Cloning to updare and repair
School is open. Not everywhere, but across the nation, in small, childlike steps. And we now have to prepare for “the next wave”. You know, pandemically speaking. It’s still too early to call for a trend, so we’re going to have to accept anecdotal evidence. Often without a clear grasp of the population numbers.
Here, on the Island, all is well. Of course, we’re dealing with a contained population. So, let’s up the study to another level. Say, Quebec. Their schools opened a day ago, and already there are fifty schools with reported cases (staff and student numbers together). Too early to get out the graph paper, but certainly an upward tick. Other provinces acknowledge that there will be numbers, just not yet; too early to tell.
I’m someone that wants caution, and it seems as if the political will to get things back to normal is ignoring the elephant in the room. When (yes, when) we start to reclose our schools, we will have to trust that the medical system is ready to ramp up, if things go down the wrong path.
Meanwhile, my efforts to bring older computer back into the home network continue. On one machine, after the disk swapping had been done, some error codes pointed to one of the drives having hardware hiccups. A new replacement drive arrived a few minutes ago, and my little cloning gadget is already flashing its little lights; all is well, and probably by bedtime I’ll have completed the machine update. In this case, I’m under the watchful eye of she who must get back to work, so I’d like things to be clean and complete.
