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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: chez on April 06, 2020, 07:45:24 pm
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It amazes me looking at where the majority of activity resides on a photography forum...not discussing photography equipment, not discussing images, not discussing anything about photography...but endless childish political crap that ends up in name calling and stupidity.
Surely you come to a photography forum with photography interests...why all this political crap.
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The C19 and all the developments surrounding it are advancing at a much faster pace than the camera and computer industries.
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The C19 and all the developments surrounding it are advancing at a much faster pace than the camera and computer industries.
Sure...but we are bombarded with C19 from every direction...can't escape it. I thought maybe a photography forum could be a hiatus, but no...it's infiltrated as well. Looking at the actual photography related threads and they are just dead.
I'm active on other photography forums and there seems to be much less politics / c19 taking over.
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Yes, it’s a good point.
I am probably one of the worst offenders... although I also continue to contribute to other threads. ;)
This event may be one of the worst world crisis that we will experience more or less directly in our lives. Few people will not be impacted at all.
It makes it hard to ignore.
Cheers,
Bernard
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As I usually keep out of this topic I can say that I saw a direct correlation between a heated topic in the Coffee Corner and a decrease in photography related posts.
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It amazes me looking at where the majority of activity resides on a photography forum...not discussing photography equipment, not discussing images, not discussing anything about photography...but endless childish political crap that ends up in name calling and stupidity.
Surely you come to a photography forum with photography interests...why all this political crap.
+1 Well said.
Again, what would Michael have done?
Photography, not politics.
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I take my camera out and shoot every day despite being in a lockdown. I use a long lens and shoot across the valley or I photograph the many birds flying around and shoot macro images as well. I have put out a blog, two actually and post to Instagram. Speak frequently with other photographers still active in the industry. Here you mostly get moaning about how good it was n the old days and other such.
I like photography. It’s just not happening here anymore.
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1. For those who wonder about the presence of non-photographic topics in the Coffee Corner: read the bloody label on the tin: it's what the CC is for, if you'll allow me to end a thought with a preposition.
2. For those who complain about the dearth of traffic in the photographic lanes: don't be pussies - get out there and create the traffic. This may stun you: conversation requires somebody to start it as much as it does others to continue it; sitting on your ass and reading it is just eavesdropping; of itself it has contributed nothing, zich, nada, niente, zero. Be a hero, not a zero. You're not in bed: contribute more than a moan.
Rob
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1. For those who wonder about the presence of non-photographic topics in the Coffee Corner: read the bloody label on the tin: it's what the CC is for, if you'll allow me to end a thought with a preposition.
2. For those who complain about the dearth of traffic in the photographic lanes: don't be pussies - get out there and create the traffic. This may stun you: conversation requires somebody to start it as much as it does others to continue it; sitting on your ass and reading it is just eavesdropping; of itself it has contributed nothing, zich, nada, niente, zero. Be a hero, not a zero. You're not in bed: contribute more than a moan.
Rob
You mean if you don’t like it try and change it? Fair point I guess. To me it is just what it is. If I want to sell ice I tend to head for the deserts and if I want to sell heaters I would give Canada a go. If you get the analogy. It might be a bit obscure.
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Just imagine, if all that passion, angst and time was directed towards image making...
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Just imagine, if all that passion, angst and time was directed towards image making...
If only it could be thus!
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I've been re-processing some of my old images.
The one below was taken 10 years ago at a small lake in Ontario.
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a Photo ! :)
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1. For those who wonder about the presence of non-photographic topics in the Coffee Corner: read the bloody label on the tin: it's what the CC is for, if you'll allow me to end a thought with a preposition.
2. For those who complain about the dearth of traffic in the photographic lanes: don't be pussies - get out there and create the traffic. This may stun you: conversation requires somebody to start it as much as it does others to continue it; sitting on your ass and reading it is just eavesdropping; of itself it has contributed nothing, zich, nada, niente, zero. Be a hero, not a zero. You're not in bed: contribute more than a moan.
Rob
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Exactly what is there to talk about photography? Without politics, LuLa would wither away.
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I've been re-processing some of my old images.
The one below was taken 10 years ago at a small lake in Ontario.
Fascinating, Les. When you first glance at it it looks as if the big rock and the grass are hanging in air.
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Exactly what is there to talk about photography? Without politics, LuLa would wither away.
Perhaps the only thing you can usefully do within the "speaking about" canon is refer folks to image websites where, with luck, you get to see good examples of the art - when it is an art.
Anyone can wax eloquent or even loquacious about how they may feel about photography, but by and large, such thoughts are of limited mileage. And even with those who manage that communication very well, there are the inevitably frequent moments of nothing. I"m thinking here of Leicaphilia, the blog that's kinda intended for people who own Leica cameras, but it's not exclusively so limited. Tim writes very well indeed, but by his own admission, there are periods when the well runs dry.
http://leicaphilia.com/
Rob
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Do you want an excuse to rant about politics? How about photographic politics. Canon is better than Nikon. Lightroom is better than capture one. Apple is better than windows. OK I think you get my point or maybe you don’t get the point. Time for me to Move On I’m opting out of this thread. 😜
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The good thing is that everybody can choose the threads he wants to follow. And some people will be pleasantly surprised that it is not mandatory to read the threads which are of no interest to them.
For example, since at this time I am not printing any images, I skip the Color Management and Printing forum sections. And it doesn't disturb me at all what people post there.
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Exactly what is there to talk about photography? Without politics, LuLa would wither away.
Maybe. This site didn’t have politics for a very long time, the problem is that it doesn’t attract too many new contributors. Part of that is the boys club where everybody pats everybody on their back but outsiders have a hard time gaining traction.
If you think this photography site needs politics to survive, than all it’s lost already.
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... If you think this photography site needs politics to survive, than all it’s lost already.
It has been for quite some time. And it is not Kevin or Josh' fault, just nearing the end of its natural cycle. Like Kodak.
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Why look at Kodak and not Fujifilm? Decisions in transformational moments do matter.
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Sure...but we are bombarded with C19 from every direction...can't escape it. I thought maybe a photography forum could be a hiatus, but no...it's infiltrated as well. Looking at the actual photography related threads and they are just dead.
I'm active on other photography forums and there seems to be much less politics / c19 taking over.
Why go to the Coffee Corner? Just don't open these kind of threads to avoid ulcers.
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Fascinating, Les. When you first glance at it it looks as if the big rock and the grass are hanging in air.
That's what I saw at first. Then I enlarged it. Here's a picture I took of a mystical horse fleeing a storm.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/5247/5262921174_c84512c1f3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f)
Mystical Horse in Storm (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
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Where is the horse? The white current or the icy bit below it?
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Why look at Kodak and not Fujifilm? Decisions in transformational moments do matter.
Because both companies ended their natural cycle in traditional products: film and paper. The difference is, Fuji had a camera production line to rely on, Kodak stopped being camera manufacturer long time ago, well before digital.
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The good thing is that everybody can choose the threads he wants to follow. And some people will be pleasantly surprised that it is not mandatory to read the threads which are of no interest to them.
For example, since at this time I am not printing any images, I skip the Color Management and Printing forum sections. And it doesn't disturb me at all what people post there.
I don't bother deciding by topic. I just click on New Posts and run them down. If any titles strike my interest, those are the ones I open. It doesn't matter what section they're in.
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Where is the horse? The white current or the icy bit below it?
Well it's more of an icey head of a horse.
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Fascinating, Les. When you first glance at it it looks as if the big rock and the grass are hanging in air.
Russ, thank you for your kind comment.
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Because both companies ended their natural cycle in traditional products: film and paper. The difference is, Fuji had a camera production line to rely on, Kodak stopped being camera manufacturer long time ago, well before digital.
Fujifilm has other interests that they make even more money from in the medical and scientific field. It does around $18 billion in sales annually compared to Nikon who does approx $6 billion. Canon by comparison is huge around $35 billion. They have their fingers in everything.
Fujifilm products: https://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/medical/
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/5247/5262921174_c84512c1f3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f)
Mystical Horse in Storm (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
Very beautiful photo Alan, my compliments... !
(you could send it to 'show me your abstracts'... )
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Thanks Pieter. I took your advice and posted it there. DIdn't know that forum existed. Live and learn.
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... DIdn't know that forum existed. Live and learn.
There is life outside Coffee Corner, you know ;)
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Because both companies ended their natural cycle in traditional products: film and paper. The difference is, Fuji had a camera production line to rely on, Kodak stopped being camera manufacturer long time ago, well before digital.
My first 6 digital cameras were all Kodak. DCS420 DCS460 DCS465 DCS760 DCS560 and Kodak Pro Back.
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Because both companies ended their natural cycle in traditional products: film and paper. The difference is, Fuji had a camera production line to rely on, Kodak stopped being camera manufacturer long time ago, well before digital.
I disagree, it's about being able to evolve and adapt. Darwin laws at their best. Survives the one who adapts better.
Kodak had an early footing in digital, they could have had most of the market but chose no to in order to protect their traditional business. It was many times larger than Fuji, they had the resources but not the will.
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My first 6 digital cameras were all Kodak. DCS420 DCS460 DCS465 DCS760 DCS560 and Kodak Pro Back.
I didn’t check every model you listed, but they are not Kodak cameras (the camera part) but Nikon’s. There was also a model built upon a Canon.
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I didn’t check every model you listed, but they are not Kodak cameras (the camera part) but Nikon’s. There was also a model built upon a Canon.
Oh please. They were bought directly from Kodak. Invoice came from Kodak. They had Kodak badges on them. Two of them were backs not built on any camera. They also sold point and shoots cameras. May as well say Nikon don’t make digital cameras because the digital bit, the sensor, is made by Sony
Feel free to look up the range of Kodak consumer cameras if you want more evidence. DC series. First one was released mid 90’s there were loads of them. I owned two of them as well.
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Oh please...
FYI, I worked for Kodak in 1998-2000.
Their P&S were outsourced long time ago, just the logo was Kodak.
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FYI, I worked for Kodak in 1998-2000.
Their P&S were outsourced long time ago, just the logo was Kodak.
So what you worked for Kodak for two years. That’s proof of what exactly?
Actually I am not interested in climbing into this little rabbit whole with you. It’s not at all what this thread is about. Let’s say you are correct and Kodak never produced a digital camera and that they went out of business because people stopped buying film and not because they failed to capitalize on their original massive lead in digital imaging technology.
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FYI, I worked for Kodak in 1998-2000.
Their P&S were outsourced long time ago, just the logo was Kodak.
Some companies don't miss the boat. For 7 years, in the 1970's I worked for Johnson Service Co, now called Johnson Controls, a manufacturer of pneumatic temperature controls. In fact Johnson invented pneumatic controls 100 years ago. Thermostats, controllers, dampers and valves used in HVAC systems were controlled pneumatically as the pressure move rubber diaphragms in actuators.
When I went for an interview at their NYC office, they explained what they do. At the time I was working for Sperry Rand Univac computer division as a technician, and knew nothing about pneumatic controls. During the interview for a position as an application engineer where they made these electronic systems connected to the pneumatic controls just for monitoring but little control, I asked the manager why didn't they just drop pneumatics and use the electronic computers to monitor and control the system directly. The guy smile and hired me. For years Johnson, Honeywell, and Powers, the key pneumatic players resisted giving up pneumatic controls, so lucrative was it. In fact, Johnson's first computer based control system was built by others. They private labelled it. It took them a couple of years to have their own systems. Unlike Kodak, they saw the handwriting on the wall and switched to digital controls. Today they're still a very successful controls company. The old pneumatic thermostats make great paper weights as I'm sure do the old Kodak cameras.
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Oh please. They were bought directly from Kodak. Invoice came from Kodak...
I bought my Hasselblad from Kodak. It came directly from Kodak. Invoice came from Kodak. Ergo, Hasselblad is a Kodak camera.
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Here's a thought—prompted by the link to the video from The New Yorker (https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=134527.0) that I posted earlier today—for those irritated by the shift of posting volume from the discussion of photography to politics, COVID-19, and other non-photographic subjects:
Most of us are currently required or at least strongly encouraged by our respective governments to avoid unnecessary travel, but solitary walks for exercise and recreation are permitted, at least here in the States and I presume elsewhere, and collectively we have the geographical breadth to create a varied if not comprehensive photographic record of this extraordinary moment we are all living through.
I made an initial stab at doing this myself when I accompanied my wife to medical appointments in Washington, D.C., during the third (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chriskernpix/49673608193/in/datetaken-public/) and fourth weeks (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chriskernpix/49696421882/in/datetaken-public/) of March, and I'm thinking about what I might shoot in the little Maryland city where we spend most of our time—all our time these days, alas, except for those medical appointments.
I presume most of the participants in this forum who don't actually live in a city or town center at least occasionally must venture into one to buy groceries, visit pharmacies, or do other unavoidable errands, and I gather there are a few here who must leave home to work at essential jobs. (I know have at least one practicing hospital doctor in our midst.)
The idea would be to make some images of public or commercial venues that capture what is happening at this particular time in our particular space. Not with the idea of creating great art, but simply to compile a documentary record of our experience, to share it within this forum, and perhaps even to leave some interesting artifacts behind for those who, one hopes, will not soon have to repeat our little moment in history.
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I would say that Kodak had a much bigger digital presence in the early days of digital photography vs Fujifilm, they were significantly better positioned. But as time showed, having the resources is not good enough if you don't apply the wits.
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...The idea would be to make some images of public or commercial venues that capture what is happening at this particular time in our particular space. Not with the idea of creating great art, but simply to compile a documentary record of our experience, to share it within this forum, and perhaps even to leave some interesting artifacts behind for those who, one hopes, will not soon have to repeat our little moment in history.
On my way to pick up food today, I took this one. The sign reads "Stay at Home." The day was lovely, sunny, warm, trees are getting first leaves, and the sun was lighting them from behind. I noticed the trees the other day, but they were in the shade. So I planned today's shoot using Photographer's Ephemeris to tell me exactly at what time today the sun will illuminate this street. 3:02pm, it turns out.
As Chris said, no great art, but two things struck me as unusual: the sign, and the fact that the street was practically empty, although in different times, with a weather like this and the arrival of spring, it would be as busy as Times Square.
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I can see at the end of the street some people sitting on the outside patio.
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On my way to pick up food today, I took this one.
Yes! Exactly what I had in mind.
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I bought my Hasselblad from Kodak. It came directly from Kodak. Invoice came from Kodak. Ergo, Hasselblad is a Kodak camera.
Q.E.D.
Rob
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Q.E.D.
Please elaborate.
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Fascinating, Les. When you first glance at it it looks as if the big rock and the grass are hanging in air.
How are you keeping Russ? Fine I hope. (The grandchild was a beautiful boy!) We managed to hold him for fifteen minutes each before the lockdown kicked in...
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The idea would be to make some images of public or commercial venues that capture what is happening at this particular time in our particular space. Not with the idea of creating great art, but simply to compile a documentary record of our experience, to share it within this forum, and perhaps even to leave some interesting artifacts behind for those who, one hopes, will not soon have to repeat our little moment in history.
Tempting, and something I had thought of but the lockdown, pretty much throughout the EU, refers to ESSENTIAL trips and no matter how essential your 'trip' might be, wandering the street with camera in hand is almost certainly to be considered a contravention. In Paris, they're now going further and even banning joggers on the grounds that the increased exertion and elevated 'exhalation' increase risk.
I thought the movie short was excellent (it should be, he's part of the VII agency) as are others on that website .
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... the lockdown, pretty much throughout the EU, refers to ESSENTIAL trips and no matter how essential your 'trip' might be, wandering the street with camera in hand is almost certainly to be considered a contravention...
For sheeple. It is rebels that change the world.
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Please elaborate.
You proved, by example, exactly what you had set out to prove.
Rob
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For sheeple. It is rebels that change the world.
Are you certain the fever has left you?
Of course, that may have been an allusion to those rebels changing the world order by infecting and killing off most of the saner humans...
;-)
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How are you keeping Russ? Fine I hope. (The grandchild was a beautiful boy!) We managed to hold him for fifteen minutes each before the lockdown kicked in...
Hanging in there, William, as I hope you are too. Holding a grandchild even for fifteen minutes is an experience everyone should have. There's nothing else in the world quite like it.
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Tempting, and something I had thought of but the lockdown, pretty much throughout the EU, refers to ESSENTIAL trips and no matter how essential your 'trip' might be, wandering the street with camera in hand is almost certainly to be considered a contravention.
I'm certainly not proposing that anyone violate the explicit or even implicit "social distancing" rules of their jurisdiction. Here in the States, at least, stopping to snap a picture of a deserted commercial district during a solitary trip to buy groceries or recreational excursion would not contravene any of the regulations or recommendations.
In Paris, they're now going further and even banning joggers on the grounds that the increased exertion and elevated 'exhalation' increase risk.
Is there really any evidence that solitary joggers pose a greater threat of spreading the virus than solitary walkers? This sounds like the kind of parody of bureaucratic overreaction that might be published by a right-wing satirical magazine: Don't Breathe Too Much: Excessive Respiration Endangers Your Neighbors.
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I'm certainly not proposing that anyone violate the explicit or even implicit "social distancing" rules of their jurisdiction. Here in the States, at least, stopping to snap a picture of a deserted commercial district during a solitary trip to buy groceries or recreational excursion would not contravene any of the regulations or recommendations.
Is there really any evidence that solitary joggers pose a greater threat of spreading the virus than solitary walkers? This sounds like the kind of parody of bureaucratic overreaction that might be published by a right-wing satirical magazine: Don't Breathe Too Much: Excessive Respiration Endangers Your Neighbors.
"In Paris, they're now going further and even banning joggers on the grounds that the increased exertion and elevated 'exhalation' increase risk."
I can imagine that somebody passing you at a greater rate of knots is going both to be exhaling and inhaling a damned sight more powerfully and deeply than the same person walking. As a direct consequence, his/her airborne spoor is going to be producing a far longer and potentially more toxic trail (before falling to the ground and infecting some innocent, ear-clipped pit bull terrier), thus causing many more deep such particles the opportunity to be coming your way; for himself/herself, that deep breathing is going to make a far more efficient vacuum cleaner by means of which to suck up your infections (if you have any) as they pass you.
Its important that neither jogger nor anyone else get ill.
No jogging = win/win.
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Hanging in there, William, as I hope you are too. Holding a grandchild even for fifteen minutes is an experience everyone should have. There's nothing else in the world quite like it.
Unless holding yet another one. Holding a second one makes one more cautious.
Personally speaking, as with both my kids and the grandkids, it was always an experience fraught with concern. After a few weeks they felt quite different and safe to touch. And then there enters the little matter of competition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqfK0EAdlt4
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... Is there really any evidence that solitary joggers pose a greater threat of spreading the virus than solitary walkers? This sounds like the kind of parody of bureaucratic overreaction that might be published by a right-wing satirical magazine: Don't Breathe Too Much: Excessive Respiration Endangers Your Neighbors.
Indeed. My comment is the same as I said to my friend here who was complaining that joggers pass him by without a mask: if they can jog, they are not sick. Even if they are contagious, but asymptomatic, just exhaling is hardly, if at all, going to transmit the virus.
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My wife just completed a mile walk. She told me no one pass her. But we live in a gated community. So I'm not sure if the rules actually apply here.
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Indeed. My comment is the same as I said to my friend here who was complaining that joggers pass him by without a mask: if they can jog, they are not sick. Even if they are contagious, but asymptomatic, just exhaling is hardly, if at all, going to transmit the virus.
So, how exactly do you reckon you were given it? Off a toilet seat?
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So, how exactly do you reckon you were given it? Off a toilet seat?
In the beginning of March, I was in a pub concert, with probably around 500 people tightly packed. I shook hands with the musicians, two of which later tested positive and ended up in hospital with pneumonia. Those two people had friends recently returning from Italy.
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From today's walk to pick up food.
Lovely spring day, 20C/68F, the time of the year and weather that would have this main pedestrian area of Belgrade packed with people.
We are going to have a 60-hour house arrest this weekend, courtesy of our government and their Chinese advisers. Honestly, I am pretty sure they are just testing how far they can screw with people and get away with it. I fully expect the next order would be, while in the house arrest, that we must stand on one leg. Damn commies.
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From today's walk to pick up food.
Lovely spring day, 20C/68F, the time of the year and weather that would have this main pedestrian area of Belgrade packed with people.
We are going to have a 60-hour house arrest this weekend, courtesy of our government and their Chinese advisers. Honestly, I am pretty sure they are just testing how far they can screw with people and get away with it. I fully expect the next order would be, while in the house arrest, that we must stand on one leg. Damn commies.
Unless it works.
But it seems needlessly extreme for your location. When Italy and Spain banned cycling, it was at a moment when hospitals were strained. So avoiding activities that might lead to accident/injury might have been a sensible precaution to take. The last thing their emergency wards needed was a cyclist with a broken collar bone. France has high numbers at the moment. so maybe they feel the need to take a similar step. The danger from exhalation argument seems extreme but I guess it depends on how wide the sidewalks are, what happens at intersections when runners run in place with other pedestrians waiting for a light. This is wild-ass guessing on my part. If their emergency services are strained, maybe they want to over-correct. Do joggers twist their ankles a lot, I have no idea.
I used to do crowd control marshalling at motorsports events (rally). Spectators would get angry at restrictions that were imposed and we didn't have the time to explain to each one why a certain request was being made, so they got angry because they didn't like being told what to and where to go. But you know what, they got over it and managed to live full healthy lives despite our onerous imposition to move 20 metres. :)
Sometimes we don't know why certain requests are made and there is no time to explain everything. And sometimes authorities go too far and get things wrong. Shit happens.
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Someone reminded me of another consideration. After exertion, a person's immune system may be suppressed for a while. But I don't know how much exertion is required to see the effect, not do I know how long a "while" is. If the end-point of the exercise is back at home, it's not clear how big a risk this represents.
A general level of fitness via walking/running/cycling is a good thing, healthwise, so except for the very exceptional cases where hospitals are swamped, being too doctrinaire about doing nothing has its downside.
A solitary walk taking photos doesn't seem like such a risk to me. Surely it represents less risk than buying groceries or going to a drug store.
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In the beginning of March, I was in a pub concert, with probably around 500 people tightly packed. I shook hands with the musicians, two of which later tested positive and ended up in hospital with pneumonia. Those two people had friends recently returning from Italy.
Oh well, that's all right then: no damned commies from the east, then!
If there's a moral, it's keep your hands to yourself, however attractive the company. And have you noticed, the girls all get prettier at closing time? As the song says, you could go home with a 9 and wake up with a 1.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+girls+all+get+prettier+mickey+gilley&&view=detail&mid=358308E5A8F894BD13F5358308E5A8F894BD13F5&&FORM=VDRVRV
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... If there's a moral, it's keep your hands to yourself, however attractive the company...
There are few things in life more satisfactory than a firm handshake or high five with a friend. I can't wait to be able to do that again.
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Someone reminded me of another consideration. After exertion, a person's immune system may be suppressed for a while. But I don't know how much exertion is required to see the effect, not do I know how long a "while" is. If the end-point of the exercise is back at home, it's not clear how big a risk this represents.
A general level of fitness via walking/running/cycling is a good thing, healthwise, so except for the very exceptional cases where hospitals are swamped, being too doctrinaire about doing nothing has its downside.
A solitary walk taking photos doesn't seem like such a risk to me. Surely it represents less risk than buying groceries or going to a drug store.
I agree. Who will you catch it from if you're alone? Driving to an area where no one is around, shooting a shot and leaving.
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Oh well, that's all right then: no damned commies from the east, then!
If there's a moral, it's keep your hands to yourself, however attractive the company. And have you noticed, the girls all get prettier at closing time? As the song says, you could go home with a 9 and wake up with a 1.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+girls+all+get+prettier+mickey+gilley&&view=detail&mid=358308E5A8F894BD13F5358308E5A8F894BD13F5&&FORM=VDRVRV
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Which reminds me of a sign I saw while walking along Central Park in NYC. Check the one on the lower right.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/6162/6176460075_d353119d26_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/apMYoX)
Central Park Stand (https://flic.kr/p/apMYoX) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
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Someone reminded me of another consideration. After exertion, a person's immune system may be suppressed for a while. But I don't know how much exertion is required to see the effect, not do I know how long a "while" is. If the end-point of the exercise is back at home, it's not clear how big a risk this represents.
A general level of fitness via walking/running/cycling is a good thing, healthwise, so except for the very exceptional cases where hospitals are swamped, being too doctrinaire about doing nothing has its downside.
A solitary walk taking photos doesn't seem like such a risk to me. Surely it represents less risk than buying groceries or going to a drug store.
But food and drugs are required...taking photos, not so much. Going out for non essential reasons just sets a bad example...even it might be safe.