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ORIGINAL: Wuffer

Absolutely true, Warspite.

Yes, pretty unfortunate of me to pull the various cases together - my apology. Monkey see, monkey click.

Lovely weather, I'm looking at my new British fishing rods (the best in the world) and can't get out.

Good luck!

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: HansBolter


What part of 'self' having nothing to do with 'we' is too complex a concept for you?

I understood fully the context in which you were incorrectly applying the term 'self moderating'.

Regardless of any need, your presumption that it needs to be you assuming the mantle of moderator is what you fail to grasp as being just as inappropriate as the behavior you are assailing.

I'm not, for a minute, disputing the inappropriateness of some posts, including mine, just taking strong exception with your self appointment as sheriff.

1) "Self" was in reference to the full group, not me (or anyone else) as an individual. "We" are self-moderating is still correct. I don't understand how this is a complex concept.

2) I'm not the only person to have "self appointed" as (a) sheriff. Others have done so, in a far nastier manner than I have done. By your own admission, some of your own posts have been sheriff-like (OK, you didn't just say this in so many words, but they were). Calling me out for providing pushback, even if it is just lampshading a post, is intrinsically hypocritical.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

This is a novel situation, so we've had to err on the side of caution.

But we've lost a fair bit of context, judging from some of the quotes and headlines posted today and in past days.

During the Spanish Flu pandemic, the US scuffered 195,000 mortalities in October 1918. That's well over 15x the number lost thus far and 3x the number we're projected to lose through August. In the 1918-19 pandemic, the US suffered around 675k mortality, 10x the projection for this outbreak through August. And we were involved in WWI at the same time.

I haven't crunched the numbers for UK, France, Belgium, Germany and other countries but the hunch is that Flu and battle casualties far exceeded what we're enduring here.

This has been the single most gripping news event in decades. For Americans under 50, probably second only to 9-11 (and maybe, for some or many, this will eclipse that). It's a major event but too many drawing on the news and social media reports lack the proper context to measure this by.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: obvert

Midlevel bureaucrats in the city of Wuhan, where the virus originated, and elsewhere in China have been lying about infection rates, testing and death counts, fearful that if they report numbers that are too high they will be punished, lose their position or worse, current and former intelligence officials said.

warspite1

Echoes of Chernobyl.....[:(]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I've been craving fresh vegetables. We have plenty of frozen meat.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You know, if you could sneak into Yellowstone this year for the opening of the trout season you could knock 'em dead. Of course, you might end up in grizzly scat