Category: observation

Stickler wonders if there is any objection to standards that apply in a group but not to outsiders? Or is it the other way around? Is there any objection to standards that only apply to outsiders and not to the proper group? Quod licet Jovi non licet Bovi. What to the one is allowed, is…

Mr. Node did not like to be gagged by information failures. Too little knowledge about the effect of the pandemic on the micro level and too many possible (and therefore uncertain) influences on all other levels. But that’s how it was. He has to find a solution. But how? He has to make a design…

Two weeks ago, on May 28, I was on the verge of making plans for emulating the behavior of the Coronavirus pandemic. Looking back, the 28th was the day that the news became turbulent. On May 28 Trump and Dorsey began their conversation on free speech and fact checking. The USA coronavirus death-count passed the…

During coronavirus pandemics he generally finds it on Saturdays advisable to go to the cheese stand early. Just before 9 o’clock, when they are still arranging the cheeses. Yesterday it seemed as if he had all the time in the world. He was the second customer, where up to four can be served. There was…

Mr. Node stumbled on a simulation of a virus explanation of how a pandemic works. It is provided by the Washington Post. It reminded him of his own models to simulate the behaviors of complex adaptive situations. He had a model available for to establish where the initial curves stop being exponential. In Fig.1 he…

Buddy, Stickler, Winner and Node discuss what reasons the president of the USA could have to appear on May 21 2020 on nation-wide television without a protective face-mask in Michigan, which was then required by law. Buddy and Stickler already gave their opinions. Winner and Node continue the debate. Mr. Winner frames the world as…

Mssrs Buddy, Stickler, Winner and Node discuss what reason the president of the USA could have to appear on May 21 2020 on nation-wide television without a protective face-mask in Michigan, which was then required by law there. A quote from the Chicago Tribune of that day is given below, it will be the subject…

Today there was a peculiar newspaper in the letter box. It’s called “The Epoch Times,” has eight pages and is further in Dutch. Effort has been made. It is a pamphlet that tries to work for Trump and against China. There will probably be reasons for this, but those mentioned seem to argue more against…

On April 23, I was in trouble. I thought I could make a common sense program that shows how good common sense ideas mimic reality. For example, how well such ideas about the COVID-19 epidemic fit the observed consequences. That program is now available. But the process that led to it made me think further.…