Day 730 – Two years

It’s 26th March 2022, which means that it’s exactly two years since South Africa locked down as the Covid pandemic hit our shores.

Kwik maffs: 365 x 2 = 730, see?

Did it work? In limiting the spread of the virus, almost certainly, yes. And in terms of the economy and social effects? Well, there’s clear evidence that lockdowns all over the world had a terrible effect in those regards. And it would be easy to simply say that it wasn’t worth locking down just because of that.

But if you want to do science and maths stuff (more complicated than the effort above), you need to measure like against like, and you need to have controls and all that. We can’t compare the effects of economic hardships with the number of infections prevented or the number of lives saved. And even if we could, who would decide the balancing point where one won out over the other? You could make those data say exactly what you wanted them to.

Not that you would have any data anyway. Because beyond the issue above, there’s the one of controls. How many infections has our lockdown prevented? We’ll never really know, because there wasn’t another cohort that didn’t lock down. And sure, the economy has tanked, but let’s be honest: those same individuals who hate the government because they instituted a lockdown, also hated them before that lockdown because they were tanking the economy.

So good research is hard to do, but that’s not to say we shouldn’t try. When the next pandemic hits, it would be good to have a working policy on the best way to navigate things ready to go. I’m not sure if we can formulate anything like that from where we stand now, though.

So maybe it’s enough to say that pandemics are just crap for the economy and absolutely awful in terms of their human cost; that prevention is better than cure. Agreeing on those might not help us out much of there is a next time, but it’s probably the only consensus we’re going to get.

Day 729 – Minor panic averted

I tried to add a post onto this here blog a little earlier and got a Cloudflare Origin 1016 DNS Error.

Ah yes, that old chestnut.

The blog is run on servers many, many more then 6000 miles… from here. And those servers are remarkably stable. Older readers may recall that there were issues with the local servers I used to use, and that’s why 6000.co.za ended up heading overseas.

I’m all for supporting local businesses, but they must actually work.

This overseas option does exactly that. Well, except when I tried to add a post a little earlier.

I will admit that a moment of panic set in. There’s that record to preserve, and I have a lot of plans for the rest of the day, many of which do not involve being near a computer or even an internet connection.
As mentioned, my “new” solution is extremely reliable, and so any error could hint at very bad news.

My first instinct, therefore, was to run around the office panicking a bit, but I was actually just too lazy to get up, so instead I refreshed the page and the error disappeared.

Whatever Cloudflare was looking for – and which wasn’t there 10 seconds earlier – had reappeared.

I think that it might have been there all along and Cloudflare wasn’t looking hard enough.

Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Which it has. For the moment.

Day 728 – Sunbird on an Erica

Wondering about that post above? You might want to look here.

Right, back to business. Sunbird on an Erica:

I know, I know, it’s serious.

Many early mornings at the moment seem to be being spent in Kirstenbosch Gardens, which is no bad thing at all. Always good to drag the last moments of summer out as long as possible, and our membership there means that we can sneak in long before the hoi polloi get their grubby feet all over the paths and lawns.

It’s also a lot quieter, meaning that the birds are less skittish and more willing to hang around the heathers and fynbos exhibits. As you can see above.

Day 727/2 – Best Casino Games to Play in 2022

Best Casino Games to Play in 2022
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Roulette
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Blackjack
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