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A walk around the open space park near home before getting ready for work ~ clear skies, warm sun, birds staking out territories and singing like spring has already arrived! This is only the second of February!! Found this Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) perched atop this bush long enough to get a shot of him. Nice dark blue on this one.
200224: When I saw a picture of the coronavirus, I spontaneously thought of a puffer fish - although its consumption is comparatively harmless with about 75 deaths per year.
The sudden increase in infections seems frightening, but I find the weighting in the reporting partly questionable. The numerous flu deaths per year do not cause panic. The increase in car registrations and the 1.35 million road deaths worldwide also leaves most people cold, not to mention the 9 million people who die of hunger every year. Or, for example, lack of exercise: researchers at Harvard University found that about one in ten deaths worldwide is due to lack of exercise. However, there was no sharp increase in registrations in sports clubs on a scale comparable to the current sell-out of disinfectants in Germany. In 2019, 5 times as many people were killed in the USA by the use of firearms as there are COVID-19 deaths worldwide to date.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to start a whataboutism nor do I have any interest in COVID-19 infection. I am just wondering what causes panic and what does not and I am sure that fear and panic are not good advisors.
EDIT:
In the meantime, I have a slightly different perspective. When I painted the picture, it was not clear to me how the virus would develop, what dimensions it would take on and what fatal effects it would have. I didn't know at that time that the dangerous thing about it is that the virus is new and we have no herd protection. The statistics on deaths, although still interesting, are not relevant to the current situation.
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200224: Als ich ein Bild von dem Coronavirus sah, musste ich spontan an einen Kugelfisch denken - wobei dessen Verzehr mit ca. 75 Todesopfern pro Jahr vergleichsweise harmlos ist.
Der sprunghafte Anstieg der Ansteckungen erscheint zwar beängstigend, aber ich finde die Gewichtung in der Berichterstattung teilweise fragwürdig. Die zahlreichen Grippetoten pro Jahr lösen keine Panik aus. Auch der Anstieg an KFZ-Zulassungen und die weltweit 1,35 Millionen Verkehrstoten lässt die meisten kalt, ganz zu schweigen von 9 Millionen Menschen, die jährlich an Hunger sterben. Oder zum Beispiel Bewegungsmangel: Forscher der Harvard University fanden heraus, dass ca. jeder zehnte Todesfall weltweit auf Bewegungsmangel zurückzuführen ist. Einen sprunghaften Anstieg an Anmeldungen in Sportvereinen in einem vergleichbaren Ausmaß, wie in Deutschland derzeit Desinfektionsmittel ausverkauft sind, war jedoch nicht zu verzeichnen. Im Jahr 2019 wurden in den USA 5x so viele Menschen durch Schusswaffengebrauch getötet wie es bislang weltweit an COVID-19-Toten gibt.
Versteht mich nicht falsch, ich will weder einen whataboutism starten noch wünsche ich (insbesondere Alten, Schwachen und Vorerkrankten) eine COVID-19-Infektion. Ich wundere mich nur darüber, was Panik auslöst und was nicht und bin mir sicher, dass Angst und Panik keine guten Ratgeber sind.
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MATERIALS
Watercolors
Rosemary brush Kolinsky sable ser. 33 No. 1
Moleskine Pocket Diary (9x14cm = 3,54 x 5,51 inch)
Vintage rubberstamps for the headline
Skura Pigma Micron 0.03
Uniball signs white @uniball_de
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seeds.
i'm going to plant them in a large terracotta pot and will put the seedlings outside when they're big enough. assuming i don't kill them off before. wish me luck. (or them, rather.)