Unfortunately I don’t think we’re at peak internet yet
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
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
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Reuters: Thousands wait for hospital beds in South Korea as coronavirus cases surge
Acute care hospital beds per 1000 population, per OECD:
Japan 7.79Korea 7.14Germany 6.02Switzerland 3.56France 3.09Ireland 2.77Netherlands 2.92Italy 2.62New Zealand 2.59United States 2.44Denmark 2.42United Kingdom 2.11Canada 1.95
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Canada's acute care hospital bed numbers not exactly comforting
― doug watson, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
if you press the "flag" link on the post, a nurse will be along to adjust the number for you
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
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.
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.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
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?
― henry s, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
two weeks tops
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
but when will they wave them like they just don't care
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
btw sorry kim i realized my post was in error the moment i clicked "submit"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
Mutated?
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/04/coronavirus-chinese-scientists-identify-two-types-covid-19.html
― whistling (brownie), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
this... seems good?
The more aggressive type of virus was found to be prevalent in the early stages of the outbreak in Wuhan — the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected late last year.
But the frequency of this type of virus has since decreased from early January, the scientists said.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Yes it would seem like it but then:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/confirmed-coronavirus-death-rate-3-020009251.html
― whistling (brownie), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
Is this the first of these global flus/viruses to hit in the age of peak internet?
Is it ever.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
if jamband music has taught us anything, the next mutation will be most intense
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
Guys have we considered ILX might be infected
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Every post might be contaminated
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Cape of Good Hope might be a quarantine area
fret not
VP Pence: "The greatest concern is testing. I am pleased to report we have 2500 kits available that we will distribute. We approved a process that will allow testing at state and university laboratories."2500.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 4, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nR0vims.gifFrom gisaid.org
Dozens of mutants found to date. ssRNA viruses have really shoddy replication. Most mutants wouldn't change behavior enough to be called a strain. And in large host populations, there's not much selective pressure to lower lethality. If some mutant arises that more transmissible, that would be favored (a branch that grows to dominate the phylogenetic tree).
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
Coool. Cool cool cool. It's like the thing after the hurricane in PR where they had like twelve meals to hand out or whatever. Just the coolest.
I'm not going to be alarmist and say we're all gonna die but I'd say the majority of us in the US will contract this shit.
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
The clamour for testing kits seems misplaced. If you get a cough and a fever right now you should go home and stay there for a couple of weeks. If every person with those symptoms decided to go to the doctors to get tested that would actually be bad.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
My understanding is that symptoms in the vast majority of people are not usually bad, and that those that get it bad are in conspicuously at risk (for everything) groups, like 80-year olds.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
As far as I can tell, each of those testing "kits" above is a set of lab reagents required to do 500 to 1000 tests in individuals. So we're looking at ~1.25 million tests.
Given this bug is infectious in the nonsymptomatic, widespread testing of anyone whose suspicious they had contact is a really good idea. Providing some sense of security for the anxious, identifying those that need to self-quarantine and getting them under medical surveillance for contacts, permitting most society to continuing function.
Korea has done >90k tests to date, and is probably doing much better than otherwise for the effort. They just really got screwed by the Shincheonji cult situation.
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
xpost I wouldn't call 80% a vast majority. A majority, sure, but not all that vast, especially given the numbers we're talking about.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
80% is a vast majority
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
4/5
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/k56uryal1yejdimkk8mf.jpg
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
I mean... it depends what you're talking about. If you win an election with 80% of the vote, yes, it's a vast majority. If you're talking about rates of severe illness requiring hospitalization, in a population where a lot of people are going to get the virus, 20% of illnesses being severe seems pretty significant.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
I know everyone here is taking this seriously, I'm just getting really frustrated with being in Seattle and having people around me downplay this.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
I feel like the prediction (mentioned by someone way upthread) that this will eventually become like the flu, sort of an ongoing and omnipresent risk that many people get at some point in life (but that we develop reliable treatments and periodically-administered vaccines for), is probably sound.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
My thinking also.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Maybe washing my hands with habanero seeds would be effective aversion training. BRB.
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Its weird, I'd started to get myself into the "wash hands often, especially just after public transport use, and STOP TIOUCHING YR FACE" like a year ago, because I was tired of getting colds - and it worked pretty well too, so I'm already in good habits but now I also have severe eczema on my hands :(
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Guessing we'll see a lot fewer "Kiss Me - I'm Irish" t-shirts at St. Patty's Day parades this year.
― henry s, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
"Kiss Me; I'm Virus Free."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
"Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me; Your Tongue's Like Poison"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
Oh shit, have you ever touched hot peppers with your bare hands? It hurts! Ironically enough, one of the few things to make it feel better is rubbing alcohol, so not only will you not touch your eyes or face (more than once), you'll be constantly disinfecting your paws.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
Public Health Seattle & King County has issued guidance that all employees should work from home if they are able.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
xp. umm, no it doesn't hurt?
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
unless you have cuts on your hand or like eczema or something
i used to be obsessed with putting fresh hot peppers on everything. I had to stop because I wear contacts and you also can't get busy as often.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
Thanks, silby, I sent that to my housemates. Maybe this will help persuade the holdouts to start taking it seriously.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
It totally hurts! Not, like, handling them whole, but cutting them? Absolutely!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
pepper empathy
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link