Updates: Orgies, Scheduling & Auto Chips


Today I have updates on a few earlier posts for your reading enjoyment.

Orgies

COVID-19 continues ruining things for people looking to have a little sexy fun.  An earlier post, one of my most popular, detailed how a swinger convention resulted in a super-spreader event and how a gay orgy in Belgium exposed a supposedly anti-homosexual member of Hungary's EU parliament.  

Last week, police in France raided a warehouse where a 100-person orgy was going on. Orgies are not illegal in France, but the group was violating curfew and mitigation ordinances.  People, please. Postpone your orgies until we get the pandemic under control, OK?

How Not to Schedule, Florida Style

In an earlier post I detailed how truly awful ADHS's bespoke vaccine reservation system is. Since then I've talked to several people who got word that shots were available but were unable to successfully schedule them due to flaws in the system. They gave up in frustration. It seems nobody is trying to do anything to fix it, and I hereby predict a catastrophe when they start trying to use the thing to schedule really large numbers.

Now Florida is trying to launch its own reservation system to replace an existing email-based waitlist system. To be fair, it is still a waitlist system, which is a lot better than the Hunger Games approach Arizona's system uses. But counties in Florida think they've been doing just fine with their email-based system and don't want Gov. DeSantis mucking everything up.  Palm Beach county has advised  residents not to use the state system.

Auto Chips

A couple weeks ago I had a post about how pandemic-related supply chain problems were starting to impact auto manufacturing due to a shortage of specialized automotive semiconductors.  At the time Ford had shut down a plant in Germany.

Now a group of 15 auto-state senators is urging the Biden administration to address the problem.  According to the article, the shortage is now impacting "Volkswagen, Ford Motor Co, Subaru Corp, Toyota Motor Corp, Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and other car makers."

And a Recommendation

Two thumbs-up for the PBS Frontline documentary China's COVID Secrets. It covers the early days of the pandemic in China, and how duplicity and coverup by the Chinese government cost us a chance to nip the pandemic in the bud.


Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 

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