chrisjs96

The US and the world isn't as bad as it seems. It's only news and social media that makes it feel that way. With the rise of global news networks in the 70's and 80's it's made the world smaller but more connected. Making everything seem worse than it is. It's actually better than it has ever been. At least pre covid

Let me recommend something to you. It's called Autoimmune diseases. Good luck

It's not healthy long term though because humans have to exchange bacteria and get sick.

I've flown a lot since the late 90's. A bunch of different areas. My dad was very into it. I've never had a bird attack an airplane or helicopter. I've never flown quadcopters/drones much as they require no skill and not fun. The closest I ever saw was a small foamie where a bird swooped towards it. Never came that close and moved on.

You're a developer I'm assuming. You think the CDC is capable of developing a model that could predict this? As a developer I don't have much confidence for something like that. Netflix still can't recommend me a movie correctly with millions upon million data points and spending millions of dollars on it.

An airplane is different than a helicopter. Doesn't mean we can't learn things by observing the other.

Yea just keep imagining. We'll never know. We could have had the same amount of deaths just by the older folks and at risk people quarantine themselves and everyone else keeps working. Then we could have had the jobs and money to help our neighbors pay for grocery delivery. People helping other people. Quarantining everyone is like punishing the whole class when one kid acts up. Now no one has jobs and we can't help each other. From what I know the older members of my family were already taking precautions. Why does everyone? If they are in contact with no one then we can't spread it to them.

I'm reading the book called unconditional parenting and it teaches a lot of this. It has an amazing effect on my 4 year old. You just literally tell them stuff and ask stuff like you would a friend or another adult. It works great. Other than that we kind of let him do things that he wants and as long as the potential danger isn't death we don't intervene.

It's not a Catalina thing. How long have you done music on Mac? Went through this with Snow leopard. Then with Mountain Lion. I can't install Rapture, Dimension Pro or Z3ta from Cakewalk after Mountain lion. Again Windows 10 just fine. Mac is a horrible platform for music and if I didn't do mobile development I would drop it in 5 seconds. Mac has literally become a joke in the computer music community.

I've made a comment about this on hacker news before. It's only a Mac thing. You can install a 15 year old DAW on Windows still to this day. You can't install something from 3 years ago on Mac.

That being said I use an Akai MPC Live and a Roland Fantom because I've been burned by OS and VST's. I only use a computer to arrange and finish the audio. It's also a better workflow for software developers because your not staring a computer screen to do music, which works for me. If you want a cheaper setup a MPC One and something like Yamaha Modx works fine too.

Gotta keep the population scared. Same thing happened during AIDS epidemic.

With something so artificial as this lock down I'm sure it will. We basically removed millions of jobs from the economy on purpose.

Even though recessions cause loss of lives(as they always do), I'm not arguing we value the economy over lives. The economy will bounce back as it always does. I'm arguing that we should value all lives. We're only valuing covid lives over other lives right now. Meaning we're valuing our grandmother and great grandmothers lives over our brothers, sister, mothers, fathers even children. To be frank we have to look at average years of life loss with Covid. Let's call it how it is: The quarantine should just be called the life exchange.

I'm aware of excess death or all cause. This doesn't take in account the delay of deaths we're going to have. So we need to look at all cause globally in a year or two or ten