[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/17/2020 5:50 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <r4r9a5$g9b$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>> What about the report about fake testing kits?  It just goes to
>> demonstrate, once again, how little care some have for other people.
>
> And people buying up toilet paper and selling it on eBay.

Not a problem.  Bidet.  (I think I spelled that correctly.)

>> Maybe this is a bit too much, but, there may be some justification for
>> tar, feathers, and lynching.  People could die from such activities, and
>> the culprits will get off with a fine and slap on wrist.
>
> There is a lot of fake news on this topic, spreading much faster than
> the virus itself.  Today I heard that such fake news is 142 times as
> likely to be shared on social media.  (It pretty much conforms to the
> definition of a virus itself.)  This is not just something that got
> garbled, but deliberate fraud, such as inventing quotes and attaching
> them to respected institutions.
>


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