Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?
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Yeah, me & Bex were just discussing how much work they expect us to be able to actually do once the schools (probably) finish on Friday. We've come to the conclusion that we'll have to do shifts between us as best we can.
I am off this week but I’m checking my emails on my phone to see if anything comes through about closing the office. I’ve been invited to a directorate call on Thursday about it. Things are changing all the time so why even bother scheduling a call for 3 days time???
Bex was due in a course in Manchester tomorrow. She asked for confirmation at 4pm that it was on, it was.
Got a call from the grade 6 at half 6 to say she will be working from home indefinitely & not to attend the meeting, then got an invite to a Teams meeting with the same name as the course too...
I reckon following the announcement today they'll have meetings (& meetings, & more meetings...) tomorrow to flesh out the finer details & then do it from Wednesday.
Nothing has come from the SLT officially yet though.
FWIW they told us we would be able to work from home (normally pt ops staff can't) & to take our surface pros home as of this evening, so I suspect someone knew that announcement was coming...
The boss just had a message saying work from home if you can but the office is open for those who cannot do so.
Day 2 of being at home with 4 kids.
THey better cancel summer vacation.
THey better cancel summer vacation.
What dept is she in mate? Pm if don't want to say on here.
Heh. Funny cos it's true.
You'd imagine Microsoft can get extra servers up for Teams in no time, they own, what, 2/3s of all of them?
I teach in a college but the campus I'm on is in a community hub. All leisure and community centres just got closed by the council. Reckon they will try and get us teaching online.
That's fine with normal students, but I teach on a course for disengaged kids doing a level 1 qualification (equivalent of a failed gcse). Can't imagine too many doing online stuff.
Looks like I'll be home schooling my own kids cause I sure as fuck won't be sending them into school.
That's fine with normal students, but I teach on a course for disengaged kids doing a level 1 qualification (equivalent of a failed gcse). Can't imagine too many doing online stuff.
Looks like I'll be home schooling my own kids cause I sure as fuck won't be sending them into school.
Teams isn't much of a barrier for us tbh, we'll only use it for meetings, the work systems are all separate.
Our Teams calls can go to shit on a Friday when there is the highest number of people working at home. Saying that I think that’s people with shit routers expecting it to work clearly the other side of the house.
The pregnant girl on our team was saying that her surface pro wouldn't work properly today.
Tried asking her about her Internet & WiFi & I may as well have been speaking another language, but it's clearly not great.
Oh yes that today was a bit harsh, we have multiple tenancy and the option to switch vanished, luckily we have been issued two laptops to work with !!!
On a plus side everyone, if anyone needs to apply for a passport - do so now, my wife applied last Wednesday, got told today it's been approved and she will get it in next two days. Normally expect like 3 weeks.
Sad news - first victim in Essex at my wife's hospital, 90 years of age, it was the virus.
My manager thinks sitting on top of her router (figuratively) means everything should work fine. She lives out in the sticks with an Internet speed which is insulting to the term broadband. It’s fair to say her machine barely functions at home.
Schools closed here from Wednesday, no public gatherings of more than 100 people, limitations on travel, etc etc.
A month ago I took a ton of drugs and binned my plans for opening a food business and took up a systems dev job for a US company instead.
I still amaze myself at how I stumble through this life.
A month ago I took a ton of drugs and binned my plans for opening a food business and took up a systems dev job for a US company instead.
I still amaze myself at how I stumble through this life.
Just reporting how China is returning to normal as it's likely that this is how it's going to happen in Europe too.
2.5 months on from the first discovery of the virus in Wuhan China is returning to normal. Travel restrictions are being lifted in the epicentre (Wuhan & Hubei Province).
In Shanghai all of the parks are open with hundreds of thousands using them in the past 2 days. And the Shanghai authorities have reduced the price of both electricity and gas to encourage companies to fully resume work, stating that notifying the Shanghai authorities is no longer required to reopen.
2.5 months on from the first discovery of the virus in Wuhan China is returning to normal. Travel restrictions are being lifted in the epicentre (Wuhan & Hubei Province).
In Shanghai all of the parks are open with hundreds of thousands using them in the past 2 days. And the Shanghai authorities have reduced the price of both electricity and gas to encourage companies to fully resume work, stating that notifying the Shanghai authorities is no longer required to reopen.
You are missing the point. It was far from contained when Wuhan kicked off .. international and domestic travellers in their thousands (Wuhan is the worlds' 30th largest airport hub) had travelled all over China and internationally in the 2-3 weeks previous to the official date of the outbreak when action was taken in January (yet tracking now has the original date of infection going back into November). Yet it's taken 2.5 months to run its course - which IS the point.
NOTICE
Daughter warned me of this today and I've just seen it mentioned again. It seems you should not use anti-inflammatories (including Ibuprofen) if suffering from headaches/fever and suspecting it could be Covid-19. People are being advised to use paracetamol.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...L9bXKQmdIs2trbwyjYBCMxPoeFOS701_2vMpdyjkvs9vY
Daughter warned me of this today and I've just seen it mentioned again. It seems you should not use anti-inflammatories (including Ibuprofen) if suffering from headaches/fever and suspecting it could be Covid-19. People are being advised to use paracetamol.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...L9bXKQmdIs2trbwyjYBCMxPoeFOS701_2vMpdyjkvs9vY
You seem to be in denial about this somehow. It hasn’t “run its course” - the PRC government took extraordinary steps to contain in within one province and limit the spread to a small minority of people among the residents of Wuhan and that’s why after 3 months things are starting to return to normal. That’s NOT what’s going to happen elsewhere. There is likely more infections per capita in the UK right now than there ever was in China at its peak.
You seem to not be aware of the facts at all. I lived through the first two months in China (including spending the Chinese New Year in the province next to Hubei). The virus was spreading around China and internationally for WEEKS before Wuhan went into lock-down. Go do your research.
So yes, with infections per day down to single digits for the past week (for the WHOLE of China's 1.6 billion population) it does seem to have run its course pending a second wave from whatever source (fingers crossed).
As for your assertion that it's not going to happen elsewhere - you literally have no basis for that statement. To the contrary every outbreak so far is showing signs exactly to the contrary of your opinion. China and South Korea the obvious ones.
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Avoid Ibuprofen in general.
The only way this would get sorted is if we did club 18-30. They don't get any symptoms so just give it to all of them. Then they can get all the shops and pubs open. The nurses can get it too. Within a couple of weeks we'd have an army of the immune and everything back on track.
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Here's an abbreviated Timeline for anyone not conversant (as probably many aren't) with the beginning of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan :
8-18th December : first cases appeared in the Huanan Seafood Market, Wuhan (no quarantine in place)
21st December : CCDC announced an outbreak of "pneumonia of an unknown cause" (no quarantine in place)
27th December : genetic sequencing complete (no quarantine in place)
1st January : Huanan Seafood Market was closed on 1 January 2020 (no quarantine in place)
8th January : Scientists in China announced the discovery of a new coronavirus. (no quarantine in place)
23rd January : Officials announce a quarantine of the greater Wuhan, China area to commence 23 January 2020 at 10:00 am. No traffic will be allowed in or out of the city.
13 February 2020, the Chinese government has issued extension of order to shut down all non-essential companies, including manufacturing plants, in Hubei Province
20 February 2020, the Chinese government has issued extension of order to shut down all non-essential companies, including manufacturing plants, and all schools in Hubei Province
13 March 2020: Cities in Hubei (other than Wuhan) lift blockades ending quarantine
14 March 2020: Hubei Sanitation and Health Committee announces that only Wuhan remains a "high-risk area", and that the entirety of the rest of the province is considered medium- or "low-risk areas". Any low-risk township-level divisions, in addition to those medium- and high-risk divisions with no confirmed active cases, could lift their blockades and other mobility controls.
16th March : Quarantine expected to be lifted in Wuhan in the next few days.
So there was over a month between the outbreak commencement and a lockdown of the city. In the meantime people were traveling in and out and all around China. The quarantine in the rest of the province (which also experienced a high proportion of China's infected cases) wasn't complete until the 20th February (2 months after the virus was first discovered).
8-18th December : first cases appeared in the Huanan Seafood Market, Wuhan (no quarantine in place)
21st December : CCDC announced an outbreak of "pneumonia of an unknown cause" (no quarantine in place)
27th December : genetic sequencing complete (no quarantine in place)
1st January : Huanan Seafood Market was closed on 1 January 2020 (no quarantine in place)
8th January : Scientists in China announced the discovery of a new coronavirus. (no quarantine in place)
23rd January : Officials announce a quarantine of the greater Wuhan, China area to commence 23 January 2020 at 10:00 am. No traffic will be allowed in or out of the city.
13 February 2020, the Chinese government has issued extension of order to shut down all non-essential companies, including manufacturing plants, in Hubei Province
20 February 2020, the Chinese government has issued extension of order to shut down all non-essential companies, including manufacturing plants, and all schools in Hubei Province
13 March 2020: Cities in Hubei (other than Wuhan) lift blockades ending quarantine
14 March 2020: Hubei Sanitation and Health Committee announces that only Wuhan remains a "high-risk area", and that the entirety of the rest of the province is considered medium- or "low-risk areas". Any low-risk township-level divisions, in addition to those medium- and high-risk divisions with no confirmed active cases, could lift their blockades and other mobility controls.
16th March : Quarantine expected to be lifted in Wuhan in the next few days.
So there was over a month between the outbreak commencement and a lockdown of the city. In the meantime people were traveling in and out and all around China. The quarantine in the rest of the province (which also experienced a high proportion of China's infected cases) wasn't complete until the 20th February (2 months after the virus was first discovered).
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This is out of control and getting even more nuts by the day.
Workis keeping the Office open but everyone is encouraged to work from home - everything we do is via Google Hangouts anyway.
So now they’ve decided that we should all turn our cameras on in the Google hangouts so that we can “feel like we’re still interconnected”.
Fuck sake... so much for naked work from home day!!!
Workis keeping the Office open but everyone is encouraged to work from home - everything we do is via Google Hangouts anyway.
So now they’ve decided that we should all turn our cameras on in the Google hangouts so that we can “feel like we’re still interconnected”.
Fuck sake... so much for naked work from home day!!!