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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: stevehayes on April 10, 2020, 05:12:58 pm ---Working from home is terrible, I'm very tired. I work more than 8 hours, so my children spend all day in gadgets and this is very bad. I look forward to the day when schools will reopen.
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Yep, home schooling is tough, let alone school holidays now when you can't take advantage of the usual school holiday activities and programs available.
EEVblog:
A booming trade seems to be security. The local Coles supermarket has no less than three full time security guards controlling flow.
james_s:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 13, 2020, 01:30:28 am ---A booming trade seems to be security. The local Coles supermarket has no less than three full time security guards controlling flow.

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That is very much temporary though. As soon as the threat of the virus passes all that security will dry up and there will still be huge numbers of unemployed.
mansaxel:
I'm working from home full-time in precautionary isolation, and have been doing so since the very first days of March. Company took all remotable and critical competences and told them to stay home, and continue working.  I've been in to work twice in this time, both were for critical data network incidents, and meant solitary work in the middle of night. I can do almost all my work remotely, so this is business somewhat like, if not as, ususal.

In Sweden, schools aren't closed under the age of 13 (older ages are homework) so my children go to school. My parents are isolating and I'm shopping for them, while keeping distance. We've come to the conclusion that we've probably had the disease already, but fairly mild for all involved; myself mostly asymptotically, the wife spent a week with something like a bad cold; the children were home for a week with similar symptoms. All who are going to work or school of course observed the mandated post-symptom isolation protocols et c.

I must stress that we are getting -- so far -- mostly easily through this. As a family, because we all have work in insensitive organisations, and also, to some extent as a country. This is on a zoomed-out view; I have an ex-colleague who lost his mother (~85yo) to this some 10 days ago.  Shit is real. 

As for the different paths chosen by our authorities and others, I think it's down to our public office management model. Authorities in Sweden are largely omnipotent within the boundaries set by law and regulations. The government can't micro manage them on a case-by-case basis; it is explicitly forbidden. Therefore, what the scientists and other experts at the Population Health Authority (Folkhälsomyndigheten) say, is what we're working with, statistical insecurities and all.  Of course the government supports the work by introducing legislation, to help with restrictions, and to ensure we've got money to do this, as well as trying to support those businesses which of course will be hit.

Also, it is one of those times when having universal access to medical care for a society, without economical barriers to entry, is truly a common good. Sure, the system will experience extreme load conditions (which the exclusive private clinic in the hills will not see), but the nature of a pandemic is that you need to get the population through it as unscathed as possible, if for nothing else to have a society of minions to oppress afterwards.
Bud:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 13, 2020, 03:31:34 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 13, 2020, 01:30:28 am ---A booming trade seems to be security. The local Coles supermarket has no less than three full time security guards controlling flow.

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That is very much temporary though. As soon as the threat of the virus passes all that security will dry up and there will still be huge numbers of unemployed.

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"As soon as" is not going to be any time soon though. I think those folks will have job for a good year.
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