You're too much of a nice guy to ever do it.I am going to have fun poking fun at Sparkuri in the future when all of this blows over and the panic goes away. It will all be in good fun and thicken his skin up in the future for when another media provoked panic attack is pushed.
Either that, or I will feel like a complete ass and this will be one of my more shameful moments. I'm going with the former though
Way overboard.
If I want to panic, I wll watch the news you do. If I want to debunk it, there are multiple sources I can go to for that. You choose to freak out majorly over something that more than likely wont affect you directly, and I am not. That's where we differ. I am okay with you saying I'm not taking it serious, but you seem to not be okay with me pointing out your level of panic.
@D-raw I know what this virus is or isn't. I am sure of it. I disagree wholeheartedly on things like vaccines and that this was an engineered virus. I will keep arguing about that science. Some of it has a very clear defined data.I don't have a damn clue how people will react to it. Iran has to be pandemonium coming.
China did some crazy stuff.
Japan is blocking travel from certain countries completely.
South Korea seems to be doing an amazing job getting this under control without going full communist.
The 1918 flu pandemic as a prospect is a pretty scary thing that should be a once and a hundred year event. And we've been a hundred years. There are lots of reasons to believe that such an event will not happen again at the same scale. But even half of that scale is a lot of people. Most of those deaths will be centered around the poor developing areas of the world. But just the threat of those areas and watching the pandemonium could lead to some pretty crazy responses here.
If people panic, that could be significantly crazier than the disease itself. And if that kind of thing happens
@sparkuri it's far better prepared than I am. No matter what the catalyst for said panic is.Don't get too much hubris here. As I've said multiple times it's one thing to recognize the low individual threat of this virus and keep context that there isn't reason to panic. It's a whole other thing to be in NYC seeing Asian people getting beat due to panic. What comes next?
Still not seeing more than 2-4 masks around here. Just heard an announcement at jamaica (the lirr junction where you catch the air train to jfk) about washing hands or using hand sanitizer. That's the first official PSA I've seen or heard being put out there like that for nyc.
Is this really a thing right now?
I fucking hate humanity sometimes.
That shit is sad.
I'm sure the dude who died on the cruise ship thought the sameI am going to have fun poking fun at Sparkuri in the future when all of this blows over and the panic goes away. It will all be in good fun and thicken his skin up in the future for when another media provoked panic attack is pushed.
Either that, or I will feel like a complete ass and this will be one of my more shameful moments. I'm going with the former though
people are crazy, I see whole bunch of people on instagram traveling, wtf
No. That's not what I said.
@Splinty so a virus can't be engineered
Everything suggests this is a zoonotic infection from bats. Google Lancet open scientist letter that includes sourced articles for dozens peer reviews evidence.
Why go if you don't need to? There's plenty of time to visit in the future.
Work wanted me up there a few months ago. We planned it along with other remote users so we could have a week of face time instead of zoom meetings every day. But the folks from Belfast cancelled this morning and I was holding out until more info came out which has happened. I will sleep on it and figure it out tomorrow morning but I’m leaning heavily on rescheduling this one.
It's not a hoax. It's real.
But it isn't the catastrophe the media is making it out to be. The people dying are the elderly and those with immune systems that were already compromised. I don't mean to dismiss those deaths - they still suck. But for healthy people - the risk of death is very, very low. Minuscule.
Wash your hands often. Keep your hands away from your face. Other than that - live your life.
This isn't the plague that the media wants you to think it is. Society isn't about to end.
If you go, I'd alter my travel to avoid large crowds and I'd wash my hands 5-6 times a day with extra emphasis on avoiding close contact with strangers. That means no bars, crowds, etc. Could be difficult to do and would definitely put a damper on the fun.
I think the risk is monumentally low.
But if the trip isn't necessary, postpone it. Do a phone conference and call it a day. Plan a face to face when shit settles down.
Even though you know it's likely fine to travel, making a decision to postpone an unnecessary trip shows that you can make rational decisions.
That’s part of the bummer with this trip. I had actually planned to take my wife with me for the weekend to go to some museums and visit family but that’s out of the picture now. So if we can’t do that, what’s the point of taking the chance to go up there at all. If it were just work I don’t mind. I hate being in the big city and rarely, if ever, leave my hotel room after work anyway. I’ve avoided catching anything when I go there because I’m adamant about not stepping near a subway while I’m there. Oh well, we’ll have to save it for when this all dies down.
Lol @ that garbage.
They didn't really say anything about what to do to stop the spread of this. They basically said retirement homes have and have had a protocol to handle viruses and that the mortality rate will go down as we actually test people and find more younger people that are infected.
- Younger people are being denied testing around here left and right because hospitals are slammed and they don't have enough tests given the population.
- They didn't really say anything about preventing the spread of the virus within the US. Corporate America has said more by limiting non essential travel and allowing many workers to WFH.