I already am. But I'm just howling into the aether by posting here, on r/baduk, and on other places. People seem to enjoy being repressed. It's like a nationwide case of Stockholm Syndrome, it really is.
I honestly think sometimes that if I didn't have a job I could do from home I'd probably just lose it and self-immolate in front of Parliament or do something equally self destructive. I think we need to start finding candid images of suicides and memeing that they killed themselves because of lockdown, and not just online but in meatspace as well. That has the emotional impact that would potentially jerk a few people out their stupor.
Stockholm syndrome here??
Just good cop bad cop I see playing out here covering lots of posts...
Mmm ss looks likes its mutated again.... 🙄
1 jan 28860
2 jan 28501
3 jan 28116
4 jan 27488
5 jan 25514
6 jan 23384
7 jan 20175
8 jan 16488
9 jan 14333
10 jan 12419
I can't find any data that looks anything like this trend. Can you advise?
The trends shown on the Zoe website show the growth picture.
to get this data, look at the plot here.
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
read the data points off the points in the plot with your mouse, do the arithmetic subtract prev day from each day and you get the table of daily changes above. You can actually see the trend starting to curve. It's turning mate, I feel it in my bones!
I see your methodology.
Let's hope it is turning and that the lockdown works. I'm hoping there is improved compliance soon, otherwise .....................
This is highly relevant to the way the virus is being used and signified as some lethal force that justifies the destruction of public life:
In the name of this scientific programme, converted into a plan of political action, an immense political project is underway, although its status as such is denied because it appears to be purely negative. This project aims to create the conditions under which the “theory” can be realised and can function: a programme of the methodical destruction of collectives....The movement toward the neoliberal utopia of a pure and perfect market is made possible by the politics of financial deregulation. And it is achieved through the transformative and, it must be said, destructive action of all of the political measures (of which the most recent is the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), designed to protect foreign corporations and their investments from national states) that aim to call into question any and all collective structures that could serve as an obstacle to the logic of the pure market: the nation, whose space to manoeuvre continually decreases; work groups, for example through the individualisation of salaries and of career as a function of individual competences, with the consequent atomisation of workers; collectives for the defence of the rights of workers, unions, associations, cooperatives; even the family, which loses part of its control over consumption through the constitution of markets by age groups. (Bourdieu 1998: 1)
P.Bourdieu “A Reasoned Utopia and Economic Fatalism” New Left Review no. 227, January/February 1998.
This is being used to complete this project. In cognitive psychology and AI there is a theory called "connectionist theory" that emphasises the importance of connection to the sense of concepts, if people are isolated, it inhibits their appropriation of categories, which is why neoliberalism wants to isolate people because isolated people are more open to influence, this is why the social bases of trade union resistance were assaulted in the late seventies and eighties and now, with those bases of civilisation gone, the elites can do pretty much as they wish because there is no basis for any kind of organisation, as someone said to me today (via the net) "there is nothing we can do".
What concerns me is the effects on the human capital of the nation, of the young, of this. Many of those who underwent unemployment in the eighties (I was one), like those who went through the same conditions in the depression never recovered and lived in poverty all their lives, so, what will these conditions produce?
One reason the government's response is so erroneous is that you have to organise, in the face of a threat, to sustain your form of life and sustain the basis of the transmission of your culture, what are we doing? This will merely erode the basis of our humanity in the same way that the unemployed endure the same conditions across their life-course.
I do not understand how all this has happened except the neoliberalism is an attack on collectivity and, thereby, erodes the bases of organisation because people who communicate share ideas, they forge a developmental medium, and they are less open to influence. One of the disturbing aspects of all this is how easily manipulated people have been. In many ways, this is the completion of the neoliberal project of atomising individuals.
Let's hope it is turning and that the lockdown works. I'm hoping there is improved compliance soon, otherwise .....................
It's obviously on the turn today
tomorrow will be the peak, if history is anything to go by. Whatever has been driving it is on the wane. The zoe app evidently uses a model, which means that each day, the day's observations are added and the model is rerun to smoothly fit to the curve, I don't know what the math are inside the model used by Tim Spector. But it's likely to be some sort of polynomial curve fitting function to minimise residuals between the obvservations and the prediction.
