Television news loves to show pictures of crowded beaches as examples of how people are ignoring social distancing guidelines. In some cases this may be true, but in many cases they have just lost perspective.
Here’s a photo of a beach that looks overcrowded.
But that’s because you are looking at a long stretch of beach along the shore line.
When you look at the same beach, looking towards the water, you can clearly see that there is easily more than 6 feet between groups of people.
The responsible way for television to report overcrowding at a beach would be with an aerial view.
Author: Ernie Dainow
In university the emerging field of using computers to understand the brain by simulating learning and thinking captivated me, culminating in a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science. My interests evolved from doing research to building systems. I worked on large mainframe computers, personal computers and network systems. My expertise spanned software development for academic and scientific research, business and financial applications, data communications, computer hardware products and the Internet.
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All television reports showed gastly amounts of overcrowding on the 4th of July weekend. And the bars were filled with drunk young people… and now many of the states have record number of COVID-19 cases. Their president keeps lying to the people, and the followers are going to continue killing each other… sheesh.