re: quarantine and the coronavirus

i am not opposed to quarantine, in principle, and think anybody arguing that it's racist to quarantine people are making specious arguments. if a white person comes back from china, is it racist to quarantine them, too? 

but, if you're going to quarantine somebody in 2020, you'd better make sure you're backed up by the science, and, with this virus, the science just doesn't support that. they're getting hit in china, but china is still a very poor place, overall, and it's broadly treatable, in the context of first world science.

i would support a quarantine if the science warranted it; i think that would be an acceptable rights restriction. but, the science to make that call isn't there, and appeals to avoid taking chances are not warranted.

where'd i go?

i guess i shut down around 7:00 yesterday morning, and i took a few grocery trips in the morning. i got my usb keyboard, and some replacements for some plates i broke (they may be too flimsy. we'll see.) as well. i stopped in the afternoon, got something to eat and passed out in the afternoon. i was up around 11:00 and finished eating...

i went past my eating schedule because i made too much pasta last week and then had eggs this week instead. i have to eat the pasta up. that means i'm going to be eating a lot of fruit for the next few weeks.

i didn't finish cleaning and need to get to that before i start reassembling the laptop, piece by piece.

is it really the wireless? is it just the system board? well, there's a lot of coincidences, aren't there? let's do some testing and find out.