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Coronavirus

markysimmo said:
We've had an email from our COO
Basically anybody in our company who has a cold, cough, flu type symptoms has to go home for 10 days
Cue a big rush of tinkletakers leaving and seeing this as an opportunity to not go to work or even work for 10 days
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We've been on compulsory work from home since last Friday. Whilst I enjoy going into the office, I'm quite happy not having to travel on the train & tube at this time, but I am going a bit stir crazy. For me, there's no chance of taking the p1ss as if I don't do my work, no one else is going to do it for me. But I can see that in some cases it might be easier to treat it as an opportunity to slack off. Also some roles/people will simply not be set up to work from home, which will cause challenges for companies.
 
Robbo said:
277 confirmed cases in Norway so far. Minister of defence is quaranteened after being in contact with an infected individual. Hospital workers at several different hospitals are infected. Police officers are quaranteened. The hotel business is struggling and people are laid off. And still this is only starting.

It's getting closer, and I have to admit I find it uncomfortable when I hear of colleagues of friends actually being infected.

I take the tube to work every day, and suspect that's where I'll end up contracting the virus.
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milo said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1237119688578138112
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436 in Norway now. As I said a couple of days ago, the amount of people infected has an exponential growth every 2 days. The chart shows the same, except for Japan.
 
Kandi1977 said:
436 in Norway now. As I said a couple of days ago, the amount of people infected has an exponential growth every 2 days. The chart shows the same, except for Japan.
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Yep. What measures have the Norwegian government put in place?
 
I work in food wholesale and we've introduced a break chain policy. No touching, no signatures when delivering or receiving goods, no using equipment that isn't your own etc.

All drivers have desinfectant and disposable gloves in their vehicles. No visitors and no sales representatives out in the field.

Any employee traveling abroad will be in quarantine for 14 days, with pay.
 
My boss basically sent everyone home from today until the end of the week. I suspect we’ll have to work from home at least all of next week too. We’re just 30 employees, and most of us can work from anywhere, so that was an easy decision - and a sensible one IMO.

Lots of sporting events, conferences, concerts, etc also cancelled. Wife and I were going to a stand up show on Sunday, but will likely stay home I think, even if it's not cancelled - which I believe it will be.
 
markysimmo said:
My Mrs works for the same company as me so if we both get sent home 10 days with her would be a challenge

Than if they shut down schools and nurseries all 4 of us at home for 2 weeks

I'd rather take my chance with Coronavirus !!
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I just had 5 weeks stuck in a hospital and that was boring as hell.

No way I'm staying indoors for two weeks. Thankfully I'm in a village tucked into the south downs and have seen enough dads stay to know how to avoid roadblocks.
 
All jokes aside it concerned me in China and it does here. According to my specialist I'm doing better then expected and I do feel really good. But having a long term health issue does make you a bit scared.
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
I just had 5 weeks stuck in a hospital and that was boring as hell.

No way I'm staying indoors for two weeks. Thankfully I'm in a village tucked into the south downs and have seen enough dads stay to know how to avoid roadblocks.
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I don't think that there is any suggestion that people would have to stay indoors for two weeks. You are fine going outside as long as you keep your distance from others, this sounds ideal to me. I'm planning lots of walks and some cycling.
 
I think in appx 3 weeks there will be a realisation that this 'pandemic' is not as hysterical or dangerous as it seemed. I hope so anyway.

I have no medical training. Don't even have a Biology GCSE, but I have a suspicion that the virus 'dilutes' as it spreads. Is this possible? I think humanity has been here before, the sole difference is we are better at tracking viruses. And now the media are counting each corpse. Whereas in the past, Sars etc spread through the population without such an accurate tally. People just died of pneumonia.

But I maybe wrong. Are their any reports of people coming down with the virus and what they go through? Like of the 300-400 in the UK who have been tested positive, what do they experience? Is it like a bad Flu or just mild symptoms?
 
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Modric THFC said:
They are doing that https://nextstrain.org/ncov
There is no evidence of any dilution at any stage
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There is no evidence of it not diluting either? ie too early for us clever humans to reach any sound conclusions...

But the reason we can track it so accurately is precisely because the virus changes from human to human. Whether that change is significant or not is a different question.
 
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