Red queen effect at work I guess.

I hope we as 'Team Human' catch up eventually, but I am not sure I want to bet my corn on it right now.

Thank you for keeping cool and civil and pointing out the facts.

I understand we all get upset and more aggressive than usual in these times, but generalized hate leads to war finally.
And we in Europe still know from our parents where generalized hate and oversimplified answers to complex questions can lead to.

Stay positive folks, if you have nothing else to get joy from, watch the BTC charts. I for one am excited how good  BTC masters this crisis.

Bah, infected too.

In hindsight I shouldn't have ordered the "Chicken Wuhan" in the local Chinese takeaway yesterday. While the peanutbutter sauce was racy and spicy, the chicken tasted like chewing on batmans ass,

I suppose it will involve shoving something up your vagina in some way, which unfortunately is an unfeasible type of treatment for many of us. (Obvious cunts excluded)

How convenient to have such exact, up to the minute figures...
Is he travelling around the world constantly counting dead bodies?
Or is every place in world reporting death figures to him directly?

Social Media at its best I guess.

robotsoutofcontrol could you show us what happened with the swapped TIPS?

I am sure they were burned, but the TIPS community would be interested to check for themselves.

While you are certainly right with your numbers (I was making admittedly similar comparisons in the past regarding the lethality risk of Corona), one important point is that these accidents happen nicely spread over a whole year. The problem with Corona is that it all happens within 2-3 weeks.

It has never been about body count in the first place, and indeed the personal risk for individuals dying from Corona is miniscule compared to many dozens of other prevalent risks in society (like as you correctly pointed toward obesity for example).

The (justified) fear is that perfectable cureable injuries or illnesses can lead to death within those weeks and this again can lead to people losing trust in the society, system, their healthcare insurance etc. if their lil daughter dies from a little cut while helping in the kitchen because there is just nobody to treat her (sew the scar, inject tetanus vaccination etc.). That is a situation you can't want at any price because it would fuck us all up to the same degree.

Agree, bullish for BTC, but not so bullish for anybody needing a lil medical care in the next weeks.

Also, I agree that the number of death from the resulting recession will be so much higher than the death toll owed to Corona itself.

It all is about a possible total collapse of the already thinned-out (for Americans: non-existent) healthcare system.

Then again, I personally would be totally scared by an illness that has the same individual risks as driving a bike on the streets of Delhi. As of today I could avoid that risk luckily.

Also, I would appreciate if you could condensate two or three of your posts into one. Your opinion is as valuable as everybody's else here, but you won't win the argument by filling pages making fun of people with differing opinions.

That said, stay safe, keep cool and take care of yourself and your beloved ones.
And naturally: hodl!

Depending on required video quality a jitsi server can easily be run from one of the parties (read: a simple consumer DSL/cable internet connection).
You could as well make a point in saying that everything using the internet is centralized by its nature, otherwise we'd have to establish p2p layer 1 links between all parties but we currently rely on the services from a few large players running the tier 1 internet.

In my country mortgage interest are going bananas since today, but in the opposite direction as expected (+15-25 base points in one day depending on bank for a 10yr mortgage). *

I get a feeling in my gut, that the lockdown/mass-dying is the warm and cozy part of this crisis.

Bullish for BTC, TP and bottled water, but being rich won't help if everything collapses around us.


* (in german) https://insideparadeplatz.ch/2020/03/20/hypo-zinsen-schiessen-hoch/

Just make sure you don't fall of the bike and possibly need medical assistance, that is exactly what this all is about.
It's not only about not getting the bat flu bug only, it's generally about avoiding to need medical care right now. In best case for you, you take the bed from someone needing it, in worst case you don't get the treatment you'd get in regular times.

I've been on racetracks when young (ages ago), I understand the fascination of having your knee on the tarmac at 200km/h totally - but still #StayAtHome and possibly save a fellow Dutch's life!

It could be worse, he could have sent the army to bring democracy to some far flung place.

But on a serious note: I really wonder for how much longer the American people will let an obvious morbus pick patient run the show.

..or open source. I agree with your general sentiment, but OSS is a bit a different story.

+1, I have setup an instance last week for friends and family and I have to say I am excited how good it works. Can even be hooked up to a SIP PBX so people from ordinary phones can join in.

In my case I used a VPS with 2 CPUs and 2GB RAM running Debian, tested it with 5-6 participants.
Had the first "virtual" dinner with parents yesterday and while strange it gave some feeling of normality.

Don't know if its true, but it sounds so british that I am confident it is.

*thumbs-up*

Switzerland has had its first mobilization since WWII.
Army and civil protection are supporting hospitals and police already since last week.

I've edited the quote of the original post for you.
Please take some time to digest it again and make sure you understand the original question.

How is protonmail decentralized? That's a perfect example for a centralized service IMHO.

What's wrong with plain old email?
Perfectly decentralized (maybe except root dns servers).

ROFLOL, here is my last smerit.

Though I beg to differ, I am a rat.
While the difference is subtle, most rats take it as an insult getting called a mouse 
(But we both enjoy scaring the shit out of kitties here and there)

Nice one, old though.
While in this doom porn mode make sure to get "The Flu" too. Incidentally a Korean movie... (got recommended to me by a Chinese friend in January).