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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus

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PlainName:
Something just occurred to me to explain the perceived panic: it might not be the scary headlines but the celebrities. Things tend to be not real when they affect other people because we don't know them, but when a celebrity - many of whom we know intimately - gets KOd by something we realise it's actually there. Just need a couple of biggies to suffer complications and people will really panic.

james_s:
That's always been weird to me too, I don't feel like I know any celebrities intimately, I've never met most of them, I've never talked to them, I don't really grasp the connection so many seem to feel to them.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 22, 2020, 10:39:55 pm ---That's always been weird to me too, I don't feel like I know any celebrities intimately, I've never met most of them, I've never talked to them, I don't really grasp the connection so many seem to feel to them.

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For that, we have to leave the realm of rational engineering, and enter into the emotionally driven space.

PlainName:
We are already there - it affects all of us to some degree. Imagine for a moment if our Dave succumbed: are you suggesting that since we are rational engineers it wouldn't affect us any more than seeing some random name in a newspaper article?

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 23, 2020, 12:16:17 am ---We are already there - it affects all of us to some degree. Imagine for a moment if our Dave succumbed
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Still here  ;D
BTW, my logistics person Suse is not coming in any more until this blows over, so it's now just me.

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