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Why are we destroying business? We will hit a mini GFC or I think a GFC+ And now on top of that companies are just going remote. Not done before and all of a

Why are we destroying business? We will hit a mini GFC or I think a GFC+ And now on top of that companies are just going remote. Not done before and all of a sudden with limited planning. So they will lose more business unless it's an Easter miracle and remote work is so amazing without planning it can still break even. Whats the plan here? 'Everyone' is going to get it. Right now you can slow it down. If you are in Winter, then slowing it until Summer will help. If you are in Summer slowing it until Winter probably will screw you. But I'd like to know what Stripe is trying to do. What model is it trying to achieve. Or is this designed by a committee? Does WHO agree? Is it trying to spread the disease out internally? Or is it just random flailing around?

pengaru 7y ago
Slowing down its spread matters. A company working remotely while its workers eventually contract the virus piecemeal on a presumably much slower and staggered schedule is far better than having your entire offices out sick wholesale for weeks. Not to mention it's better for society and our health system in general to slow the spread.
jacquesm 7y ago
Stripe is being a good and responsible employer.
- jorisw 7y ago
  I'm sure of their good intentions, the question is how informed their choice of measures is.
eric-hu 7y ago
On a societal level, you want to slow it down. A lot of deaths in Wuhan were caused by medical system overload. A small percentage of infected died even after getting invasive breathing assistance, etc. But many others didn't get a hospital bed at all and presumably died with milder conditions. There's a big difference in the fatality rate inside and outside Wuhan, and that difference is from an overloaded system. ~5% in Wuhan versus <1% in the rest of China.* * https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

pengaru 7y ago

Slowing down its spread matters. A company working remotely while its workers eventually contract the virus piecemeal on a presumably much slower and staggered schedule is far better than having your entire offices out sick wholesale for weeks. Not to mention it's better for society and our health system in general to slow the spread.

jacquesm 7y ago

Stripe is being a good and responsible employer.

jorisw 7y ago
I'm sure of their good intentions, the question is how informed their choice of measures is.

eric-hu 7y ago

On a societal level, you want to slow it down. A lot of deaths in Wuhan were caused by medical system overload. A small percentage of infected died even after getting invasive breathing assistance, etc. But many others didn't get a hospital bed at all and presumably died with milder conditions. There's a big difference in the fatality rate inside and outside Wuhan, and that difference is from an overloaded system. ~5% in Wuhan versus <1% in the rest of China.* * https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...