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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
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james_s:
Several of the large tech companies have closed their Seattle offices temporarily. I've actually gone into the office more this week than usual because the buses are empty and traffic is lighter than I've seen in 20 years, it's fantastic.

It isn't sustainable though, I bet after a few weeks people will start to get complacent again and return to normal routines even while the virus keeps spreading.

I do hope this spurs companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook to allow and even encourage people to work remotely on a regular basis. There are health benefits and environmental benefits to doing so and with most software jobs technology makes it unnecessary to be in the office every day. I come in for the meetings and face time, I get most of my real work done on my remote days. I've been sick way less than I was at my last job, I spend a lot less on transportation and my overall stress level is lower.
EEVblog:

--- 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...
--- End quote ---

I've been thinking for some time now that must be a reason why we have had hardly any spread here.
We are so intimately tied to China and have such a massive Chinese population (especially students, we have 400,000 Chinese students here!) that we should have been hit very hard, but we haven't been.
Most of our cases have come from people coming from overseas, and in recent days from places like Iran and Italy, hence our new travel bans from these countries.
It just doesn't seem to be that infectious here.
coppice:

--- 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...

--- End quote ---
Most of these viral outbreaks have not really been cured. They have merely been contained until the temperature became unfavourable for infection, and luckily when the temperature became favourable again the disease did not return.
purfield:
I live in the Seattle area, and I'm currently working as a university researcher developing low cost diagnostic devices for infectious diseases.  Needless to say, I've been busy the past few weeks developing a COVID-19 diagnostic device.  It's a bit surreal trying to develop a tool to tackle an outbreak that is currently ravaging the city I live in.
notsob:
For those who would like access to a good daily update

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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