no noel i work for a healthcare organization dealing with protected health information, how on earth would I be able to do my job over an insecure connection?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 16 March 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
When I worked for a big publishing org we had to have VPN with a stupid passcode key dongle that changed every minute, just to access the company records and the purchase ordering system. Which I mean I guess that's sensitive stuff but also what's a hacker going to do, order an extra 5000 Joyce Meyer reprint?
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 16 March 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
interesting interview here from german virologist handling cases there, mentions diarrhoea being a common symptom which I've not heard elsewhere
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/virologe-hendrik-streeck-ueber-corona-neue-symptome-entdeckt-16681450.html
I got a p intense, slightly mysterious flu w/ diarrhoea in early february after coming back from amsterdam, wonder if there's any chance I was an early case?
― ogmor, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Hmm… I thought it wasn't, hence all the jokes about how stockpiling TP makes it seem like a cholera pandemic is unfolding as we speak.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
There was a very good thing in the NYT (I think covid stuff is free to read, not linking it so I don't stress people out) about two chinese women doctors in their early 30s who had it and it described their different progressions. Diarrhea and vomiting were symptoms.
― Yerac, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
Same
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
From what I read, diarrhea is a possible symptom, but not a common one.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
he's saying 1/3 of the cases in germany have diarrhoea. diarrhoea and flu is an odd combo generally, no?
― ogmor, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
3.7% of cases involved diarrhoea according to Wikipedia.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Worldwide, that is. Data comes from the WHO.
Just looked, and if some 88% of people get a fever, supposedly only 4% get cloudy with a chance of diarrhea. Maybe data is changing?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
At work this morning we were told, even if we close the building to the public, we'll still have to come into work while they think up stuff for us to do. Also, the entire organization has run out of hand sanitizer and some of us have to pass material back and forth to the public all day.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Yes, it's the UK, folks!
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Not to worry, you'll have the last laugh as Britons are about to develop a super-herd immunity that will be the envy of foreign nations the world over.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Made in Scotland, from girders.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Too bad Sears Sears catalogs aren't still ubiquitous
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Gonna be striding around empty Italian tourist destinations with my super-Brit immunity radiating off me like a glow.
Not like these dickheads in Spain nb:
Outrageous the behavior of #British tourists in #Benidorm, amid the #coronavirus pandemic. Is somebody going to do something? @BBCnews @BorisJohnson @interiorgob @sanchezcastejon pic.twitter.com/bcv9enh3wo— Maria Lluïsa Vivó (@mllvivo) March 15, 2020
― stet, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
wtf I love martial law now
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
many xps here:
I think a lot of large corporations have a VPN because traditionally, having all your shit on the intranet was the way things went. And companies are slow to change.
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
fortunately I was able to figure out how to navigate the vpn I need for work without installing an app (a couple of people on the sysadmin subreddit said it was relatively non-intrusive, but still, the only google results being their oracle-esque corporate propaganda did not fill me with hope) but am not looking forward to being coerced into the general privacy catastrophe that is most remote apps; I don't know what I'll do if/when something asks me to use zoom
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 16 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
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, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
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
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
― gbx
that is already changing fwiw
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
love unsourced twitter accounts
xps
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Source: the internet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
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?
― ||||||||, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
He gives the sources here
1. https://t.co/RDmn3xQXAK 2. https://t.co/ZaS3yBtnak 3. https://t.co/kala9i2kQu4. https://t.co/y7pUj8yOP6— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) March 16, 2020
Expecting / hoping you'll rip these apart now
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
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)
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
Donadio seems like a legit journalist
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
in an unsettling reversal of my teenage years, I am now yelling at my parents for going out— Brigid Delaney (@BrigidWD) March 16, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― stet, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
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.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Donadio works for The Atlantic - do they love Fake news or something?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
p as much as you do
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
xxxp don't be too mad you'll be working from home any day now yourself
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
Source: Ice T
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
I know who I'm phoning next time my boiler is fucked!
― calzino, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
Ice T [blue tick mark] actually
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
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
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Well whaddya know
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― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
I dooon't smoooke da reefa
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link