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Coronavirus (Covid-19) informational thread
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Same here.Schools are closed here for a month.
With work/study at home, how long before the Internet is overloaded?!
minus some cat videos on YT, we should be just fine
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Depends how you define the internet?
Internet gaming - At risk
Video Conferencing - probably okay
Corporate VPN - Maybe at risk
******* - Definitely at risk
The internet isn't just one thing so It's hard to know what the plan will be with those.
Even if the internet does go down or gets very slow I don't care. I have a backup plan.
I am prepared.
Honestly, I don't anticipate providers having a problem as all they have done so far is lift all the data caps. This not only tells me the providers can handle it, it also tells me caps are BS in the first place.
The wife saw 3 potential COVID19 patients last night. None sick enough to be tested. She had all the appropriate PPE so she probably isn’t at high risk yet
we all will catch it sooner or later
what we try to do now is to catch it later rather than sooner
what we try to do now is to catch it later rather than sooner
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Which successfully prevented flu pandemics from originating, or even having outbreaks, like in 1918 right?
Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy(CIDRAP), on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast with some good information.
Apparently there are only 15 to 20 ICU available in all of Lombardy. “This is close to the point of no return”
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Don't get smug. We originated H1N1 Swine Flu in the US. Fortunately, that did end up just being a very bad flu... but eating bats have to go. They're the conduit of too many diseases.
It was my shameless plagiarism of Sam Kinison’s bit on World Hunger.
Yeah, but that's just reflecting that we're finally getting more than a light trickle of testing done. I guess we're now up to a strong trickle. Anyway, I know you know that... just commenting for people reading.
I do get the feeling that public health officials here in Silicon Valley have reached the point of just waiting for the other shoe to drop. The City of San Jose already had to take 10% of its fire department offline for a while due to positive infections and quarantine.
Ah gotcha. My apologies for the overreaction.
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One scientist did some modeling and is estimating that there are currently 10 cases for every reported case.
He gives a range of 10,000 to 40,000 current active cases in the US. That number will double roughly every six days.
Kentucky now at 16 cases, with more and more proactive things being done to slow the spread. On an unfortunate note, it was reported today in the governor's daily press conference that one recently diagnosed patient had refused to stay in home quarantine and now is being watched.
On a personal front, my work has shifted as much as possible to work from home at least for the next 3 weeks. The nature of my job is that unfortunately I can't do a lot from home. I'm going in on Monday to shut a bunch of stuff down, as I can't be there to make sure the GC-MSs, for example, are kept supplied with helium. I'm also loading up a bunch of equipment to bring home with me and complete ongoing projects. As an example, I'd planned to start this week on a major electronics refit of one of them, and fortunately the one earmarked for that is small enough that I think I can do it at home. That should keep me busy.
Hopefully 3 weeks of what is more-or-less a complete shutdown of all non-essential functions across the state will get ahead of things and "flatten the curve" as is popularly being said now.
On a personal front, my work has shifted as much as possible to work from home at least for the next 3 weeks. The nature of my job is that unfortunately I can't do a lot from home. I'm going in on Monday to shut a bunch of stuff down, as I can't be there to make sure the GC-MSs, for example, are kept supplied with helium. I'm also loading up a bunch of equipment to bring home with me and complete ongoing projects. As an example, I'd planned to start this week on a major electronics refit of one of them, and fortunately the one earmarked for that is small enough that I think I can do it at home. That should keep me busy.
Hopefully 3 weeks of what is more-or-less a complete shutdown of all non-essential functions across the state will get ahead of things and "flatten the curve" as is popularly being said now.