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gRegor Morrill

My name is gRegor Morrill, a.k.a. gRegorLove. I live in San Diego, enjoy tinkering on the web, and try to make people laugh. Yes, “Gregor is a weird name,” and I know gRegor is a weird capitalization. More about me

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Do you still worry about COVID?

The LA Times has a reader survey with this title. I started to fill it out, then realized I should share my responses. If you want to fill it out, too, note that they request your name, email, and city.

How concerned are you about COVID right now? How often is it on your mind in daily life?

Very concerned. It is a daily consideration in order to protect myself and my community. I feel like it takes more mental and emotional effort now because so few are taking precautions; everyone is a potential risk vector. In the first couple years it was taxing, especially with the unknowns, but the majority of people around were masking at least. It felt like there was some level of solidarity and shared understanding, which feels almost entirely gone now.

How have the precautions you take changed over time? Or have they not?

I wore cloth masks for the first year or so. I briefly stopped masking as regularly in the summer of 2021 after the initial vaccines, but quickly started again when we learned that breakthrough infections could happen. In winter 2021-2022 I switched to using high quality respirators like KN95 or N95 and have continued since.

What have you noticed about how COVID is now viewed in your community or social groups? Do you think the average person is taking it more or less seriously than you are?

Most people have loosened up their precautions or stopped entirely. I blame this largely on the minimizing language that our leaders and public health institutions have promoted. They’ve basically ended their response to the pandemic and are not communicating the risk of repeated COVID infections, despite more and more research confirming it. This leaves individuals to fend for themselves in an incredibly unjust and expensive healthcare system. I think most people want to believe that if things were really bad, these institutions would be doing something. It is difficult to face, but these systems favor capital and profit more than our lives. A prominent example of this was the CDC reducing the infection quarantine from 10 days to 5 at the request of the Delta CEO, with no scientific backing.

The average person is definitely taking it less seriously than me.

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#CovidIsntOver

gRegor Morrill

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A rollerblader skating in the left hand turn lane in front of me while I was driving. In the lane next to us is a cop.

Oh you know, just a rollerblader on a four-lane road, turning left directly beside a cop. At least he had a helmet and pads on, but what.

More like roader-blader.

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Notes

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“During the Pandemic” is Now: Why E&W Still Has a COVID Policy

This article is 🔥. Well-stated and good resources linked within.

#covid

gRegor Morrill

ProcessWire IndieAuth v0.2.2 Released

Version 0.2.2 of the ProcessWire IndieAuth Module is released:

#processwire #indieauth

Also on: news.indieweb.org, processwire.com

gRegor Morrill

In the #indieweb chat there’s a helpful bot named Loqi that answers questions from the wiki and lets us add countdowns. Sometimes the bot seems like magic and there’s jokes about it gaining sentience. To that end, I apparently added a countdown in 2018 for 6 years out: “Loqi can drive.” It was something I set and forgot, so it gave me a laugh to get the countdown notification today.

You can also “give” Loqi things and it will respond with random things, so this funny exchange happened afterward:

gRegor gives Loqi a car
Loqi laughs at the car
gRegor gives Loqi a cybertruck
Loqi gives back the cybertruck

See, smart bot.

#indieweb

gRegor Morrill

I prefer to use curly quotes and apostrophes in my posts, but unfortunately they are tricky to use on Windows. You have to type an incantation like ALT + 0147 to get “ and ALT + 0148 to get ” — and only on the keyboard number pad, not the numbers in the top row.

animated image of a black woman on a news channel exclaiming “ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Alas, I have no number pad currently.

In recent years I’ve been using the Graphemica site since I have this search in my browser autocomplete: https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote. It’s a good reference site, but it is still a bit tedious to copy the characters.

Stack Overflow came to the rescue with a one-liner browser bookmarklet that lets you put text in your clipboard using the Clipboard API.

So I set up these four bookmarklets. You can create a new bookmark in your browser, enter a title for it, then copy the full bookmarklet line into the URL field. Rinse and repeat. Each bookmarklet URL should start with javascript:

Left Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('“');

Right Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('”');

Right Single Quote / Apostrophe:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('’');

Left Single Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('‘');

I initially had the null; at the end like the Stack Overflow answer. That worked in Chrome but I found it didn’t work in Firefox. When I removed it, it worked in both.

#bookmarklet #writing #dev

gRegor Morrill

I’m about to go to a covid-cautious board game meetup for the first time. I’m so excited: games and keeping each other safer? My people! 😃

gRegor Morrill

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