Corona Virus 🦠

By Lunatic Go To PostMy office has now instructed me to self isolate myself for 14 days upon return. Seems I'm going to have to work from home for the next two weeks.

By Laboured Go To Postlmao read that as self immolate at first.

By Lunatic Go To PostHey guys some people here have older family members they actually get along with so ease up on the jokes about older people dying to it. A lot of my family is going to Seattle this week for a wedding including my mum so yea…

By Laboured Go To Postlmao read that as self immolate at first.

By Not Go To PostGoing on a plane tomorrow, it's been an honor

By Fenderputty Go To PostConfirmed case in Orange County.

“I n recent days, run-of-the-mill mockery of the White House has taken a darker turn as the Chinese Internet became inundated by the theory, subtly stoked by the Chinese government, that the coronavirus originated in the United States. The U.S. government, one version of the theory goes, has been covering up mounting cases, and perhaps thousands of deaths, by classifying them as regular flu.”

Two days passed from when Florida officials received the state’s first positive coronavirus tests until Julia Nemeth-Harn said she was contacted by a county health worker with surprising news.
She had been on a flight with a passenger who had the disease. Now Nemeth-Harn was at risk.

The worker on Tuesday morning told Nemeth-Harn to isolate herself at home and to expect an email that day with forms and further instructions.
The email did not come.

Nemeth-Harn said a friend who was on the same flight but lives in Pinellas County was told by her local health department she did not need to self-quarantine. That friend continued with her life, Nemeth-Harn said, as she and her 70-year-old husband stayed inside.
“Two people sitting next to each other on the same flight got 180-degree different information,” Nemeth-Harn said.
The Pinellas health department didn’t respond to a request for comment.

By Laboured Go To PostSeems like corporates are pretty much using this as a test bed for their WFH protocols and capacity (unsurprisingly) which is why so many of them decided to mandate it so early.

By Laboured Go To PostSeems like corporates are pretty much using this as a test bed for their WFH protocols and capacity (unsurprisingly) which is why so many of them decided to mandate it so early.

By You got 14 bricks right there? Go To PostUS Healthcare system getting exposed for the garbage it is.

By reilo Go To PostI used to be terrible WFH when I was younger but I am now far more productive and relaxed WFH than at work.

My current job has a legit "WFH whenever" policy and I take full advantage of it. I really only show up for social interaction at work cause it gets isolating WFH. However, every time I am in the office I am reminded how everything is designed to disrupt my day (especially in an open office environment): loud conversations, people walking over to interrupt you, music, the general noises of people coming to and from, etc.

Plus, it's more time consuming to commute, not to mention the money I save eating at home and how much more environmentally friendly it is since I can't get to work via public transit.

By Laboured Go To Post

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1235869677202444289?s=20

By reilo Go To Postopen office environment).

By Perfect Blue Go To PostCan’t really describe how much I dislike the open concept office. One of the dumbest things every office seems to have adopted from startup “culture”.

It’s one of the most urgent questions in the United States right now: How many people have actually been tested for the coronavirus?

This number would give a sense of how widespread the disease is, and how forceful a response to it the United States is mustering. But for days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has refused to publish such a count, despite public anxiety and criticism from Congress. On Monday, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, estimated that “by the end of this week, close to a million tests will be able to be performed” in the United States. On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence promised that “roughly 1.5 million tests” would be available this week.

But the number of tests performed across the country has fallen far short of those projections, despite extraordinarily high demand, The Atlantic has found.

The Atlantic could only verify that 1,895 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the United States,

The figures we gathered suggest that the American response to the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has been shockingly sluggish, especially compared with that of other developed countries. The CDC confirmed eight days ago that the virus was in community transmission in the United States—that it was infecting Americans who had neither traveled abroad nor were in contact with others who had. In South Korea, more than 66,650 people were tested within a week of its first case of community transmission, and it quickly became able to test 10,000 people a day. The United Kingdom, which has only 115 positive cases, has so far tested 18,083 people for the virus.

Then, last night, the CDC resumed reporting the number of tests that the agency itself has completed, but did not include testing by state public-health departments or other laboratories. Asked to respond to our own tally and reporting, the CDC directed us to Messonnier’s statement from Tuesday.
Our reporting found that disorder has followed the CDC’s decision not to publish state data. Messonnier’s statement itself implies that, as highly populous states like California increase their own testing, the number of people the CDC reports as having been tested and the actual number of people tested will become ever more divergent. The federal tally of positive cases is now also badly out of date: While the CDC is reporting 99 positive cases of the coronavirus in the United States, our data, and separate data from Johns Hopkins University, show that the true number is well above 200, including those on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

The White House declined to comment.

Our reporting found that the capacity to test for the coronavirus varies dramatically—and sometimes dangerously—from state to state.

California claims the highest testing capacity of any state, and has tested the most individuals so far. As of yesterday afternoon, it had tested 516 people, with 53 positive cases, a spokesperson for the Department of Health told us. The department now has the capacity to test 6,000 people every day, and it expects that capacity to expand to 7,400 people a day starting today, the spokesperson said.
Washington State, the site of the country’s largest outbreak thus far, can test roughly 1,000 people a day. The state health department’s laboratory can test 100 people a day; the rest of the testing is being done at the University of Washington’s Virology Lab. Officials have found 70 positive cases in Washington so far, though a genetic study has estimated that there may be hundreds of untested people who have COVID-19 in the greater Seattle area.


Oregon, situated between the California and Washington hot spots, can test only about 40 people a day. Texas has 16 positive cases, according to media reports, but the health department’s website still lists only three cases. The Texas Tribune has reported that the state can test approximately 30 people a day.
Other states can test even fewer. Hawaii can test fewer than 20 people a day, though it could double that number in an emergency, an official told us. Iowa has supplies to test about 500 patients a day. Arkansas, though not near a current known outbreak, is able to test only four or five patients a day.

Today, more than a week after the country’s first case of community transmission, the most significant finding about the coronavirus’s spread in the United States has come from an independent genetic study, not from field data collected by the government. And no state or city has banned large gatherings or implemented the type of aggressive “social distancing” policies employed to battle the virus in Italy, Hong Kong, and other affluent places.