outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

they make fingernail brushes if you are really worried.

only $79.99 on Amazon!

I'll take 3 then!

Virtual work is bliss btw

i don't think people should *panic *panic* but just be prepared and have a plan so you don't have to panic later. Or at least that's me. I may be missing a gene about panic.

Thanks all, None the wiser but will save the gas and water by not waiting for 90 seconds. Maybe 45.

omg WFH is the dream. people who are given the responsibility of determining if your team should whf...what are you doing???? Are you people high?

I've done it for eight years. And for some companies, they're already capable and probably should an implemented a virtual workforce years ago to save on real estate. Even call centers can work virtually.

Suddenly going to the doctor becomes easier and you can work in comfort.

(because I usually/mostly washes dishes with cold water)

...although this is crazy. The heat dislodges the grease.

Rudy Gobert: a play in three acts pic.twitter.com/bKWLufKH8K

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) March 12, 2020

i know i know. It was a whole thing on the other thread. TBF we don't cook meat or bake things often so it's never really an issue. xpost

:)

i dunno, i may just be lucky. I go out in the winter with wet hair and sleep with wet hair too and I am 41 and have never been to the ER or had a serious illness or missed a day of school and missed like one day of work from being sick. maybe my insides are already dead.

dead inside.

We worked from home on a trial today and though it has since upsides it's emphatically not the dream for me. My work is fiddly on a small laptop screen and I don't have a decent office chair or ergonomic set up, let alone a standing desk. And comms with people at work via Slack and Hangouts is not the same as a live office at all.

Maybe try a long-running Zoom that people can drop into and out of, with sidebar channels if required. It's definitely not the same, but it makes you feel like you are "somewhere"

My largest client just went work from home today. Makes no difference to me as I’m the only one in Melbourne anyway. For me it least it levels the playing field as now everyone has to deal with slack and hangouts interactions only.

Also fuck trump for calling it a ‘foreign virus’

did he only call it a foreign virus? That's pretty subtle for him.

Stephen Miller says only targeted xenophobia can stop this foreign virus. Europe, go die. UK, you cool, come on over and let's party.

Virus appears to be spread by payroll taxes.

wait....tom hanks has coronavirus?

https://deadline.com/2020/03/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-test-positive-coronavirus-elvis-presley-movie-1202880431/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

sorry, sic

i was so excited i forgot to strip it out (which i normally do!)

...but tom hanks has coronavirus?

Not Tom Hanks

It's funny how much more seriously Americans took Coronavirus when they were using it as an excuse to rip on the Chinese via some really impressive concern trolling.

A slew of far right rags like the Moonies, Daily Caller, et al ran an article suggesting the Coronavirus came from bat soup, and while it was zoonotic and *possibly* did originate in the street food market, nobody knows definitively where it came from, it was just an unfounded rumor. so naturally readers were calling Chinese nationals backwards assholes who spread the virus due to their savagery.

I’m sure there’s still plenty of anti-Chinese racism in the offing.

you guys might want to know that actually the coronavirus was a biological weapon invented in a collaboration between the chinese military and french intelligence, and it accidentally got out. any reporter who tries to write about this gets fired. according to my father in law.

oh there is still totally anti anyone who looks east asian racism about it.

I.... don't entirely disagree with the Trump travel ban?

Like it's not much more than a bandaid given his bungling in the states but.... probably not a good idea to fly to countries of higher infection if it's a round trip?

Idk...

The real problem is more likely the huge amount of untested CV circulating in the US already, but eh. And excluding the UK is weird. He knows we have an open border with the rest of Europe, right? Maybe they really, really believe in Brexit.

I mean i think it will not accomplish much because we're already too late for containment.

The open border scenario came up at my rehearsal tonight

the US is, at this point, either a country of higher infection now or well on it way

Yea after i read further...

Trump made the decision in order to "keep new cases from entering our shores."

Nevermind. fuck him.

New cases are already happening you dipshit! What do you think COMMUNITY SPREAD is, something you put on bagels?

The UK exclusion was almost certainly a nod of solidarity directed at BoJo & Co., yes? It doesn't have anything to do with anything real or, y'know, potentially beneficial to the lives of others.

Can we rename this the MAGAvirus

Lakers are good
NBA season suspended

lol that was meant for hoops thread

Virtual work is bliss btw

Dying sounds better to me than working from home for a year. Work is fucking work, home is home. Also I have a lousy Verizon connection that's been esp dicey this week.

And i'm restarting chemotherapy Friday, what beautiful timing. Please wash your hands ie don't kill me.

Unreal

Good luck, Morbs!

Work feels less unbearable at home. I can put on the TV in the background!

I can lead class naked, as long as I don't turn my Webcam on!

I saw a tweet joking that Trump just wanted to announce the ban on EU travel before the EU could do the same to us, which feels like it has about an 80% chance of being true.

My manager seemed cool with my WFH request but then he talked to HR and came back to me with a canned statement saying the office remains open and we are expected to be onsite supporting the business, the company is monitoring the situation and an announcement will be made if blah blah blah

So I guess I’m using vacation days! I’d rather be supporting the business but not at the cost of riding the fucking subway right now!

but do you have a year of vacation days, Jon?

Fuck your company. Wgat bullshit

Mine just banned in person meetings of 10 or more. But tbh social responsibility was never the problem with my company. They even gave paid days off during the 2004 hurricanes.

Lol

No but I only need as many vacation days as it takes before they get to whatever trigger point the company has in mind and send everyone home

Xpost

whatever trigger point the company has

at the rate things seem to be moving i don't think it will be long

Physics Nerds

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ljkz1woed8mv34n/IMG_7103.JPG?raw=1

There's technically no part of my job that I couldn't do from home but because I'm hourly I've never been given that option and I don't expect to be given that option even if things go pear-shaped so although it will suck to have to dip into my PTO if circumstances dictate that I'm out of the office for an extended stretch I can at least take solace in the fact that my very essential job functions getting very much not done will result in my place of work getting powerfucked.