Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@schestowitz You would think, given the cost of US heathcare they would have everything they needed. Or is that just for the corporate people. ?

@schestowitz Same for threatening people with eviction, Changes are hopefully coming, given what has been happening.

@schestowitz This was on twitter "The U.S. has surpassed China in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. And that's *without* wide spread testing. We are so screwed right now."

@schestowitz Under the circumstances, I agree.

@schestowitz er but NYC has a huge number of people infected, I know there is optimism, but this is a little too optimistic.

@lightweight I will share this, i am familiar with some of these tools, Experimented with big blue button yesterday very impressive, have you seen cryptpad ( https://cryptpad.fr/ ) alternative to google docs.

@lightweight Iam undertaking a basic IT course, sopart of that is to demonstrate you can set up accounts, search for info and post messages to social media for example. The whole course isvery big tech centered so they assume you are going to set up say gmall or use bing , google for search, or use facebook etc for social media. I am breaking that. When I set up mastodon i created screen shots so am using those to show I can set things up, But there is a almost subliminal messaging to promote the big tech companies, so local training company run courses in using Word, so that idea is put in peoples heads, the promotion of alternatives is non existent.

Even though I run the tech jam I feel there is an uphill battle to argue in favour of free software, it is see as niche (i think that is what I was told ) or only used by a select few, I know some of the yoing people are looking for alternatives to google, so when we get back I will suggest things like disroot, or cryptpad (alt to google docs) collegues at the tech jam seem to find some odd article saying thing these can't be trusted and then deny google sell data they need to protect their reputation. We just need to get the word out that there are alternatives and people use them.

The fans of FB ,l MS , Google have answer for everything. I did set up an account for the tech jam on friendica, but it needs people to be active to prove to people that these platforms are used,

@lightweight People use these as everyone else uses them there needs to be a way to break thet deadlock and move away,k but it needs the skills to set up alternatives. perhaps..

@schestowitz Maybe we need to reassess everything but WHO seem to be doing something,

Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
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UPDATE on coronavirus (#COVID19) testing in the UK:

As of 9am 28 March, a total of 120,776 have been tested:

103,687 negative.
17,089 positive.

As of 5pm on 27 March, of those hospitalised in the UK, 1,019 have sadly died.

@schestowitz Not to mention data gathering.

BBC News Pangolins carry Corona Strain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52048195

So if they carry this, but don't suffer any ill effects could they have some sort of immunity? Could we potentially develop medication(s) from this

@paulsutton Sharing this, sounds like a good idea.