Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

honestly, zoom's presumptive security holes last year were them trying to solve unintuitive UI issues (clicking a link in a browser and it either downloading a file or giving a weird prompt instead of just opening their app) with insanely bad hacks. afaict they've fixed that idiocy and it's a pretty good piece of software

we're trying to switch to telehealth in a week but i honestly have no idea how patients are going to access it -- phone appointments are permissible for pts that refuse to come to clinic, but discouraged because (wait for it) we can't bill

How many of those tourists in Spain are going to be dead in a month? jfc.

This has me a bit scared -

Coronavirus & Age:

•64% of those critically ill in Italy are under 70
•50%+ of those critically ill in France are under 60
•50%+ of those critically ill in Netherlands are under 50
•80% of those just infected in Portugal are under 60

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) March 16, 2020

we're trying to switch to telehealth in a week but i honestly have no idea how patients are going to access it -- phone appointments are permissible for pts that refuse to come to clinic, but discouraged because (wait for it) we can't bill

― gbx

that is already changing fwiw

just got the email I've been expecting for a while: everyone not specifically asked to be in the office is required to WFH until further notice. this is gonna suuuck.

i suspect we'll be a little slower here (NM), but i hope not. the response from the state itself has been fairly brisk, given that we had zero known cases this time last week

i've had one pt actually show up today, i'm guessing we'll close out the day with like a 75% no-show rate

love unsourced twitter accounts

xps

Source: the internet.

Up to now, all of MS's positives had been in the south half of the state, but the north half just got their first case...in this county. From what I'm hearing, in my town.

we’re a reasonably big (FTSE250) company who has shifted a lot of their workforce onto WFH this week. we’ve been asked not to use teams video chat and told not to even stay logged on, due to bandwidth constraints. we have to log on and off to collect emails. quite surprising I thought - had initially thought all of our traffic would be e.g. being handled by staff’s internet bandwidth but it must be routed through a VPN or some other server?

He gives the sources here

1. https://t.co/RDmn3xQXAK
2. https://t.co/ZaS3yBtnak
3. https://t.co/kala9i2kQu
4. https://t.co/y7pUj8yOP6

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) March 16, 2020

Expecting / hoping you'll rip these apart now

FINALLY got wfh directive, been anticipating it but it's going to be quite a jarring transition. i think i'll need to tidy up my space and stick to a routine of some kind (aka not work in pajamas)

Whatever the specific numbers are, I do agree it's been underreported how many people younger than 60 or 70 or whatever are being hospitalized with serious conditions, whether or not they are in mortal danger. And of course the latter potentially becomes higher for everyone the worse the care or availability of care gets.

Donadio seems like a legit journalist

xps

in an unsettling reversal of my teenage years, I am now yelling at my parents for going out

— Brigid Delaney (@BrigidWD) March 16, 2020

The Portugal stat is not news or scary, it's what you'd expect for pandemic that everyone is going to catch.

The French one is more worrying and I don't understand it.

my coworker - after being in the office all last week - has decided that she should self-isolate for 14 days from when she arrived back in the country (she got back from a country that has less confirmed cases of COVID than we have in this province). basically a complete excuse not to come into work that doesn't make any sense and which ups my workload at a particularly trying time. she has answered an email or two in our shared inbox thus far this morning.

Donadio works for The Atlantic - do they love Fake news or something?

p as much as you do

Finally a directive at my work: "vulnerable people" will be working from home. Which in my office is my diabetic boss, one person recovering from surgery, one with a seriously immunocompromised partner, someone pregnant, maybe the person who lives with their 80+ mother... there actually won't be many of us left. But I'm still coming in, for now.

At least I asked my boss if we could be slightly lenient about start times (which we are anyway but I wanted to check) so that if I'm running late I don't have to squeeze onto a bus, I can take my time and walk in.

Hopefully the walk in will be relatively free of people, though it will help if schools shut, as there's a primary school near both ends of my commute and a couple more just a bit further along, so from 8:20 to 9 there are packs of kids being herded down the footpath.

xxxp don't be too mad you'll be working from home any day now yourself

Citation required:

My observation: Kids pulled outta schools, People out of their jobs, Everyone doesn’t have money or enough to go for long.. Stress is at an all time high.. ‘Pressure Busts Pipes’ Shit could get very hectic…. Just sayin.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 16, 2020

Source: Ice T

I know who I'm phoning next time my boiler is fucked!

Ice T [blue tick mark] actually

Ice T 2020,My observation: Kids pulled outta schools, People out of their jobs, Everyone doesn't have money or enough to go for long.. Stress is at an all time high.. 'Pressure Busts Pipes' Shit could get very hectic.... Just sayin., 16 March [Twitter]. Available at

My observation: Kids pulled outta schools, People out of their jobs, Everyone doesn’t have money or enough to go for long.. Stress is at an all time high.. ‘Pressure Busts Pipes’ Shit could get very hectic…. Just sayin.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 16, 2020

Well whaddya know

Pressure bursts pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe

I dooon't smoooke da reefa

My kid's school officially closed until April 3 now. Hard to imagine that won't get extended. My wife still apparently going into her retail cashiering job every day though.

Ontario schools are scheduled to reopen April 6. Simply not going to happen--they're not going to reopen when the caseload is much, much higher than when they closed them. Realistically, as you get closer to June, I can't see where the whole year isn't written off. (And the ramifications of that, I don't know.)

I'm struggling to fight off a depression due to this, I believe. Peace to you all.

It'll be at least 4 weeks for schools at the minimum. It'll take 2 weeks from now before the current quarantining even has an registered impact. After 2 weeks of mounting deaths, as clemenza said, they won't be ready to reopen. Maybe if it's under control after an additional 2 weeks they'll look into reopening some schools. I think they're just telling most of us 2 weeks because a month (and probably longer) would freak people out even more. We have to settle into our new routines.

ain't gonna be any school until September, if then

almost everywhere i regularly visit in the past eight months is closed

You may be right - or maybe there will be makeup over the summer? Israel is doing that. xp

Made a small grocery run on my way to work; all the rice was gone except for jasmine, which was fully stocked (???)

xp maybe yeah

I just ordered 3x Diary of Anne Frank for some home-schooling w/ my two girls

so is it just me or has there not been much reporting on people who have had this and lived? I'd think there'd be a lot of people saying "here's what this is like' to assuage some fears. I've seen only a few "it was like a very bad flu" but not as much as I'd like. And once you get this, do they know if you're immune to it?

Only info I've seen about acquired immunity is cautious and inconclusive, other than antibodies are detectable after the detectable virus has disappeared. Mostly they are guessing, based on other coronavirus variants from the past. Could be months or it could be years.

Re what it’s like, there was this testimony

Uh https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/16/coronavirus-survivor-becomes-good-morning-britain-hero-phone-keeps-ringing-dog-interrupts-interview-12403334/

so we had to cancel the weekly pub quiz i run due to the lockdown, so i... decided to do it online for ppl so they have something to do with their monday night? and the response has been very big so far, far bigger than i imagined, so i may have the most ppl playing ever and i am so worried about how i am gonna run it and mark it oh god lol what have i done

ok, I'm on a recorded Zoom meeting and fwiw the host had to start recording and it gave a "This is recorded, continue or leave now?" prompt in case anyone is wondering

Look the thread title does say mostly

late-stage capitalism put under even the slightest stress looks exactly what capitalists claim socialism looks like https://t.co/Hc9pGPfdhg

— agrabah strike bomber (@ChairmanSolo) March 12, 2020

And once you get this, do they know if you're immune to it?
― akm, Monday, March 16, 2020 5:54 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

case in japan today of someone getting it for a second time

Those reports have been so few and far between that while there is no way to know 100% for sure just yet, they seem probably as or more likely to be testing or detection errors.

We are just assuming school's out for the rest of the year by the way.

my friend got told today she might be laid off due to this. she just wrecked her car and had to divert a bunch of next month's rent to its deposit.

her boyfriend is out of steady work. they are freaking out. i loaned them next month's rent just so they could have a week or two without that looming over their heads. granted, I can't do that again....

but this elephant in the room has to be addressed. unless we're all ready for 40% of the country or more to be homeless.

I'm struggling to fight off a depression due to this, I believe. Peace to you all.

― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, March 16, 2020 1:38 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same except it's been well past "struggling" for a while now