COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Fri Mar 20 17:38:37 UTC 2020

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:00:15AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Because they're trying to be a responsible Internet citizen instead of just telling everyone else to bugger off. 
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> Perhaps if more entities tried to be responsible instead of entitled, the Internet wouldn't be as bad as it is? 

+100.

In all the decades that I've been here (on the 'nets), the saddest change
I've seen is the lack of responsibility on the part of people who have,
by virtue of their positions, been given incredible power.  This is the
time for those people to step up and (try to) do the right thing.

None of us know what's going to be needed.  How could we?  We could guess,
and we *are* guessing, but we don't really know because we're sailing
off the edge of the map now.

In those circumstances, the virtue of frugality -- a sensible thing
at any time -- now becomes a necessity.  Every single one of us should
be doing whatever we can to prepare for the unknown, and conserving
resources is one part of that.

	"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist.
	Everything we do after will seem inadequate."
		--- Michael Leavitt, former HHS Secretary

As I write this, doctors and nurses are working without PPE, risking
their own wellbeing to try to save patients.  We're not being asked
to do anything like that.  Hopefully we still have enough left to rise
to the comparatively minor challenge in front of us.

---rsk