COVID-19: who’s going full doomsday prep on this?
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Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
luckily for me most HVAC stuff is shutting down as fm’s hoard their budget.
waste and potable water related breakdowns are on the rise though.
Gotta love social distancing in confined spaces.
rextheute
Likes Bikes and Dirt
You need some fence posts and a welder ?
Flow-Rider
Burner
It's quite scary how long its claimed it can last outside the body and they still don't really know everything about it, lots of conflicting studies done on it. People really should take caution with bringing items home from shopping and try to wash and wipe down as much as you can.Very good point. Recent studies on virus viability on hard surfaces indicated that:
How long coronavirus lasts on surfaces
Coronavirus can't reproduce outside a living host, but the virus can still survive on surfaces for hours and in some cases even days, new research reveals.www.abc.net.au
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SummitFever
Eats Squid
It's very hard to be sympathetic to these idiots that boarded a cruise ship to Italy in "late February":
www.abc.net.au
More than 200 Australians stranded on Italian-bound cruise with confirmed COVID-19 case
Simone Jacques, one of 200 Australians stuck on the Italian-bound Costa Victoria, says she is "absolutely terrified" and that passengers are stuck in their rooms with no information about what is happening.
www.abc.net.au
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Yes to the welder.... Want to convert the springs on the trailer from slipper to full shackle.
Ian mckay on twitter (aussie virologist) said that even though the virus was present on surfaces for a long time it loses it’s potency. A certain amount of “viral load” is needed to contract the virus. I am para phrasing here. It seems surface contact on materials has risk but hand washing will generally bring down the viral load on your hands. So wash hands before eating or preparing food..
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
^^^ And its the viral load in hospitals that's scaring the staff.
Flow-Rider
Burner
How many people would dump the shopping on the kitchen table and sort it, then leave items in original packaging and put them away that an infected person may have touched or sneezed on at the shops ? All the surface contact in the back of the car, then wipe their eyes or pick their nose afterwards.
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5th weekday of a family of 4 being home together. Kids are being pretty good about their school work, apart from my wife giving the younger one the year 5 history papers instead of year 2 maths. And the older one being given a task that required playing a beat on pots and pans for music. Trying to think what we did to piss of the music teacher.
Elbo
pesky scooter kids git off ma lawn
Who's still at work? Are you going against your work's policy to stay home?
Our company's stance has been to follow the official advice from the government, which has been non-committal and convoluted to say the least, but to be honest, the more this goes on, the more uncomfortable I am with actually coming to work. I wish the government would just shut everything down for 2-3 weeks. Short term pain, long term gain.
Our company's stance has been to follow the official advice from the government, which has been non-committal and convoluted to say the least, but to be honest, the more this goes on, the more uncomfortable I am with actually coming to work. I wish the government would just shut everything down for 2-3 weeks. Short term pain, long term gain.
Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
If it’s any consolation I really, really appreciate his/her music teacher.
DMan
shawly the least hangeriest guy on rotorburn
There will be a whole new level of respect for teachers after all the home schooling and kids finally go back to school...... I saw a good quote.
" After days of home schooling I now see the problem isn't the teachers...."
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Went out to get one last retail purchase, and thats it for me...
Had an argument with a stupid woman on the register. She just had holidays and wants to keep working. Thinks its all over blown, "its just a flu". Doesn't think it matters to her, shell stay home if she feels crook, but otherwise ignores all the news and "listens to herself"...
Broke the news to her that its not all about her, and if she is not medically trained her opinion is not valid. She didn't care.
Fuck me... And this is why we are screwed. Fucktards everywhere.
Had an argument with a stupid woman on the register. She just had holidays and wants to keep working. Thinks its all over blown, "its just a flu". Doesn't think it matters to her, shell stay home if she feels crook, but otherwise ignores all the news and "listens to herself"...
Broke the news to her that its not all about her, and if she is not medically trained her opinion is not valid. She didn't care.
Fuck me... And this is why we are screwed. Fucktards everywhere.
Yep that’s why they say wash your hands all the time, even if you haven’t been out.. You can’t possibly remember what you have and haven’t touched..
moorey
call me Mia
From home. All Skype and email. Other than frontline staff in the residential units. I would consider most of what my organization does to be ‘essential’, though 90% is being done from home. I can’t say it is overly effectual.
Lasting damage will be done to the families and young people we work with....but I guess it’s deemed as less damage than potentially spreading infection.
Nambra
Definitely should have gone to specsavers
I think the message is pretty clear for employers, regardless of what the fed & state governments say: if you can work from home you should. We had a videocon with a couple of teachers from my daughter's school earlier this morning - they told us that 50% of students are absent, so clearly parents able to take their kids out school are doing so too - ignoring the health advice given to the government (although parents were told that it was their choice as to whether they send their kids to school or not).
Stay at home. Don't give it, don't get it.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
I'm trying to get Kirsty to tell her boss to jump and come home...