Coronavirus

Yeah .. I work from home to start with and see/hear all kinds of shit on conference calls.

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A guy going to close his door by rolling his chair over, headphone cord grabs something, all you see are his feet and chair legs after a tumble

A guy with a very large oil painting of a woman (maybe his wife) dressed very scantily riding a horse in the dessert some weird old west/steam punk combo ... very odd
 
LooseCannon said:
I've heard a full blown argument between a husband and wife after someone went "Just a second" and forgot to hit mute.
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One of my coworkers were on the toilet while taking a call without video (thank God). What gave him away? Sound of flushing water in the middle of a meeting.

Now nothing will shock me.
 
LooseCannon said:
There are a lot of articles about vaccines and cures going around. The doctors I work with on a daily basis say "those are incremental gains or fairytales. A vaccine will take 18 months, bare minimum. Maybe a year if we get lucky."
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I'm pulling numbers from my ass here but you'd cut, like 20%, off to-market time if you remove all the corporate bureocracy, marketing, the complete profit pyramid including taxes, and all the state bureocracy apart from paperwork/controlling support of the necessary testing.
 
Zare said:
I'm pulling numbers from my ass here but you'd cut, like 20%, off to-market time if you remove all the corporate bureocracy, marketing, the complete profit pyramid including taxes, and all the state bureocracy apart from paperwork/controlling support of the necessary testing.
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In the US, cutting layers of FDA red tape would speed this way the fuck up. Same with everything from testing to sanitizers
 
Zare said:
I'm pulling numbers from my ass here but you'd cut, like 20%, off to-market time if you remove all the corporate bureocracy, marketing, the complete profit pyramid including taxes, and all the state bureocracy apart from paperwork/controlling support of the necessary testing.
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I believe that is the 1 year bare minimum timeframe.
 
I would be money there is something out there in 3 months tops ... the last few of these (H1N1/Ebola) put infrastructure in place that was not there before and there will be testing waivers.
 
Uber Eats is waiving delivery fees and "contactless" delivery (leave it at your door). I assume Doordash, etc will be doing the same shortly. Which will help restaurants provide some short term work ... which is good
 
I'm a little sketchy about using Uber Eats, because that person will still touch the food's bag.
 
LooseCannon said:
I'm a little sketchy about using Uber Eats, because that person will still touch the food's bag.
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Here is their email ... I would say it is pretty hard to get any food without someone touching packaging .. from stocking to bagging, etc. Probably (in theory) safer than going out to pick up food

  • Contactless deliveries: To help you feel confident about safe delivery, we’ve made it easier to have food left at your doorstep, and are working to provide delivery people with sanitization materials. As always, your food items aren’t touched once they’ve been packed by the restaurant.
  • Helping affected delivery people: We continue to support the delivery people and drivers who earn with Uber on a regular basis with financial assistance in the event of a COVID-19 diagnosis or exposure.
  • Supporting our community: We’re committing 300,000+ free meals on Uber Eats to healthcare workers and first responders in the US and Canada. We know that the work of medical and crisis response teams can be tireless, and the hours long which is why we want to help even in a small way.
 
bearfan said:
Here is their email ... I would say it is pretty hard to get any food without someone touching packaging .. from stocking to bagging, etc. Probably (in theory) safer than going out to pick up food
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Right, but a person at a restaurant has a manager who can go "you have symptoms, get the fuck out" whereas a gig economy worker has no incentive to not work if they're sick.
 
LooseCannon said:
Right, but a person at a restaurant has a manager who can go "you have symptoms, get the fuck out" whereas a gig economy worker has no incentive to not work if they're sick.
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About the same incentive that everyone else that goes to pick up orders on their own ... but gives those people an option to get food delivered without leaving the house.
 
bearfan said:
About the same incentive that everyone else that goes to pick up orders on their own ... but gives those people an option to get food delivered without leaving the house.
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Oh, I agree it's nice that there's an option. I'm just saying I wonder how seriously the Uber Eats drivers are taking things, that's all.
 
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