2020.04.06 A Ferret in the Coalmine

I'm just living my best life. - Unnamed child of Gob


Show Notes


Quote

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind." - Norman Vincent Peale

RIP and Infected

A tiger http://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/bronx-zoo-tiger-diagnosed-coronavirus-after-developing-dry-cough

A cat https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/cat-gets-coronavirus-owner-medics-21768685

Some ferrets https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFzozEg9ToAhVHU30KHXGnAY8QqQIIVigAMAc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ffda-coronavirus-funding-testing-ferrets-research-covid-19-1495236&usg=AOvVaw3xmMNijE5zOHjYnEJR8dzV

A dog, who died

Some pangolins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ogilvie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dawe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming_(poem)

First, it came for the jazz musicians ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Marsalis_Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Pizzarelli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Roney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Rubin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Withers https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bill-withers-the-soul-man-who-walked-away-111535/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Burrows

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2020/03/31/star-wars-actor-andrew-jack-dead-death-coronavirus-obituary/

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-dead-dies-1203552130/

Things

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/diseases/Pages/covid-19-lga.aspx

"normal" https://electricliterature.com/ted-chiang-explains-the-disaster-novel-we-all-suddenly-live-in/

Future crimes special panel: Navigating The New Morality

How do we rate the following acts: - Sneaking out to visit your girlfriend? - Taking your kid for a driving lesson? - Buying drugs? - Bushwalking in a National Park? - Sending your kid to school? - Being in public without a mask? - Woman not wearing a Niqab? - Working in a hospital without a mask (asking for a friend)? - Smoking? - Eating Pork? - Failure to report Illness? - The European Union?

https://counterpartstarz.fandom.com/wiki/Dimension_Two

Other Caromavirus News

BoJo in trubs?

Putting a cruise ship up for murder ...

Mercifully low case mortality rate in FSC, appalling in the UK. Why?

Aussie Basic Income

Tehran https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coronavirus-iran-tehran-medicine-us-sanctions-news-a9437961.html

Euro zone

Stacks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/twitter-accounts-deleted-linked-saudi-arabia-serbia-egypt-governments

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

NRL Island

All that effort for one pinger? That's not smuggling, I would call that taking my your mate some supplies. May have done a similar thing myself on occasion. Now, if the fruit were hollowed out and replaced with balloons filled with meth to a total weight of 2.5kg, that would be smuggling...

fin


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