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| coppice:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 10, 2020, 12:12:59 am --- --- Quote from: NANDBlog on March 09, 2020, 03:31:56 pm ---Not just there. I wouldn't go to the doctor, unless I have fever, cause they will look at me, "prescribe" Paracetamol and send me home. I can stay at home and tell my employer that I'm sick, no matter what the sickness is. But as I understand, lots of the infected have mild symptoms. --- End quote --- And that's the thing. Mrs EEVblog had a mild sniffle the other week the same time Sagan had one. You don't call the virus hotline for that. If I got a runny nose I wouldn't either, I'd just do my best to ensure no one else got it from me. I'd likely have to have real symptoms like a fever (don't recall ever having a fever for the flu) or a cough (I usually get that post a bad flu) before I called the hotline or my doctor. --- End quote --- Visiting a family doctor for simple infections is more a cultural thing than a medical thing. Some people grow up with the expectation that every sniffle needs to be attended by a doctor, even when they have to pay a considerable amount for each doctor's appointment. Others treat doctors as a last resort. |
| Yansi:
Our country is not that bad yet with the number of those infected. Yet government is starting to take strict actions. All schools in our country now closed. All gatherings of 100 or more people are prohibited. Pretty hefty fines (about $150.000) for people violating quarantine laws. Today, our employer directed us to work from home from tomorrow. I think that is a wise move. Gladly I live some distance from all larger cities. Not as far as I would like, but at least not in the center of a large city. Few days back we got a conference call from our boss, verifying who got the VPN, company cell phones, laptops nd external access to data. So I think our employer is taking all precautions well ahead of possible bad times. We got even hand sanitizers install in the company premises. //EDIT: Corrected typo. //EDIT: Added other relevant info. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Yansi on March 10, 2020, 12:26:50 pm ---Our country is not that bad yet with the number of those infected. Yet government is starting to take strict actions. All schools in our country now closed. All gatherings of 100 or more people are prohibited. Pretty hefty fines (about $150.000) for people violating quarantine laws. --- End quote --- I'm not sure at what point that is going to happen in Sydney, but I'm sure there is threshold somewhere... There is a decent chance we get away with this for now due to our warmer climate and just days out of summer here. But if that happens, winter would be open season. |
| Bud:
What is the deal with the $ 150,000 fine? This is unrealistic any individual would be able to pay. |
| metrologist:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 10, 2020, 08:51:22 am --- --- Quote --- you didn't quote the part you commented on --- End quote --- I reckon I did, you know. (Well, clearly, you don't but I certainly do.) Blimey, you couldn't make this stuff up :) --- End quote --- Just for my own future reading, I'll summarize: James: I wouldn't go to hospital to get tested because, no cure, risk of exposure... Metrologist: Reporters say health officials agree with that... dunkemhigh: Whoa, you're moving goal posts. Some tangent about about stats... :-+ |
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