in Topics

    Posted

    7 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

    I bet I can sneak this one in while moderators snore.

    I haven't seen one person of color protesting the state "shutdowns." Funny how once the story became how the virus was disproportionately killing black and brown people white folks started pouring into the streets.

    Clever one, that Stephen Miller. 

    For @Neohttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/connecticut-town-grounds-drone-program-to-fight-coronavirus-amid-outcry.amp

    Thank you.   I am new to the protestor conversation.

    1).  Drones:   I had two thoughts.   How could government not be aware that citizens chafe and view drone interaction as uncomfortable, to use a word capturing five or six others?   How could that same government then respond and cancel so quickly and graciously?    Perhaps it was simply the well intentioned inclined toward action.  Good for them being responsive representatives and not lecturing elites.

    2).  Cell Phones:  If I were a member of some deep state group, I’d have canned the guy who suggested we announce “contact tracing”.  For heaven’s sake, man, where’s your Newspeak dictionary?  Downplay “contact”, something human beings do, and emphasize “spread”, something a virus does.  Downplay “tracing”, something unique to individual humans,  and emphasize “locations”, things that aren’t individual or human,   George Orwell's Big Brother would have announced a Spread Location program using data provided BY hero citizens and their phones.  “Contact Tracing”:   Unintended candor from those so immersed in the state that they don’t even recognize its rubs with free people.

    3).  The protests.  I’d not looked before @PASabreFan mentioned them directly to me.  Oh, I was aware, and had seen them.  I mentioned a car-crawl protest of strange bedfellows (for a protest, that is) of soccer moms in minivans and tradesmen in pick up trucks, attorneys in BMWs and office workers in Toyotas.  (Note:  strange bedfellows is not pejorative).   However, I’d NOT seen some of the more recent, gun toting, protests.   I believe I’m seeing two things.   The first was an organic uprising by a group that came to exist specifically because of the virus.  A genuine, we want to go back to work now, crowd.   The second was not so organic and was comprised of people who long ago formed their group specifically because of government.  A genuine, we protest the government every chance we get, crowd.

    Respectfully, Neo

    Day 52 of self quarantine, er, social distancing, er, not going out so much.

×
×
  • Create New...