However, when dealing with the government, never attribute to malice that which can be readily explained by governmental incompetence or apathy.

I do believe in science and listen to my sister who is an RN. Under her care, none of us in our entire family, have gotten ill.

I still like my theory of computers rising up.

Thanks for listening.

"The great computer revolt has begun".
Only half joking.
If you like Sci-fi, do a little digging into DARPA. They haven't met a mechanical SF villain that didn't seem like a good idea to them.

the great divider. It is how corporations and governments hide from their populations. It is how they can milk us for all kinds of money while we get bull and shrugs. It is how it used to take the phone company 2 minutes to turn off your phone but three days to turn it back on. Same with power. However, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We created this and we allowed it to take over government and corporations. We allow it to run our lives. And, our silent assent means it will always be around and always be ruining people's lives.

I will resist going off on bureaucracy and systems and all, though that seems to be the primary force involved here.

All the best to you, Trix, and kudos for speaking out.

We get to sneak in and check out stuff for ourselves. We can browse!!!!

Thank you!

as human beings are phased out in favor of computer algorithms.

Eventually the whole thing will become both intrusive and unworkable, but it's going to be tough to get to the end point when people who can deal with unforeseen problems are once again hired.

She's had to contact her State Rep. several times because she can't get through to a live person at Michigan Unemployment.

Was the beginning of April when they called me to log in for both jobs put me up for unemployment.

I get it. I believe a lot of workers at the state level have also been laid off.

If you like to read:

Serverance by Ling Ma (Pandemic topic, written in 2018.