Slashdot Asks: How are YOU Handling the Coronavirus? (theatlantic.com) 425
This week saw dramatic responses to the coronavirus pandemic. At least two different U.S. states have ordered all bars and restaurants to close, according to the AP, while "officials elsewhere in the country said they were considering similar restrictions." America's Center for Disease Control is now urging the entire country to "cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more." At least two more states have postponed their presidential primary elections -- and lots of people now seem to be avoiding movie theatres.
Meanwhile, earlier this week GitLab released its first "Remote Work Report," arguing that "it's undeniable that the future of work will be remote."
But what are you doing? Are you working remotely? (And is the rest of your company?) Are you buying groceries during off-peak hours? Staying home to watch Frozen 2?
We're all in this together -- so let's hear about the experiences of Slashdot readers. Share your own stories in the comments.
How are you handling the coronavirus?
Meanwhile, earlier this week GitLab released its first "Remote Work Report," arguing that "it's undeniable that the future of work will be remote."
But what are you doing? Are you working remotely? (And is the rest of your company?) Are you buying groceries during off-peak hours? Staying home to watch Frozen 2?
We're all in this together -- so let's hear about the experiences of Slashdot readers. Share your own stories in the comments.
How are you handling the coronavirus?
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In 2033, there will be the introduction of the QuaranTeens
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And this boom generation shall be dubbed the Coronials.
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That seems to be counter intuitive to the "social distancing" they are trying to promote...
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No one wanted to touch you before the virus what makes you think they changed their minds?
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Disappointing when coupled with self-isolation. But familiar to many slashdot readers.
#StayTheFuckHome (Score:5, Interesting)
I started getting detailed information via YouTube (specifically Chris Martenson) in late January. In early February I stocked up on food and other supplies. Now I'm all set to ride it out from home. Luckily I work from home, so I literally don't need to leave the house for a month or two if necessary. The US (where I live) is finally getting its act together with regard to testing, so I'll wait and watch for a few weeks and see how bad the situation is, then reassess my options.
Hoping for the best...
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Maybe you could share your recipes for toilet paper...?
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Here [wish.com] is one option that will drastically reduce your need for the dead-tree solution...
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Huh? The problem is I have too much TP and no food. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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I live in Spain. We're on lockdown, nobody's allowed out on the streets without a good reason.
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If not don't they offer delivery services for people who need it?
At least here in Germany they said it would be handled that way in case of a lockdown.
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If not don't they offer delivery services for people who need it?
Food delivery from both restaurants and supermarkets is starting to become a thing, but it is still in the stage of slowly getting launched. Can Doordash handle millions of people suddenly ordering at once?
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I'd consider having no food a good reason.
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There aren't enough "whooshes" for this thread...
I'm leaving, disappointed.
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What's wrong with the three seashells?
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You can't eat those.
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"Maybe you could share your recipes for toilet paper...?"
Go buy a bidet and install it, you have nothing else to do.
Or 3D print one and tell us all about it.
Bidets! Fuck toilet paper! (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't bought toilet paper for a year now. .I own something that you mount below the toilet seat, with a knob m to spray your ass with water, including a self-cleaning function. Cost me all of $15 from E-Bay. (Amazon are psychopaths.)
I also bought two tiny towels (10x10in), to pat my ass dry after cleaning it with the water. (While I stand up.)
Once you've learned how to get the water everywhere, which spray strength and how much spraying is enough, you can do the entire thing without ever touching your butt. (I only use one side of the towel, so I can touch the other side.)
Because of that, I don't even have to watch my hands afterwards.
My ass is as clean as if showered. No butthole problems anymore. I'd never go back.
The only (small) problem is when you spray too strong and sit wrong. Then the water ricochets onto the back of the seat, or enters your asshole. :)
The solution is simple: Don't do that.
Seriously, toilet paper is pretty damn primitive if you think about it. A stupid invention.
Re:Bidets! Fuck toilet paper! (Score:5, Funny)
....and there's nothing quite like a jet of ice cold water up inside your colon to wake you up in the morning. :-)
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Might make stock market trading easier for us on the left coast. I haven't been getting up this early in years! Fortunately they're doing this nice thing where they hold the market for 15 minutes each morning just to give us time to wake up.
Re:Bidets! Fuck toilet paper! (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't bought toilet paper for a year now. .I own something that you mount below the toilet seat, with a knob m to spray your ass with water, including a self-cleaning function. Cost me all of $15 from E-Bay. (Amazon are psychopaths.)
What solution have you used to protect against backflow? Almost all such solutions are banned in some countries since, when you depressurise your system for a repair, it's very easy for water to flow from your toilet area to your fresh water supply permanently contaminating it. This is one reason why bidets, which were very popular in late decades of the 20th century, have become less popular in many places now.
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Sorry, no idea in what kind of house you life. ... how could there be any back flow?
Fresh water coms from the pipes, used water goes into the sewers
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Please wash your hands even if you feel like you don't need to. The rest of us will feel better knowing that you do.
Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe you could share your recipes for toilet paper...?
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Bidets are superfluous - you can clean yourself in the shower as easy as with a dedicated utility.
I use 1 to 2 rolls per month, so I'm probably good for 3 months before I need to stock up. No point in trying to do that earlier either due to space concerns.
Otherwise so far the workplace is still open and I'm making quick rushes through the supermarket whenever I need and try to make it on times when the load is lower. Activities like Geocaching is often working though considering that most caches are several
Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score:5, Informative)
Bidets are superfluous - you can clean yourself in the shower as easy as with a dedicated utility.
All together now: Ewwwwww!
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You can skip the toilet all together. The hardest part is heeling everything through the drain.
Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score:4, Funny)
Bogarting.
Asking neighbors If I can use their phone.
Printing 'The End Is Here' on underwear.
Revising my will with extensive if-elseif clauses.
Making plague doctor masks.
Coming up with new ways to blame others:
- It's the marketplace fault for being such a smarty.
- It's everybody else's fault cause I get no respect.
- It's God's wrath because we voted Trump into office.
- It's the government's fault for not being here to help.
- It's our own fault for not making the needed things in this country anymore.
SNAFU
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Basically my lifestyle, too, but even before the arrival of Covid-19.
However I think the "story" is pretty lame. Many more interesting aspects to consider. For example, if interest rates are now zero, why the heck are you still running a bank? How are you paying your rent and the salaries?
Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score:5, Informative)
For example, if interest rates are now zero, why the heck are you still running a bank? How are you paying your rent and the salaries?
The banks can borrow it from the Fed for zero. That doesn't mean they are going to lend it to you for zero also.
Re:#StayTheFuckHome (Score:4, Interesting)
Interesting how Slashdot went from "only complete moron sheeple get their news from social media" to proudly stating that YouTube is the primary source in the midst of a serious pandemic.
I'm not criticising you, I get a lot of information from YouTube as well, it's just interesting how the narrative has shifted. I would suggest it may have something to do with who such sources tend to benefit right now.
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Well only complete morons get their news from the mass media too.
Those also only care about spread and "likes". Called "page (ad) views" and "clicks" in their world. Eyeballs.
The only sane news source is seeing with your own eyes. (While being aware of your own known and unknown triggers and natural biases, sensory distortions, and everything you are NOT seeing or NOT being told.)
My news is: Coronaphobists terrorize neighborhood by hoarding food at home and leaving nothing for other people. Which I want to
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It's a little early yet for planting here in Iowa, but I did pick up some seeds on my last trip out.
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"It's a little early yet for planting here in Iowa, but I did pick up some seeds on my last trip out."
Not inside, there's always time and Amazon still has grow lamps.
#staythefuckhome.com (Score:5, Informative)
Learning everything I can about it. Trying to warn people how dangerous the virus can be if it's allowed to spread to the point where health services can't cope like in Italy right now
I'm staying at home, both to reduce my risk of catching the disease and to avoid being a super-spreader.
I'm currently dismayed and the inadequate action in the UK and the US. I'm also disappointed the so many people just don't understand exponential growth.
This virus is currently growing ten-fold every 8 days in the UK, US and most EU countries. So we're about 3 weeks from a million cases each in the US, France, Germany, UK.
I expect the UK Govt to change tact soon, they are being hounded to do so, their (complete non-)action plan on Thursday was a really bad joke. Their plan was literally to do nothing useful, it made my head spin.
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I'm also disappointed the so many people just don't understand exponential growth.
But are you surprised...?
I expect the UK Govt to change tact soon, their (complete non-)action plan on Thursday was a really bad joke.
Then there was Trump's speech about how this was a foreign virus so all they have to do is close the border to all the dirty* countries and the country will be safe.
(*) ie. The countries where Trump doesn't own golf courses.
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Fortunately the British government has actually got its head together, realised that politicians know fuck all about epidemiology and are letting the experts handle this one.
This virus is currently growing ten-fold every 8 days in the UK, US and most EU countries. So we're about 3 weeks from a million cases each in the US, France, Germany, UK.
I expect the UK Govt to change tact soon, they are being hounded to do so, their (complete non-)action plan on Thursday was a really bad joke. Their plan was literally
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Or the WHO are correct and the way to immunity is vaccination.
Dead people don't have immunity.
We're 3 weeks from a million people being infected at the current rate of infection. Are you another person that doesn't understand exponential growth. I know a lot about this virus because I've been spending the last 2 months learning about it.
The UK is being castigated from all sides because THEY ARE WRONG.
Re:#staythefuckhome.com (Score:5, Informative)
" Stamping it out may not be possible. "
Wrong, China and s' Korea have proved it is possible.
Top 10 Logical Fallacies You Should Know and How to Spot Them
The Ad Hominem. ... ... ... ... ... ...
The Appeal to Authority.
The Straw Man.
The Appeal to Ignorance.
The False Dilemma.
The Slippery Slope aka The Domino Theory.
The Circular Argument (Petitio Principii or Begging the Question)
The Alphabet Soup.
You went with, Ad Hominem and appeal to authority. You also have incorrect facts, don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when you don't what you're talking about. How many projections have you done? https://snipboard.io/IOzDFm.jp... [snipboard.io]
Slam on the brakes 2 weeks from now?? do some maths FFS, they said there are about 10,000 infected, times that by 100, what do you get?
China slammed on the brakes and it took weeks before they halted the rapid spread, they slammed on the brakes when there was only 571 known infections, that still grew to 80,000 infections, that's 140-fold spread after slamming on the brakes very hard. At this rate if we go mass quarantine, mass-testing and contact tracing TODAY then we might just only have 200,000 cases by the time we get a grip on the situation.
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It was only possible to eradicate smallpox because it had no animal hosts. Coronaviruses do have animal hosts, so they will never be completely eradicated.
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Re:#staythefuckhome.com (Score:5, Informative)
The problem in the UK is that the NHS has been run down and underfunded for a decade now, and throwing money at it won't re-open facilities or get nurses and doctors back, especially the ones who left due to brexit.
It will take a decade just to undo the damage they did so now we have an already struggling service having to deal with this public health crisis on top. It's not just the NHS either, all the local services have been decimated and councils have no money for them, so for example if you are self isolating there won't be anyone to help you get groceries or check if you are still alive.
The government is slowly getting its act together but I expect the main problem will be actually getting the money it has promised. Businesses will have to apply for it and that process won't be smooth or timely and they will lose out anyway. Individuals are even worse off, if they can't work and have no income or sick pay isn't enough they have to apply for Universal Credit. Aside from anything else it takes weeks to get the first payment and it's paltry anyway.
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Fortunately the British government has actually got its head together, realised that politicians know fuck all about epidemiology and are letting the experts handle this one.
And the expert opinion is: Let the virus run riot and the population will develop some "herd immunity"
https://fortune.com/2020/03/14... [fortune.com]
Luckily for you The Donald didn't ban that country. He only banned the ones who are locking themselves down.
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I'm half with you on this: The boomers are out there spending my pension with low outgoings (they bought their houses long before the housing boom), basically living the high life while leaving a financial disaster for the youngsters to clean up.
Maybe it's time to cull a few.
Stay home (Score:4, Insightful)
It's already too late. If you haven't planned on having supplies by this point just wait it out till there are tests and cures or vaccinations.
If you don't believe in vaccinations, please move to Washington DC and go hang out at bars with politicians who insist this is a hoax.
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This is what Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive was made for!
Stay at home (Score:3, Insightful)
I live in Spain. We have a public health service which is way better than the US. We are in an alert at home for 15 days (but everybody expects a month), you can only leave to buy food/medicine and go to work, if your work is not closed, and the army is patrolling. Hospitals in Madrid are getting closer to a critical occupancy, and all surgeries not related to coronavirus and not critical are being delayed.
This happened in China a month ago, in Italy a week ago, and it will happen in the US in ten days. Get ready to work from home.
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Si te paren la Policia, diles que te vas a la peluquería y arreglao.
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Yup, happened in my country literally overnight. Last friday, nothing special was going on except the advise to stay home when having symptons like coughing or fever.
Since yesterday, there's a nationwide lockdown. Schools are closed. Pubs are closed. Children daycare is closed - only people with 'vital' professions can put their kid in daycare, etc etc.
And while i think it's understandable, i also think it's an overreaction. For 2 month, our government has been doing exactly nothing. While this was the crit
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Having a Business Continuity Plan now is a bit late. There are no laptops coming from China any time soon.
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...I'm staying home a lot. The gym is a big exception because exercise is an immune system boost, I was damaged about 10 years ago by statin drugs wasting my muscles on my left side making walking / running any significant distance painful but it doesn't seem to be an issue on most exercise machines, and otherwise just decided not to do the movies either. I'm a big moviegoer, see most everything unless it's "too stupid for words" which lately is only about 2/3rds of the movies that come out. I've been
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Few gawd's sake check EVERY album as you digitise it. I did mine a few years ago and trusted the stupid software. It f*cked up the naming on one album and every album from there on was also screwed.
I had to do it all again. It's time-consuming doing real-time capture of vinyl LPs.
Otherwise, you sound like you've got your shit together, good luck.
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I'm the same age and totally healthy, with lots of physical exercise. I'm still hitting the gym (noticeably fewer people last week!) and hiking. BUT...my wife has respiratory problems and is already on oxygen. She is definitely high risk.
My mom is in good health, but at 98 is at the outer edge of the high-risk population. Her group home is on lockdown.
Murderous Governments (Score:5, Interesting)
It's looks like right now governments across the world are more concerned about shareholders than the lives of their citizens.
Or are they all simply idiots? The level of inaction in the face of the worst pandemic for a hundred years is staggering.
South Korea has been a shining example of how to deal with this outbreak - extensive testing and contact tracing, followed by quarantine for both the infected and their contacts.
I get the feeling the UK government doesn't want to spend money to save 500,000-1,000,000 lives, I could even be so cynical to say they know there are massive cost benefits to letting a chunk of old people die - cheaper for the health service and less pensions to pay.
Re:Murderous Governments (Score:5, Insightful)
This is going to be interesting: if, and that's a big if, China and a bunch of other countries successfully irradicate this thing, yet other countries, including some members of the G7, decide to go down the path of letting this go through their whole population over the course of a year or two, there'll be some big changes and possibly tensions globally.
What China achieved is staggering: ~13K cases outside of Hubei, in a country of 1.3B. Shanghai and Beijing populatation-wise compare with the top-6 EU countries and top-10 of all European countrird, yet are vastly more densely populated: around 400 cases each and increases in this number relatively limited.
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A year or two? This will be over in a month or two if they don't take substantial action.
I think S' Korea is more impressive, they were so good at testing, contact tracing and selective quarantine that they've managed to slow the virus to a crawl. It's more impressive because they managed to do this without complete lock down.
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South Korea has a large surveillance capabilities, which allows them to get contact those who have been exposed to infected people. This is gives the country a significant edge in the fight among developed nations.
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ROFL, of course UK, EU, US have this too but they don't want to admit this to the ignorant sections of the population, not a vote winner.
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China hasn't eradicated it, they've contained it. Temporarily, and that's reduced the peak load on their health systems. An appropriate and positive response.
As another poster pointed out, it's incredibly infectious. It only needs to ride out of a quarantine area on an asymptomatic carrier after restrictions are lifted, and it's back to square 1 (or array index 0)
Estimates I've read are that anywhere from 50% to 75% of any population will get it in one form or another - 80% mild, 10% moderate, 10% severe, t
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And you can bet your ass that as soon as the peak is over and everything looks fine, we'll be whipped back to the salt mines to restart the infection. It's just like not finishing your antibiotics because you feel better.
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Re:Murderous Governments (Score:5, Insightful)
We dropped the ball and seem to be refusing to pick it up, it's been pathetic. UK, US and EU politicians are solidly to blame, they have repeatedly shown they don't want to deal with this pandemic.
If you remember, we said China was to slow to deal with this pandemic, and yet we still aren't dealing with it over 3 months later.
Whatever the western countries choose to do now, it's already too late, a lot of people are going to die due to their fucking greedy incompetence. This is about money, a virus is about to kill millions of people and they are more concerned about printing money with the sheer fucking fantasy of protecting their economies. So now we won't just have a high death toll but we'll have huge debts to pay as well.
I find it hard to believe that we don't have equipment that can't be moved and /or repurposed to test this virus and that we can't test more.
Again I think it's a failure to understand the exponential speed with this virus can spread. I knew we were in trouble here in the UK when the UK health top dog said we're 30 days behind Italy - I'd just done the calculation myself after someone said we were 2 weeks behind, it's pretty easy to plot the UK and Italy's virus spread on a graph and then see clearly the gap between them is 2 weeks, not 30 days. We're now less than a week from where Italy was at when they announced countrywide quarantines.
Re:Murderous Governments (Score:5, Insightful)
The EU has been doing a decent job considering the limited powers it has. Not really much power at all in fact, it's mostly there for coordination between member states, e.g. it can't force them to do anything. But it's been helping with border management in locked down areas, tracking spread of the virus and getting countries to help each other where they can e.g. Germany is sending aid to Italy which helps slow the spread.
German company CureVac may be close to a vaccine. Trump apparently tried to buy it and make it exclusive to the US according to German press. But of course that would never be allowed and in fact if approved the approval will be EU wide. Even the UK will benefit as it is currently still operating under the EU drug approval system.
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I should have said EU countries rather than EU. But I haven't heard any message coming out of the EU with regards to the actions it's membership countries should be taking. Border lock down solves nothing, it could even be beneficial if the people who cross borders are then asked to quarantine as these people tend to be the biggest spreaders.
Everything I've heard about a vaccine is that it will take at least a year, more likely 18 months to 2 years. If they short-cut the process then they may not want to gi
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Or are they all simply idiots?
They're simply idiots. This is why socialism and communism always fails. The people in charge typically aren't very competent, and although they may be trying to help, they're just not as intelligent as they think they are. Socialism and communism gives all the power to this small group of idiots, and society invariably collapses as a result.
Your subject "Murderous Governments" is very apt. However, most governments typically aren't murderous because of maliciousness but because of utter incompetence.
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I think the problem is the gov't has got the wrong 'experts', they have some guy who wants to play with his pet theory about letting people get immunity, except it's a deadly disease and he hasn't done the calculations right for the spread of the disease. My hunch is that he has sophisticated models with lots of assumed variables that don't reflect the reality on the ground right now.
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Hopefully this virus will cause some people to realise that it's not a good idea to give total control of your lives to "leaders" who typically couldn't run a bath, let alone a country. Sadly, I doubt it, and no matter how many times socialist countries collapse due to inept leadership, there will still be people insisting that "it'll work this time!".
Is this about the time where you claim Trump isn't a true Republican. And that too many Democrats stopped him from doing what was needed?
Or is a little bit early and you still think Trump will pull you through?
It was probably all Obama's fault all along.
Re:Murderous Governments (Score:4, Insightful)
It's important to understand that at this point the goal isn't to stop this from spreading. More countries are beyond the point where they can stop this, and it's inevitable that a large fraction of the general population will get sick. The goal now is simply to slow its spread [uofmhealth.org]. If a bunch of people suddenly get sick, hospitals and medical services will be overwhelmed, resulting in lots of unnecessary deaths simply due to lack of care. That's what happened in 1918. The Spanish Flu had a 2% case-fatality rate, and infected an estimated 500 million people. Yet it killed 50-100 million. How does something with a case fatality rate of 2% end up killing 10%-20% of those who get sick? By getting so many people sick at the same time that it overwhelms hospitals, and people who could've recovered with halfway competent care, end up dying of secondary infections because they didn't get any care.
But if you slow down its spread, even though the exact same number of people get sick, fewer people are sick at any given time. No more are sick than can be treated by hospitals at any given time. And as a result there will be a lot fewer fatalities.
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I'm not convinced that we can't stop the spread, That sounds like giving up to me, the people of the UK will not look kindly upon the UK govt giving up trying to save lives.
I agree about hospitals being over-whelmed.
I'd like to point out that the measures to slow the spread are much the same as the measures to stop the spread. It sounds like an excuse to me by the UK govt not to take all measures possible.
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I remember that.
One major difference is that in 1976, we had a lot of experience at making flu vaccines and had long since worked out the bugs in doing so. It was for a new strain, but not for a wholly new virus. It was mainly a matter of ramping up a known production technique and already existing production system for a different strain. They speeded up the testing to get it out there.
Though we've had SARS and MERS, we don't have much experience in making coronavirus vaccines. Currently, there are some go
More worried about lack of leadership than virus (Score:2)
As the quote from good old Men In Black says something about individuals being smart but people being bunch of rampaging bulls.
The Covid-19 (unless new strains develop) does essentially nothing to children under 10, and if you are under 50, there's no real danger. I'm a bit worried about my parents in their 70's.
I'm more worried about the complete lack of reassurance and leadership from leaders (in the western world, including my own country, Finland). I have yet heard *no* leader say anything to the effect
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The Covid-19 (unless new strains develop) does essentially nothing to children under 10, and if you are under 50, there's no real danger.
Take a look at your politicians [washingtonpost.com] and you might get an idea why they take this so serious.
No Problem (Score:2)
Australia (Score:2)
Semi-rural. No crowds, lots of fresh air. STILL, the local supermarket is being stripped of TP, cereal, potatoes, onions, and pasta. Stupid bastards. If I visit someone for a service call and I see piles of TP, the bill will double. Perhaps a "danger money" charge of $250. /rant
Housemate is cutting her USA trip short by 2-3 weeks, I expect her home by the end of this week. She has to go into 14 days of self-isolation. Still unsure about what that means for me. I definitely won't be visiting elderly customer
Living my life (Score:2)
I have increased my personal hygiene but otherwise I have done everything I would otherwise have done up to this point.
I am not in the high-risk category, I am not sick, I haven't traveled outside of South East Queensland since xmas and I haven't come into contact with any people known to be infected with the virus. So I see no reason to stop going out shopping or going to fast food/restaurants/etc or otherwise doing the things I do unless A.I get sick, B.I get advised by experts that I need to self-isolate
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Sadly, as I mentioned above, I've got a housemate returning from the USA in the next few days. She's got to self-isolate, which means I get to take on some care duties, and probably maintain isolation for 2 weeks after she's cleared.
I'm near Maleny, good luck with your brisket-hunt.
4 am conference calls (Score:2)
I had to cancel a few trips to India, our office is closed to anyone who doesn't absolutely have to be there. I work from full time anyway, when not travelling, so the biggest impact to me thus far, is having a bunch of 4am call with my team in India, instead of flying out there to meet in person.
We are in a semi-rural part of NW Indiana, the local grocery store was busy the other day, and while the shelves weren't as full as normal, they weren't out of anything. We are remote enough that anything like Cost
Mild Paranoia. Explanation below. (Score:2)
I do go out, but I keep a distance and carry desinfectant (isopropanol) with me. I wash my hands more often than I already do and try not to touch my face (difficult habit to break).
I work from remote now. I'm a Dev with a flexible setup so no problem here. I actually expect to get more work done during the virus.
Germany is in a quasi lockdown, stocks have sunk and state and federal government is in crisis mode. I like the fact that we have healthcare and a nation that can organise things. There's a federal
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No change at all (Score:5, Funny)
You're supposed to stay at home, don't leave the house and avoid all social contact.
In other words, life as usual.
Norway is calling their students home from the US (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump did want more immigrants from countries like Norway, now they (NNTU) call their students back because the US is considered 'poorly developed' and the health system catastrophic.
They seem to consider the US a 'shithole-country'
https://theunionjournal.com/no... [theunionjournal.com]
Fires, flood, global pandemic (Score:2)
Just a day in the life really. If we weren't getting threatened by horrendous fires which were then doused by massive storms and flooding which took out all of the power and left our freezers to thaw out so as to cause us to re-stock the freezer and other supplies just before this all happened then we would be in real strife. So far the last three months have been one disaster cancelled out by the next one has kept us on our toes and forced us to prepare. Frankly, a bit of imposed downtime is probably a
Waiting and seeing (Score:2)
Just trying to follow guidelines. I’m in my late 50s and have asthma, but I have no reason to think my immune system is compromised. Frankly I worry more about my wife and my daughter. But I also don’t want to be the guy who ignored the rules and ended up infecting someone else... which is why I’m following the guidelines even if some seem like overkill.
We’re fine for food, although if people don’t stop being stupid we may have to do without milk for a bit. Hopefully the toilet
West Virginia has zero cases (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently there's this one family which is genetically immune.
With malice. (Score:2)
I'm prowling parking lots in my town trying to find people price gouging, at which point me and the boys tell them if they don't fork over some of their goods at retail value we'll call the police on them, then we call the police on them anyway.
Off peak hours. Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, please, stop, we’re so tired. And stop asking why we’re out of toilet paper. And stop asking when we’ll get more. And stop asking if we have hand sanitizer. No one has hand sanitizer. And stop hoarding bottled water, you drank garden hose water as a kid, I’m sure your tap water won’t kill you.
It. Just. Never. Ends.
remote work meetings (Score:3)
I'm retired, so I'll continue doing whatever I feel like doing while avoiding everyone else, so that's still the same.
My son, now working from home, says the biggest difference he's noticed is that there seems to be a lot more children and dogs appearing in their staff meetings nowadays.
Using wash cloths instead of paper now (Score:3)
I'm living like it's the early 20th century, using washable cloths. I'm out of toilet paper and have had to switch to paper towel, and now I'm running out of paper towel, so it's all being reserved for shitting.
Fucking assholes and idiots panic buying shit.
Not much choice. (Score:3)
I'm trying to stay at home or in my office as much as possible. I'm going to try and change my routine of having a burger for lunch and maybe bring my own food in. I'm washing my hands pretty frequently and trying not to touch my face with my hands.
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Re:Wishing I had someone to fuck (Score:4, Funny)
Don't stay home, and go fuck yourself.
Problems solved.
Usually best to do that at home.
Check your local laws.
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