Chiming in to propose to those who are self-isolating for whatever reason that we have an OMD chat sometime – Discord, or Google Hangouts, or whatever. I have a Google Hangouts going with a bunch of friends who are now WFH and it’s been good for them. If it would be nice for people to have a voice or video chat some time so that they don’t feel isolated or trapped, I am 5000% in.
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Also I have a dumb question re: Covid-19 and herd immunity. Please assume the best of intentions and ignorance over malice.
In order to eventually develop a herd immunity to the virus, would it be a good thing for healthy people to get the virus and then self-isolate? Kind of like the chicken pox? Or is that not how that works?
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I rec Discord over Google Hangouts as, despite the fact that I use it more frequently, it is being lined up to be dropped by Google.
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I would super join this.
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@Oro you are right to be extra cautious.
We have had a team of Very Smart People who literally wrote textbooks on pediatric immunology, neurology, neurosurgery, syndrome effects on overall morbidity, etc etc etc etc. discussing this since January. We like to be prepared well ahead of things since we have such a large population of kiddos that are both at risk and more likely to not have access to proper care in their communities.
As an organization we have already been screening Every Single Person that is allowed through the doors of both PICU and the regular floors, Every Single Day. Regardless of profession or whether you’ve been isolated or anything.
It is ludicrous to think that a human whose lungs aren’t developed and who is so recently home would be A-OK with any respiratory illness. Even a cold.
As far as an epidemiological standpoint, yeah, we don’t know.
From a Tiny Baby standpoint, it doesn’t hurt anyone to be extremely careful.
Ok back to read the rest of the thread
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My understanding; eventually, yes. But not everyone has to have it, and we don’t know who of the healthy people will have complications. And to flatten the curve, we want to slow that as much as possible. Even healthy people have a certain % that will need hospitalization. Even “just” IV fluids take a lot of resources in terms of rooms, personnel time, cleaning time, PPE, etc.
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Ok, that makes sense. Thank you!
They offered drive-up tests in Denver. Apparently wait time was 4 hours. Yikes.
“Denver’s drive-up testing facility was closing early Thursday due to a high volume of people waiting in line to get tested. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment at 1 p.m. said it was working to “establish and communicate a cut-off point” for the line, based on resources available at the Lowry area facility. People in line who don’t get tested Thursday will get first priority on Friday. Line waits were averaging 3-4 hours on Thursday.”
Also it blows my tiny mind that I’m talking to people on the internet where major events are prohibited, schools are closing, people are encouraged to stay home, and in my city we’re like “derpa derp no confirmed cases in El Paso county yet everything is fine.”
Y’ALL. THERE ARE A BUNCH OF CASES IN DENVER. A PLACE THAT IS A MASSIVE WORK LOCATION OF COMMUTERS FROM COLORADO SPRINGS. ONE OF US IS GONNA BRING IT BACK HERE EVENTUALLY.
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They’re closing Disneyland starting on Saturday through the end of the month.
I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY.
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I saw that! I was glad you weren’t on a plane there. 
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This is literally about what the show is about next week (I wrote before I saw this); it’s about how suddenly we accomodate abled people with all the exact same thing people with disabilities have been asking for years - and we did it overnight. Remote work, remote school, not punishing people for having to cancel due to health…
IT IS LIKE IT WAS POSSIBLE ALL ALONG. We just didn’t believe people with disabilities.
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I hate corporations.
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I’ll set it up for this weekend!
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Literally Starbucks was the most responsible corporation I ever worked for. They treat their partners (employees) like humans.
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Since you worked there – who should I write to commend them for being Actually Fucking Responsible?
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Honestly, they follow their mentions on social media, and that’s a good place to shout them out. Also they involve store managers in a lot of things at corporate, so if you frequent a local store (a real one, not a Tarbucks or a Safebucks or an AirportBucks), it’s worth just letting them know that you appreciate it and leave a tip 
The tips go partially to the employee assistance fund (called CUPS because everything at starbucks is a coffee pun).
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Happy update: a few hours after my little sign went up on my door, my boss came in and told me to head home as soon as I got my stuff configured. I am officially working from home for the next however long this will be. I made a thread looking for advice on how to do this well because I imagine others might be in this situation soon too.
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My job #1 is 90% remote but staff have weekly 4 office hours each and once-a-month in-office lunch meetings for each team. Today the admin just told us that we’re to be 100% remote with no office hours unless REALLY needed til end of March and that all team meetings will now be remote. That job is EXTREMELY prepared since we’re already so remote friendly.
My job #2 has a 24/7 radio signal (4 of them actually) to operate and has a 100+ DJs that do our regularly scheduled programming. We are coming up with a plan for doing more shows by automation (what runs our signal from 2AM - 7AM when no one is live in studio) so that DJs aren’t having to come in. We cancelled our big fundraiser show/awards show next week.
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Thank you.
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My workplace just sent out updates for our current restrictions and I kinda laughed that the only travel they are allowing without time off work afterward is to Wisconsin 
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