General Corona virus updates

[SongExotic2]

Belgium activates emergency measures to contain coronavirus outbreak

No schools is gonna cause some issues for guys at work who have kids. I reckon we gonna get told not to bother either today or next week. Will find out in hour or two

 

[Yossarian]

A bunch of labs in a bunch of different countries have announced their own 'breakthroughs'. It doesn't mean jack shit right now. A vaccine is still a long way off.

Even with bragging, Canada is late.

 

[SongExotic2]

Just in the coffee shop by my flat. They have to close too.


I'm gonna go to the supermarket tomorrow and buy like a doomsday prepper.

But just beer and toilet paper.

I'll make my own pub on the beach. Fuck this prohibition, I'm gonna get paid!

 

[Splinty]

Didn't the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine kill 30 to 40 people in 2010?

Hope they found it. Hope it works.

Evidence?
The swine flu vaccine that killed people was from 1976 (increased rate of GBS which kills some people and was the underlying cause of death here) and was pulled. There's been a substantial improvement since then in testing modality, again in the 90's and again in the 2000's.


Following h1n1 showing up in 2009 there was this study which of course made waves as it should:
Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following H1N1 Influenza Vaccination in Quebec

This was highly concerning because GBS is the primary autoimmune worry from vaccines. It's rare, but it should be even more rare than that...even though you are more likely to get GBS from the disease(!!!) the vaccine needs to be safer than that by standards set today.

Turns out in a larger dataset https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1008553
It was safer. Does not increase GBS. Since then, continued studies show the same.

Just an FYI, H1N1 vaccine has been in several flu vaccines (I'd have to review the years) since then including this year. Again without increase in death or GBS.

 

[nuraknu]

Thread about disabled people who were denied accommodations being annoyed that others are now receiving those accommodations for coronavirus:


View: https://mobile.twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1238213582787092483

 

[Hauler]

Evidence?
The swine flu vaccine that killed people was from 1976 (increased rate of GBS which kills some people and was the underlying cause of death here) and was pulled. There's been a substantial improvement since then in testing modality, again in the 90's and again in the 2000's.


Following h1n1 showing up in 2009 there was this study which of course made waves as it should:
Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following H1N1 Influenza Vaccination in Quebec

This was highly concerning because GBS is the primary autoimmune worry from vaccines. It's rare, but it should be even more rare than that...even though you are more likely to get GBS from the disease(!!!) the vaccine needs to be safer than that by standards set today.

Turns out in a larger dataset https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1008553
It was safer. Does not increase GBS. Since then, continued studies show the same.

Just an FYI, H1N1 vaccine has been in several flu vaccines (I'd have to review the years) since then including this year. Again without increase in death or GBS.

I was just going off of memory. I must have read it somewhere.

That's why I wrote it as a question. Wasn't sure.

 

[Splinty]

I was just going off of memory. I must have read it somewhere.

That's why I wrote it as a question. Wasn't sure.

I get it, wasn't trying to say otherwise.
Was thinking maybe you were reading news or blogs. Could have some data I don't know about.

 

[ThatOneDude]

Work has canceled all in person meetings, and may institute a much more generous work from home policy. I've been working from home for the last month, hopefully I never have to go back into the office. Lots of old crusty lawyers and writers at work, maybe a few of them will come down with a cough. Dallas has declared a state of emergency, and my wife's lab may shut down for a couple weeks.

 

[ShatsBassoon]

This one is real. It's over.

 

[Grateful Dude]

AISD (Austin schools) just cancelled school today, which is the last day before spring break. They are also asking anyone that travels over the Spring Break week to quarantine for 14 days before returning to school.

apparently 2 cases in Austin now. One they think got it in Houston (thanks a lot @Splinty ) and the other was an older fella transferred in from a smaller town/hospital.

 

[lueVelvet]

Work has canceled all in person meetings, and may institute a much more generous work from home policy. I've been working from home for the last month, hopefully I never have to go back into the office. Lots of old crusty lawyers and writers at work, maybe a few of them will come down with a cough. Dallas has declared a state of emergency, and my wife's lab may shut down for a couple weeks.

Today is the first day my company has requested that the vast majority of employees work from home. If we have to go into the office, they're recommended we don't all come into the same one to avoid cross contamination of the same team should someone be infected. This is getting more and more wild as the hours/days go by.

Luckily I've worked from home for the past 10 years so I don't need to worry about this going into a busy city/office business but I feel for my workmates. Their lives are being very much disrupted.

 

[ShatsBassoon]

Thread about disabled people who were denied accommodations being annoyed that others are now receiving those accommodations for coronavirus:


View: https://mobile.twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1238213582787092483

She is really pissed off

 

[ThatOneDude]

Today is the first day my company has requested that the vast majority of employees work from home. If we have to go into the office, they're recommended we don't all come into the same one to avoid cross contamination of the same team should someone be infected. This is getting more and more wild as the hours/days go by.

Luckily I've worked from home for the past 10 years so I don't need to worry about this going into a busy city/office business but I feel for my workmates. Their lives are being very much disrupted.

We support 2 child companies, 1 in the office and 1 in ohio. I'm hoping the child company thats in the same building as us pushes people to work from home so I can continue to not go into the office.....suckers
And I have an interview coming up, I may never be back, who knows

 

[member 3289]

I was walking through Costco last night when someone's child in front of me sneezed. I did a hyper extension of my upper body, propelling my arms and head forward and my legs backward, so that the cough wouldn't land on my pant leg.

I know the rate of infection for children is low but I'm not taking any chances. I dodged that shit like the Matrix.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Even with bragging, Canada is late.

He's an Aussie.

 

[jason73]

I was walking through Costco last night when someone's child in front of me sneezed. I did a hyper extension of my upper body, propelling my arms and head forward and my legs backward, so that the cough wouldn't land on my pant leg.

I know the rate of infection for children is low but I'm not taking any chances. I dodged that shit like the Matrix.

RIP

 

[jason73]

 

[Hauler]

So @Splinty

Is the social distancing efforts for Covid-19 because we are smarter than we were for the H1N1 outbreak in 2009/10, or is Covid-19 more dangerous than swine and the extra measures are necessary?

Or is it more of an overreaction due to media-fueles panic?

Or maybe the perfect storm of all of the above?

 

[Sex Chicken]

I was walking through Costco last night when someone's child in front of me sneezed. I did a hyper extension of my upper body, propelling my arms and head forward and my legs backward, so that the cough wouldn't land on my pant leg.

I know the rate of infection for children is low but I'm not taking any chances. I dodged that shit like the Matrix.

You are a huge pussy. This is you laying down in the cereal aisle, telling your brothers to keep shopping without you.

 

[b00ts]

People in my neighborhood FB group are begging for TP and non-perishables. I mentioned it won’t get that serious and some government boot licker went on a rant about how I’m not prepared. He has 3 retired police K9’s he adopted and I said first thing I’d do is round up all the dogs in the neighborhood to stockpile meats. He went slam off and blocked me lmao

 

[lueVelvet]

We support 2 child companies, 1 in the office and 1 in ohio. I'm hoping the child company thats in the same building as us pushes people to work from home so I can continue to not go into the office.....suckers
And I have an interview coming up, I may never be back, who knows

We have offices in London, Belfast, Japan, and all over the US. So our WFH initiative is actually quite intense. You design systems with the budget you're given and low and behold it's not always enough for a 100% WFH scenario. So we have to increase resources and work over time to support the systems when they inevitably have issues. Fun times for us IT folk...

 

[ShatsBassoon]

 

[ThatOneDude]

We have offices in London, Belfast, Japan, and all over the US. So our WFH initiative is actually quite intense. You design systems with the budget you're given and low and behold it's not always enough for a 100% WFH scenario. So we have to increase resources and work over time to support the systems when they inevitably have issues. Fun times for us IT folk...

Yea, we are pretty good. One of the child companies refuses to migrate to sharepoint in the cloud so we have to use a ton of resources to support them

 

[ThatOneDude]

People in my neighborhood FB group are begging for TP and non-perishables. I mentioned it won’t get that serious and some government boot licker went on a rant about how I’m not prepared. He has 3 retired police K9’s he adopted and I said first thing I’d do is round up all the dogs in the neighborhood to stockpile meats. He went slam off and blocked me lmao

fucking boot lickers

 

[lueVelvet]

Yea, we are pretty good. One of the child companies refuses to migrate to sharepoint in the cloud so we have to use a ton of resources to support them

We're in the middle of a ton of on prem > cloud and cloud > on prem projects. Of course any non-essential projects are all on hold for the time being but that means we have users with Exchange Online mailboxes and a large number still running on our on prem Exchange environment. With the type of business we run, we rely heavily on on prem resources so unfortunately we can't go 100% in the cloud. Sales and Trading require Bloomberg terminals, support stuff require to connect via Citrix. We're trying to get everyone to utilize VPN but not everyone had company issued laptops so those folks will have to connect over Citrix and VDA into their desktops. It's a web of technologies that we need to make sure all work together.