I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
This self-quarantine stuff really is very bad for people who don't belong to tribes
OK, I’m pretty
concerned about the idea that the CDC would almost order those over 60 to stay
home as much as possible (Retirement blog), on the theory that if they get infected
randomly they are much more likely to strain hospitals with ICU and ventilator
use. It’s about being a good citizen to flatten the curve.
Never mind,
a lot of people over 60 keep working (and have to do so given today’s demographics).
The guidelines
suggest giving up shame, and publicly asking family and friends to take care of
you.Well, I live alone; and being
childless, I don’t have the social capital (having others’ backs) to do that. Compulsory tribalism (and localism) doesn't work for me; it just pushes me into inferior ("sissified") social status. I'm not in line to apply to live in an intentional community (like Twin Oaks, Issues blog, April 7, 2012).
I’ve stayed
on my feet and managed to avoid major illness because I have to.
There is
something about subordinating your own personal goals to the welfare of the
group you belong to, except that I don’t really belong to a group.
It all gets
back to needing to have children first, for that group socialization to set in.
They could
become very determined to stop seniors from participating in society and let
them become dependent, to keep the whole hospital system from breaking down. Later, there were reports (AP story) that the Trump administration ordered the CDC not tell seniors to stop all flying, but the rest of the recommendations remain. Charlie Warzel op-in-ed (NYTimes) on the morality of this in discussing Coronavirus and class war, even maintaining there is a moral duty to join protests and volunteer even at existential risk to self to help the community.
See most
recent posts on retirement and international issues blogs.
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