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Electro Detective:
Considered a real nutter and or un-Australian here if not following animal racing and sports, and all the false social BS that goes with it,
including smoking, booze, rubbishing the other team and hating on over sponsored rich players and their trophy wives etc = intelligent, constructive, useful, brain food stuff  :palm:

and they vote for their favorite poolitical team as well = more 'sports' activity, yay!  :clap:

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Just a thought..  ??? 

Are the idiots hoarding the loo paper, planning to embalm themselves pyramid style, once they expire and go to the big supermarket up in the sky? (or down below  >:D)

 :-//

 

rgarito:
I work as a software/firmware engineer for one of the largest companies that designs the products that most companies use for employees working from home.  We are US-based but have offices worldwide, including in China.  Most of our customers have either transitioned to home work or are actively testing it.  (been great for our stock price so far). 

(I also do some side work as a hardware/firmware engineer for a small embedded design company; I work 2000+ miles away from them and have never actually met any of them, so it's business as usual for me regarding that stuff)

I think it won't be a big deal for many companies, because a lot of at least the larger companies already do a lot of work from home anyways.  But capacity planning, etc are important.  If anything goes wrong, it will be with underestimating the resources required, licenses, etc.

As for us, we did a worldwide test on Thursday, of our tech support teams, just to load test our existing systems.  Most of us work from home a few days a week, but never all at once, so we wanted to ensure there were no surprises.  Went pretty smoothly and it was now announced that starting Monday, working from home is "highly encouraged" for all staff, worldwide, except the few who have to be "hands on" in the office.  We are not closing offices (you still can come in if need be) but most people won't.  For us, being most of the company at least occasionally works from home anyways, I doubt it will affect our operations much.  (I WFH about 3 days a week usually).  Our China and a few other overseas offices were already on mandatory work from home with the offices actually closed and they are starting to transition back into the office, now.

Incidentally, our sales and consulting teams were told not to go INSIDE any customer's office without approval.  Also both foreign and domestic travel now require approval, as well.

HobGoblyn:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 14, 2020, 06:14:35 pm ---
--- Quote ---Of all the things to care about, what I wipe my arse with comes bottom of the list.
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Toilet paper may be preferable to tissues for dealing with a snotty nose, and it's kinder to the plumbing when flushed. Try blowing your nose on newspaper.

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I agree. But in a time of emergency it would still be bottom on my list of concerns

rgarito:

--- Quote from: Zucca on March 05, 2020, 01:14:34 pm ---Dave can you tell me if the corona is spreading less in region like Australia where the temperature is higher than the north planet?
There are rumors high temperature will block the virus...

Thanks

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I live in South Florida.  We are almost always warmer than the rest of the USA.  In fact we already hit 90 (F) about a week ago, but we have mostly been in the low 80's.  We are quickly becoming a hot-spot in the USA (my county, Broward, specifically).  Everything here is rapidly shutting down.  By the end of the weekend there will be little in the way of public things left running.  WE are a heavy tourist region, too, and that is pretty much done, now.  Spring break is going on, and we are one of the hot college destinations.  Already some cities (Miami) are telling students to go home and closing a lot of the parties they are attracted to. 

As far as I know, climate doesn't seem to matter and I've seen articles claiming that idea was actually a hoax.

rgarito:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 13, 2020, 01:54:39 am ---
--- Quote from: FriedLogic on March 12, 2020, 08:45:31 pm ---
There is a lot of uncertainty about the statistics, but I've seen no evidence for anything like that. I think that the recent stats for Lombardy in Italy were 40% of those positive needing hospital treatment, and 12% intensive care, but they were just testing those with symptoms. In that case there were around 500 in intensive care mostly from an area with a population that the doctor involved estimated to be around 100,000.

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   Given that there are only 2.8 hospital beds per 1000 people in the US, in an area with a population of 100,000 they would only have 280 beds TOTAL.  And many fewer ICU beds.  I was in ICU about a year ago in the newest hospital in this area (I think the hospital had 300 beds) and it only had 8 ICU beds total. So unless there was another ICU in that hospital that I don't know about then there aren't going to be enough ICU beds to handle more than perhaps 2% of the people needing them. On top of that, US officials have already said that currently 65% of the hospital beds are filled and that doesn't include any Corona Virus patients.

   Any way that you juggle the numbers, 2.8 beds per 1000 people doesn't work when 40% of those 1,000 (400 people) need hospitalization! and it certainly doesn't work for the 12% that need to be in ICU when the number of ICU beds is only about .05 per 1,000 people.

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I used to work for a long time at a large hospital district here in South Florida (one of the more population-dense areas of the USA, and worse, probably THE most elderly-dense area in the USA).  Your numbers are about right...   The only difference is that usually at least with larger US hospitals, there are several ICU's that specialize in specific things (like NICU for neonatal, CVICU for cardiac, etc).  But the real problem will be ventilators and isolation rooms.  For instance, our hospitals had about 4-6 isolation rooms per floor.  Not sure how many ventilators, but nowhere near enough for the volume of people who would need them.  And something that many don't consider:  Ventilators are only allowed to be operated by respiratory techs.  (remember that a patient's life is literally controlled by a button push on those things; one wrong move...)  And each hospital only has a few of those... 

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