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Post by taytaytay on Sept 29, 2020 15:59:45 GMT -5
a) Let's be hopeful for a vaccine-there is a very real chance the Oxford vaccine could be successful and in worldwide production by early next year.
b) I wish governments would stop with these curfews for bars. I understand their reticence to shut them completely for the economy, but shutting them at 10 just causes a flood of people out into the streets. If you look up videos of London at 10pm, it literally looks like New Years' Eve or something. It seems way more risky and likely to spread the virus than allowing pubs to close between 11-1 like they normally would.
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Post by oliviabenson(Taylor's Version) on Sept 30, 2020 0:59:51 GMT -5
It's the same here, since august the numbers are rising again, now were at way over 2000 a day again. The government today made stricter rules, but it's basically the same as before, I don't think that will be enough. Yeah. We have 3000 infections a day and your population is 5 times bigger. So relatively that would be 15000 infections. At first hospitalizations and IC patients weren’t that much. But last two weeks they have trippled. Today I had a hard time dealing with all this. If we keep our social life really low key, we can almost live a normal life. But nooooo, so many idiots had to go on vacation, party and refuse to distance. Not to mention all the protesters getting out there for no reason. A vaccine will not be here before next spring or summer. And even then it will take time to get rid of the virus. So basically chances are high we will be going in and out of lockdowns until at least spring 2022. Almost like here, if they don't do something against it, we should have around 9000 per day at the end of october. And like you said, we have the same idiots here. Every saturday there are protests in the whole country, but especially in Berlin. Here they say a vaccine is estimated in the middle of 2021. A company from Mainz is very close to having it ready, they are in the last testing period and it will be finished before the end of the year. |
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Sept 30, 2020 14:15:32 GMT -5
Infections are on the rise over here. Yesterday the government announced stricter rules. Bars and restaurants need to close at 10 pm. You can only gather with 3 other people at home. Working at home is advised. No spectators at sporting events. Only essential travel. The rules will be evaluated in about 3 weeks. If infections haven’t gone down by then, there will probably be another lockdown. I think they should’ve proceeded with a lockdown immediately. The measures won’t be good enough. And losing 3 weeks in pushing the virus back will extend a lockdown quite significantly. The rules made things better where I am. There were starting to be a lot of infections in my area where I live in my province and they put the area under the orange level and made masks mandatory in indoor places and gatherings limited to ten or something indoors and out I think. Things did get better and they put the area back down to the yellow level. There were no new cases in my area yesterday and the numbers have been very low and in the single digits for the last while. They did the same thing to the Winnipeg area because they have been starting to have high case numbers like 20 something in a day. They are having to wear masks now for a month like we did here. |
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Post by oliviabenson(Taylor's Version) on Oct 1, 2020 1:13:34 GMT -5
Infections are on the rise over here. Yesterday the government announced stricter rules. Bars and restaurants need to close at 10 pm. You can only gather with 3 other people at home. Working at home is advised. No spectators at sporting events. Only essential travel. The rules will be evaluated in about 3 weeks. If infections haven’t gone down by then, there will probably be another lockdown. I think they should’ve proceeded with a lockdown immediately. The measures won’t be good enough. And losing 3 weeks in pushing the virus back will extend a lockdown quite significantly. The rules made things better where I am. There were starting to be a lot of infections in my area where I live in my province and they put the area under the orange level and made masks mandatory in indoor places and gatherings limited to ten or something indoors and out I think. Things did get better and they put the area back down to the yellow level. There were no new cases in my area yesterday and the numbers have been very low and in the single digits for the last while. They did the same thing to the Winnipeg area because they have been starting to have high case numbers like 20 something in a day. They are having to wear masks now for a month like we did here. We have the mandatory masks in indoor places since months, but almost no one really wears one. And when they wear one then they wear it under the chin or just over the mouth but not the nose. Also we have a rule of a maximum of 50! people inside which is too much. And people need to write down their name and address when they enter a restaurant or something, but many people just write Donald Duck or Superman and stuff. They are just stupid and egoistic. |
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Post by patrick04 on Oct 9, 2020 18:14:32 GMT -5
Why dosent everyone were a mask?
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Post by sparksfly713 on Nov 18, 2020 19:50:58 GMT -5
let's look at today. 1. My roommate tested positive for covid. 2. I had either one very long panic attack or several small panic attacks driving home from work. 3. Just found out that the guy I STILL have feelings for (yes after at least 2 years) might be leaving for grad school next year with potentially no plans to return to town. oh, and I can't work remotely so I'm stuck taking sick leave the next two days. Today is going really well
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Post by sparksfly713 on Nov 19, 2020 11:42:26 GMT -5
oh look we're back to blaming me for my roommate catching covid because I work in a school. Ma'am, you chose to put yourself in 2 very risky situations
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Nov 19, 2020 20:46:07 GMT -5
I logged into one of my 'Gmail' accounts and also my bank account yesterday and they both somehow gave me a notice before I logged in that my password was involved in a data breach or something... :/ I've known for a while I should probably change my passwords on a lot of things because I use two password in a few different forms mostly, but I need to make them quite randomized and hard to guess. I guess this is a sign I should change my passwords before something bad happens (knock on wood) and I get hacked.
I have an app called 'eWallet' and I think it's pretty good if someone wants a password app. I think it can make randomized passwords too for you that include letters and numbers and symbols. Since I (and most people) have my phone with them all the time I can look on there for a password if I need it, because I do need to make a lot of them quite different and randomized. It's just more of a pain for them to be random letters and words and you'd have to look at every character and type it into the computer for the first time and type them in each time if I don't set them to be remembered on my computer. I don't know if that's bad or not to do that on your own computer in case of viruses getting into saved passwords, but I think 'Mac' computers are pretty good for that.
For my email and a few other passwords I've used the technique of using the first letter of words from a line of lyrics from a song and add a number to it and a symbol. That makes it a little easier if I needed to remember it or to type it into the computer.
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Post by Roman on Nov 20, 2020 1:53:09 GMT -5
I logged into one of my 'Gmail' accounts and also my bank account yesterday and they both somehow gave me a notice before I logged in that my password was involved in a data breach or something... :/ I've known for a while I should probably change my passwords on a lot of things because I use two password in a few different forms mostly, but I need to make them quite randomized and hard to guess. I guess this is a sign I should change my passwords before something bad happens (knock on wood) and I get hacked. I have an app called 'eWallet' and I think it's pretty good if someone wants a password app. I think it can make randomized passwords too for you that include letters and numbers and symbols. Since I (and most people) have my phone with them all the time I can look on there for a password if I need it, because I do need to make a lot of them quite different and randomized. It's just more of a pain for them to be random letters and words and you'd have to look at every character and type it into the computer for the first time and type them in each time if I don't set them to be remembered on my computer. I don't know if that's bad or not to do that on your own computer in case of viruses getting into saved passwords, but I think 'Mac' computers are pretty good for that. For my email and a few other passwords I've used the technique of using the first letter of words from a line of lyrics from a song and add a number to it and a symbol. That makes it a little easier if I needed to remember it or to type it into the computer. Yeah. Apple has this new feature to check for leaked passwords when you login. I definitely recommend changing passwords from time to time. And of course use a different password for every site. I do it oldschool and just write my passwords down on a notepad. If they would break in to my apartment and actually find the notepad and steal it, I got bigger problems than some passwords missing. Bank accounts or other money related accounts are the main thing. If possible I use two step authorization. When I pick a password I vary with caps, throw in a dash or underscore, use numbers. A good trick is to use a number instead of a letter. If you spell Taylor you can use T4yl0r, for example. In general criminals don’t guess your passwords. Most of the time hackers try to get to databases with account information. |
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Nov 20, 2020 8:24:24 GMT -5
I logged into one of my 'Gmail' accounts and also my bank account yesterday and they both somehow gave me a notice before I logged in that my password was involved in a data breach or something... :/ I've known for a while I should probably change my passwords on a lot of things because I use two password in a few different forms mostly, but I need to make them quite randomized and hard to guess. I guess this is a sign I should change my passwords before something bad happens (knock on wood) and I get hacked. I have an app called 'eWallet' and I think it's pretty good if someone wants a password app. I think it can make randomized passwords too for you that include letters and numbers and symbols. Since I (and most people) have my phone with them all the time I can look on there for a password if I need it, because I do need to make a lot of them quite different and randomized. It's just more of a pain for them to be random letters and words and you'd have to look at every character and type it into the computer for the first time and type them in each time if I don't set them to be remembered on my computer. I don't know if that's bad or not to do that on your own computer in case of viruses getting into saved passwords, but I think 'Mac' computers are pretty good for that. For my email and a few other passwords I've used the technique of using the first letter of words from a line of lyrics from a song and add a number to it and a symbol. That makes it a little easier if I needed to remember it or to type it into the computer. Yeah. Apple has this new feature to check for leaked passwords when you login. I definitely recommend changing passwords from time to time. And of course use a different password for every site. I do it oldschool and just write my passwords down on a notepad. If they would break in to my apartment and actually find the notepad and steal it, I got bigger problems than some passwords missing. Bank accounts or other money related accounts are the main thing. If possible I use two step authorization. When I pick a password I vary with caps, throw in a dash or underscore, use numbers. A good trick is to use a number instead of a letter. If you spell Taylor you can use T4yl0r, for example. In general criminals don’t guess your passwords. Most of the time hackers try to get to databases with account information. I thought it was the websites, I don’t know why it didn’t go through my head it was my phone giving me a notification. It did it again this morning when I logged into ’Urban Outfitters’ today to check on an order of a vinyl record. I don’t know how or where this data leak happened. :/ |
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Post by Roman on Nov 20, 2020 8:57:33 GMT -5
Yeah. Apple has this new feature to check for leaked passwords when you login. I definitely recommend changing passwords from time to time. And of course use a different password for every site. I do it oldschool and just write my passwords down on a notepad. If they would break in to my apartment and actually find the notepad and steal it, I got bigger problems than some passwords missing. Bank accounts or other money related accounts are the main thing. If possible I use two step authorization. When I pick a password I vary with caps, throw in a dash or underscore, use numbers. A good trick is to use a number instead of a letter. If you spell Taylor you can use T4yl0r, for example. In general criminals don’t guess your passwords. Most of the time hackers try to get to databases with account information. I thought it was the websites, I don’t know why it didn’t go through my head it was my phone giving me a notification. It did it again this morning when I logged into ’Urban Outfitters’ today to check on an order of a vinyl record. I don’t know how or where this data leak happened. :/ You should change your password. Normally you had to use certain websites to check if your account(s) got leaked. But Apple does that for you now. Unfortunately these leaks happen. Sometimes it's a skilled hacker, sometimes it's an employee making a mistake or even deliberately leaking things. One time I even got an e-mail from someone trying to blackmail me with my account details. They actually had my username and password. But luckily it was a really old password I didn't use anymore. |
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Post by Joe 🍀 on Nov 21, 2020 19:18:30 GMT -5
I managed all my logins finally. It took me 8 hours check and write them all on paper, yeah that many passwords I have, imagine  |
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Post by TaylorSwiftFan on Nov 22, 2020 0:52:38 GMT -5
I thought it was the websites, I don’t know why it didn’t go through my head it was my phone giving me a notification. It did it again this morning when I logged into ’Urban Outfitters’ today to check on an order of a vinyl record. I don’t know how or where this data leak happened. :/ You should change your password. Normally you had to use certain websites to check if your account(s) got leaked. But Apple does that for you now. Unfortunately these leaks happen. Sometimes it's a skilled hacker, sometimes it's an employee making a mistake or even deliberately leaking things. One time I even got an e-mail from someone trying to blackmail me with my account details. They actually had my username and password. But luckily it was a really old password I didn't use anymore. I remember I got an email in the last year or two years that also had my password that I use for some accounts. I guess I'm lucky nothing bad has happened so far (knock on wood). I am going to use my password app to create new passwords that'll be different for all my accounts. |
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Post by taytaytay on Nov 29, 2020 13:05:21 GMT -5
Signed up to be a casual member of a society and was given a committee position I did not ask for. They had a go at me today for not attending any events when I made it clear to them that I likely would not be able to as I'm at masters level and am really busy with uni work. Really quite annoyed now, they're saying I have to attend future events when I told them I couldn't commit to all of them.
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Post by SomeFearlessChick on Nov 30, 2020 20:57:27 GMT -5
Signed up to be a casual member of a society and was given a committee position I did not ask for. They had a go at me today for not attending any events when I made it clear to them that I likely would not be able to as I'm at masters level and am really busy with uni work. Really quite annoyed now, they're saying I have to attend future events when I told them I couldn't commit to all of them. Well that's... very unnecessary of them. |
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