turns out, there was no point so you just have to not do it!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
honestly im kinda psyched rly
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
well more to the point I'd like to react to this by starting to work remotely and just sitting at home but nobody is telling me I should so I'm more anxious than if I were yielding to my instincts to overreact
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
That WHO person is not taking into account the direness of the US healthcare system and who is in charge of the country.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Also, I don't consider it panicking. I consider it being responsible for those around you. Like, vaccinating your kids.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
oh wait, there's no point in worry about things that might happen? good to know, that will solve anxiety and depression for so many people!
you mock but i suffer/ed with anxiety for my entire life and that is one of the thoughts that has given me a lot of comfort
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
I think he's addressing our direness here: China got patients in treatment early and have highly sophisticated health care treatment procedures. They are really good at keeping people alive with this disease. They have a survival rate (with a mortality rate of just under 1% outside of Hubei province) for this disease I would not extrapolate to the rest of the world. What you’ve seen in Italy and Iran is that a lot of people are dying.
― Darin, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
well if the italians cant organise against this then what hope have th no sorry i cant
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
xpost. Oh ha, I thought he sounded overly optimistic. I guess he was just being factual.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Also this:
Q: Aren’t the two initial symptoms most commonly fever and dry cough?
Bruce Aylward:
Right. [But many still think] it’s a runny nose and cold. Your population is your surveillance system. Everybody has got a smartphone, everybody can get a thermometer. That is your surveillance system. Don’t rely on this hitting your health system, because then it’s going to infect it. You’ve got this great surveillance system out there — make sure the surveillance system is primed. Make sure you’re ready to act on the signals that come in from that surveillance system. You’ve got to be set up to rapidly assess whether or not they really have those symptoms, test those people, and, if necessary, isolate and trace their contacts.
Here, again, is where I’ve seen things starting to break down. What I’ve been told is if you think you’ve been exposed and have a fever, call your [general practitioner]. We’ve got to be better than that. If we are going to use our GPs — do they have an emergency line where you can get through? Do they know what to do?
In China, they have set up a giant network of fever hospitals. In some areas, a team can go to you and swab you and have an answer for you in four to seven hours. But you’ve got to be set up — speed is everything.
― Darin, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
throwing away my secret hopes this would finally be the disease one cures by eating cacio e pepe for every meal
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
beginning to wonder if I had this back at the beginning of February
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
please let us know if you progress to mid-wonder so we may divest all stock holdings
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
maybe you will know if you have it if you *don't* crave cacio e pepe.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
oops now I crave cacio e pepe
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
i am going to make a mask of it to wear.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
sorry guys I ruined SXSW, who wants cacio e pepe
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
Theres a case in Chile now, Yerac. In Talca tho, not Santiago
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
in the clear so far! no one will come looking for me. Maybe if i keep my blood alcohol content above a certain amount that will keep me sanitized from the inside.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
just imagine. an entire case of cacio e pepe.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah, no, sorry. Not gonna do "My Corona."— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) March 3, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Joey Corona wept
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
xpost Presumably because he's working on his Steely Dan lampoon 'Covid-19'.
― Lake Meat (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
Our whole (tech) company is working from home on Friday, in preparation.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
how many deaths am i willing to accept in exchange for the destruction of open-plan offices
probably just as well i don't get to decide
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
Given a) the advanced age/infirmity of an alarming number of my coworkers and b) our management's incredibly stupid mid-20th Century insistence that EVERYONE work in the actual office a certain number of days/week (or in the case of yrs truly all five of those days), I am 100% certain that my workplace will be m/l responsible for at least one death in the event that we get hit with this thing.
― Lake Meat (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
leadership continuing to tell us it's business as usual but considering my anxiety level I am probably just gonna work from fucking home tomorrow at least
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
12 of 30 first responders at the Kirkland nursing home have flu-like symptoms. Beast of a bug.
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
I will say ease of transmission is something that could use a little clarification from officials. I've seen it reported that it is actually harder to transmit than the regular flu, but I don't know if that is old information.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure they actually know
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
i was under the impression it manifests as pneumonia? or was that only early reports.
While the USA refuses to test people because it's too expensive, in Spain they're retroactively testing people who died of pneumonia recently. They discovered the virus had arrived earlier than previously known. https://t.co/efeXYbmQaH— It's a-me, Mario! (@Mario_Vilas) March 3, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
fuuuck
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
this isn't the disease to do it but later on in years we'll be the first nation to fall due to everybody dying due to livign not being cost effective
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
uh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
every now and again lads, every now and again.....eesh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
ilxors showing the strain of simultaneous election angst, pandemic angst, and economic crash angst. it can emerge as odd squeaks.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
i am not worried about everybody dying at all.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
I'm positively eager for some cases.
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
I'm getting in on the new Australian tradition of stockpiling TP, but only because I needed something to tip me over the free delivery threshold from the organic grocers.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
xp there it is
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
sanpaku slathering himself with purell in his basement cleanroom asking Siri about casualty figures
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
hot
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
that is strangely hot.
ha! xpost.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
The White House would not allow audio or video of today’s federal coronavirus response news conference https://t.co/d2xc7vrtqV— Jon Passantino (@passantino) March 3, 2020
....ok
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
No doubt they didn't want any clips going vi ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
My online customer service job just sent out an email saying they are taking the threat seriously, along with a fact sheet and tips about avoiding people who are sick, staying home if not feeling well, etc. They hasten to add, of course, that there's no need to change the harsh attendance policy. (Without a doctor's note, an unplanned absence is three points; it takes six months for a single point to fall off one's record. Nine points is termination. We don't get sick days, so to get paid, must use our limited PTO retroactively.)
So, of course, very few employees will actually stay home, especially if they can't manage to drag themselves into a doctor's for a note. No doubt people have similar circumstances throughout the service industry.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
Well, at the least it would probably sting a lot.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
Very normal WH behavior, certain to quell fears and keep the stock market securely rocketing into the stratosphere.
― Lake Meat (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
My daughter's high school has a very strict absentee policy, basically 12 days max, for any reason. Well, *had* a very strict policy, because we got an email telling us that starting tomorrow they would prefer sick people just stay home, thank you very much.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
ok fuck management, I'm wfh from tomorrow until TBD, only a matter of time before they tell us to do that anyway
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link