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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus

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metrologist:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2020, 06:28:47 pm ---Actually that's precisely what I would do. Why would I go to the hospital to try to get tested? If I'm sick the last thing I want to do is go out somewhere and there's no cure for a viral infection other than rest and hydration. Also with all the sick people going to the hospital trying to get tested that's the last place I want to be, if I didn't have it already then that's a good way to pick it up.

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Senior editor of the Washington [com]Post says that health care workers generally agree with you. Drs expect to diagnose over the phone, and just have you stay home to prevent spread.

edavid:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 09, 2020, 05:35:48 pm ---A couple of weeks before that a friend of mine returned home to the UK from here and he was sick for over a week with something resembling pneumonia that could have also been this virus but since neither of them got tested we'll never know if that's what they had or not.

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When they develop antibody tests, we'll be able to tell if people had it and recovered.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---Senior editor of the Washington [com]Post says that health care workers generally agree with you.
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Pardon me for stating the obvious but you're moving the goalposts. James_s is arguing that by staying at home he won't tell anyone and therefore he won't be in the stats. Your source is saying the opposite - you stay at home but still get diagnosed and therefore become part of the stats.

metrologist:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 09, 2020, 11:51:25 pm ---
--- Quote ---Senior editor of the Washington [com]Post says that health care workers generally agree with you.
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Pardon me for stating the obvious but you're moving the goalposts. James_s is arguing that by staying at home he won't tell anyone and therefore he won't be in the stats. Your source is saying the opposite - you stay at home but still get diagnosed and therefore become part of the stats.

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Sorry, I didn't know James was the goal-post setter (and why would you omit that part of the quote?). In any event, I was just stating what was said on the afternoon talk media, and I would likely do the same and just stay home until I felt death was imminent. My journey would likely start with a call to the local hospital.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 09, 2020, 10:55:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 09, 2020, 12:32:29 pm ---A couple of more schools in Sydney hit as predicted.

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Schools are open in the summer in Sydney?

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Err, yeah, why wouldn't they be?
https://www.education.gov.au/school-term-dates-2020
They get all of January off though.
BTW, it's now Autumn.

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