Why is the average age high? Are you living long, or not making babies?
Flights are cheap and standby is a breeze. If youāre young and healthy, now is the time for cheap air travel! Just make sure working remotely is possible if you get stuck somewhere for 14 daysā¦
Society, where I live, is shutting down day by day. But my industry expects normal levels of productivity. Itās a shit show.
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I donāt have the data at hand, but it appears itās both factors from that I heard.
The only problem is that they wonāt allow you to get on a plane here (although I wouldnāt mind finally traveling abroad for the first time in my life)
The NCAA tourney will be played without fans. I fully expect the NBA follow suit. I could also see the Masters being effected. And thatās just the stuff that we know is upcoming. Iād say itās very likely opening day of MLB is played to empty stadiums.
They are already:
I signed up for a powerlifting meet in May, Iām wondering what will happen with that. But the way things are looking, that might soon be the least of my concerns.
Does anybody know if they did this for bird flu, or SARS?
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Ditto. Itās preposterous. One COVID infection in the office and theyāll lose far more working hours than theyāll lose by having us work remotely now.
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No idea. The last time the 6 nations rugby suspended like this was foot and mouth disease.
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My company has insurance to cover engineering mistakes, but I wonder if we have insurance to cover lost profits from a pandemic. It would cost our small firm around $25k/day to shut down. That adds up quick!
It just seems like half of society is overreacting, and the other half underreacting. Iām probably on the underreacting side tbh. Business as usual for me, except for a couple more hsndwashes.
Also, me and my SOās allergies act up this time of year do me coughing and sneezing and blowing my nose is freaking people out.
They canceled skiing in Italy and other areas in the Alps. It would suck if they shut down lift served skiing early here too. I guess it would just mean touring season and MTB season would arrive early.
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I think this is absolutely true. Absolutely this. The level of freakout is unbelievable to me, but I also recognize that Iām probably under-reacting. That said, panic is causing more issues than anything else except for supply and labor shortages at medical facilities.
I made this observation earlier to a friend and H factor made it elsewhere on the site, but not even 30 years ago we would never have even known about the virus at this stage. It would have been business as usual andā¦the world would have survived.
Obviously I donāt intend to be stupid about this, but neither do I see the benefit of all the worry.
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No at least not that Iām aware of one the whole. Maybe some fairly isolated incidents of us sporting events where they adjusted things (Iād have to look up) but on this scale no.
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Yeah I meant on the whole. I think with the NCAA announcement itās very likely the NBA follows suit with all games being played to empty arenas sometime soon.
Obviously Iām sure thatās a last resort as weāre talking pretty big money.
Edit: Apparently not. NBA suspended the season. Iāve read looking to start back up right once itās determined to be ok possibly starting out with empty arenas and then moving back towards full. Also possibility of a shortened regular season.
My best bet from reading other insurance claims (cancelled travel plans / medical coverage in quarantine) will be that the insurance company will claim force majeure and not pay out a dime in damages.
So far, Iāve heard of examples with regards to personal travel where the individual(s) despite having a travel insurance and the credit card provider claiming to cover cancelled flights received nothing in return. And, a friend of mine who was going abroad found out that his medical costs incurred abroad would be covered if he was ordinarily injured or harmed but if he was quarantined, but not sick, would not receive any reimbursement (even for tests).
Freaking out isnāt necessarily a good reaction, but as Iāve come to understand it is that if a healthcare system is overwhelmed the total amount of deaths within a community will be substantial as people will die from both the illness but also other causes. And so, if it is possible to take a pre-emptive measure (as one example, working from home) or shut-down universities and the like then it is better to do that and handle the fall-out that stems from that than reeling from unnecessary deaths as most of the perished will leave behind individuals stricken with grief. And anger.
If youāll permit me, Iād like to quote an article,
When the influenza epidemic of 1918 infected a quarter of the U.S. population, killing hundreds of thousands nationally and millions across the globe, seemingly small choices made the difference between life and death. As the disease was spreading, Wilmer Krusen, Philadelphiaās health commissioner, allowed a huge parade to take place on September 28; some 200,000 people marched. In the following days and weeks, the bodies piled up in the cityās morgues. By the end of the season, 12,000 residents had died.
Maybe we wouldnāt have known, but if we postulate that travel then (30 years ago) was the same as it is now, with only our communication between nations being hampered, I imagine it would have been a whole lot worse than it currently is.
Thatās crazy. Maybe next the US election will be cancelled too. The virus itself is bad enough, but all the other things happening as a result could lead to a major economic crash at this rate.
It gets worse, several NBA teams are self-quarantining
Can you imagine if this doesnāt happen in time to really effect the election?
So what then? Itās mostly business as usual until something happens and they take drastic measures.
Much disappointment, Iād imagine.