[kwlug-disc] pandemic lockdown

[Paul Nijjar]

I understand that many of us are enthusiastic about discussing these
issues. I understand that in addition to being free software people we
are also nerdy people who associate socially, and are not interested
in strictly free-software topics. So I have been trying to think of 
ways to support the community while permitting those us with anxiety
issues to have one list where we don't have to freak out.

- If you are into Slack, there is a secret KWTechs group where all the
  cool tech people hang out. They are having a grand old time freaking
  each other out on their #covid19 channel. 
  
  Despite being a loser I have infiltrated the group, and can ask for
  invites if you would like to join. The criteria is that you have to
  be local (I am guessing that means Waterloo Region), you have to be
  involved with tech in some way (being in KWLUG probably counts) and
  you need to send me your email. 


- If there is sufficient demand I can create another KWLUG mailing
  list (kwlug-social?). Then if you want to talk about coronaviruses
  or socialism you can do so there. I am not thrilled about splitting
  the community up in this way (where will I ask my stupid offtopic
  questions about ISA video cards) but I am open to doing this, if
  only temporarily.

- Somebody else could offer a group that those who are interested
  could join. 


If you have other ideas then I am open to them. 

- Paul


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 09:57:12PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> May I request that we NOT do the play-by-play on this list? 
> We can go literally anywhere else on the Internet and have our
> anxieties provoked.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 09:38:00PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:50 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 1:18 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> No graphs, but I extracted the following number over the days (worldwide
> > >> total)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Actually there is a graph, bottom right.
> > > Look at the yellow graph, which is cases outside China.
> > > Really picking up exponentially.
> > >
> > 
> > That yellow graph ticked up considerably over 24 hours, exponentially.
> > 
> > And are my snapshots from it:
> > 
> > 2020-03-12 21:45 *128,343* cases, 4,720 deaths
> > 2020-03-13 12:45 137,387 cases, 5,088 deaths
> > 2020-03-13 19:30 142,557 cases, 5,359 deaths
> > 2020-03-13 20:45 144,833 cases, 5,398 deaths
> > 2020-03-13 21:30 *145,003* cases, 5,401 deaths
> > 
> > That is total for the whole world.
> > -- 
> > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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