outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

My office actually put a trash can near the door for people to put paper towels after they use them to open the door, and a sign suggesting they do that

Fortunately i work at home now so not around sick. We have a bit of a more liberal PTO/sick policy yet when swine flu was bad we still had a few people who could have used a paid sick day and were symptomatic still come in anyway.

I had an HR person who would rail against the ‘mucus troopers’ coming in when they were sick to spread things around. That company was pretty good at sending people home and encouraging them to stay there when they were sick. It does suck though that some sick/pto polices force people to choose between vacation days, being ill and caring for a sick relative; so it’s no wonder people soldier on and get people sick.

Yea I've had a few friends have jobs threatened just for suggesting they weren't feeling well enough to come in a single time.

My bestie got the flu thanks to that

I will never stop opening doors with my hand

Use ur ~mind~

just stay away from bailing machines and table saws then

then there's the people that wash for a few seconds and don't dry. just grab the filthy door handle with their wet hands. drying is important!

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If all that's available are air dryers I think you're better off just wiping on your pants

There's a restaurant around here that only has filthy Dyson dryers but also the foot wedge on the door. So close yet so far

sad lol will dyson dryers be the death of us all, i feel the banter timeline is telling us yet :|

or maybe YES who knows i am tired

we should all just live under a blacklight.

Come to Australia, thanks to the ozone hole we pretty much do.

they at least passed something in chile where places can only charge a maximum of ~$24 USD for the coronavirus test.

I honestly doubtful such a bill would get passed in the US

They'll probably set a minimum cost

If all that's available are air dryers I think you're better off just wiping on your pants

this is a generalization that has some validity, possibly. but how can you be sure an airborne droplet from somewhere didn't land on your pants at some point during the day, though? are you washing and sterilizing your pants everyday? not trying to be ridiculous byu pathogens are mother**ckers.

one other thing i've been thinking since i did ride alongs with restaurant inspectors last month is that restaurant management (at least according to California food code) is responsible for, and is supposed to send sick workers home. in general this doesn't happen

byu=but

can't be held responsible
she was touching wins' face

lol i've had that song in my head all day because of wins' face

lol dammit me too

feeling slightly concerned about going into work tomorrow, given that I'm pretty sure i work with people who have been visiting the nursing home that may have an outbreak. oh well!

Considering working remotely until further notice, on my own authority

is there an ilxor coronavirus pool

Shotgun

msnbc reporting Butti-Biden negotiations in recent days, endorsement possibly forthcoming

whoops

coronavirus has endorsed biden!?!?!?

the long-awaited Joey Corona endorsement

Shoulda known Big Disease would back Biden

are you washing and sterilizing your pants everyday?

YES

scene report: runs on various staples and nonperishables in Seattle, people just buying a bunch of stuff in general. Big Asian supermarket was nearly cleaned out of ramen and rice, no TP left at the Safeway up the street.

Scene report London: Harringay Green Lanes Sainsbury's out of 500ml semi-skimmed milk as of this afternoon. Not sure that's corona-related mind you. Will let Matt Hancock know anyway.

I much prefer staying home when I'm sick too, but that's hard to do for a long, lingering illness. This January I was sick for about two weeks, and I stayed home about three days total, when I was feeling the worst, but I couldn't stay home every day. My whole family was sick, and my wife actually thinks it might have been coronavirus, although the idea that it was circulating in the NYC area as early as late December wouldn't really fit with the timeline as it's been reported. She did have the fever and cough, and our son had a milder case. He had it first, and a few parents of his classmates had been in China in November. Anyway, it's hard to even mention this without sounding crazy, I guess.

Australia seems to be decidedly not panicking. Japanese market was a bit low on rice but that could easily just be Sunday. The Chinese and Vietnamese markets a full of the stuff. Didn’t go into Woolworths but my local organic store is out of the tea I like but this has been the case for weeks. They never seem to get their heads round the fact that black tea is more popular than green or herbal and never order enough.

We made a few servings of lentils, so we're good until Tuesday, probably.

Movement afoot to cancel SXSW ...

"Harringay Green Lanes Sainsburys" hey I've been in this market!

not going to cancel my plans to travel to San Miguel de Allende this month

welp it's in FL now!

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/2-coronavirus-cases-presumptive-positive-in-the-tampa-bay-area/67-793f2e15-f24f-4e35-af5c-02857cea4a83?fbclid=IwAR3rCdoc3PdSUAs_yXU36WPa1iM5hbv5Bx84hD0VW1QyKQXROxIo4UN3evI

feel like this is about to start moving very fast over the next week as the testing ramps up.

my medical field buddy says expect the numbers to explode next week

second death in Washington state reported

CDC states run on supplies unnecessary, nobody listening, as per usual.

I mean, I live in Seattle, I'm definitely panic buying because I want to spend as little time as possible in supermarkets when this thing is at its peak.

a new case in manhattan as well

xpost they're concerned about people who don't need masks (i.e., people who aren't already sick) that are making runs on masks, which could cause a shortage for health professionals. most other items will probably be fairly easily replenished since there aren't national shortages.

how am i supposed to go panic shopping without plastic bags

just planning on a lot of hand washing and not touching my face

I’m still grieving all of my friends who died in SF/NY during the AIDS epidemic, I think I can handle this

was reading back on the 2009 flu pandemic and I forgot how widespread it was in the States. 2009 was such a shitty year I guess I just wasn't paying attention.

weirdly I feel the reactions to Ebola in the United States were much more panicked despite the relative small number of infections and difficulty of spread, whereas now clearer heads do seem to be prevailing (or people are too tired to worry about it). we also didn't have an insane person i nthe white house, so..... There was an instance where a teacher was required to stay home because she visited Dallas where there was one case, even though she was nowhere near where that victim was located.

the panic was probably also due to its much higher mortality rate, but we even had "WHAT IF IT BECOMES AIRBORNE" concern trolling from actual scientists during that one.

My wife is still getting over pneumonia (she wasn’t tested for coronavirus of course but she’s responded well to antibiotics so I assume the diagnosis was correct). Anyway she just flew out this morning for a work conference in, you guessed it, Seattle.