Weekly Score-card Update Section5

Week of March 23-27

March 23

(on the “Embrace Uncertainty” post) This reminded me of something else I've been reading about with all of this corona stuff. Now that we're all being quarantined/ practicing social distancing, we've discovered what is really necessary for our society to function. It's more clear than ever that the backbone of our society are the people working in the grocery stores, sanitation workers, farmers, etc. I hope a lot of people can realize them, and give these workers more respect.

(on the “Corona Skepticism” post) “I think it's also a good idea to check multiple sources and make sure they're saying the same thing! Especially if it's big news. There was a rumor going around last week that the whole country was going to be shut down like California, and they just didn't have a credible one.”

(on the “Walk, it’s Spring” post) “I think the excerpt by Thoreau is really beautiful. It reminds me of an idea that I really hold on to and use as a coping mechanism when I'm in a bad place which is "nothing is permanent". I think that it's important to remember that nothing can last forever, and that goes for good and bad things. I find it especially comforting about the bad things though.”

(on the post “Corona Philosophy”) “The John Oliver video is really funny, but also really frustrating. Just the beginning where the people are asking questions such as "can I get corona from eating Chinese food?" I have to wonder if these people really mean that or if they're just trying to sensationalize the whole subject. I'm not sure which is worse either. Because if they actually believe it, then I'm worried there are people with so little common sense, but if they're just being dramatic, they're purposefully adding to the false rumors and panic about the virus. “


March 25

(on the post “Hospital Ethics in the Age of Corona Virus”) “I think this is a really hard decision, and I wonder if having to turn some patients away to treat one's more likely to survive would violate a doctors Hippocratic oath?”

( on the post of an aristotle quote) “I don't think you'll ever fully know yourself though. As you get older, you'll always look back on your younger self and realize how little you knew, even if that younger version of yourself was you at 50.”

(on the post “Corvid-19 Maps”) “I wonder what the red spot in the middle of Russia is from because I think that's also a very sparsely populated area.”

(on the post “Coronavirus and Right-Wing Postmodernism”) “ "When one learns to think differently about these things, if one does, the question of right and wrong will no longer seem to be the relevant question."

I really like this quote from the article. It makes me think of how divided our political systems are. It would help if the "left" and "right" sides could work together more instead of just feuding as they seem to do more than anything else.”

8 posts = 8 runs = 2 bases