Coronavirus - Overall
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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...
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Fuck me, virus panic has kicked in now in the UK.
Today is probably my last day in the city for a while - I've been at home / work sporadically over the last couple of week and I can work at about 95% whilst at home.
Went to supermarket yesterday - the queue's were insane. No toilet paper, pasta, to be seen. Shopping trolleys loaded everywhere as people stock up ready for the apocalypse. Just popped out to get lunch, I would estimate that it's about 20% as busy as usual - if not lower. My train in this morning was about the same ... I would guess tho as it'a an early one (6am ish), it had additional peak hour commuters on it avoiding the congested ones.
Football all suspended now, only a matter of time before London marathon gets killed as well.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
only a matter of time before London marathon gets killed as well.
Well thats bloody inconvenient isnt it!
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
only a matter of time before London marathon gets killed as well.
Well thats bloody inconvenient isnt it!
I am slightly miffed!
Appreciate when things are done for the greater good. In order of prefernce, I now want:
- Postponment in order to get the full-blown experience later on in the year.
- Keep same date and just deal with the shit that comes with it
- Cancellation with entry valid for next year
- Full cancellation
The precedent is set from other cities for option 1, although I think Boris & Cronies really want it to be number 2.