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nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

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dxmnkd316 said:
mother****ing **** *** **** **** hell. Minnesota has it's first suspected case...

A week before the wedding.

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The patient is an older Ramsey County resident who had been on a cruise ship with a known COVID-19 case. The unidentified person sought health care yesterday after developing symptoms on Feb. 25, according to the Health Department.
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Illinois has five cases in the last month, but they've been limited and handed pretty well. I think you're going to be okay.

Unless you had a close relative who just took a cruise prior to your wedding.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meanwhile, more people died of coronavirus in Italy today (49) than any other previous day <a href="https://t.co/w7YgDREdOG">https://t.co/w7YgDREdOG</a> <a href="https://t.co/1kakNeXUOO">https://t.co/1kakNeXUOO</a></p>— Sanho Tree (@SanhoTree) <a href="https://twitter.com/SanhoTree/status/1236034057944915973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Kepler said:
That is exactly what I said.

If you self-quarantine, burn your PTO, we aren't going let you ride OH even though it's not your fault. I don't know about you but neither I nor anybody I work with is permitted to telework. If you're lucky enough to work outside a SCIF, hey, great for you, but company-wide 80% of even those people can't telework unless they have one of these in their garage:

<img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcT4HZAKHnHgp_iMpj-ZXqjMB2jgzcGqs34y7Mh6DEvyGC2UKedB" height=300>
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Cherrypicking bits and pieces to make something sound way worse than the full story is a tactic you would typically be against. Be better.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The University of Washington is cancelling all in-person classes for the rest of the semester
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College “the Girl” attends (a ‘non-Hockey’ school in Rochester) is re-assigning residents of one hall to other halls in-preparation for possible quarantine(s). Messages were sent to the students in the to-be-vacated hall that they will get their reassignment upon return from Spring Break on Monday. They can arrive a day early on Sunday if they wish. Fortunately, “the Girl” does not reside in the hall being vacated, but friends received these letters. Again, this all being done in-preparation for potential quarantine(s).
 
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This is going to age like a fine wine:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The coronavirus panic is dumb</p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
dxmnkd316 said:
From the STrib:
The patient is an older Ramsey County resident who had been on a cruise ship with a known COVID-19 case. The unidentified person sought health care yesterday after developing symptoms on Feb. 25, according to the Health Department.
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Time to put my "Fire Ramsey County and everyone in it into the Sun" plan into motion. Drew up a few sketches roughly 15 years ago. I'll get back to you on when to make sure you're out.
 
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The faces...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Watch the faces of HHS Secretary Azar and CDC Director Redfield on either side of Trump as he says he'd prefer not to evacuate Americans at serious risk here because it would "have the numbers double" and make him look bad. <a href="https://t.co/QluxGt8wBo">https://t.co/QluxGt8wBo</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1236086903461621760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Late to the convo, but my company switched to PTO a couple years ago, but the formula they used to combine the former sick/VAC days was very well done (earn x hours per month depending on how long you've been with the company). Everyone got about the same number of days as they did before, but in the case of people like me who don't get sick and therefore didn't use sick days...we actually "get" MORE days of vacation now.
 
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Yeah, and there’s still intense pressure for people to not stay home because they’re eating into vacation now. People do t treat PTO as sick time. They treat it as eating into vacation being used. That’s bad when you’re facing a pandemic with self-quarantine on the honor system.
 
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Jfc

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Remember, he was the replacement for Trump’s first CDC Director, who had to resign when it was revealed that she’d bought tobacco stocks after taking office. <a href="https://t.co/8zJcDMX9tR">https://t.co/8zJcDMX9tR</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1236104870354128896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Starting to hear rumors that other countries are going to put the US on their no fly because our government's response to the virus is so deficient.

We have achieved the medical status of Iran and Italy.
 
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The Rube said:
Late to the convo, but my company switched to PTO a couple years ago, but the formula they used to combine the former sick/VAC days was very well done (earn x hours per month depending on how long you've been with the company). Everyone got about the same number of days as they did before, but in the case of people like me who don't get sick and therefore didn't use sick days...we actually "get" MORE days of vacation now.
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No, Rube, that's not a good way to do it. That is how my company (and most) does it, and it works exactly the opposite of the way you would want a benefit to work. It's leftover from an obsolete and unhealthy (literally) way of thinking. It punishes people for getting sick and then those people have no choice but to come to work and make everybody else sick.

In all honesty: do you understand the difference between "good for me" and "good"?
 
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I won’t be surprised if that happens.

This really needs to be hung around his fat turkey neck like an albatross
 
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Kepler said:
No, Rube, that's not a good way to do it. That is how my company (and most) do it, and it works exactly the opposite of the way you would want a benefit to work. It's leftover from an obsolete and unhealthy (literally) way of thinking. It literally punishes people for getting sick and then those people have no choice but to come to work and make everybody else sick.

In all honesty: do you understand the difference between "good for me" and "good"?
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The way my company did it, it is a good thing.

The staff at our company is very good at the whole "sick" vs "just using a sick day because....because."

So, in essence, they ADDED UNUSED sick days to our PTO.

How many people used a sick day, just because they have it and can use it, and they are not really sick? Just sayin'.
 
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