CoronaVirus

Started by Amanda Dearheart, March 24, 2020, 00:44:37

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Matty

@RemiD

An excerpt from an email I sent to family since we are heavily locked down in Winter.

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I present to you a thought experiment for the covid period.

Many commercial office buildings in the cbd will be mostly empty.

Many homes previously unoccupied between 9am and 5pm will be.

It is Winter, thus heating is desireable.

An office that previously housed and heated 50 individuals will no longer require heating.

Instead, approximately 50 houses will need to be heated instead, likely at far less efficiency.

Commercial electricity rates are likely already lower per unit kw than residential due to bulk purchasing.

So a drop of the heat required to heat 50 people shifted on to a less efficient 50 homes instead at a higher dollar rate.

This will likely lead to an increase in revenues of electricity companies that will not be insubstantial.

My guess is that for every employee not in an office the revenue will go up by one home's Winter electricity bill per home required to heat instead.

ImJustAnotherCoder

I'm with Gfk for the use of masks.

You should wear a mask for the same reason a surgeon wears one when working. It's not to protect the surgeon but to help protect the patient, ie not to protect you from others but to protect others from you.

Derron

The masks help out a lot --- saw a lot of attractive woman (at least their eyes) but as soon as they went of their mask ... you saw the faces of too much sun studios, nicotin or puberty (acne).
For man a lot similar stuff could be said.
For some of us it might be a good idea to wear masks regardless of healthiness ;D


bye
Ron

ImJustAnotherCoder

Like this?  :D

RemiD

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The masks help out a lot --- saw a lot of attractive woman (at least their eyes) but as soon as they went of their mask ... you saw the faces of too much sun studios, nicotin or puberty (acne).
true , i concede...  :))

Xerra

That girl is what we call a "Seven pints, would you?" question down here in Middlesex.

I'll give it some consideration ;-)
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Matty

The song for after 8pm in Victoria....

https://youtu.be/XEjLoHdbVeE


Matty

https://youtu.be/g2yNR4xa4Kw

A history of our world since 2015, including coronavirus - a metaphor....look around you...and observe for yourself.

Derron

Uhm... I think I need an explanation regarding the video content ...


bye
Ron

Matty

Descent into increasing chaos.

Matty

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-24/sydney-catholic-archbishop-warns-pm-against-coronavirus-vaccine/12588578

Basically what has come to light is that the Oxford vaccine uses human foetal tissue to develop the vaccine.

The politicians argue the ethical considerations are historical and understood a long time ago because this method used in other vaccines commonly.

However - it was probably not public knowledge until now.

Think for a moment though on what this practice actually involves:

A baby foetus which looks like a very tiny person is aborted by choice and then researchers dissect the foetus to extract cells from internal organs in order to manufacture a vaccine for x number of doses.

In other words for a steady supply of vaccine a number of foetuses must always be available to harvest cells from.

Also think of the desensitization of the medical professionals to this process as they dispassionately cut up the foetus for resources over and over again.

The ethics may be settled in politicians minds but I doubt the public would be so happy to hear about it.

I am not for or against voluntary abortions - it's complex - but having a bank of foetuses from which to harvest cells to manufacture medical compounds seems diabolical to me.

From Matt.

Matty

From a book I own from 2009...

Quote:"In severe cases, free to air channels may be infected by CNN live feeds for up to 24 hours."

Quote 2:"If you believe you have contracted a pandemic beat-up, remain at home and isolate yourself as much as possible."

Neat huh...

Matty

The most wonderful thing about lockdown is I am free to write computer games and even while unemployed no one nor myself can argue I'm wasting my time nor would be better stressed out looking for work because:

A) There's nothing else to do when every normally meaningful activity is cancelled

B) There are no actual jobs anyway for me

C)All social activity which I'd love to pursue is locked away

All of which means I can code games to my heart's content with no valid reason not to.

Heck I can even code from midnight to dawn and sleep in the afternoon if I choose......

Xerra

I still work a normal 36 hour week. Probably stretched a little bit as I'm less regimental about my 8am - 4pm schedule but the time at my desk usually remains about the same. What about everyone else? Other people off work completely or also working from home? Are you managing, or in dire financial shit?

When this lockdown business first happened, I thought I'd probably have taken 80% wages for a few months and enjoyed some serious time off like Matty has, but I'm not so sure now. As tempting as it sounds to be in front of the computer writing games or playing them for weeks on end, I think it's probably quite detrimental to some peoples sanity.
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MikeHart

Quote from: Xerra on September 24, 2020, 18:47:48
I still work a normal 36 hour week. Probably stretched a little bit as I'm less regimental about my 8am - 4pm schedule but the time at my desk usually remains about the same. What about everyone else? Other people off work completely or also working from home? Are you managing, or in dire financial shit?

When this lockdown business first happened, I thought I'd probably have taken 80% wages for a few months and enjoyed some serious time off like Matty has, but I'm not so sure now. As tempting as it sounds to be in front of the computer writing games or playing them for weeks on end, I think it's probably quite detrimental to some peoples sanity.
Since March 25th I am working from home at least till the end of october. And I work more during the 8-9 hrs. I would like to go back into the office, but so far my company wants to play it save. Understandable. I get payed the same, have the same work to do, so the only change is working from home.