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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Simon on March 12, 2020, 05:43:47 pm ---Sadly governments are doing very badly.

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It takes special "government grade idiocy" to handle this as badly as some governments have been doing. I think so far, of those I have heard about, the US takes the biscuit:


--- Quote from: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/11/censoring-coronavirus.html ---The Donald Trump White House told the federal Department of Health and Human Services to classify all information from top-level coronavirus meetings.

The decision to keep all coronavirus deliberations classified made it hard for public health and medical professionals to access vital information. The restricted flow hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, Reuters reports, citing four Trump administration officials.

“The officials said that dozens of classified discussions about such topics as the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions have been held since mid-January in a high-security meeting room at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS),” report Wednesday Aram Roston and Marisa Taylor at Reuters:

    Staffers without security clearances, including government experts, were excluded from the interagency meetings, which included video conference calls, the sources said.

    “We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go,” one official said. “These should not be classified meetings. It was unnecessary.”

    The sources said the National Security Council (NSC), which advises the president on security issues, ordered the classification.”This came directly from the White House,” one official said.

    The White House insistence on secrecy at the nation’s premier public health organization, which has not been previously disclosed, has put a lid on certain information - and potentially delayed the response to the crisis.
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--- Quote from: Simon on March 12, 2020, 05:43:47 pm ---In the UK it has been announced that we are moving from the "containment" stage to the "delay" stage. Well fuck me if someone can tell me what he "containment" plan was other than to do nothing I'd be very grateful!

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Sorry, can't t help there. As far as I can tell the government didn't have a plan. Fortunately the NHS was a bit more on the ball. I think the "containment" state is just a bit of back-naming for "We'll contain ourselves until someone tells us what to do".

Kjelt:
My place of work they shifted to two teams work, one team may work at the office on even weeks the other on odd weeks. Temperature check at the entrance, cafeteria closed, not allowed to use the keyboard and mouse on the shared office space, no meetings >5 people, and work as much as possible from home.
Never had this in 25 yrs on the job.

Simon:
Well I think Trump pretty much declared himself an expert in covid-19 so, sorted!

Simon:

--- Quote from: Kjelt on March 12, 2020, 06:14:33 pm ---My place of work they shifted to two teams work, one team may work at the office on even weeks the other on odd weeks. Temperature check at the entrance, cafeteria closed, not allowed to use the keyboard and mouse on the shared office space, no meetings >5 people, and work as much as possible from home.
Never had this in 25 yrs on the job.

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I doubt my employer even has a backup plan. We struggle to get our IT to work as it is with the IT staff located at our parent company. I am one of few with a company laptop with emails already on it and i could borrow out the only 3D CAD floating licence the company has and go home but i mostly use KiCad at work and the libraries live on my portable hard drive anyway. The mere fact that I can in 30 secands take out the 3D CAD licence is only because I made them put the floating licence on the laptop for me.

Electronics wise I am better set up an home than at work.

Kjelt:
Yes well issues do occurr, VPN service overcrowded so not everyone can get in.
People that can't reach colleagues anymore.
Ever tried a skype call with more than ten colleagues?  |O

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