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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 12, 2020, 04:39:48 am ---My hope is just that the numbers don't spike back up because we really do need to get things opened back up. It's frustrating to think that a complete coordinated lockdown for just a few weeks could have stopped the spread.
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But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services.
When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on May 12, 2020, 01:52:11 am ---The lot of them need to be rounded up so that this never happens again
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LOL. Not going to happen, humans will continue to do selfish/stupid/*insert whatever term you want* human things.
james_s:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2020, 07:01:43 am ---But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services.
When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't.
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Well it was more hypothetical than realistic, although I'm sure they could have locked down a lot more people than they did and with the benefit of hindsight it would have been much better than dragging it out.
While politically constitutionally difficult in the US, we could have closed borders of states, counties or some arbitrary divisions early on to isolate it to those areas. Not that it matters now, it's spread all over.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 12, 2020, 07:50:18 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2020, 07:01:43 am ---But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services.
When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't.
--- End quote ---
Well it was more hypothetical than realistic, although I'm sure they could have locked down a lot more people than they did and with the benefit of hindsight it would have been much better than dragging it out.
While politically constitutionally difficult in the US, we could have closed borders of states, counties or some arbitrary divisions early on to isolate it to those areas. Not that it matters now, it's spread all over.
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Well, most countries in the world seem to be in 'controlled burn mode'. Staying locked down until there is a vaccine is not really an option although I assume this is what China is doing at the moment. But at least they seem to have contained Covid19 for now. They can't resume international travel until the majority of the Chinese is immune through vaccination or has been through a Covid-19 infection.
Electro Detective:
Don't hold your breath waiting for a vaccine :horse:
Decades later they are still working on magic cures for the common cold, re-badged flu, hay fever, winter morning sniffles,
and everyones favorite no go demise app, cancer
i.e. corona/covid better take a ticket and get in the queue.. :popcorn:
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