My roommate insist on going outside home.
At first he agreed with me on not going outside, and going outside only once a week to buy the basic things. But he is the kind of person that cannot stay at home for too long and hence got desperate and afterwards decided finally to go outside 5 days a ...
In one video from North Korea, the (extremely charming and cute) female tour leader appears to accidentally attempt to open the wrong front door of the pizzeria they were visiting in the video. This causes a humorous effect.
In another video, this time in Thailand, a female hostess of a fancy ho...
I would say I love the idea of a lockdown... but there's also so many people saying it won't work, because it means that when the lockdown lifts people start travelling again and the virus will return in no time...
I think a lockdown only works if we'd do it worldwide :/
a lockdown only works if you're prepared to do what china did: hold it until the infection numbers die the hell down. That means 2 months or more of complete lockdown at least
@Magisch And the first asymptomatic person that now goes to visit China causes another lockdown? I'm not too worried about e.g. my neighbor infecting me after a 2 month lockdown. I'm worried about someone that travels without knowing they're ill starting another wave of infections.
@Tinkeringbell iirc they're only lifting the lockdown very slowly and partially, only people with approved regular negative tests can go back to work, and so on
seems like they're going all in on "we won't let our people get this thing" no matter the economic cost
@Magisch The US has the real life version of annoying orange to guide them through this. My heart goes out to all those that didn't vote him into power :/
there was an interview yesterday with a vice governor who said nobody asked him and that he as a old person would be fine to die so the economy can be saved
Well, if it takes only 1 death to save the entire economy, that's very noble of him. When's he being dropped into an active volcano? Can they hurry up?
this was in the context of arguing that all should go back to normal and a uncontained pandemic would be better then the economic consequences of a prolonged lockdown or social distancing
I dont know. A lockdown basically pushes the economy off a cliff, all but guaranteeing a prolonged depression to rival the one in the 30s. But no lockdown might also do that. Hospital system collapse and rampant rises in death rates aren't just going to have no effect
he's been doing overtime every day, they're running out of PPE hard, some of his coworkers have already gotten sick, not just with corona, because they lack PPE now and can't just stop treating patients
he reckons his hospital is about 2 weeks from having to make really ugly decisions
Yeah, and in the meanwhile we have a Dutch company (Philips) that can make ventilators... but they've been smart enough to put their factories in the US so probably no ventilator will ever reach here :/
I've heard stories of all PPE here being gathered in central places... and people breaking in those places to steal it.
A great-aunt of mine was visited by someone that just visited someone with corona. At least that got grandma to realize she should stay home for a while and limit visitors, so we got to take her groceries.
So far everyone here is still healthy, I hope it stays that way
@Tinkeringbell oh yeah, at my friend's hospital they had to put in additional security because someone took off with several boxes of disposable gloves
we have soap and are encouraged to keep 2m distance from each other, wash hands after and before going anywhere thats not our workstation, and to absolutely minimize physical contact and wandering around the office
breaks are staggered now, each shift ends 30m before the next one starts, break rooms have been closed so people are supposed to eat at their desks only
no way for management to get masks, PPE or hand sanitizer right now, it's not available for purchase
everyone is on edge that the company might have to close or lay off a lot of people. Business is fine-ish for now (all our work and orders from automobile customers are gone but we get more work from medical device manufacturers and their suppliers now)
Pretty much okay, though some of the parts, that work for e.g. aviation are taking a hit, other parts are really busy... It's a really, really big company with really, really varied clients so it's expected to make a full recovery.
They also have this kind of mlm where they encourage employees to buy stock, so even its stock prices haven't dropped as much as with other businesses, apparently.
Well, let's say we were too small to be "seen" by a cosmic being. If their supermagnifier looked like our electron microscope, we'd look like a messy pool of stuff
"“From tomorrow vegetables, milk, fruits, medicines and other essential commodities will be delivered to your doorsteps, for which we have identified more than 10,000 vehicles. These include 4,500 PRVs of police, 4,200 ambulances of 108 and 102 apart from these government vehicles will also be roped in for the purpose.”"
@ankii Sounds good. No longer wondering if the person coughing at you in the supermarket is spreading a deadly disease or just a heavy smoker (which is just as gross, but not deadly at least).
In one video from North Korea, the (extremely charming and cute) female tour leader appears to accidentally attempt to open the wrong front door of the pizzeria they were visiting in the video. This causes a humorous effect.
In another video, this time in Thailand, a female hostess of a fancy ho...
Ok, so my govt allowed ISP's to limit traffic on websites, however it's not a really a issue for me because I'm already using a VPN; Youtube is severely degraded before this rule anyways
I think over here Netflix, Youtube and Disney switched to sd quality (instead of hd), and playstation is limiting download speeds... sounds like it's still better than over there though!
Fun fact I learned yesterday. (For context I work for a real estate company that offers a couple of different services depending on whether you just want to sell, just want to buy, or do both). We have an enum in our code that is used to mark what service a particular customer is using. When our design team does market testing on a new service offering, they make mockups using some fake company name (changes every time).
The value that gets added to the enum (and is used for lots of variable names, etc...) is the name of the fake company used in the mockups rather than the service type.
It's a good company to work for, but good grief they've made some weird tech decisions in the past.
I feel hugely demotivated. I never thought I'd need social contact to keep going but apparently I do. I ask myself tons of question about my career, I don't think that's too good.
@Tinkeringbell Oh, gave me an idea. Ill propose pair programming. I could be teaching some code while giving me a reason to keep going. I love these sessions
@CaldeiraG Wasn't it? I know that on the trains over here, wifi was always limited (things like spotify downloads and netflix streams have always been 'cut off')
@CaldeiraG Some stats are just not available. We have apparently 1 known recovery, the rest is all closed as 'dead'. So our percentage of deaths closing cases is 99.9%.
That's because our healthcare has better things to do than babysitting people to see if they recover.
Ours is admittedly cumbersome and error-prone, but I've seen no other argument than "they're monsters" to prove they're lying in their stats
That doesn't mean it might not be missing quite a few folks in that count, but our healthcare is stronger than an isolated sanctioned country's should have been
Our recovery rate is also suspiciously high, because I suspect they're being too eager on letting folks off, but I'm no expert
