Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

[J.D.]

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Gonna be fascinating to see how employers handle working parents with all the school closures.

 

[Handyman]

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Swine Flu is the goto for all the Dumpies and Dittoheads now. My co-workers all started talking about it in unison yesterday, so they must have injected it into the Echo Chamber then.

Yeah...funny thing is they were all mocking Swine Flu when it happened. Of course the "Liberal Media" let Obama skate on that despite like 12k deaths whereas they hate Trump so they are overreacting to 39 deaths so far.

When I saw that stuff posted last night I honestly thought it was a joke account...I mean there is stupid and then there is STUPID!

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Gonna be fascinating to see how employers handle working parents with all the school closures.

Sounds like an opportunity to start teaching our elementary schoolers independence and personal responsibility like real 'Muricans.

Now back to work, slacker!

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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So multiple reports of people coming back from all over Europe yesterday and no questions being asked about health or where they traveled at immigration.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To this point, and because we have had a very strong border policy, we have had 40 deaths related to CoronaVirus. If we had weak or open borders, that number would be many times higher!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1238478167695863817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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So multiple reports of people coming back from all over Europe yesterday and no questions being asked about health or where they traveled at immigration.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To this point, and because we have had a very strong border policy, we have had 40 deaths related to CoronaVirus. If we had weak or open borders, that number would be many times higher!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1238478167695863817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Did they come from a Brown country? No. No matter.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Aaaaaaaand, there's the word. No details as of yet. **** me.

Sorry to hear that man. Good luck to you.

given the situation in Iran, I wouldn't count on warming weather helping us

Average temps in Iran in March range between 7.0°C and 15.0°C.

Our kids' school has suspended classes indefinitely. They use Google classroom so they'll be able to keep somewhat on pace, but clearly this is going to extend the school year into the summer.

Our province just had its first confirmed case and wouldn't you know it the guy is a Grab driver. I don't think either of the boys have used Grab lately but checking...

 

[J.D.]

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Well, just in general if you have an influx of people you're likely to have more deaths. Regardless, dumb tweet as usual.

 

[Kepler]

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Average temps in Iran in March range between 7.0°C and 15.0°C.

Speak English, please.

 

[state of hockey]

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My work is putting work from home into place incrementally. The daycare our 1 year old goes to will be closing any moment. I'm wondering how I am going to work from home while trying to keep a 1 year old alive. Going to be interesting.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Speak English, please.

Also one big issue for Iran is their dependence upon Chinese labor, especially in Qom. It's highly likely there was a lot of back forth flying going on during the CNY.

When I lived and traveled around the region (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and UAE) for the better part of 1996 they had massive numbers of foreign national workers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and The Philippines. But I know that Bahrain has had a sea change toward using Chinese labor as well.

 

[Kepler]

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Also one big issue for Iran is their dependence upon Chinese labor, especially in Qom. It's highly likely there was a lot of back forth flying going on during the CNY.

Hadn't thought of that. Say goodbye to Africa.

And every engineering program in the US.

 

[alfablue]

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As of Monday, we now work from home for the foreseeable future. We all saw this coming, and it will be interesting to see who remains to make data to process.

 

[BassAle]

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looks like everyone in my department will be working from home soon (statisticians, computational/data scientists, and software engineers so we're good as long as we have our laptops and internet).

bench lab and animal care people won't be able to do their work remotely so I'm not sure what they'll do to mitigate that.

they did a stress test of our VPN client last night. Hopefully the VPN and WebEx can handle the loads.

 

[J.D.]

My work is putting work from home into place incrementally. The daycare our 1 year old goes to will be closing any moment. I'm wondering how I am going to work from home while trying to keep a 1 year old alive. Going to be interesting.

Which goes back to how employers decide to handle these situations...

 

[J.D.]

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Companies should have been pushing mass work from home years ago but for some it's taboo

 

[dxmnkd316]

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looks like everyone in my department will be working from home soon (statisticians, computational/data scientists, and software engineers so we're good as long as we have our laptops and internet).

bench lab and animal care people won't be able to do their work remotely so I'm not sure what they'll do to mitigate that.

they did a stress test of our VPN client last night. Hopefully the VPN and WebEx can handle the loads.

Our VPN was crushed the other day. About 1 Mbps. Should be at least 8x that.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Companies should have been pushing mass work from home years ago but for some it's taboo

It’s because “working” from “home” is usually less productive. Maybe to a more healthy level.

I can tell you most of my teams are less productive over the phone than in person. There’s a reason most of our kickoff meetings and design reviews are in person.

 

[J.D.]

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Now I need a tech guy to tell me that all these people working from home will break the interwebs!

 

[mookie1995]

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When I saw that stuff posted last night I honestly thought it was a joke account...I mean there is stupid and then there is STUPID!

can't fix stupid.
one can fix ignorance --- but not stupid

 

[J.D.]

It’s because “working” from “home” is usually less productive. Maybe to a more healthy level.

I can tell you most of my teams are less productive over the phone than in person. There’s a reason most of our kickoff meetings and design reviews are in person.

Maybe, but you can put measures in place to track productivity. Reducing traffic/pollution/health debacles are good starting points for telecommuting.