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Мое детство прошло в военном городке, среди военных, в семье военного. Сколько я себя помню, меня учили, что огнестрельное оружие не игрушка, а опасный инструмент, который предназначен для убийства противника. Нужно знать, как им пользоваться, как целиться, как заряжать, разбирать, собирать, чистить, хранить, соблюдать меры безопасности, и т.д. Пользование оружием - ремесло, а не стрельба в тире раз в год.

Наверное, поэтому у меня вызывает физическое отвращение вопрос 50-летнего мужчины, который не знает, как правильно заряжать пистолет. Причем, этот мужчина годами владеет примерно десятком единиц мощного огнестрельного оружия и дает его своим детям пострелять в тире. Простое поддержание такого арсенала в рабочем состоянии требует времени, которого нет и не может быть у непрофессионала. Понятно, что в условиях опасности для жизни, он, скорее всего, не сможет своим оружием воспользоваться. Или убьет кого-то по дурости.

Рыбы у него тоже дохнут. Вот их реально жалко.

https://yostrov.dreamwidth.org/471518.html

Ну, да ладно. Пойду-ка я постригу кусты.

Exercise for the reader: Identify a shithole country

COVID-19 testing in China:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/in-schools-and-offices-china-steps-up-coronavirus-tests-after-taming-outbreak

At a private school run by the Hailiang Group in Zhuji, eastern Zhejiang province, some 20,000 students and teachers have taken the test since April 13.

Samples were taken from students on the playground as they stood 1.5m apart from each other. They were only authorised to go to class after getting a negative result.
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Shao Junbin, the chairman of Shanghai testing kit provider Liferiver, told AFP that his company's output capacity has increased 150 per cent since starting production in January, to reach 500,000 per day.

Liferiver - which claims a 90 per cent accuracy rate - has exported kits to European countries including France and Italy, two of the hardest-hit nations on the continent.

And the head of Australia's mining firm Fortescue announced a deal this week to import 10 million kits from Chinese genomics firm BGI Group at a lower price than rival providers.

In addition to the test kit business, China will have more data on coronavirus than anybody in the world, with Germany and South Korea not far behind.

In the meantime, the state of Maryland is hiding test kits from the federal government.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maryland-hiding-testing-kits-purchased-south-korea-us/story?id=70434840

“That was so important to us that we wanted to make sure that plane took off from Korea safely, landed here in America safely and that we guarded that cargo from whoever might interfere with us getting that to our folks that need it,” [Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said Thursday].

The tests, worth over $9 million, were directed last week to Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport instead of Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, and both the Maryland National Guard and Maryland State Police were on hand to receive the shipment and transport the tests to a secure, undisclosed location, he said.

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Probably, that's why thinking in objects is easier than in processes.



Lawvere & Rosebrugh. Sets for Mathematics, 2003.