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Please Americans, take preemptive measures. Ramp up masks, respirators, gloves, alcohol, bleach production. Work from home if you can, protect workers from logi
by iagovar 7y ago
Please Americans, take preemptive measures. Ramp up masks, respirators, gloves, alcohol, bleach production. Work from home if you can, protect workers from logistic chains. Don't wait until you have the numbers on top of you.
It's not only the virus, is the deep economical effects it is having. Massive layoffs now in Spain, the economy is basically at full stop.
If you don't do it, it's not only you who will suffer. Everyone will.
Please, please, be responsible. Not only for your elders but for everything else. Don't wait until it becomes personal, you get relatives infected or you lose your job or your business. Every time you don't act is way more people infected, way more people dead, way more people with problems.
Make homemade masks if you need to. Wear them no matter what other think.
Learn from others mistakes. Don't undervaluate the situation. You should understand this situation as a war-like one, but in your own soil.
I saw it coming, didn't have to go through the denial phase, but it makes me nervous nonetheless. It's different to know about something than going through it. If you are calmed now, take advantage of that emotional state to plan ahead, you will perform better.
- f0ok 7y agoI've been preparing for weeks. Meanwhile, I explain to others what is coming (I live in a rural area in Canada). People laugh at me or simply don't care. This requires such a strong shift in paradigm that they will need to see things falling apart or people dying close to them until they act.
- iagovar 7y agoDude make everything you can. If they don't trust your word, try to show them news pieces that explain the nature of the exponential function. NYT on others are doing some work on it. Believe me, I went through 2008 and it was hard here in Spain, but this is something different. You're nervous not only for your economical future but for your health and the health of your loved ones, and it's an invisible enemy. The government is saying that this is a huge crisis, but a temporal one. Society is closing down and pretty much everyone agrees that this is bad and is going to be for long. Those of you who know what's coming, you should make your best effort. I regret I didn't go way more vocal of fears of being dismissed as an alarmist.
- chipgap98 7y agoWhat do you mean by preparing? What steps are you taking?
- fasicle 7y agoHave you got a link for the "Massive layoffs in Spain" - I'd be interested to read as I'm living in Madrid and no one has mentioned being laid off yet.
- iagovar 7y agohttps://elpais.com/economia/2020-03-16/las-empresas-inician-una-oleada-de-erte-que-afectan-a-mas-de-100000-personas.html https://elpais.com/economia/2020-03-16/las-empresas-inician-... Just look for ERTEs. Not to mention that most SMEs are not prepared to deal with an almost 100% income down.
- tapland 7y agoAre the massive layoffs there in tourism and travel? In Sweden travel companies and hotels have so far sent notices about 14000 jobs.