Yes.BaylorFTW said:Is that because you don't think it is necessary or stubbornness or just have decided you will accept whatever may come and live as you always have?Midnight Rider said:
Hell, no.
Yes.BaylorFTW said:Is that because you don't think it is necessary or stubbornness or just have decided you will accept whatever may come and live as you always have?Midnight Rider said:
Hell, no.
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How have you changed your life because of the coronavirus if at all?
Well, ANA cancelled my wife's flight out of Hong Kong, have to go by way of Cathay Airlines through Singapore.Oldbear83 said:
Made plans at work to address potential scenarios.
My wife is coming back from Hong Kong next Thursday, we'll be in precautionary quarantine (working from home) for 2 weeks after that.
Aside from the mob of emotional hysteria by folks who can't understand history or context, no other changes.
Sales is the last great American profession. You either sell or starve. In a country like this one where far too many people like to drop the pencil at the first chance (school closing, work from home ha ha) I wonder how successful Corporate America will be in getting people to return to work. I guess they can say come back or don't get paid.nein51 said:
I havent changed my personal lifestyle at all. However, I think it is about to very clearly change my professional lifestyle quite a bit whether I like it or not. I am face to face with 25-40 people a day on a customer basis and I doubt my company will allow that to continue. I was just discussing with my team that they should be thinking about how to be effective while working from home. That is tough for field sales people.
It's the best example yet of why tariffs were needed.Aliceinbubbleland said:Somehow I think this is China's revenge for tariffs.nein51 said:
I havent changed my personal lifestyle at all. However, I think it is about to very clearly change my professional lifestyle quite a bit whether I like it or not. I am face to face with 25-40 people a day on a customer basis and I doubt my company will allow that to continue. I was just discussing with my team that they should be thinking about how to be effective while working from home. That is tough for field sales people.
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"Our response is much, much worse than almost any other country that's been affected," Ashish Jha, the head of Harvard Global Health Institute, said of the U.S. efforts to combat coronavirus.
He used "fiasco" and "mind-blowing" to describe how bad it is.
Hong Kong and Singapore were hit early with the coronavirus. But each now has fewer than 200 cases, while France, Germany and Spain, which were hit late, all have more than 10 times that number.
Three weeks ago, Italy had only three cases. Now it has more than 10,000.
These dramatic differences show that how governments respond to this virus matters, says Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization's head of emergencies.
"Hope is not a strategy," says Ryan, who is an epidemiologist. "We are still very much in the up cycle of this epidemic."
PartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
I'm sure his point was that we should limit the number of times we go out, not where we go, in order to reduce the chances of exposure or transmission; so limit them for only the essentials.nein51 said:PartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
If you're going to work and the grocery store you might as well go wherever you want. If you're going to infect someone it would just as easy to do that at work or the grocery store as it would be at the mall.
If you're going to play roulette with one bullet you might as well play with six. If you're going to shoot someone it's just as easy from one chamber as it would be from another.nein51 said:PartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
If you're going to work and the grocery store you might as well go wherever you want. If you're going to infect someone it would just as easy to do that at work or the grocery store as it would be at the mall.
Except you wouldn't be exposing yourself to as many people if you limit your trips in public. In addition, if you aren't sick, by limiting where you go, you are also limiting your risk of encountering someone who is sick.nein51 said:PartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
If you're going to work and the grocery store you might as well go wherever you want. If you're going to infect someone it would just as easy to do that at work or the grocery store as it would be at the mall.
Yeah, comparing reasonable caution to 'russian roulette" is soooo not buying into hysteria.Sam Lowry said:If you're going to play roulette with one bullet you might as well play with six. If you're going to shoot someone it's just as easy from one chamber as it would be from another.nein51 said:PartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
If you're going to work and the grocery store you might as well go wherever you want. If you're going to infect someone it would just as easy to do that at work or the grocery store as it would be at the mall.
nein51 said:
More time at the sex club. The way I see it, Corona Virus is the least of all of the viruses I am concerned about contracting there. Feels like a safe space really.
Russia handled this better than any country. They completely closed their borders when the first outbreak happened in China. They had only a handful of cases.Aliceinbubbleland said:Sales is the last great American profession. You either sell or starve. In a country like this one where far too many people like to drop the pencil at the first chance (school closing, work from home ha ha) I wonder how successful Corporate America will be in getting people to return to work. I guess they can say come back or don't get paid.nein51 said:
I havent changed my personal lifestyle at all. However, I think it is about to very clearly change my professional lifestyle quite a bit whether I like it or not. I am face to face with 25-40 people a day on a customer basis and I doubt my company will allow that to continue. I was just discussing with my team that they should be thinking about how to be effective while working from home. That is tough for field sales people.
Somehow I think this is China's revenge for tariffs. IOW we ****ed you.
Has there been a single news item from Russia that has been concerned regarding their virus spread?
Stay away from grandparentsPartyBear said:
I would encourage everyone to somewhat self quarantine except for work or grocery runs. You may be young and healthy and have it and never have a symptom and it goes away but you can give it to someone vulnerable to it being very serious even terminal.
Oldbear83 said:
Just had a difficult meeting with the boss. Talking about who to lay off.
The good ones, prudently managed and not overleveraged, will ride this out.nein51 said:
Ohio just announced closure of gyms, fitness centers, water parks...
I hope when this is all done there are businesses to come back to.
Jinx 2 said:The good ones, prudently managed and not overleveraged, will ride this out.nein51 said:
Ohio just announced closure of gyms, fitness centers, water parks...
I hope when this is all done there are businesses to come back to.
Size matters. Small businesses cannot just "ride this out".Jinx 2 said:The good ones, prudently managed and not overleveraged, will ride this out.nein51 said:
Ohio just announced closure of gyms, fitness centers, water parks...
I hope when this is all done there are businesses to come back to.
nein51 said:
More time at the sex club.