For some reason, on the Johns Hopkins CoVID-19 dashboard, Canada, as a country, has disappeared. (If you switch to the province/state/dependency mode, the individual provinces with infections still show up.)
This is disturbing, for someone who lives there ...
You can always rely on xkcd ...
https://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
I particularly like the snorkel. Whadyathinkin?
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern confirms Easter Bunny is classed as an “essential worker” but it might be “difficult for the bunny to get everywhere” in current circumstances.
Oh, on that list of things in short supply for the CoVID-19 crisis? Add COBOL programmers ...
Right. I'm not sure what to make of this. covidnearyou.org.
It seemed to detect that I was in Canada, but, I assume, you can select Canada, Mexico, or USA. First screen asks if you are feeling well or not. If well, it asks if you've received a flu shot, how old you are, gender, and partial postal or zip code. (When you drop though from that, it asks for your cell phone number to send you reminders, but that isn't mandatory. I assume that the same is true if unwell, but I didn't want to deliberately feed it false data.) If unwell, it asks you to specify from 13 symptoms (or "other").
It's voluntary, and I can't see any form of integrity checking, so I don't know how susceptible it would be to attack with false, or flood false, data. At the moment I can't see evidence of any privacy issues. (I didn't give it my phone number.)
Is it useful? Is it good? Is it a problem?
There is also another attempt at the same type of thing out of the University of Toronto, flatten.ca ...
As we approach spring and summer, there should be no shortage of toilet paper:
The all-natural way 😉
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