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| langwadt:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 22, 2020, 03:10:46 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on March 22, 2020, 09:50:37 am ---Looks like NSW (my state) and VIC is going into lockdown on Tuesday for "non-essential services", that supposedly is going to include schools. State decision. They have asked for federal approval apparently, don't I don't think they need it. Don't know what that means to single one-man-band business like mine that don't have employees or the public visit. Good luck locking me out of my lab ;D --- End quote --- It is a good idea to make sure you can continue your business from home (be it at a reduced scale). It is possible someone locks the building your lab is in. One of my customers is in a university building. They have spread the various equipment over people's homes so the company can continue to operate in a distributed manner. --- End quote --- here the university locked the doors and disabled all keycards |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: Sredni on March 22, 2020, 03:35:43 pm --- --- Quote from: engrguy42 on March 22, 2020, 12:40:41 pm ---The local university is operating online only, but when I drive thru it seems like 50% of the dorms are still occupied, with students walking around in groups like nothing's happening. Strangely, it's guaranteed that when they get a 3 day holiday or spring break the campus is suddenly totally empty. Go figure. But hey, I'm just a boomer, so clearly they know something I don't. --- End quote --- Yeah, they know they will most likely survive. --- End quote --- getting as many as possible infected and immunized might be one way to stop the spread if only we could only keep it away from those with the biggest risk of serious effects |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 22, 2020, 12:40:30 pm --- --- Quote from: james_s on March 21, 2020, 11:45:58 pm ---I think we'd be far better off if most people were sensible and composed and just stayed calm and took a few sensible precautions. Panicked and complacent people are both part of the problem and get in the way of those working on solutions. --- End quote --- In your fantasy world, where everyone behaves sensibly like you, everything works out fine for the survivors. ("Every man for himself"). In the real world, people are not "sensible and composed and just stayed calm and took a few sensible precautions". Letting thousands of people die needlessly is not an option. Now do you understand the problem? --- End quote --- It is you who completely missed the point of what I was trying to say. Obviously a lot of people are idiots who are utterly incapable of remaining calm during emergencies, I will never understand this. Still we should be trying hard to keep people calm as panic is an additional problem. Now do you understand the problem? |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on March 22, 2020, 12:40:41 pm ---I was at home all last week, and our company mandated it on Wednesday. And it will probably continue for the foreseeable future. And while normally that would be a good thing (partly because I have a REAL computer at home, not the POS they hand out at work), in this environment it's freakin' depressing. Mostly because of the the hysterical click-bait doomsayers in the media, in internet forums, etc. The thought that there's this cloud hanging over and you can't do your normal daily stuff puts a damper on everything. Even if you wouldn't normally be running around doing stuff, just the thought of this big problem makes everything kinda depressing. On one hand I'll admit the overreaction is a good thing if it gets people to be super cautious and isolate and not spread this thing. But geez, these predictions of doom by self-proclaimed experts who have no clue what they're talking about are just useless, and only serve to upset everyone, and throw rationality out the window. In my area basically all the stores are closed with the exception of supermarkets, WalMart and other food stores. The local university is operating online only, but when I drive thru it seems like 50% of the dorms are still occupied, with students walking around in groups like nothing's happening. Strangely, it's guaranteed that when they get a 3 day holiday or spring break the campus is suddenly totally empty. Go figure. But hey, I'm just a boomer, so clearly they know something I don't. --- End quote --- The overreaction is a bad thing because everyone who overreacts and flails causes other people to blow off the whole thing as a stupid hysteria over nothing. We would have done a lot better having a plan in place and a calm, measured approach. Stop the panic and you stop the other half of the people from ignoring the threat and going around spreading germs. The news media is as guilty here as anyone, I stopped even reading the news regularly because every day it was flooded with sensationalized headlines engineered to keep people worked up into a frenzy glued to the news. This does NOT HELP, it creates this polarized response that we see. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 22, 2020, 05:18:51 pm ---The overreaction is a bad thing because everyone who overreacts and flails causes other people to blow off the whole thing as a stupid hysteria over nothing. We would have done a lot better having a plan in place and a calm, measured approach. Stop the panic and you stop the other half of the people from ignoring the threat and going around spreading germs. The news media is as guilty here as anyone, I stopped even reading the news regularly because every day it was flooded with sensationalized headlines engineered to keep people worked up into a frenzy glued to the news. This does NOT HELP, it creates this polarized response that we see. --- End quote --- Agreed. I'm relatively surprised about how things are going currently over here. French people are not known to be particularly compliant with directives in general, but things are going surprisingly smoothly here actually. The vast majority follows the rules and keeps calm. First day of confinement, some people were still getting out a bit too much, but frankly nothing as bad as we saw in the US, and after the government reminded people that confinement was to be followed more seriously, people basically stopped doing that. There is no panic that I know of. The media keep bombarding people with news about it of course, but they still keep rather calm and reasonable. Dunno how long that will last though, as it's only been less than a week... |
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