OK, *now* we're in trouble ...

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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 ...

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Please do not microwave your library books ...

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(OK, I don't expect you to get that one unless you're an old malware researcher ...)

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There's some fairly serious misunderstandings of the technology in this cartoon, but hopefully you can get a wee smile out of it before you start ripping it apart ...

[Beads]

Outside of not addressing any privacy concerns I really don't see any problems. OK maybe grouping late GenX with the Zennials goes a bit too far for some but what do I know? I consider myself Generation Jones.

- b/eads

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@rslade wrote:

...misunderstandings of the technology in this cartoon...

Overall, it seems pretty decent from a high-level, non-techie POV.  My only critique would be that the use of "contact" can be confused with "address book contacts", but that really is not on the cartoon author, given that the entire process is called "contact tracing".

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Look To The Webcam
Lyrics: Robert M. Slade

On the day the world stopped, said the virus, said he,
I've a videoconference waiting for ye.
Tis a clog for your bandwidth, fatigue for your heart,
To grate when the entire world falls apart.

Chorus:
Look, look, look to the Webcam.
That way eye contact goes out on the stream.
Look, look, look to the Webcam.
Don't let your eyes wander, it makes people scream.
Let your eyes wander, let your eyes wander,
Don't let your eyes wander, it makes people scream.

So, I bundled me services, got TV free.
Learned the time zones to east and west, and finally,
I searched all the Webcasts and heard vendors' lies,
And I found out at last that online there are spies.

'Twas an elegant protocol, comms at its best,
But could sales and marketing give it a rest?
For you book an event, then another one too,
'Til your time is all booked and there's none left for you.

(tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqfe_uExcs)

copyright 2020, Robert M. Slade

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