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In their offices? I still see people talking about working from home that live in Europe. The US was sort of last to get the virus but seems like we are opening back up before Europe.
Georgia USA, in particular starts to open back up on Friday with more opening Monday but still with a shelter-in-place order through the end of the month. Seems contradictory somewhat, but OK. I'm just going along for the ride. I work from home everyday so it does not impact me nearly that much.
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UK still in lockdown for another couple of weeks at least. The instruction is to work from home if you possibly can; and if you must go to work, to social distance (6') where possible. All non-food shops closed (apart from pharmacies, off-licenses ("liquor stores"), and a very few other classes. Some trains and buses still running but reduced services and you may be challenged. Some ferries stopped running. Doctors doing remote consultations only. People allowed to go to work if necessary; plus you're allowed shopping "for essentials" as infrequently as possible, plus one outing for exercise per day, social distancing to be observed always.
In practice most people are obeying most of the rules most of the time. Then there are idiots just carrying on as normal. We have a scheme whereby employers can furlough you (lay you off temporarily) and the government will pay you 80% of your normal salary (up to a certain level). This means we've not (yet) seen the massive spike in unemployment that the US has; but what happens when things re-open but people don't, for instance, sit around in crowded coffee shops, go to the cinema etc is anyone's guess.
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I have been doing around 50% the whole time. And although it is kind of comfortable and cheaper (almost 100 km / day savings), I am more inclined to work in the office.
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I haven't stopped working as I work for an essential service business, however, our company is running from home apart from the staff who are required to physical work on equipment.
In New Zealand we are in lockdown, but that will start to ease up on Tuesday next week (since Monday is a public holiday for us). Yesterday we only had 6 new cases of which 4 were from citizens returning from overseas.
All going well the next phrase of reduced lockdown will be in two weeks after that.
The plan and hope is to eradicate Covid completely from our shores.
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RossMW wrote: Yesterday we only had 6 new cases of which 4 were from citizens returning from overseas.
Really? That's great! 
RossMW wrote: is to eradicate Covid completely from our shores.
I don't think that is possible. We're too small of a world now. It will be everywhere, if it hasn't been already.
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Well, that's the plan. Everyone who comes into the country get put in isolation for a fortnight and the outbreak is now down to about 400 active cases and bugger all new cases.
It just a matter of keeping it out until a vaccine is available. That's the theory and aim.
Australia is in a similar position and since we have nice big moats, it could be achievable.
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RossMW wrote: It just a matter of keeping it out until a vaccine is available.
Ya, OK. I see.
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I'm lucky, I can work from home with my work PC and good internet connection to access company wide resources.
I think that I will be working from home for a long time, maybe at least until June or July; there are no reason that I need to be onsite.
Within 5 minutes from home, I have access to quality shops for food and booze.
I will probably need a haircut sometimes soon, but if they do not open hair salon, I will chop it up.
Locally, the main concern is school and how to open them up safely.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Stay the course, it wouldn't be prudent at this juncture...
modified 22-Apr-20 18:29pm.
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We will look back on this and probably be very surprised by what we are saying, both ends of the spectrum. On the one hand life will never be the same, even if we are only worried about the next "Covid-20" or whatever it will be called. True, at the moment it looks like the countries who have locked down early and hard are saving the most lives, but the infection will remain in other parts of the world and no country can live in isolation for too long. Maybe herd immunity or a effective vaccine will make it the virus a commonplace danger, but we will all have this time locked in our memories and social distancing may become the norm.
Working at home for those who can, why not? Helps a little bit to save the planet, saves commute time.
We are all living a giant experiment, with some countries like Sweden acting as a sort of control. Let's wait for the results before we judge who is right or wrong.
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I'm setup so I can work 100% from anywhere. In Michigan, we're probably going to be under stay-at-home for at least 3 more weeks.
The company I work for takes this very seriously and doesn't take chances with health issues.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: In Michigan,
Aren't you the one with the crazy Governor?
Is your state requiring masks? I'm in Georgia and luckily we are not required.
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She's not the crazy one. It's the protesters who are insane.
Yes, masks are required, which I don't have a problem with. My extended social circle has four people dead from the virus with another five infected.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It's the protesters who are insane.
Says a guy who hasn't missed a paycheck... 
But if you have and your mortgage is due and you are worried that your family will possibly lose their home before the powers that be decide to let you go back to work- hey - maybe you should have made better life choices...
But if your job isn't going to be there whenever the powers that be decide to let you go back to work - hey - that's just too bad - maybe you could learn to code...
But if the small business that you have been trying to build folds before the powers that be decide to let you reopen - hey - that's kind of sad - maybe you could learn to code...
Or - if you are in New York - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that protesters calling for the state to reopen the economy so they can go back to work could “get a job as an essential worker.” - well that's an easy solution! Maybe you could learn to code and write yourself an app that makes you an essential worker"
You have been inconvenienced by this. Many of those protesters may never recover from it. They were told that this would flatten the curve and prevent an overload on the medical system. That has pretty much happened. Now the goal posts are being moved to "We don't want a single person to die from this."
I can see why they might be a little upset...
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You are pissed at the wrong people.
Your mortgage? Why is it your bank can't just pause your payments and append them to the end of the mortgage? I see no reason they can't do that considering they have been making $Billions per QUARTER in pure profit for a decade. Where'd that money go?
The same with utilities, just not as much profit.
Where'd the small business loan money go? Not to the small businesses. Look at the banks, lack of regulation of that money, and to the corporate lawyers and accountants.
... and I don't agree with Cuomo.
Quote: They were told that this would flatten the curve and prevent an overload on the medical system. That has pretty much happened.
That has NOT pretty much happened. We're only now seeing the trend START to flatten. The hospitals are still very much buried in victims and bodies with no place to put them.
The goal posts haven't been moved. It's the incorrect interpretation of the data by a vocal minority that's driving opinion and protest.
... and don't tell me I'm not affected by this. Yes, I still have a job and a paycheck, but I very much remember the panic and fear when I didn't and didn't have the savings to make it to next week. It's tough.
If you, or they, want to risk your life for the paycheck, go right ahead. I work in Detroit, which is the epicenter of this state. Trust me when I say, paycheck or no, I don't, and wouldn't, go out there unless I absolutely have to.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: My extended social circle has four people dead from the virus with another five infected.
 I'm so sorry about that.
In typical Aussie style, one of our comedians, Chris Franklin has done his own version of Stay The Heck At Home. Just swap heck for elephant and you're good.
Non KSS link: Chris Franklin - YouTube
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It's the protesters who are insane.
Someone who disagrees with you is insane? OK. 
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: My extended social circle has four people dead from the virus with another five infected.
I imagine that has a ton to do with your point of view.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Someone who disagrees with you is insane? OK.
No. People who put others at risk through their own selfishness are insane.
ZurdoDev wrote: I imagine that has a ton to do with your point of view.
This and I work a mile and half from the Detroit Medical Center. The pictures of bodies piled up in unused patient rooms and refrigerated trailers because the morgues are overrun is really what hammers the situation home.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: People who put others at risk through their own selfishness are insane.
Ya, I drive a car. I support legalizing alcholol, tobacco, McDonald's, Monsanto, etc. I walk around in public potentially carrying any disease and have done so my whole life. I apologize for my selfish insanity.
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This little virus is 3 times more infectious than the flu. You are 100 times more likely to die from it than the flu.
Your comparison is grossly, and negligently, naive.
Yes, you are insane for nonchalantly spreading it.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Your comparison is grossly, and negligently, naive.
From google, Quote: Nearly 1.25 million people are killed in car accidents each year.
Why not get on board with a more serious crisis?
Your responses indicate that you are an emotionally driven person rather than logic driven. Not necessarily bad, but you need to realize that people that might disagree with you are OK. But since emotion drives you, it appears you cannot grasp that concept. All well.
By the way, please don't murder anyone by driving your car to the store. Please show you care and are not insane and start walking. But with a mask of course.
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No, I'm statistically driven.
Cars are not contagious. You choose to drive one or not. You do not "catch one" from one driving by you.
You do not choose to get this virus or not. You choose to do what it takes to minimize your exposure, and other peoples exposure, to it.
I haven't killed anyone in a car in 37 years of driving them.
But with this virus, if I was infected, I could kill 5 people, just by walking past them.
Again, your willful, il-informed nativity is disgusting.
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Isn't this conversation at a stage where someone should have mentioned Hitler? Statistically, I mean.
Oops, I guess I just did.
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The UK government's chief medical officer has said that social restrictions are going to need to last at least for the rest of the year.
One thing that has become more obvious is that scientists are constantly disagreeing with each other, which I think is fine as that is how science works - but the media are not very good at handling this ambiguity that is present in differing scientific advice.
The media want to present a clear consensus on what scientists are saying, the problem is that there are a lot of different views, some of them differing slightly and some of them widely differing amongst scientists with regard to sars-cov-2.
I am content, though not overly joyous, with working from home for the moment (week 7 in my case).
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― Christopher Hitchens
modified 23-Apr-20 7:25am.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The media want to present a clear consensus on what scientists are saying,
Nope... the media just yell out what can make them get more viewers, listeners, subscribers in that particular moment.
If the media would really care that much about truth, they would handle it very differently... and not only now with the Corona Virus
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