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* Rough Concept * Dimensions of Covid
Fuck this. Millions of people have died of COVID and probably there are millions more to come. Instead of a coordinated effort of keeping the global suffering as small as possible, most of the energy goes towards squeezing the last bit out of collective organization so that already powerful countries can be kept running and get an edge in the post-pandemic economic recovery. Early pandemic hopes that it could lead to a significant and lasting disruption of business-as-usual seem infinitely far away while the abolition of health protective measures is discussed even in regions with hundreds or thousands of people suffering and dying each day. Fuck this. Millions of people have died of COVID and probably there are millions more to come. Instead of a coordinated effort of keeping the global suffering as small as possible, most of the energy goes towards squeezing the last bit out of collective organization so that already powerful countries can be kept running and get an edge in the post-pandemic economic recovery. Early pandemic hopes that it could lead to a significant and lasting disruption of business-as-usual seem infinitely far away while the abolition of health protective measures is discussed even in regions with hundreds or thousands of people suffering and dying each day.
* What this is about * What this is about
This project is first and formost about giving the collective experience of loss a space. It tweets one 🖤 per dead person, until every single dead person has at least been given the little bit of honor this can provide. See https://arnes.space/posts/2022-02-24-allowing-things-to-break/
* How does it work * How does it work
In regular intervals, this fetches the current covid data from https://covid-19.datasettes.com, which provides data by the Johns Hopkins university, using the following query: In regular intervals, =update-data.sh= fetches the current covid data from https://covid-19.datasettes.com, which provides data by the Johns Hopkins university, using the following query:
#+begin_src sql #+begin_src sql
select day, last_update, sum(deaths) sum_deaths select day, last_update, sum(deaths) sum_deaths
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limit 1 limit 1
#+end_src #+end_src
This provides an up-to-date approximation of total covid 19 deaths. Tweets are sent as often as the Twitter API allows. This provides an up-to-date approximation of total covid 19 deaths. In a somewhat backwards manner this is saved in a CSV, which is then again imported into an SQLite database. The database is queried in =index.lua=, where a single HTML page is created as a response.
* Bundling
Just add it all to the [[https://redbean.dev][redbean executable]]:
#+begin_src sh
nix run nixpkgs#zip -- redbean.com *.lua
#+end_src
The executable can just be put somewher and run.
Note that there were some problems deploying the executable to uberspace, which could be resolved by using =redbean-unsecure.com=, which comes without built-in SSL support.