Last edited by uziq (2020-03-19 07:34:00)
Partially. Offices were told to send at least 50% home. My office created alternating teams that come in on odd or even days.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Las Vegas Strip Shut Down Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Per state orders, the Las Vegas Strip will be shut down for at least 30 days.
https://www.si.com/gambling/2020/03/18/ … irus-covid
Las Vegas airport tower shuts down amid COVID-19 concerns
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/las-vegas-air … 14035.html
3-18/3-19
Also, I guess NY has mandated WFH.
Last edited by Jay (2020-03-19 08:51:22)
not a good idea. Alternating teams daily still risks cross contamination between the teams. A better option would be to alternate weekly or give a day or two between teams coming in.Jay wrote:
Partially. Offices were told to send at least 50% home. My office created alternating teams that come in on odd or even days.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Las Vegas Strip Shut Down Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Per state orders, the Las Vegas Strip will be shut down for at least 30 days.
https://www.si.com/gambling/2020/03/18/ … irus-covid
Las Vegas airport tower shuts down amid COVID-19 concerns
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/las-vegas-air … 14035.html
3-18/3-19
Also, I guess NY has mandated WFH.
Agreed, but that decision was made above my pay grade. It also doesn't do a whole lot when the subcontractors I'm interacting with aren't maintaining the same type of protocol and are sending the same people to the job site every day.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
not a good idea. Alternating teams daily still risks cross contamination between the teams. A better option would be to alternate weekly or give a day or two between teams coming in.Jay wrote:
Partially. Offices were told to send at least 50% home. My office created alternating teams that come in on odd or even days.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Las Vegas Strip Shut Down Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Per state orders, the Las Vegas Strip will be shut down for at least 30 days.
https://www.si.com/gambling/2020/03/18/ … irus-covid
Las Vegas airport tower shuts down amid COVID-19 concerns
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/las-vegas-air … 14035.html
3-18/3-19
Also, I guess NY has mandated WFH.
i hate MS teams so much and my company switched to it about 6 months ago.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
i had to make the argument to my boss as well. I recommended 2 teams alternating weeks mon-thurs, with fri-sun as buffer between groups as a sort of sanitary measure. One manager for each team, the rest of the office works remotely.
Side note: MS Teams has such a terrible UI/UX. Utter fucking garbage.
i have two accounts for two separate business units i manage. I can log in to two team accounts on the mobile app, but not the desktop app. Since when does mobile integration work better than desktop?uziq wrote:
i hate MS teams so much and my company switched to it about 6 months ago.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
i had to make the argument to my boss as well. I recommended 2 teams alternating weeks mon-thurs, with fri-sun as buffer between groups as a sort of sanitary measure. One manager for each team, the rest of the office works remotely.
Side note: MS Teams has such a terrible UI/UX. Utter fucking garbage.
very bloated and buggy. i hate that it basically stays signed in on your local machine permanently, and if you force it to sign out and want to get back in ... oooh boy, hope you like authenticating every single morning.
hate their integrated skype so much. sure i've ranted about it here before. NO PUSH TO TALK. have fun in a conference call with 25 people with permanently open mics, unless they manually mute and unmute themselves by clicking the interface. stupid stupid stupid. ventrilo and teamspeak had basic P2T functionality in like 2003.
also all the extra kanban board-style stuff is otiose and redundant. being forced to interact with it is irritating.
cool, you're good for 6 days.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Do you guys remember when I tried to murder my parents dogs? Well guess who still has half a dozen n95 mask.
There is an article on the front page of the New York Times about how East Asian countries have mostly contained the outbreak. Apparently they are now adding travel restrictions on westerners to avoid reinfection. NYT also sent an alert to my phone letting me know Italy has had more deaths than China now. China is bad for civil rights and all but the fact that they seem to have a handle on this thing now is a credit to their culture and political system.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
cool, you're good for 6 days.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Do you guys remember when I tried to murder my parents dogs? Well guess who still has half a dozen n95 mask.
My dad was on a flight to Taiwan last night. He said everyone on the plane was wearing masks. Some were wearing standard N95, some were wearing painters masks, some were even wearing military grade NBC masks. He also said a lot of them were wearing raincoats/hoods, and some were even wearing biohazard suits.
Taiwan has one of if not the most aggressive and proactive plans in place to contain COVID-19. They learned from the SARS outbreak that because of their political standing, they are not members of most international health orgs so they must become self-sustainable in dealing with these types of epidemics. I think I heard they have something like 15-20 years of preparedness.
They deserve no credit for their culture or political system. They originated this shit and infected the world. Fuck China.SuperJail Warden wrote:
There is an article on the front page of the New York Times about how East Asian countries have mostly contained the outbreak. Apparently they are now adding travel restrictions on westerners to avoid reinfection. NYT also sent an alert to my phone letting me know Italy has had more deaths than China now. China is bad for civil rights and all but the fact that they seem to have a handle on this thing now is a credit to their culture and political system.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
cool, you're good for 6 days.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Do you guys remember when I tried to murder my parents dogs? Well guess who still has half a dozen n95 mask.
My dad was on a flight to Taiwan last night. He said everyone on the plane was wearing masks. Some were wearing standard N95, some were wearing painters masks, some were even wearing military grade NBC masks. He also said a lot of them were wearing raincoats/hoods, and some were even wearing biohazard suits.
Taiwan has one of if not the most aggressive and proactive plans in place to contain COVID-19. They learned from the SARS outbreak that because of their political standing, they are not members of most international health orgs so they must become self-sustainable in dealing with these types of epidemics. I think I heard they have something like 15-20 years of preparedness.
I am in self quarantine. I don't plan to travel.
Last edited by uziq (2020-03-19 13:36:37)
You're the one praising China's authoritarian - and effective - approach. You can't have it both ways.Even if Australian politicians want to take a leaf out of China's book, it would be highly unlikely because the two countries have completely different systems of governments and different views on privacy.
For example, Chinese telecommunications companies — all state-owned — have to submit movement data for government apps that track where people have been.
And in some compounds, residents need to scan QR codes to show they haven't violated home isolation rules before they are allowed to enter.
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Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Centre for Strategic International Studies in Washington DC, said Beijing could also use its response to the coronavirus to its advantage.
"I think that most people will say that the Chinese had a little bit of a slow start, but they ended up doing OK," she said.
"Xi Jinping will tell his people that their authoritarian system was a strength in wiping out the virus, and enabled them to do the kinds of things that democratic societies cannot do."
