Covid rants
Mar. 22nd, 2020 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackRants
Government, business, for people who are going to work, WHERE IS THE FUCKING ADVICE? It's not safe at all, but how to minimise risk. What to buy, what not to buy. Who MIGHT risk it and who definitely shouldn't.
Managers. I know a lot of people don't have much choice. Especially if you own a small business that's your life work. But as some kind of minimum, if people CAN do their work from home and you're making them come in to work ANYWAY then YOU'RE A GENOCIDAL FUCKLEHEAD AND YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE KILLED. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF. YOUR EGO ISN'T WORTH THIS.
Read... something about it. At all. Don't think "I have to keep my staff healthy" There's not much you can do. Head it off IN ADVANCE by avoiding SPREADING it. Once someone HAS it, you've already missed the best time to act.
I'm still scared how many people in this country are panicking unhelpfully and how many people are still treating it like a big joke. I guess it's inevitable that people would take the government "advice" and not take it too seriously. But ugh :( I wish my knowing helped. (I have tried to talk to people I know *not* in the same media bubble.)
And like... "maybe someone in the city will have set up a ride share thing for delivering groceries to people isolating" MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT COULD FUCKING HELP WITH. Especially with getting them MEDICINE. And getting them food WITHOUT NEEDING TO GO TO THE SHOP BECAUSE THE DELIVERIES ARE ALL SOLD OUT.
Worry
I see a lot of contradictory information about how bad shortages of masks, thermometers, gowns etc in hospital are. Let alone Covid tests (to the extent we have them). I don't really trust retweets but I don't really trust the government either. Whatever our planning HOW did this kind of thing not get looked at in advance?
Wild speculation
Some speculation that the proportion of people infected but mostly asymptomatic is much higher than previously thought. Which would mean, it's a lot harder to contain. But hospitalisation rate[1] would be lower. But also the reverse. So... don't know how that affects everything.
Are the dutch really really going for a "minimise the blow" strategy? Or will they back down too? Their government have their own flaws but I thought they were a lot more competent than our government? Does anyone have updates?
Government, business, for people who are going to work, WHERE IS THE FUCKING ADVICE? It's not safe at all, but how to minimise risk. What to buy, what not to buy. Who MIGHT risk it and who definitely shouldn't.
Managers. I know a lot of people don't have much choice. Especially if you own a small business that's your life work. But as some kind of minimum, if people CAN do their work from home and you're making them come in to work ANYWAY then YOU'RE A GENOCIDAL FUCKLEHEAD AND YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE KILLED. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF. YOUR EGO ISN'T WORTH THIS.
Read... something about it. At all. Don't think "I have to keep my staff healthy" There's not much you can do. Head it off IN ADVANCE by avoiding SPREADING it. Once someone HAS it, you've already missed the best time to act.
I'm still scared how many people in this country are panicking unhelpfully and how many people are still treating it like a big joke. I guess it's inevitable that people would take the government "advice" and not take it too seriously. But ugh :( I wish my knowing helped. (I have tried to talk to people I know *not* in the same media bubble.)
And like... "maybe someone in the city will have set up a ride share thing for delivering groceries to people isolating" MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT COULD FUCKING HELP WITH. Especially with getting them MEDICINE. And getting them food WITHOUT NEEDING TO GO TO THE SHOP BECAUSE THE DELIVERIES ARE ALL SOLD OUT.
Worry
I see a lot of contradictory information about how bad shortages of masks, thermometers, gowns etc in hospital are. Let alone Covid tests (to the extent we have them). I don't really trust retweets but I don't really trust the government either. Whatever our planning HOW did this kind of thing not get looked at in advance?
Wild speculation
Some speculation that the proportion of people infected but mostly asymptomatic is much higher than previously thought. Which would mean, it's a lot harder to contain. But hospitalisation rate[1] would be lower. But also the reverse. So... don't know how that affects everything.
Are the dutch really really going for a "minimise the blow" strategy? Or will they back down too? Their government have their own flaws but I thought they were a lot more competent than our government? Does anyone have updates?