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Can't believe HN is on the panic bandwagon as well. Is the CDC recommending work from home? Is law enforcement? Any public health officials? Law enforcement? Co

Can't believe HN is on the panic bandwagon as well. Is the CDC recommending work from home? Is law enforcement? Any public health officials? Law enforcement? Congress? What authoritative source suggested working from home at this stage is mandated or even recommended? What are people smoking. Crowd think sure is scary. I don't like FB and I think there should be an executive order from the whitehouse requiring anyone older than 55,immunocompromised (medically verified) or showing cold/flu like symptoms to be allowed to work from home or receive subsidized paid time off. But I don't think irrational panic and getting high on fear like this is healthy. At a macro level,the panic is doing more harm than the disease. At the individual level there are explicit steps you can take to keep safe, it is important to not panic yet take every recommended precaution.

kordlessagain 7y ago
> Crowd think sure is scary. It's polarizing, which pushes emotions to 11.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  Exactly, I was surprised with HN because HNers from experience are otherwise very rational.
maliker 7y ago
My office of 500 people is going mandatory remote today until further notice. Estimates of infection rates are getting up to 50% of the US population. With the current 1-2% mortality rate thats 1.6 million dead. Seems like a no-brainer to require work from home to limit the spread of infection.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  Similar here with wfh. Estimates and stats are fine but I prefer to trust the experts than play public health expert myself. If someone is being extra cautious that's fine, but trying to villify for not being as paranoid as you is silly.
pipework 7y ago
Easy, the math is so simple but not obvious to able-bodied people. Anyone who knows how the anti-vaxx crowd mindset is broken against the elderly and disabled has enough of a clue here. Threaten the ablebodied, they feign understanding accessibility. Do you have any legitimate questions, or was your point entirely bearing towards short-term effects like purchasable goods and not healthcare for the (probably) doomed? Your flippancy isn't improving your point. The panic for staying away is commendable, the impending panic to get to healthcare probably unnecessarily will be what makes the mortality rate resemble a very unwelcome sharp upward curve for the duration of time that we have bodies to expire or reinfection can be stemmed. Whatever comes first.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  The people who are experts have specific recommendations, you do your own analysis and freak out and complain about others not joining you.
  - pipework 7y ago
    You seem to be talking to a strawman. I advocate business as usual, but I also notice how helpless you all feel in some way or another over this and it doesn't pain me.

kordlessagain 7y ago

> Crowd think sure is scary. It's polarizing, which pushes emotions to 11.

badrabbit 7y ago
Exactly, I was surprised with HN because HNers from experience are otherwise very rational.

maliker 7y ago

My office of 500 people is going mandatory remote today until further notice. Estimates of infection rates are getting up to 50% of the US population. With the current 1-2% mortality rate thats 1.6 million dead. Seems like a no-brainer to require work from home to limit the spread of infection.

badrabbit 7y ago
Similar here with wfh. Estimates and stats are fine but I prefer to trust the experts than play public health expert myself. If someone is being extra cautious that's fine, but trying to villify for not being as paranoid as you is silly.

pipework 7y ago

Easy, the math is so simple but not obvious to able-bodied people. Anyone who knows how the anti-vaxx crowd mindset is broken against the elderly and disabled has enough of a clue here. Threaten the ablebodied, they feign understanding accessibility. Do you have any legitimate questions, or was your point entirely bearing towards short-term effects like purchasable goods and not healthcare for the (probably) doomed? Your flippancy isn't improving your point. The panic for staying away is commendable, the impending panic to get to healthcare probably unnecessarily will be what makes the mortality rate resemble a very unwelcome sharp upward curve for the duration of time that we have bodies to expire or reinfection can be stemmed. Whatever comes first.

badrabbit 7y ago
The people who are experts have specific recommendations, you do your own analysis and freak out and complain about others not joining you.
- pipework 7y ago
  You seem to be talking to a strawman. I advocate business as usual, but I also notice how helpless you all feel in some way or another over this and it doesn't pain me.