LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
I don’t understand how you can work from home as a mascot.
The people who can stay home and continue to work are, for the most part, not the ones without a job (yet).
The people who make their incomes off of these office professionals... waiters, baristas, bartenders, convenience store workers, janitorial services, maintenance, fitness, mass transit workers, car repair, delivery, etc... who are out of a job, and who will remain out of a job if we continue to keep everyone home once it's not actually necessary to stay home any longer.
So while it's cool for those of us, myself included, to just say "oh, well, we can just continue to work from home indefinitely"? This does nothing to help the jobs of people who are reliant upon people going to work. And there are more of them then there are office workers.
Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaI don’t understand how you can work from home as a mascot.
That's why I said those businesses should prepare by enacting measures that would allow them to re-open and continue to operate safely. THAT is imperative while we wait for treatment because if you come to October and you have no treatment and you also haven't bothered to figure out how to get these parts of the economy to open safely, then we're all cooked.
And while it's a nice thought that we have to get office workers back to restaurants and gyms, the reality is that a lot of people will just not go. And they especially won't go if they feel like the business has not taken appropriate measures. Which again brings us to retrofitting non-office businesses and coming up with employee schedules that are the safest. You can stagger shifts, gyms for example could run small classes (fewer than 10) people with half hour breaks in between to fully clean the equipment in addition to the overnight cleaning and so on. It's not like it's NOT doable, but all this planning should start happening now.
So again, you have people dependent on office workers going back to work, but I am telling you that we were told that the only way for us to return would be to retrofit out office wiht plexiglass, be closed in our individual offices, close communal washrooms and only allow one person in the washroom at a time, absolutely no access to the kitchen, much less microwave, fridge, coffee machines, etc. So if I am going to tell my junior lawyers to return and basically sit imprisoned in their office and not interact with their coworkers except through glass or 2 metres apart, how do you think that those same people would then conclude, oh it's totes safe to go to Starbucks for my morning break, the gym at lunch time and out to dinner after work. They will. Not. Go. That's why I think it's better off to keep them at home but spend our efforts assisting businesses to prepare so that people are willing to go to a small spin or Crossfit class, or are willing to take their kids to a small group dance class or are willing to once again engage their dog walker or feel safe to return to their hairdresser.
There are business consultants making good $ now advising how office workplaces have to renovate the premises to allow for physical distancing. Some of the measures are bonkers - a lot of time and $ to devote to getting people back so that they can essentially be locked inside their office all day avoiding other people. This is totally irrational for everyone except critical staff that need to be present so I think that you will see lots of businesses simply elect to keep non-critical office workers home for a very long time.
Armed protesters in the Michigan state capitol building today. Yes they're allowed in there with guns. Some of the legislators put on bullet proof vests.
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Armed protesters in the Michigan state capitol building today. Yes they're allowed in there with guns. Some of the legislators put on bullet proof vests.
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Throw every last one of these shithead "protesters" in jail. That's insane.
Remdesivir has been approved by the FDA for emergency use.
That was fast. Let's see how this goes.
I'm not worried about the side effects, just mildly disappointed that it's not being offered as a first line treatment where it can really shine.Don’t forget, remdesivir was clinically tested for Ebola patients. And it’s just gone through a first round as a controlled study for Covid patients. So any thought of it being (a) inherently harmful to humans and (b) harmful to Covid patients would have shown up in the first sets of studies.
Probably how they got it through so fast. It’s still only approved in emergency fashion, I’m sure while they continue the next phase.
As a friend of mine just said a little while ago - they'd be shot as soon as they were getting out of their cars.Imagine dozens of Black Lives Matter protesters armed to their teeth pushing their way into a state capitol.
Don’t forget, remdesivir was clinically tested for Ebola patients. And it’s just gone through a first round as a controlled study for Covid patients. So any thought of it being (a) inherently harmful to humans and (b) harmful to Covid patients would have shown up in the first sets of studies.
Probably how they got it through so fast. It’s still only approved in emergency fashion, I’m sure while they continue the next phase.
Yes indeed
Not sure if this is Michigan or somewhere else. But what the actual...Maybe they were just trying to blast Covid to smithereens. Yeah that's it
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I'm not worried about the side effects, just mildly disappointed that it's not being offered as a first line treatment where it can really shine.
A realistic scenario is that it doesn't prove to be a silver bullet but also doesn't result in severe side effects, gets full approval in time and we see better results in mild cases further down the road. Hopefully it takes a tiny bit of strain off hospitals that have access to it.
I read that a lot of it will be coming out next week, but we'll also learn a lot from its use in the coming weeks. Japan is approving it for more than just emergency use.It would be nice to see the stats / data
"good people" Oh, I'm so glad I didn't hear at the time. More yelling at the radio would have ensued!"The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire," Trump wrote. "These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal."
Of, course!‘Cause when you storm a state capitol with guns, clearly you’re looking to sit down and negotiate like reasonable people.
Ah, hadn't heard that yet.I read that a lot of it will be coming out next week, but we'll also learn a lot from its use in the coming weeks. Japan is approving it for more than just emergency use.
Los Angeles is offering free testing to all residents. I wish other cities could start offering that too. And towns eventually.
It's scary that our federal govt does not seem to value testing.