Apr. 18th, 2020

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"Life in the Time of Pandemic"

Because of the security considerations - ever-escalating over the decades - we don't often get to see views like this of Centretown in Ottawa. But the Time of Pandemic perversely offered an opportunity to do this without worrying law enforcement and security agencies by way of videographer Peter Warren:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-drone-video-covid-1.5535799
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I posted that drone footage link from CBC earlier today. In a related vein:

Re: farms and related firms still finding ways to get product to customers while maximizing safety. This is specific to Ottawa. I can't speak to the Gatineau situation across the river in Québec just yet. I can confirm Ottawa Valley Meats personally, because I've seen one of their vans delivering product in my own neighbourhood.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/covid-19-farm-gate-sales-booming-customers-looking-for-fresh-local-safe-1.5535723

Re: comics retailing. Diamond - up to now, the main distribution firm in North America for comic books and related product and serving a large chunk of the rest of the anglophone-comics-reading world as well - and DC Comics - the people who run the Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League and related franchises for their new overlords at AT&T - have been making havoc-wreaking announcements in the last two days about the distribution process as they expect it to be from May onwards. Check Newsarama, Bleeding Cool, Comics Beat, Comic Book Resources (CBR) and other news sources for details on that as they come out.

Meanwhile, DC's published a Google Maps listing of shops they know or believe to still be finding ways to move product safely - for retailers, customers and other bystanders alike - in the Time of Pandemic. The relevant links below:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-responds-dc-comics-new-distributors-batman-92/

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1qzEG3OEmvCVEhfwC4OK3FP8e5o4eD-CK&ll=45.43705359598587%2C-75.52178979690291&z=10

If you know a shop that's also managing that feat, I expect DC - and many others - would like to know. Public Health authorities will likely be interested in ways of determining and promoting best practices in such matters. And to nail down any rule-breakers, too.
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This is a place where arts, culture, technology and bio-science intersect.

So I ended up visiting a blog devoted to...Sci-Fi Interfaces, written by Christopher Noessel. Specifically this trope of science-fiction graphic design: the Spreading Pathogen Map.

https://scifiinterfaces.com/2020/04/03/spreading-pathogen-maps/

Once you're done reading this particularly lengthy entry, I hope you'll wander around there for a bit.

Yeah, I'm a design nerd. That isn't going away.

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