Probably depends on the company. My entire company went remote. Hopefully they realize that it’s actually cheaper to run this way. It’s easier for us to do this though. All we do is strategy and operations planning and management of everything that is outsourced, which is everything.
And for some reason we have an expensive location in Cambridge. Mostly for prestige I think.
That’s going to be so horrible. People have no idea what’s coming.
I know we’re not supposed to think like this, and I will never let it out around her, but I almost feel like I’m not going to see my (defacto) sister until she’s on her death bed. She has the absolute worst situation imaginable in terms of exposure and co-morbity condition.
All Cruises leaving US suspended. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241176211.html
The weird thing about all this stockpiling is for most items you aren’t necessarily using more so companies have no incentive to boost production. Instead it will just adjust over time.
People aren’t going to really be using much more TP, so it would be a mistake to increase production. Food is similar, with the difference between restaurant eating potentially increasing real demand slightly.
The only items that are having significantly increased use and thus could benefit from increased production are sanitizer, wipes, bleach, rubbing alcohol, paper towels (more so than TP for sure). Everything else is just reducing how much people buy in the future.
Does the bot posting something count as a pony win?
Playground Poker outside Montreal is closing tonight. All casinos in Quebec have already closed.
People whose entire companies are now WFH: is there no admin/support staff? A general office phone number?
Separate question: light cough / chest tightness / congestion without fever or overall illness is nothing to worry about right? Feel silly asking, I know the answer but this thing is making me loco.
If the fever comes on later activate coronavirus care plan.
Our IT people will be in the office and are supposed to stay 6 feet away from each other at all times.
So like IT people in Sweden I guess.
May not be popular because it is a very tough position to be in but keeping people from visiting such people in the hospital is a pretty obvious and necessary precaution. Not to mention it reduces stress on the staff who are going to be beyond stressed to begin with.
I feel similarly about nursing homes where they are all tinder boxes where every visitor is a potential match that burns it down. Hospital restrictions are beneficial for other reasons but I definitely think people need to make their peace with family and friends in case anyone gets sick.
I am at fairly high risk if I get sick due to respiratory issues but I would absolutely not want my family and friends coming to see me in the hospital in the likely scenario that would exist.
What makes it worse is that many of these old people don’t or are unable to use video chat. I can’t for the life of me get my grandma to talk to me on Facetime. Even if I call her and she just has to press a button. Something about it makes her uncomfortable.
When your grandma dies of the flu they let you go see her. This will penetrate the bubble, although they’ll probably just be mad at the hospital.
Same as I told Cuse- whatever is most entertaining. Run into an ER screaming?
;/. Wait for now.
I’ve had that with a sore throat most of the week, for me it’s been allergies to winter mold from the snow melt.
And then what? Are people allowed on the streets yet? What’s life like in Beijing and Chongqing right now? I’d love to know these things.
Well the stuff we’re buying that we would normally buy anyway, like TP for example, we’re still buying on a regular basis but keeping our extra stash since we never know when we will be locked down and not able to resupply at all. Same for pasta, rice, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, etc.
At some point if the risk ever passes then we will draw down the excess stash. But everybody will likely do that at different points in time. So I guess companies might do a small increase in production and then go back to producing at steady state levels?
So all schools closing here next week, asked my boss what the plan was, he said our corporate is watching it basically. So nothing I guess.
Then I get an email that’s basically like yea we are watching it, keep away from people wash your hands etc.
Buried down in it is this.
UPDATE: they were out of Bota Box Merlot. Now I have to drink RedVolution like a fucking animal.
