A 'cynic' is what an optimist calls a realist. -----Original Message----- From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:33 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Corona-fu (was UBNT stock)
I used to think I was a cynic. Some people are an order of magnitude more cynical than me. On 2/10/2020 12:59 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > I am naturally an optimist and not a cynic. So I essentially ignore all that > stuff. Life is too short. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 10, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The thing driving me nuts right now is that literally everything is a >> "conspiracy". >> >> Sometimes stuff happens, nobody did it on purpose, and nobody has the whole >> picture of what happened until more time passes. In the interim there's a >> lot of conflicting information going around. People latch onto early bits of >> information that turn out to be wrong and they won't let go of them. >> >> Coronavirus was created by the Chinese to distract press from Hong Kong >> >> Coronavirus was created by the USA to defeat China in a trade war >> >> Coronavirus was created by Budweiser to discredit Mexican Lager (I mean that >> one's obviously a joke.....right?) >> >> Coronavirus will kill us all and we must all stock our survival bunkers. >> >> China is hiding all the information about Coronavirus. Really? Or maybe >> they just don't have a live real-time omniscient feed of all information so >> they're reporting what they think is true at the time it's said, or maybe >> rumors on Facebook aren't all true. >> >> See Hanlon's Razor and Occam's Razor. >> >> >> >>> On 2/10/2020 11:03 AM, Bill Prince wrote: >>> Starting a new thread to make this discussion off topic. >>> >>> I had my flu shot BTW. No fever here. >>> >>> Still zero reported deaths in the US, and only about a dozen actual >>> infections. I am still thinking this is not a big deal. Novel Coronavirus >>> appears to be more infectious than SARS, but not particularly deadly. >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com