It’s Day 42 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. People are getting restless, and Australia’s COVID-19 tracing app has been downloaded by a couple million loyal citizens. There’s quite a bit about that.
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Oh my God, listen to this rant, it's absolutely priceless. I feel like I'm watching an episode of The Sopranos taking place during the pandemic.
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When we are in a state of sin, we are like "human bats" who can move about only at night. We find it easier to live in darkness because the light reveals to us what we do not want to see. But then our eyes grow accustomed to darkness and we no longer recognize the light.
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The Pope being schooled in theological biology by an account dedicated to bat PR is perhaps the best combination of things to happen on this website.
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More 80's electro lamentations from behind the vinyl curtain, this cold wave selection from cold war Belgrade.
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The best of sovietwave mix, chillwave, synthwave, and electronic music.
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This is the email the Ku-ring-gai chamber of commerce has sent to its members today. It alerts businesses that they can’t coerce people to download the app. But as you’ll see, the chamber is not happy about that. At all.
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I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health, make the following determination.
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Former deputy PM Barnaby Joyce refuses to download the COVIDSafe app due to privacy concerns, while Joel Fitzgibbon MP says he'll do 'anything reasonable' to stop the spread and to get our lives back to normal.
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"The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs" -- Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus
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"[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit” -- this is shocking, hackish stuff from Dr. Birx.
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He forgot the word "brain" while bragging about how good his brain is
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Reporter: "Do you take any responsibility--?" Trump: "No, I don't."
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Just for the record ... the medical term for injecting disinfectants into the body is called “embalming”.
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While Toilet Duck and Dettol are trending, here's a reminder of the word 'ultracrepidarian': one who consistently offers opinions and advice on subjects way beyond their understanding.
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Sebastian Gorka says 'the Left' hates Trump because they hate masculinity, adding that "manly men" don't hate Trump
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Someone posted this sign up in a hospital.
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On Monday, Joint Region Marianas Commander Rear Adm. John Menoni said the entire crew was tested and there were 833 positives and 4,105 negatives, and 112 recovered.
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The decision to reinstate Navy Capt. Brett Crozier’s command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt sits with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
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Las Vegas Mayor offers city as "control group", "we offer to be a control group" to see how many people die without social distancing.
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The Las Vegas Strip IS NOT IN the City of Las Vegas. @ClarkCountyNV has jurisdiction and is fully supportive of @GovSisolak and his commitment to listen to medical experts!
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The COVIDSafe app speeds up contacting people exposed to coronavirus (COVID-19). This helps health officials support and protect you, your friends and family.
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Delivering an update on the pandemic, Mr Morrison said there had been “good progress” as he looked to potentially ease restrictions in four weeks' time.
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when invited by politicians to download an app designed by government to gather personal information about our social interactions, only Twitter cranks and contrarians have publicly demurred.
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It's hoped it will help track down contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, but there is still a lot we don't know about the app. And is there any evidence that it will even help?
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Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth urged Australians to download the tracing app on Monday, saying it would be "the icing on the cake" for Australia's "very well-oiled" contact tracing regime.
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"In the absence of a medical vaccine, you could think about contact tracing as a digital vaccine with our contact data being the virtual antibodies," AIIA chair and chief strategy and innovation officer at Deloitte Australia Robert Hillard said.
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This is a good thread explaining why the app might be useful
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Q. The Federal Government is developing an app to trace people who test positive for Covid-19 have been in contact with. The app wouldn’t track your location, but it would use Bluetooth to record any other phones around you who also had had this app. If you then tested positive for Covid-19, an identifier would allow government officials to find anyone else who may have been exposed Covid-19. To what extent do you agree or disagree with these statements about the suggested Covid-19 tracing app?
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Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G, which has been wrongly linked to coronavirus.
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Press regulator Ipso made the ruling after Amanda Liberty, a woman from Leeds in her mid thirties, complained about an article in the Sun mocking her public declaration of love for Lumiere, her name for an intricate lamp she bought on eBay.
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Eurovision might be cancelled, but an Australian tune created using artifical intelligence is in the running to win a new international song competition - with your help!
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Teams from across Europe and Australia are competing to create the next Eurovision hit using artificial intelligence. Introducing Team Australia, Uncanny Valley featuring our beloved Australian wildlife, the Koala
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