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| Sredni:
--- 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. --- End quote --- You mean, like having a Quick Response Pandemic Team? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ Good idea. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Sredni on March 22, 2020, 06:31:08 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- You mean, like having a Quick Response Pandemic Team? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ Good idea. --- End quote --- You don't have to convince me. I didn't fire the team and I didn't vote for the guy who did, that's water under the bridge though, what's done has been done and there's nothing we can do to change that now. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 22, 2020, 06:34:46 pm --- --- Quote from: Sredni on March 22, 2020, 06:31:08 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- You mean, like having a Quick Response Pandemic Team? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ Good idea. --- End quote --- You don't have to convince me. I didn't fire the team and I didn't vote for the guy who did, that's water under the bridge though, what's done has been done and there's nothing we can do to change that now. --- End quote --- And it's far from the only country that did similar things. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 22, 2020, 05:27:14 pm ---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... --- End quote --- I've never been to France but I've always pictured French culture as rather calm, polite and organized overall so I'm not all that surprised to hear this. Not all Americans are loud, crude, ignorant self absorbed boobs but I'll be the first to admit that the stereotypes have some basis in reality. At this point I think nobody really knows what will happen but the data posted earlier suggests that it is largely futile and even the most drastic measures are unlikely to make enough difference to really matter. I've been working from home and have barely left the house in weeks, my partner has what is deemed an essential job so she was going to work until recently when she got sick and now we both have symptoms resembling a very mild cold. Slight fever then she got a sore throat for about a day while mine was just a tickle and now it's sniffles, overall gooey respiratory system and fatigue. She was hit a bit harder than me but is starting to feel a lot better today while I'm still extremely tired but otherwise feel pretty good. I suppose it could be Covid but I can't help but think something this mild can't possibly be that but who knows. No sense in trying to get tested, there are others who need the testing far more than we do and going to any kind of facility seems like a great way to collect any bugs I didn't already have. I was already staying in anyway so I'll continue to do so. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---Still we should be trying hard to keep people calm as panic is an additional problem. --- End quote --- There's a bit of a gulf between keeping calm and making out it's a non-issue, nothing worse than a mild cold. Perhaps some of the people still insisting it's a nothing do so because they are scared to admit to themselves that it's going to be worse than they are comfortable with, kind of like when one has a dentist phobia and would rather suffer toothache and rotting teeth than visit a dentist. Undoubtedly there are click-bait headlines but not all of them are, and by now we should be able to pick out the facts from the scaremongering. But we are also super-complacent and maybe suffering some form of 'boy who cried wolf' thing. We've had previous serious issues that should have got us pretty scared - from ebola and SARS to Trump precipitating a war, 9/11, 2008, etc - and they've all turned out more or less OK. Can't speak for anyone else but when this one popped up I thought it would be a repeat of bird flu and barely register on my radar after the first couple of days of scary headlines. It wasn't that I didn't have empathy for the suffering Chinese but that there was nothing I could do for them and TPTB (whoever they are) would make sure it didn't get here. Now it is here and whilst the deniers are keen to point out that few will die that wouldn't have done otherwise, I'll bet they aren't in an at-risk group. |
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