Peza

GeorgeBMac said:

Peza said:

Some other facts I’ve learned about coronavirus since this started. Their has never been any vaccine made for any coronavirus ever.
Covid 19 is not a flu or cold it is part of the SARS family of viruses.
It spreads with incredible ease.
it has killed perfectly healthy people from all age groups.
Millions of people are in the vulnerable groups. 

It is not seasonal as we know.
it takes several months of close monitoring to know if you can become immune to it after having it the once, not weeks.
A possible hope is plasma transfers from patients who have survived the virus in hospital.
The virus can survive for up to 72hrs on hard surfaces, facilitating easy transfers.
Some people need to reevaluate their lives and stop blaming 5G for causing it, stop burning cell towers down the providers customer base will have to pay for.

Oh and the world seems obsessed with restarting the global economy, money first and all that. I appreciate people and the human race is incapable of living without class society and money and haves and have nots, but does it really need to resort to that in this type of global crises? The virus doesn’t care how rich you are, it just wants a new host to survive in, that’s all it exists to do. 

Yes, that's all true.   Further, we STILL do not seem to have a good understanding of how this transmits.  Is it from coughs and sneezes?   From touching infected surfaces?   Is it airborne from an infected person talking & breathing?   What is the necessary dosage to infect a healthy person?

But, we do know one thing:   We have thousands of Typhoid Mary's roaming our streets and businesses -- and all it takes is one to trigger another wave.

Unfortunately, too many countries have chosen wishful thinking as a defense.   So the virus will likely continue to spread in wave after wave.  And, as you suggest:  the WHO was correct that trying to isolate an entire country is not an effective defense.

My bet is that here in the U.S., even though we just passed 100,000 dead, we are at the low point and it will get worse from here -- until we get some national leadership that understands and cares enough to mount an effective campaign against this enemy.

Yeap, agree with everything you said, here in the U.K. because they fudged there track and trace program with their own app, which I actually defended on here: but turns out I was wrong and it’s failed miserably.
They will expect ‘people to do there duty’ and have themselves tested if they have symptoms and then hand over details of those they know and have been in contact with...

So yeah, you can go back to work or the shops, find out you have the virus, but only tell those you actually know about it... because the U.K. government has made a mess of the tracking app like it’s made a mess of everything so far.

Also today our PM has stated he wants the government advisors to look at ‘reducing’ the minimum social distance measurement from 2 metres to allow ‘business like pubs (bars) and restaurants to reopen faster’... 

Because drunk people are a great thing in public areas with a deadly virus around, but hey it’s making money and that’s what’s more important then anything else right now, apparently. Plus the fact the general thinking by young people, thanks in part to he message from government, is they are immune and can carry on as normal, of course forgetting about how they will be spreading the virus around.

As I say, it’s not money that makes the world go round it’s nature and physics, and it’s those and those alone who will dictate if you live or die, not money!

This isn’t like an earthquake or tsunami that you can recover from, this is global and here to stay. 

Some other facts I’ve learned about coronavirus since this started. Their has never been any vaccine made for any coronavirus ever.
Covid 19 is not a flu or cold it is part of the SARS family of viruses.
It spreads with incredible ease.
it has killed perfectly healthy people from all age groups.
Millions of people are in the vulnerable groups. 

In my opinion there is going to be a global second wave that will hit like a meteor, with the way people are acting, rushing to the beaches in the nice weather ignoring any social distancing, carrying on as normal... the virus hasn’t gone anywhere! That’s just in my country the U.K.
I just hope it doesn’t mutate like the Spanish flu did, that went from a virus like we have now into one that killed anyone regardless in 24 hours from infection! Up to 50 million dead in 3 months and that was in 1918, as a result of the second wave from the mutated strain.
Things will not be back to normal for a while now. I expect Apple and others to respect that, but America seems utterly desperate to get back to complete normality as fast as possible, even though they have the highest infection and death rate from the virus there.

If you have no symptoms but are carrying a deadly mutated strain, you can STILL jump on a plane and fly around the globe, I just hope you are forced to quarantine at the other end of your journey, and not in someone’s house either.

jdb8167 said:

maltz said:

Apple hardware has variously been 1 to 5 (Mac Mini/Pro) years behind the industry's cutting-edge for a over a decade, while selling at prices at least slightly higher than the latest-and-greatest.  The headline is accurate, but hopefully not a surprise to anyone.

This is such a joke. The CPUs that Apple is using in the 10th Gen MacBook Pros are so new that they don't show up in Intel's online documentation. Apple is literally the first to use them. But sure, Apple is 1 to 5 years behind the industry.

Where’s WiFi 6 on the new MacBook Pro’s then??... what MacBook users have no need for the latest fast WiFi??.. they don’t need to transfer large files around?

And before you say something like ‘real pros plug their laptops into a network’ well you can’t with a MacBook Pro can you, it has no Ethernet ports on it..

So yes in this regard Apple is way behind the competition I’m afraid, it’s mobile phones and tablets are more advanced with wireless communications!

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Can't wait to get one and load it up with some sweet NVIDIA RTX GPUs. You can do that, right?

Someone will need to verify but as I understand it, Mac OS no longer supports the Nvidia drivers and Nvidia doesn’t offer any for the latest Mac OS, so I’m not sure where that would leave you if you plugged in an RTX? If you used an AMD card it’ll probably be fine.