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I will do it in a heartbeat when my side work picks up enough. It's scary though. I need at least a full years salary in the bank before I'd feel comfortable going off on my own.

I hope the lock down never ends.

pirana6 wrote:

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KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

people are definitely going to be laid off. Hope for a severance package in 3 months when the redundancy is fully realized.

This happened today.

Estimated between 1.5 and 2k people laid off. We're still trying to find out details but sounds like redundancies but blaming covid. I wasn't one of them but the writing is on the wall.
I've been trying like mad to get out but with the virus situation...
Nobody in my position (or similar) has been laid off yet, but I don't want to imagine applying for jobs when there's a few hundred extra of me all trying to do the same. I'd really like to get out now to stay ahead of the wave.

Wow that's a lot of people. You work in an IT-related field yeah? Or more MIS?

World is fucked up, imagine graduating into this.

Well, not really comparable.

The GFC was a paper loss, this is a whole order of magnitude worse.
At least your generation could take a gap year and travel.

People are actually dying in this one, isn't the hit starting to look close to WW2?

Anyhoo, I was expressing sympathy for this generation but all you can think of is yourself.

This has barely started to play out, deaths could easily be 10 million, I guess we'll see in the next six months or so.

Back on topic, I suppose I should be overjoyed to have work but I'm not really feeling it.

My next task might be training the two people who are needed to replace me at my last company.

The PE firm which bought them out without doing any due diligence has put in a CEO who is even now a big fan of Jack Welch, the GM they put in has made an entire career out of stealing other companies ideas then bullying them into oblivion with expensive lawyers. A few years ago he stole some of mine. Whenever he talks one or both of his legs jiggles up and down like a toddler who needs the toilet.
I think I should charge at least triple my normal rate for doing this.

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Comparing COVID-19 it to WW2 as a whole may be a bit off, but for specific countries, US ~290k combat deaths. So while two completely different things, it is a ballpark figure to help blockheads understand the weight of these numbers.

I do think the way the war is taught here could do with some revision, but honestly the entrenchment goes beyond schooling.

For instance, even some folks I know who consider themselves "history buffs" (I imagine macbeth would have a laugh) were seemingly incognizant of the Soviet war effort until I tossed them Unknown War ('78, and not a perfect docu to be sure) for starters, just to unlock their brain.

It seems silly to me that some people who still patriotically mourn American deaths in decades/centuries old wars have such a huge blind spot when it comes to COVID-19. I think that's the primary reason why things like Vietnam were put in a chart side-by-side with it.

i can agree that comparing the covid death toll to vietnam is pretty shocking/galling, and rhetorically effective, mainly because vietnam seems to be a generation-wide smear on america's history and often invokes images of suffering, wanton destruction, and sheer attritional waste on a massive scale. a lot like your covid response.

What seems crazy to me is people who take the very real mental health impact this pandemic has and use it to suggest that we, in so many words, ignore COVID-19.