Sea squirts (Ascidiacea): Google-Apple Contact Tracing for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords * * * "Yale New Haven Health: Coronavirus (COVID-19) vs. Influenza (Flu)" * * Stanford - "Condoleezza Rice: COVID-19 and National Security | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing" * * * How can we transform the media landscape away from the fear generation that US media seems to be creating to a healthier, more reasoning, and somehow to better media generation (am thinking the Swedish newspaper DN.SE * * * Playing my Scottish Small Pipes in preparation for my 1st upcoming album I'm planning tentatively titled 'Honey in the Bag' * * MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is growing - writing letter to MIT president Reif soon re collaboration * Please remember the WUaS wikis are and will be for open wiki-teaching and learning * * * CA BPPE licensing workshops (leading to accreditation) videos now online - and re World Univ & Sch * 15 planned WUaS revenue streams - both wings - April 2020 - Updated

Google - Apple Contact Tracing https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/04/20/apple-and-google-major-contact-tracing-surprise-25-billion-users-lose-out/amp/
-https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
-https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-contact-tracing-strengths-weaknesses/amp for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

Google - Apple Contact Tracing https://t.co/BkQTHUotrb
-https://t.co/JsIDlGSWuo
-https://t.co/0G7Z97grJM for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecordshttps://t.co/vPfIrX8DnH ~ https://t.co/6j2GwA9SMY

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1252646043017023489?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1252647547828465669?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1252649845887610880?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1252655444205559808?s=20



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Of the world's 7,000 languages, only 299 are represented on @Wikipedia… so far. Volunteers are taking action to make the site, and the Internet at large, more multilingual and diverse. https://t.co/ypwGFJXIeM cc: @BBC_Future, @WhoseKnowledge, @Wikimedia_mx, @Wikimedia_Fr

— Wikimedia (@Wikimedia) April 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1252392857542946816?s=20


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Google-Apple icons without retweet of Wikimedia 7k languages Tweet -

Google-Apple Contact Tracing https://t.co/FamMCxWp0U
-https://t.co/Vwqrj5IUWN
-https://t.co/ZxW8LP85yv for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecordshttps://t.co/5gPNFnA6Jj ~

— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) April 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1252646938798813184?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1252647299794137088?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1252652590594093056?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1252655553903394816?s=20


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Google-Apple Contact Tracing https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1252392857542946816?s=20 -https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/04/20/apple-and-google-major-contact-tracing-surprise-25-billion-users-lose-out/amp/
-https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

Google-Apple Contact Tracing https://t.co/4uXRUSR3hu -https://t.co/mXGX4dWP0c
-https://t.co/zpMidzFIUt
for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecordshttps://t.co/DT10G1WYiU ~

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) April 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1252648907844153344?s=20



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Scott MacLeod
12:30 PM (12 minutes ago)
to Catherine

Hi Catherine,

Nice again to get your emails. I found this helpful that coronaviruses "cause mild-to-moderate respiratory illnesses."

Yale New Haven Health: Coronavirus (COVID-19) vs. Influenza (Flu):

"Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that are common in both humans and animals that usually cause mild-to-moderate respiratory illnesses."
https://www.ynhhs.org/patient-care/urgent-care/flu-or-coronavirus#

And here is a great Stanford interview with former Secretary of State Condy Rice saying there are inklings that SARS was involved in the Wuhan, China genetic event - https://www.hoover.org/research/condoleezza-rice-covid-19-and-national-security -
"Condoleezza Rice: COVID-19 and National Security | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing"

https://youtu.be/9UxzAlX92PI (Tue Apr 14, 2020) - which is different from novel coronavirus, as I'm piecing this all together.

Cheers, Scott



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Ma,

And how can we transform the media landscape away from the fear generation that US media seems to be creating to a healthier, more reasoning, and somehow to better media generation (am thinking the Swedish newspaper dn.se or the German press, for example)? Voting the b...... out in Nov election could be a significant part of such a change! :)

Am appreciating your sensibleness in the coronavirus pandemic, Ma, and appreciating much your being my wonderful mother!



By the way, the last time Ed, who's a MD as you know, called me, he called me on the way back from work (Kaiser Permanente in Richmond, near Berkeley), possibly the Sunday before last - and even with the "Stay home except for essential needs' directive in CA - https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ - Ed has seemed very unconcerned about the novel coronavirus in CA. Am thinking that the knowledge generation state-by-state - and our readings of this - would be very important (and am wary of cultural ignorance too in interpreting novel coronavirus effects!).

Also, many, many people in their 90s are recovering from Covid-19, and the main issue is that we don't have any data about this (in a Boston Globe article from yesterday) - which lack of data is a real deficit.

Am very glad, Ma, you're taking great precautions, nevertheless - and also because of the lack of knowledge and potential for misinterpretation (even misuse???) of so many diverse readings of novel coronavirus Covid-19 even among the medical doctors, and others (and in the Pittsburgh area), for example. And reliable data and medical knowledge is so diverse that it's not a simple process for all of us to analyze it for ourselves. Am continuing to hypothesize that it's some kind of "fire drill" - either overblown, or not so overblown (or addressing multiple complex issues in society - in all ~200 countries).

And per the German press, it looks like there is at least one drug that is effective already, Remdesivir -
https://www.fr.de/multimedia/brasilien-ort28441/corona-pandemie-studie-macht-hoffnung-medikament-remdesivir-zeigt-wirkung-covid-19-zr-13668822.html - but that it has side effects (even fatal ones) - https://translate.google.com/ ... steps in the right direction, I'd say ... as the US sorts out its epidemics in 100 different cities during this pandemic!

Stay safer, Ma! Thinking about you!

Much love, Scott

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- http://scottmacleod.com



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Hi Ma,

How are you this day? It's beautiful here today again (but supposed to get too hot in the next days in the afternoon! :). Nice again to get your emails.

I found this helpful that coronaviruses "cause mild-to-moderate respiratory illnesses."
Yale New Haven Health: Coronavirus (COVID-19) vs. Influenza (Flu)

"Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that are common in both humans and animals that usually cause mild-to-moderate respiratory illnesses."

https://www.ynhhs.org/patient-care/urgent-care/flu-or-coronavirus#

And here is a great Stanford Interview with former Secretary of State Condy Rice saying there are inklings that SARS was involved in the Wuhan, China genetic event - https://www.hoover.org/research/condoleezza-rice-covid-19-and-national-security - https://youtu.be/9UxzAlX92PI (Tue Apr 14, 2020) - which is different from novel coronavirus, as I'm piecing this all together.

Cheers, Scott




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Hi Ma,

Just got a message from Elliott after what seems like years:

Hi Scott. I'm well. I've been laid off since March 9. Fortunately I always keep a cushion. I've been busy with house projects. Been missing tennis since the local cities have closed tennis courts. But I did find a wall in my local park to hit against, so I can get a good work out there.

the Oakland ashram is closed, of course. Luckily there have been several live stream events from the ashram in the Catskills. So that's been great.

I hope you are staying healthy. Fortunately, the latest studies, such as the one in Santa Clara County, seem to indicate that the mortality rate is much lower than previously thought. Good news.



... and shared this with Elliott too :)

Hi Elliott, nice to hear from you, and glad you're well. House, tennis, Ashram sound good in this coronavirus pandemic time. Seems sheltering at home/ self-quarantine - then testing, vaccine development, and potentially contact-tracing can be strategies for new norms in a changed world where genetic risks are low.

Playing my Scottish Small Pipes in preparation for my 1st upcoming album I'm planning tentatively titled 'Honey in the Bag' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html. Am both giving and taking Skype Scottish small piping lessons presently as well! My student lives in SF, and has played Highland Pipes since around 2006, and I'm studying with Connor Sinclair at the National PIping Centre in Glasgow, who recently at around age 23 won the Glen Fiddich and Northern Meeting, and from whom I'm learning much. MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is growing - writing letter to MIT president Reif soon re collaboration ; please remember that when our wiki front end and back end come together, the wikis are and will be for open wiki-teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - much like editing or reading a Wikipedia article. (On with my 5th book, also Harbin-inspired, in the autumn - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity! ... and seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth for STEM research and as classrooms!).
> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/hebridean-sheep-piping-friends-create.html?m=0 -


Found myself teaching meditation in a Scratch programming language project with Lego robotics  (having taught Yoga for many years:)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/386012815
(in the Create a Story! studio - https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/26192944/)
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/
>  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/kalinga-ornata-found-myself-teaching.html?m=0 :)

How's your day going, Ma?

Love,
Scott


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com


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A virtual something in coronavirus pandemic time?

Thanks for your text this evening, and invitation, Koh:

Niana was talking about us all having a socially distanced walk soon when you're in town. Urine town, ha ha. Is that happening? We can talk well then! Thoughts?

Koh



Scott: Hi to your kids, Koh! What a nice invitation too! I think, however, I'd like to lower the risks to you and your kids, and moi, re visiting P-town:) at present, and continue to shelter at home / self quarantine until we learn more, and also per the state of California's directives - eg the "Stay home except for essential needs' directive in CA - https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ ( mentioned here -  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/sea-squirts-ascidiacea-yale-new-haven.html?m=0 ) and re emergent Google-Apple contact tracing projects too ... Skype or Google Meet meal together with Ants and your kids, since we can't yet go for a virtual walk together in the Golden Gate Park together in digital masks / in the back of our round-rim hippie glasses? :) how is everyone?

Stay safe, Fujinagas!

Cheers, Scott



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Make your own Pet! Create Along this Thursday with Scratch programming (and Lego Robotics?)

Make Your Own Pet! Create-Along LIVE: Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/uR5C173yrJs


What's pet mean?


a pet is a thing one devotes special attention to or feels particularly strongly about

to stroke or pat

a companion animal


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Dear Larry,