outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

the staff at the Louvre today voted to exercise their « droit de retrait », that's to say their legal right not to work when they judge their working conditions to be sufficiently and imminently grave. so the museum didn't open today. tomorrow the workers will hold a further meeting on this and decide for how long they'll stop working, under another legal health provision.

any opportunity I take to wash hands, I always take it. partially because I hate my hands feeling grimy and partially because I know everyone else is disgusting.

maybe they should put out a new general warning about not touching your children with your dick hands.

can I commission a Karl Malone to do that ASAP?

nice that the Louvre is exercising more caution than say the US Public Health Service.

xp after 36 wandering years, I have found a purpose

xp well, these were workers at the Louvre, the ticket agents and guards etc., not the admins in the government. the gov closed the Salon de l'Agriculture today, an event I normally go to each year but was too lazy this year. the idea in France is to get ahead of the spread enough so that people hospitalized for flu will be discharged by the time people start needing en masse to be hospitalized for covid-19. even buying a couple of weeks will help because the flu season is almost over.

What percentage of men do you reckon wash their hands after going to the bathroom? Gauging from public toilets I would reckon 10-15%

i don't really pay attention to what other people are doing in the bathroom but i feel like i would notice if it was really that low

Yeah idk where you're pissin if I see a guy go straight from urinal to door I go 'hm'

Where I work the bigger problem is guys not giving thenselves more than a token 5 second scrub

I always assumed there was fecal transmission with all viruses? I guess I was wrong since they are now confirming it for covid.

i'd heard that about Hep A before, and of course norovirus but there are a LOT of diseases that spread fecal-orally from protozoans and bacteria.

then there's the people that wash for a few seconds and don't dry. just grab the filthy door handle with their wet hands. drying is important!

My mom will just keep insisting going out in 40 degree weather with no jacket will get me COVID

That and not giving her grandkids

i'd heard that about Hep A before, and of course norovirus but there are a LOT of diseases that spread fecal-orally from protozoans and bacteria.

then there's the people that wash for a few seconds and don't dry. just grab the filthy door handle with their wet hands. drying is important!

I've been to a few places that have a little wedge at the base of the bathroom door to make it easy for you open it with your foot. I'm surprised I don't see that more often.

My office actually put a trash can near the door for people to put paper towels after they use them to open the door, and a sign suggesting they do that

Fortunately i work at home now so not around sick. We have a bit of a more liberal PTO/sick policy yet when swine flu was bad we still had a few people who could have used a paid sick day and were symptomatic still come in anyway.

I had an HR person who would rail against the ‘mucus troopers’ coming in when they were sick to spread things around. That company was pretty good at sending people home and encouraging them to stay there when they were sick. It does suck though that some sick/pto polices force people to choose between vacation days, being ill and caring for a sick relative; so it’s no wonder people soldier on and get people sick.

Yea I've had a few friends have jobs threatened just for suggesting they weren't feeling well enough to come in a single time.

My bestie got the flu thanks to that

I will never stop opening doors with my hand

Use ur ~mind~

just stay away from bailing machines and table saws then

then there's the people that wash for a few seconds and don't dry. just grab the filthy door handle with their wet hands. drying is important!

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If all that's available are air dryers I think you're better off just wiping on your pants

There's a restaurant around here that only has filthy Dyson dryers but also the foot wedge on the door. So close yet so far

sad lol will dyson dryers be the death of us all, i feel the banter timeline is telling us yet :|

or maybe YES who knows i am tired

we should all just live under a blacklight.

Come to Australia, thanks to the ozone hole we pretty much do.

they at least passed something in chile where places can only charge a maximum of ~$24 USD for the coronavirus test.

I honestly doubtful such a bill would get passed in the US

They'll probably set a minimum cost

If all that's available are air dryers I think you're better off just wiping on your pants

this is a generalization that has some validity, possibly. but how can you be sure an airborne droplet from somewhere didn't land on your pants at some point during the day, though? are you washing and sterilizing your pants everyday? not trying to be ridiculous byu pathogens are mother**ckers.

one other thing i've been thinking since i did ride alongs with restaurant inspectors last month is that restaurant management (at least according to California food code) is responsible for, and is supposed to send sick workers home. in general this doesn't happen

byu=but

can't be held responsible
she was touching wins' face

lol i've had that song in my head all day because of wins' face

lol dammit me too

feeling slightly concerned about going into work tomorrow, given that I'm pretty sure i work with people who have been visiting the nursing home that may have an outbreak. oh well!

Considering working remotely until further notice, on my own authority

is there an ilxor coronavirus pool

Shotgun

msnbc reporting Butti-Biden negotiations in recent days, endorsement possibly forthcoming

whoops

coronavirus has endorsed biden!?!?!?

the long-awaited Joey Corona endorsement

Shoulda known Big Disease would back Biden

are you washing and sterilizing your pants everyday?

YES

scene report: runs on various staples and nonperishables in Seattle, people just buying a bunch of stuff in general. Big Asian supermarket was nearly cleaned out of ramen and rice, no TP left at the Safeway up the street.

Scene report London: Harringay Green Lanes Sainsbury's out of 500ml semi-skimmed milk as of this afternoon. Not sure that's corona-related mind you. Will let Matt Hancock know anyway.

I much prefer staying home when I'm sick too, but that's hard to do for a long, lingering illness. This January I was sick for about two weeks, and I stayed home about three days total, when I was feeling the worst, but I couldn't stay home every day. My whole family was sick, and my wife actually thinks it might have been coronavirus, although the idea that it was circulating in the NYC area as early as late December wouldn't really fit with the timeline as it's been reported. She did have the fever and cough, and our son had a milder case. He had it first, and a few parents of his classmates had been in China in November. Anyway, it's hard to even mention this without sounding crazy, I guess.