So, why have governments not indulged in public service announcements of the
“loose lips sink ships” variety. Bumper stickers like, “Stay home and shut up!
Your nation needs you.” Or the picture of some “life of the party” guy
regaling his fellow drinkers with the Jaws music playing in the back ground.
Somebody like Bloomberg could blanket ND with messages like that and see what
happened.
By the way, if the FRIAM cartoonist would reveal it self to me, I have a New
Yorker quality cartoon idea I desperately want to see drawn.
N
Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SFe not doing so well
I have mixed feelings about the NM Governors messaging right now. The highway
marquee signs I see say something like "hospitals full - 2 week reset - stay
home" but we also got a statewide txt message like an amber alert with yet more
dire warning... as if the dams upstream had broken and a 50' wall of water was
going to sweep us away just as we were reading the text... or if we had a
basement we should dive into it because a tornado was already in the process of
ripping our house off its foundation. The former worked for me, the latter
just seemed hysterical. Maybe this is what it takes. I was out and about
myself yesterday (finding internet from a cell tower since my home link was
down!) and saw a *lot* of traffic in Pojoaque and Espanola, both automobile and
foot and not nearly as many masks as during the April-May hard shutdown.
I take it as a rough rule of thumb that if I cut my contacts in half I've cut
my (potential) Ro in half... even if I have it (asymptomatically) I am half as
likely to pass it on. Same for everyone else, with bias of course against the
gadflies and the irresponsibles (no masks, etc.). The lag time for results,
both on tightening and loosening makes it hard to "steer" this huge cruise-ship
of fools that we are.
Actually I think the proper connection is that when everyone gets scared, the
virus eases (if not easing, it is finding it harder to find victims).
Unfortunately, once it eases some, people get less scared and then get C-19.
—Barry
On 17 Nov 2020, at 10:56, <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
Anecdotal "evidence". Two weeks ago, I hadn't known anybody _who knew
anybody_ who had tested positive; today I know two. No connection between
them. It appears that only fear regulates the distribution of the virus.
Myself, I am up to March fear level. Narcissistic Abduction: Now that I am
scared, perhaps the virus will ease off?
Nick
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