Game of the day thread, and other news

I question your logic there stratogustav. I think losing an aunt or an uncle is devastating depending on the person, not the culture, and I think most people would be more devastated by losing a child than an aunt or an uncle in general.

Considering we just hit the first milestone, I'm going to just list the numbers any time we hit another one.

Like I said, we only test symptomatic people for the most part, and the numbers are simply not accurate.

Good news is that since the whole world has been taking some kind of precaution one way or another, humanity has succeeded so far at stopping a dramatic spike.

The rate this virus was increasing in the beginning was apoclyptical, but with all the measurements, it is still relatively manageable.

That's not to say it can still go back to be an apocalyptical menace, it still can if for example people stop taking the measurements of prevention altogether.

But so far the way the rate has slowed down significantly gives hope to all the third world countries that are about to get hit too, because many have been taking measurements already.

I will however keep posting the game of the day because at least those are helpful for this mentally exhausting quarantine.

Firing up the Minis is fun, and something to look forward every morning:

I decided to edit out some of the disturbing videos because even though it is important to remind people to not take this lightly, I still feel being positive can also be helpful.

In a way Cervantes as much as that President of yours is careless, and I'm not defending him at all, a level of optimism is actually good for the overall mental health of the people.

On top of that it is remarkable what the whole world has accomplished stopping the spread. This thing was going to become a whole different beast, and even though it is still a beast, the quarantines have saved millions of lives already.

And by speaking out many people are already saving lives everywhere like this Captain did with the people from his ship:



I imagine he got fired because it is not good for the press to know a military ship in the Pacific had Covid-19 cases.

That's way too close to China, and people can make the wrong assumptions.

However it is still a positive thing to see the love from his soldiers for saving them.

There are all kinds of weird news lately as well like this guy that tried to take down a navy hospital ship by taking a train off the track.



Not even Grand Theft Auto is that crazy. That alone tells you the mental state of many people, and I feel that's why it is important to stay positive too, specially considering all the success we already had against the virus.

This is the quarantine game of the day:

Optimism is good and needed right now, but it's not really what he is bringing (otherwise I would agree with you). His discourse is more like "This disease is only mortal to old people and having higher economy numbers is more important, so you should all go against the Health Minister's and your governor's recommendations and go back to work. If you don't, I'll pass another provisional measure to put your lives at risk until you go back." And then he activates a massive army of bots on Twitter and Whatsapp to spread fake news. It's like this almost everyday, so people's mental health, especially poor people, is getting worse.

More recently, his son (a congressman) and one of his closest ministers started spreading very prejudiced memes against China on Twitter (on the level of writing tweets with Ls instead of Rs, low-brow stuff), was called on by China's ambassor in a very strong worded open letter, kept doing that, then China just cancelled a shipment of critical medical supplies to Brazil. It was not the only reason (the US intercepted the shipment and paid more for it, the shit side of capitalism at its best), but certainly starting a random diplomatic crisis with them doesn't help. That's the level of stupidity we are dealing with.

It sounds like people love the health minister, which doesn't make sense, since I imagine they are from the same party.

How is it it that they are opposite?

Isn't the health minister supposed to be picked by the executive?

So you are basically saying his own people is against him.

Now, that's bad.

I'm not in Brazil so I don't know what the situation is, only someone inside can probably know.

That's why is always weird with Venezuela. Venezuela's President sounds to me like a tyrant, but you still don't see people taking him down, so it is hard to know what's really going on there.

It sounds to me from what you are saying that the approval ratings for Brazil's President are at an all time low which means he probably won't get re-election.

This could help his opposition, and I don't know if that's a good thing.

This is why I don't like the two party systems, it is too easy for the government to become corrupt.

I see Nancy Pelosi in Congress, and it feels like she has been there all the time.

In fact I see the same people in Congress all the time, and that to me is a dictatorship because the legislative power is just as powerful as the executive, and as the judicial.

People don't like to see the same people on the executive, but usually the people that end up on the executive come from the Senate or the House of Representatives, and it is the same people all the time.

The only one that has been different is Trump, and that's why he gets so much shit from the other politicians because he is not one of them.

It should never be a "them", it should always be changing so no one has time to get corrupted.

I get it, you need some kind expertise to have some of those positions, and that can only be accomplished with time.

However that's just in theory, in practice I feel someone with fresh new ideas can accomplish so much more.

The problem is that if someone fresh comes in, it is basically him against the world, and when you have that much people trying to influence you, those fresh ideas get lost, and the new guy gets also indoctrinated.

So the systems remain corrupted, and it is hard to do things right.

That said, some countries are lucky because they are sitting on natural resources, and they can exploit them. Others have too little to offer, and that makes it hard for them.

Then there are those countries that have natural resources, but their governments are just way too corrupt, and that's a no go too.

I'm actually very impressed with Asian countries right now. I mean Taiwan is basically China, and look how they are doing in this situation, also look at Japan, and South Korea.

I feel the idea of "first world" is totally changing now. I feel we have it all wrong.

Changing topic a little, this is the quarantine game of the day:

You're certainly BALONY 

So the top epidemiology doctors from the country in the white house advised not to go out even to the grocery store, or the pharmacy:



It doesn't make sense because once the quarantine is over then everyone can get sick, and we can get new multiple peaks across the country.

However I see their point. They don't want to have continue peaks, and may want to have a little break in between those peaks, specially for the doctors that are overworked.

Quarantine game of the day: