Where am I???
Well... this last week has been a bit of a whirlwind, with the HIVE/STEEM split and the ongoing Coronavirus soft lockdown in The Netherlands. It really feels like the world has been turned upside down!
On the Corona-virus front, The Netherlands is in a restricted mode... and there is lots of work from home sort of things going on. On a personal front, all my concerts were cancelled, and we are hunkering down for a bit of a low income period, luckily our expenses are also a bit on the low side of things.
It has been interesting to see what has been selling out at our local supermarket. Potatoes, Flour, lemons, Greek Yoghurt, Milk, Cereal, butter and eggs. I guess people are planning to make a gigantic cake every day! Still, most of it is pretty benign... in a few days the shelves should restock anyway, as far as I understand it, it is a demand spike, not a crisis of supply! Although, these things are changing pretty quickly... just last week, everything was normal here!
The daily death counter due to Corona is about 30 per day, with 500 new declared infections each day (testing is still quite low here)... it's still in hand, but we will see if we head down the path of Italy or Madrid. Hopefully not!
There has been a proposal to help out self-employed people (like us...) with a monthly minimum wage supplement. This was after the initial reaction of "screw you, you should have saved up money for adverse situations...)... If I hear another salaried person say that, I'm going to kill them!
All in all... we have had a week of homeschooling and the recommendations to work from home and less travelling around (and no work...), it isn't that bad... I guess it could be much worse! What I will find interesting is how many people will come to the realisation that their work which takes up so much of their time... possibly isn't that fulfilling and worthwhile?! This could lead to quite big changes in society if it continues for quite a long time... That could be quite interesting!
This morning we took the chance to have a nice walk in the part with the scooters... it's nice to be able to get out of the house whilst we aren't in a hard lockdown (even if it is deceptively sunny... it was FREEZING!). Apparently it will drop back down to minus temperatures next week...
I am trying to keep away from Facebook and Twitter as it is full of public health experts and "on the ground" reports! Which are hilariously terrible... Local anecdotes are interesting and eye-catching... but not what you need for long-term and widespread planning!
Hive and Steem has been a interesting event... I'm a bit split on the whole thing. I want Hive to succeed, but it really does rely on the old witnesses coming through and really making it something... rather than a return to the status quo of being kings/queens in a small corner of the cryptosphere! This is of course matched against the might of the SUN juggernaut... I disagree with much of what he has done... but it isn't always the good people or the best technology that ends up winning! Speaking of which, I should review my witness votes again now that we are out of the emergency vote for NOT-TRON situation.
There was something a little sad that I saw in the blacklist... that @remlaps (and his alts) and @cmp2020 were blacklisted. I don't know why that happened, I think it was because they cast votes for steemhunt and others. They are decent people with really intelligent comments/posts from early in the STEEM chain... and they started the #classical-music niche community and have been good supporters of many people here. I worry that the righteous zeal to begin HIVE was taken a little bit too far, which is not a good thing...
At the moment, both chains are a bit janky for me... so, I think I will just sit back and do some thinking... maybe write an article or two for the normal sort of payments (not votes on reward distrubution, but good old fashioned one to one transaction!)
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So many things are changing by the day my friend. We have fortunately not had one death here thus far, but the infection rate is gradually growing.
As for the steemit/tron fiasco, the less said the better Lol.
Patience is indeed a good solution here.
Blessings and take care!
Patience required everywhere at the moment... no one really knows what is happening... so, just keep your head down, and do the socially responsible thing!
Doing exactly that my friend (keeping my head down).
And of course at the charity we do the social responsible part every day Lol.
But in saying that, we now have a lockdown looming for 3 weeks.
Trying to squeeze in an order for incontinence diapers to help the 17 Cerebral Palsied children at the Little Angels home. Their matron phoned us today in tears.
Such is life!
Blessings and take care!
Ouch... hope you managed to find the nappies. This crisis really has brought out the best and worst in people...
Thank you and yes, the nappies are done with tears of joy my friend.
I hate to see the worst, as we were woken at 4am this morning by a posse of policemen that stopped a car and arrested everyone inside the car.
People just don't care even if the can endanger their own families, friends and so many others out there. We have had our first two deaths today.
Take care my friend!
You're right here :D
I have another friend who is hoping for a similar thing to you as far as there being a bright side to this virus ridiculousness goes. Meanwhile J (who does enjoy his job most of the time) and one of his colleagues are really digging the work from home thing and both have told one of the supervisors that they're not coming back to the office post-apocalypse XD I need to find more places to go that won't be too crowded before they decide to lock everything completely down. Was hoping this social distancing thing would be as far as it got, didn't really complain about major events being cancelled (aside from obvious loss of income for a lot of people, that's really bad), but apparently there's idiots who are supposed to be in quarantine traipsing around and inviting people over, so that may happen yet o_O
Glad that you might get a bit of help, and pfft it's hard to save up for things like this even when you are salaried. Between exponentially increasing costs of living and wages that will not under any circumstances budge, it's tough to put anything away. We struggle and we're on decent money, the hardest thing about it is the single income (crypto is pretty much all I got and I haven't pulled any out since cashing out to buy the steem cats, and even so the only time I have ever powered down was recently after deciding to break up with steem).
If the blacklist you're referring to is the one where the accounts on it didn't get an airdrop, well that was literally all that happened, they didn't get the airdrop. They'll still be able to log in and have all their stuff on their account if they want, and there's an appeals thing as well. It was otherwise a bit of a mess (like the Pacific is a bit of a puddle). The witnesses I know about I think are reasonably level headed, and if people don't like what they're doing, well if nothing else we now all know the importance of using those witness votes right :)
Well... I hear that Australia is going to go into a more severe restriction... it is good that they (we?) are finally getting a move on... although, both my brother and mother (doctor and (ex)ICU nurse) think that it is too late...
It is strange times indeed. In the UK people are panic buying loads of different things, I think people have calmed down a bit now but I remember last week someone brought 36 cans of tinned peaches...
All public places of gathering are now closed and it feels like the whole country is on pause.
LOL! Maybe they are making a huge peach crumble?!?!?!