Coronavirus - Overall
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@mariner4life but shit, its just money right? It's already spent, its just the fun, photos and memories we forego. Family is safe, that's the priority.
Like you I also have a family member at risk, being my Mum who is 74 and has lung cancer - talk about prime fucking target for this thing! My oldest and me are booked to fly to NZ straight from Japan to visit her for a few weeks...doesnt really feel like such a good idea right now....
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life but shit, its just money right? It's already spent, its just the fun, photos and memories we forego. Family is safe, that's the priority.
Like you I also have a family member at risk, being my Mum who is 74 and has lung cancer - talk about prime fucking target for this thing! My oldest and me are booked to fly to NZ straight from Japan to visit her for a few weeks...doesnt really feel like such a good idea right now....
that's very pragmatic of you. I am finding it a little harder to separate than that.
That said, if we just wait this out, there is every chance by our travel time this is starting to blow itself out up there. maybe we will be banned from travel to Europe!
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
i get that. Let's just say one of the people in my family is in that "at risk" category so i can't be to blase about the whole thing
3 months is ages away, but the lack of any sort of clarity from anywhere is the biggest problem
at the moment all i am doing is obtaining information as to my options
I'm in the same boat re Japan trip next week. Biggest cconcern isnt getting sick, but getting stuck, unable to get back either NZ or Oz. Made worse by being on the island in Sapporo, where some airlines (Thai) have already cancelled routes.
Bloody hard to know what to do. We dropped a lot of cash on this, 5x people for 10 nights, lift passes, accom, ski hire, kids lessons, all non refundable.
But I guess it's all a sunk cost and there's no point getting ill or stuck chasing the memories because of the cash.
That sucks.
Snow is good too.
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@Machpants said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Actually, if this is true, it is probably best to overreact.
Just reading the link text (who needs detail) that's hardly surprising.
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I think it says nothing positive about me, but I found that twitter post REALLY fucking funny.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@gt12 said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I think it says nothing positive about me, but I found that twitter post REALLY fucking funny.
Who wouldn't?
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Peter Dutton is the latest politician affected:
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Peter Dutton is the latest politician affected:
Appears to have got it in the US and was with Trumps wife, no doubt he has infected plenty. Politicians seem to be pretty good at catching and spreading this thing.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Whoah
Facebook comments are interesting
Wow. It's one thing to think of the economic benefits, another entirely to realise you've actually expressed them.
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In other good news, just got a text from work - mandatory WFH from Monday.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
In other good news, just got a text from work - mandatory WFH from Monday.
Nice, how much actual work can people do from home though?
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He's an economics writer and the quote is a bit out of context - though clumsy.
He was comparing the economic effects of the 1918-9 Spanish Flu epidemic, which disproportionately killed the working population, with the possible economic effects of Covid-19 which mainly seems to kill mainly older people.
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
In other good news, just got a text from work - mandatory WFH from Monday.
Nice, how much actual work can people do from home though?
For me basically 90%. It's how I can manage stuff OS for example. For some of my engineers they could do 75% but can't due to security constraints so more like half. At least a quarter of the time they can't even have a mobile phone with them. Then for others 90% requires a physical presence.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
In other good news, just got a text from work - mandatory WFH from Monday.
Nice, how much actual work can people do from home though?
For me basically 90%. It's how I can manage stuff OS for example. For some of my engineers they could do 75% but can't due to security constraints so more like half. At least a quarter of the time they can't even have a mobile phone with them. Then for others 90% requires a physical presence.
Same, but if schools close then they puts a spanner in the works, the kids will tear the place apart...