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I am on the east coast and all of the universities have closed -- but people are still acting strange about WFH at my product company(which has full remote devs

I am on the east coast and all of the universities have closed -- but people are still acting strange about WFH at my product company(which has full remote devs and other employees, regular WFH days, etc). It is disheartening to be made to feel 'tinfoil hat' for staying home. The stuff coming out of italy(https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7ex4a/coronavirus-has-northern-italys-hospitals-on-the-brink-of-collapse https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7ex4a/coronavirus-has-no...) is very scary.

juanuys 7y ago
It's better to be safe than sorry. I've cited "frequent contact with elderlies" and one of my reasons for a request to WFH (not easy as a contractor), as I don't want to increase the transmission surface area for them.
- rhacker 7y ago
  Thank you. A lot of people think there's no big deal. The major ones to suffer are the elderly, and to walk about because you're invincible doesn't mean you're doing the world a favor. You're possibly helping the spread to elderly people.
  - juanuys 7y ago
    Cheers. I've been sitting on that email to my PM since the weekend, then yesterday finally I heard this on the radio which validated my feelings (listen from 26:00 onwards): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9 Summary: Dr. Sarah Jarvis saying don't be so gung ho about the virus, because you might be a transmitter to the more vulnerable.
mentos 7y ago
Anyone know where you can find information on the demographics of those affected in Italy?
- lbotos 7y ago
  I wish more outlets were doing more to give us age data. I saw this released earlier today: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bollettino-sorveglianza-integrata-COVID-19_09-marzo-2020.pdf https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti... Basically, of the 357 deaths in this report from Italy March 09, 0 below 40: 40-49 1 50-59 3 60-69 37 70-79 114 ≥80 202
  - stclaus 7y ago
    This has been updated today: https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p (it's in Italian, but probably it can be understood easily)
    - bosie 7y ago
      any idea on severity stats? how many people within each cohort are severe (i.e. require hospitalisation)?

juanuys 7y ago

It's better to be safe than sorry. I've cited "frequent contact with elderlies" and one of my reasons for a request to WFH (not easy as a contractor), as I don't want to increase the transmission surface area for them.

rhacker 7y ago
Thank you. A lot of people think there's no big deal. The major ones to suffer are the elderly, and to walk about because you're invincible doesn't mean you're doing the world a favor. You're possibly helping the spread to elderly people.
- juanuys 7y ago
  Cheers. I've been sitting on that email to my PM since the weekend, then yesterday finally I heard this on the radio which validated my feelings (listen from 26:00 onwards): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9 Summary: Dr. Sarah Jarvis saying don't be so gung ho about the virus, because you might be a transmitter to the more vulnerable.

mentos 7y ago

Anyone know where you can find information on the demographics of those affected in Italy?

lbotos 7y ago
I wish more outlets were doing more to give us age data. I saw this released earlier today: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bollettino-sorveglianza-integrata-COVID-19_09-marzo-2020.pdf https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti... Basically, of the 357 deaths in this report from Italy March 09, 0 below 40: 40-49 1 50-59 3 60-69 37 70-79 114 ≥80 202
- stclaus 7y ago
  This has been updated today: https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p (it's in Italian, but probably it can be understood easily)
  - bosie 7y ago
    any idea on severity stats? how many people within each cohort are severe (i.e. require hospitalisation)?