Scholarship table
Rumor out of Italy, and France is that Anti Inflammatory drugs make this worse. Consider not taking them if you or someone you know has symptoms.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
For those who are in an office setting... what have the policies/communication looked like from your company?The company I work for has basically taken the stance that unless the authorities order offices to close, people are expected to come in. So far they are only allowing people to work from home 2 days/week if their job allows for it. I'm furious with our leadership on this. It's irresponsible and borderline dangerous.Before I completely die on this hill at work, I'm just curious how common this is for companies (especially in MKE) to continue to expect people to work in the office.
Please do not give medical advice. This is not against you personally, Hards, but a PSA to everyone:Nobody should be giving any medical advice that is rumored, anecdotal, experimental, etc. Unless you're directly quoting the CDC website (in which case, please provide a link), this really needs to stop.
I asked our company president last week if they had any plans. His response was we can stay 6 feet apart so keep coming to work!
I looked into the pandemic response closure a little bit since I hadn't actually read any articles on that yet. So far, I've just seen the statement and took it as fact. What I found was.... no surprise, very conflicting accounts.Beth Cameron , the former Senior Director at the NSC, says the team was dissolved and not replaced. But Tim Morrison, another former senior director at the NSC, says the NSC was reorganized, and the counterproliferation and biodefense office now has pandemic preparedness within its scope. What's the average joe to believe?https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/
While this made me roll my eyes, it also made me wonder: what are food rendering, processing, and packaging plants doing?
Those plants are largely automated these days, especially the ones at scale. Typical processing plant might have 200 people in it but spread across thousands of square feet.Generally speaking, manufacturing and distribution (plant floors) should be fine unless they get a rash of workers getting sick.
I work for a medium sized $800m company. We started planning last week to get as many people to work from home as possible. Spent most of the last two days setting people up with remote access, phones, etc at my 100 person office. The warehouse staff will keep shipping, but all office staff starts from home tomorrow.
A dental office In which I know the personnel, they are seeing patients as I still am following the ADA guidelines as much as we can, they are having patients rinse their mouths with peroxide pre-op...hmm, if anyone has ever heard of that one and what the....efficacy is there...I am all ears.might as shut the office down for chriminey sakes
we've had patients do chlorhexidine before but not as a routine. but peroxide? because it's much cheaper? if i'm a patient, can i have the cow urine instead? about the only thing this accomplishes is further p!ssing off the patient imho of course. i ain't having someone put something in their mouths that i wouldn't myself do...well almost all
I live in downtown Seattle. A couple weeks ago, the Bureau Chief of the LA Times told me that most everyone here had already been exposed to the virus.Myself and many friends caught it. It's like a very mild flu - headache, body ache, low grade fever, dry cough, and lethargy. We were all told that if there was a temperature spike or shortness of breath then get to a hospital. But otherwise, self quarantine while taking fluids and resting.We all stayed home while continuing our work productivity. If you are fit, healthy, and maintain situational awareness it is the same as managing a cold. The elderly and those with immunity issues are the ones at risk.The degree of hysteria around this is decidedly over the top.
I basically told mine I'm working from home effective tomorrow. Am being allowed to. My situation is probably kind of unique (small firm, lots of transition, I can manage clients with a phone and email, and courthouses closing en mas)