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"Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus, throwing an even greater sense of urgency into Senate negotiations over a massive stimulus package that had yet to come together Sunday afternoon.
A statement from Paul's office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was "feeling fine" and was "tested out of an abundance of caution." But some senators and aides are angry at Paul for not doing more to self-quarantine earlier and for potentially exposing senators to the coronavirus.
[...] Senate Republicans, emerging from their closed-door lunch where they received the news, were extremely unsettled.
GOP senators told CNN Paul was in the gym with colleagues Sunday morning, and several pointed out how close Paul had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he saw Paul in the Senate swimming pool Sunday, according to a source in the GOP lunch.
"This is a different ballgame now," one Republican senator told CNN."
If one ignores the guidelines for social distancing like the above Senator, as well as the President in his daily briefing such as 6 foot separation and avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people, one may well expect to become infected. One's status and position will not provide protection.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/politics/rand-paul-coronavirus/index.html
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @03:37PM (3 children)
If you have a good way to link entropy and time that well, please step up and get that Nobel prize. Currently, it's at the pass-the-roach stage of development with the rudimentary acknowledgement that entropy increases with time.
Complete bullshit. For example, a key precept of modern physics is relativity - that the laws of physics are the same in any reference frame. What would a corresponding social/moral relativity look like?
By your own admission, you claim that there is no such common laws of Karma between you and me because our morality is alleged so utterly different. More accurately, my reference frame allegedly can't support your Karma.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 27 2020, @12:53PM (2 children)
You appear to be having reading comprehension difficulties.
The analogy here is to quantity vs. number. Numbers are something we made up, but they are useful to handle quantities. Quantities existed before numbers. Numbers describe them. In fact, "laws of nature" are merely anthropic *descriptions* of natural processes. Same deal here.
As to "my reference frame allegedly can't support your Karma," you're again failing to comprehend the plain language of what is being said to you. A flat-Earther's reference frame can't support the idea of a round Earth, but it's round nonetheless, and no amount of stubborn denial or willful ignorance is going to change that. You are the moral equivalent of a flat-Earther. drowning in denial. Karma--which is to say more accurately, the plain ol' laws of cause and effect as they relate to the human organism--doesn't give a fuck whether you understand or not, believe or not.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 27 2020, @01:26PM (1 child)
That's always been a stock phrase for identifying disagreement. Should have written something different then.
Not even close. Karma as you have used it doesn't describe a thing nor is ever described. It serves in neither role. It's supernatural woo that you claim has some unstated relationship to physical law.
Only because they active reject the model. Sorry, that's not happening here.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:13AM
The best part of all this is that you both prove my point and demonstrate exactly how self-sealing your pathology is every time you reply :)
Time is how we put a human face on entropy. Numbers are how we put a human face on quantity. Karma is how we put a human face on the laws of cause and effect, some of which are not entirely describable by the current state of science. I can't make this any simpler; the map is not the territory, and just because you refuse to engage with the territory doesn't mean it doesn't exist or you can bend it to your will by stamping your feet and throwing a narcissistic shit-fit and scrawling your own map in your own feces.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...