Corona Virus

[Unorthodox]

the person has been dressing this way for about two weeks for their daily walk

[E_T]

and the coppers finally noticed...  Although, small village police in England can be boring,,,

[Geo]

and the coppers finally noticed...  Although, small village police in England can be boring,,,

Not Midwest police troopers?

[Lorizael]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-52456180


Honest opinions please, should the police even be involved here?

Big no from me. The plague doctor ain't hurtin' nobody. Police should mind their own business.

[Rusty Edge]

I feel the police were right to simply inform the man he was scaring children. I'm presuming his intent was to scare, shame,  or amuse adults much like the guy wearing a grim reaper costume on Florida beaches. Me, I could see myself doing the same thing, but I wouldn't want to scare kids who are probably already terrified of losing their parents.  Hopefully he stops while both he and the complaining parents are still anonymous, before an angry Dad follows him home, and things escalate.

[Unorthodox]

To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised there hasn't been a littler MORE of this kind of thing...but apparently it's more 'cool' to take your guns to protest the whole staying at home thing instead. 

Can we go back to the scary clown idiots?  They were much more amusing than the current idiots. 

(I'm legitimately starting to think the scary clown thing was a test run for all the current social media created idiocy from anti vax to virus protesting.  If not a test run itself, it certainly showed the flaw in the system and exposed how many of the population are easily influenced into believing [poop].)

[E_T]

This has been a Test...

[E_T]

In case no one has seen it yet, this had come out last week (4/21)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share_button

[Geo]

I was surprised I didn't bounce on a region wall for trying to watch the documentary.
Thanks for sharing.

[Rusty Edge]

Here's a story about New York city transit workers.  What I find frustrating about it is that the workers had good ideas about making themselves safer, but management didn't listen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.html

[Unorthodox]

Several interesting things this week, all relating to corporate america in differing degrees.

Mars, Hershey, and Spirit have teamed up and are focus grouping ideas for social distancing halloween.  From online trick or treating with kids getting photos of their costume online and getting mailed the candy direct from the candy companies to various forms of drive throughs and a return of the costume parades of the 50s instead of door to door. 

I've been assigned to the board discussing how work handles things going forward as well.  This has included daily cluster stroms of seemingly random suggestions from various expert sources. 

The one theme that seems to be standard though is a plan for a new normal.  As in a need to shift entire floorplans to cope with future quarantines.  I'm also on a panel of more than 10k across the nation discussing what's working and what isn't.  The two big things that continue to come out as working are the distancing and facemasks.  Everywhere that hasn't made those mandatory ends up having instances where entire teams or areas get infected. 

Here in Utah, we were up to about 80% mask wearing, but the gov loosened the restrictions last weekend and now it's under 50%.  And they're trying to start football practice...

[Geo]

After this weekend, restrictions will be loosened again. Shops open on the 11th. A limited amount of visitors at home is allowed, but only the same 4 people, and those are not allowed to visit other families.
The last couple days new infected cases requiring hospitalisation stayed below hundred. Same with the daily number of fatalities.
Public transport is compulsary masked, and advised in public. The 1,5 m (5 feet) distance stays in force, and gatherings are still forbidden.
And my physiotherapy is painfull.

[Rusty Edge]

I start waxing philosophical and wondering if any permanent good can come of this.  We are rapidly proving working from home is quite possible.  Could it become the norm, eliminating all this office space and allowing affordable housing, or lord forbid even returning some farmland?   

It could very well be that post-covid-19 the companies that recover the best are the ones that master this work from home and incorporate it going forward.  There is a monumental amount of savings to be had if corporate america would embrace it.  Not to mention the energy savings as a whole. 

Yet it's also becoming quite clear to me, that the cube farms are strictly about CONTROL, not about being the best scenario to do the work.

I've been thinking about this, too.

*Even though I'm out of the workforce, I hope the lesson is learned that many meetings could be replaced by an e-mail and some answered questions.

*I'm hoping that affordable higher education at home becomes a thing, at least for the initial years of courses.

*I've long been concerned that there is very little shared experience to make people see each other as "We" & "Us" rather than "they" and "them." Maybe this will humanize everybody enough for a few years to prevent a war, or help us treat people in our own countries with mutual respect again.

*I'm thinking that there is huge potential here to end the anti-vax movement.

* Medical Reform- FDA, healthcare, health insurance, and emergency preparedness.

* That a lot of people will get in the habit of washing hands, not touching their faces, coughing or sneezing into their elbows or the insides of their coats, improving public safety in the long run.

* That we will adopt he Vulcan "live long and prosper" greeting as the new standard.

* That companies will provide paid sick leave, rather than force sick employees to work.

* We probably won't be blowing on entire birthday cakes any more.

* Then there's the matter of bathrooms. The German foot operated toilets always made more sense to me. Sure, there's the new bidet toilets, but is a key pad or a remote any better than a chrome handle? I foresee an app that people can use with their own phones, or else a voice control. Voice controlled sinks, too. 

* I also foresee everybody carrying their own stylus for touchscreens and key pads as part of the new normal. That, and more things being done with smart phones.

* I wonder if copper door handles will make a comeback because of their anti-microbial properties. 

[E_T]

I've been assigned to the board discussing how work handles things going forward as well. 

Congratulations, I guess...  Although it's more on you, you might be able to keep others safe, as long as you keep the clowns down... 

[snip]

  The two big things that continue to come out as working are the distancing and facemasks.  Everywhere that hasn't made those mandatory ends up having instances where entire teams or areas get infected. 

All the more reason to make those things mandatory in the workplace until Vaccines(sp) come out

Here in Utah, we were up to about 80% mask wearing, but the gov loosened the restrictions last weekend and now it's under 50%.  And they're trying to start football practice...

And they don't wash their hands either.  I would have them get sanitizing stations place throughout the facility and make sure they stay filled.  Needs to be: if you pass one, you use it...

[Unorthodox]

And they don't wash their hands either.  I would have them get sanitizing stations place throughout the facility and make sure they stay filled.  Needs to be: if you pass one, you use it...

It's sounding more and more that this particular point is not as strong as initially thought.  The large majority of cases seem to come from direct contact/violation of the 6' rule rather than secondary touching a dirty surface.  And sanitizer in particular is a double edged solution.  Washing is much more effective than sanitizer, yet sanitizer stations lower people's efforts to actually wash.

One study is suggesting only 30% workforce back to work at a time to maintain social distancing...essentially we'd need to go to 3 shifts with time to sanitize between shifts.