I like avoiding unproductive panic

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Post #92,805

by ben_tilly

3/29/03 11:34:20 AM

I like avoiding unproductive panic

Where I can see constructive things to do which improve my personal situation or the world, I will. But where I don't, I won't take action just for the sake of feeling like I am doing something.

Right now the immediate risk is low. The situation ticks me off, but I am not in imminent danger. It won't keep me from going about my normal business. Yet.

In a few weeks I will cheerfully don a surgical mask with the rest of them. And will then restrict how much I move around. And yes, I will take advantage of opportunities not to have to stay in this population center as they arise...

Cheers,
Ben

"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]

Post #92,861

by tseliot

3/29/03 3:17:27 PM

Sounds like a good time to update PHP though...

PHP:
n.

1. Acronym: Public Health Pantry. A place for storing personal items, mostly food, in case of public health disasters.

I just restocked mine with a month's worth of food, usually cheap and canned, with expiration dates over a year and a half from now. Plus a bottle of Vitamin C; I have a multi-vitamin on the shelf already.

Might as well buy those things now. It was about $40. As the expiration dates approach, consume and restock. Good blend of panic and forethought. :)

Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10

Third hand scary SARS rumor - (ben_tilly) - (23) - March 29, 2003, 09:30:18 AM EST

Further spread in Canada - (jake123) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 09:52:16 AM EST

That is a better theory than any I had - (ben_tilly) - March 29, 2003, 10:15:56 AM EST

Man, this is bad - (jake123) - (6) - March 29, 2003, 10:05:30 AM EST

I've been told it's in Windsor as well - (admin) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 10:06:34 AM EST

We haven't heard that up here - (jake123) - March 29, 2003, 10:55:54 AM EST

It would be financially ruinous - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 29, 2003, 10:51:35 AM EST

Might not be a bad idea to prep yourself - (jake123) - (2) - March 29, 2003, 10:57:38 AM EST

I like avoiding unproductive panic - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 11:34:20 AM EST

Sounds like a good time to update PHP though... - (tseliot) - March 29, 2003, 03:17:27 PM EST

The story has been mentioned in mainstream media - (ben_tilly) - (6) - March 29, 2003, 12:43:51 PM EST

They're only reporting index patients? - (jake123) - (5) - March 29, 2003, 01:05:30 PM EST

So *that* is what an index patient is? - (ben_tilly) - March 29, 2003, 01:19:03 PM EST

What is actually known? - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 29, 2003, 08:15:19 PM EST

Known SARS cases in T.O. tops 100 - (jake123) - (2) - March 29, 2003, 09:20:32 PM EST

Her book is not all US - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 09:51:08 PM EST

Well, I'm only reading chapter 4 - (jake123) - March 29, 2003, 10:23:39 PM EST

Cosmic ruminations aside.. - (Ashton) - March 29, 2003, 05:32:00 PM EST

Rumours of it in my general area - (tangaroa) - March 29, 2003, 11:04:23 PM EST

#UPDTE Wife arrived HK last night - here are her stories ... - (dmarker) - (4) - March 31, 2003, 05:44:39 PM EST

Best hopes for a healthy imune system.. - (Ashton) - March 31, 2003, 08:12:53 PM EST

Seconding what Ashton said. - (inthane-chan) - (2) - March 31, 2003, 10:15:56 PM EST

I had been increasingly concerned about her - (dmarker) - (1) - March 31, 2003, 11:23:53 PM EST

Crossing fingers for her, Doug. - (a6l6e6x) - March 31, 2003, 11:27:45 PM EST

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