outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

How does one disinfect a shaggy dog? I honestly have no idea how to keep Teufel virally clean.
We have no yard, and he must pee. I worry more about him, and what happens with him if I get sick, than I do my 70+ yo parents.

Did you just spoil everything by revealing that all your data overload anxiousness is ultimately a shaggy dog story

I am confused and intrigued about this shaggy dog situation.

time to get those puppy pee-pads out again

how about with clippers?

We have no yard, and he must pee

Man Ellison just isn't trying anymore.

The coronavirus would spread so quickly in the movie Face/Off pic.twitter.com/hS4JS34M7n

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) March 3, 2020

JG Ballard novel in real life as rich boomers are suddenly unwanted refugees pic.twitter.com/1NlpZGRUW3

— Paul Duane (@MrPaulDuane) March 3, 2020

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/03/amazon-confirms-seattle-employee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/amp/

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/national/just-cancel-trending-hard-coronavirus-gets-olympic-push-88-anime-akira/#.Xl95YSVxXDt

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/national/just-cancel-trending-hard-coronavirus-gets-olympic-push-88-anime-akira/#.Xl95YSVxXDt

There's still some time before the September intake but this is looking like it might be a nightmare scenario for UK Higher Education. Universities are pretty much run as a business, with many borrowing against expected revenues to drive expansion, etc. The effect of the hostile migration policy hasn't been to drive down overall numbers of international students (which have increased), it has been to lead to a massive reliance on China as learners from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Nigeria, etc, have gravitated towards Australia and Canada. More or less every place vacated by a student from any of those countries has been filled with one from China.

At present, it's not clear when all of those Chinese students will be able to resume / finish their domestic education, or take the English tests they'll require to get visas. There's also a big assumption that the situation will have normalised enough by the start of the academic year to enable them to travel.

The University my wife works at in Australia is paying Chinese students to fly to a third country and self isolate there for two weeks rather than have them drop out or go somewhere else.

Term just start and she’s doing streaming lectures and group projects by zoom. Her classes are generally about 50-60% ethically Chinese but not necessarily from China.

Think I have said this way upthread, but in addition to all my in-laws still being quarantined in Hubei, the summer school I manage in England has 65% of its intake from schools in Wuhan, basically everything is fucked from multiple angles right now.

A purely selfish potential upside: online tuition (as opposed to in-person) will become de rigueur, and then we can finally move to the wilds (well, wherever there's wifi)

Virus stats tracker here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

9 deaths from 128 cases in the US seems somewhat high - is that because it apparently costs $3000 to get tested over there?

It's because afaict they've all taken place in the same place, an old age home full of ill or otherwise immunocompromised patients.

Italy to close all schools and universities across the country for two weeks to control coronavirus outbreak, Italian news agency reportshttps://t.co/WxExbLXW9j pic.twitter.com/SiLzvZfjt3

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 4, 2020

eep Live Coronavirus: number of confirmed cases in UK jumps from 51 to 85 in a day

As long as the numbers remain so (relatively) low and specific, it gives me some reassurance. That reassurance will evaporate if the reporting shifts to a generalized "hundreds" or "thousands."

Both of my kids are sick right now and between them they totally show corona symptoms ... as well as symptoms of pretty much any illness. One has a fever, fatigue, loss of appetite and stomach ache, the other has a stuffy nose and cough. Together they're like Virus Voltron.

Other managers at my small company look at me like I am an idiot when bring up the subject of preparing for the coronavirus, such as checking with our building to ensure appropriate cleaning, buying cleaning supplies if it's not being done by the building, instruct employees to stay home in the event of illness, ensure all employees have the ability to work from home, check with key vendors re: their preparedness, etc. Dumbfucks.

i keep forwarding copy to clients with "hey we need to prepare for this on a comms end" but no movement yet

xpost I guess the UK numbers are probably more trustworthy than the US ones. I think a lot of people here in Seattle are reassured by our low numbers, not realizing that we're still barely testing.

lol that's what I told me mom last night: no numbers if you don't test!

checking with our building to ensure appropriate cleaning, buying cleaning supplies if it's not being done by the building

My wife literally did this yesterday! She contact the COO (or whomever) to make sure light switches, screens and stuff were getting extra attention. They told they thought so, but that she should contact "the building" to be sure.

Most people I talk to around here or at work think I'm nuts for doing the barest amount of prep for this shit. There are tons of folks out there who thinks it's just a lit of panic over nothing.

All international travel now banned at my company. Probably not far off from banning international customers from visiting us.

xpost Tbh it kind of is, for now, at least in this country. But all the same there's no harm in doing the barest amount of prep for this shit. Or any shit. I believe that is the official CDC position.

Is this the first of these global flus/viruses to hit in the age of peak internet?

My last couple of companies I worked at were really nice in that people were very distrustful of any soothing announcements being made and would completely listened to any of their feelings of unease. They would peace out and go home very quickly. And everyone was very respectful of that because they didn't want to be the one blamed for keeping someone in the building if shit went down (NYC).

SARS in 2003 actually caused a WHO travel advisory for Toronto if I recall correctly, but because it was pre-Facebook days, we all kind of forgot about it after the first few news cycles. I saw a few people on Spadina wearing masks at the time, but no panic like now.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90469200/this-coronavirus-suit-protects-you-inside-a-literal-bubble

Could be a matter of concern that we’ve all seemingly forgotten that overuse of sanitizers breeds terrifying antibiotic resistant bacteria, which was already becoming a big problem, but I’m no expert.

kim i would recommend reading this thread

Thanks but I was referring to the wider “we” who are clearing supermarket shelves of the stuff. Though I admit I was glad to have one container of Lysol wipes in the house since my kid decided it was a good time to get a stomach bug.

Unfortunately I don’t think we’re at peak internet yet

I'm officially going to be working from home indefinitely, I was in the office yesterday losing my marbles and reapplying purell every six minutes

which sucks, mind you, I don't have a good chair or a good desk or a good monitor

lol being as i work in a shop at an airport i just figure i've already had it/got it/about to get it. it'll probably work out okay.

usefully we did recieve a memo from the airport to stay 2 metres away from any passenger who becomes ill (ie is coughing/sweating/out of breath) which considering most passengers have their winter coats on and are rushing to get flights whilst quickly trying to find a suitable book to buy in our warm shop is most of them.

Reuters: Thousands wait for hospital beds in South Korea as coronavirus cases surge

Acute care hospital beds per 1000 population, per OECD:

Japan           7.79
Korea           7.14
Germany         6.02
Switzerland     3.56
France          3.09
Ireland         2.77
Netherlands     2.92
Italy           2.62
New Zealand     2.59
United States	2.44
Denmark         2.42
United Kingdom	2.11
Canada          1.95

not sure that all 2300 of those people need a hospital bed. they probably give them out based on risk and even reserve some for developing higher risk cases.

Canada's acute care hospital bed numbers not exactly comforting

if you press the "flag" link on the post, a nurse will be along to adjust the number for you

wework: a place you join as an individual, 'me', but where you become part of a greater 'we'

An employee who works from a Midtown WeWork location has been self-quarantined over possible exposure to a coronavirus patient, according to a memo from the company.

The financial organization Teachers, Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) notified the co-working space that one of their employees may have been in contact with someone who was contagious with the coronavirus, the notice obtained by The Post said.

The worker has been ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days while the location on 51st St. and Lexington Ave. is set to undergo a deep cleaning overnight Wednesday, the company said.

Just had a minor freakout because I was washing my face with my contacts out, reached for my towel, dried my face, and then realized one of my housemates had hung their towel over mine and I was using theirs. My house is quite possibly riddled with coronavirus because we had a fever and a cough going around and everyone who had it is still coughing. Now my housemate (in the bathroom coughing at this moment) thinks I'm crazy. I hate this.

NYTimes has a "we're tracking every case" map of the US on their splash page. How long do you figure before throw their hands in the air?

two weeks tops

but when will they wave them like they just don't care

btw sorry kim i realized my post was in error the moment i clicked "submit"