Conavirus......

[Tradd]

My company has made its preparations for us to work from home if needed. I have some customers who still work off paper original bills of lading (need to be surrendered for shipment release) and paper checks. I’ve contacted them all and told them they MUST go to electronic documents (surrender OBL at origin) and electronic payments. If we’re shut down paper docs and paper checks mean cargo release delays. All electronic stuff means no delays. A couple don’t want to do it. I told them that if there are any delays/storage on their shipments due to their refusal to comply, they’re responsible for those extra charges, not my company. We’ve given them plenty of notice. I’m making sure I have all docs printed out that I have and requesting what I don’t have. That way I could just scoop up files and work at home without issue.

[Tybee]

Fingers crossed you get to work at home, Tradd, although it would be better if there was no need, if that makes sense.

[dado potato]

The State of Washington, in the person of Governor Jay Inslee, has banned events that would include more than 250 people in 3 counties: King, Snohomish, and Pierce.

The Governor is not currently planning to call for school closures, but he is asking school districts to make contingency plans for closure lasting several weeks.

[JaneV2.0]

Our intrepid governor, AKA "Snake." Ah, for a return to civility...

In other news, I just placed an on-line order to pick up groceries tomorrow. I'll be wearing full hazmat--IOW nitrile gloves and a handful of disinfecting wipes.

[Tradd]

Work also told us to make a list of our logins and passwords (we have lots of them) for various websites we use. You can easily pull this info out of the browser. One coworker who consistently shows herself to be an entitled idiot refused to do it and said she’d call me for the info. She thinks this is all a big joke. I told her absolutely not. Boss backed me up. Her stuff will be totally different from mine. She actually threw a temper tantrum. I sarcastically call her Princess to her face. I’ve posted about her before.

[JaneV2.0]

As far as this being a joke, a hoax, or media-inflated hype--Does anyone really believe the WHO, CDC, and countless countries around the globe would be taking unprecedented precautions and huge financial hits just for the fun of it? I can't say I understand what makes this affliction different from the annual flu strains that change and mutate and cause scientists to develop new vaccines, but I have some confidence that epidemiologists do. And they seem very, very concerned.

[Rogar]

As far as this being a joke, a hoax, or media-inflated hype--Does anyone really believe the WHO, CDC, and countless countries around the globe would be taking unprecedented precautions and huge financial hits just for the fun of it? I can't say I understand what makes this affliction different from the annual flue strains that change and mutate and cause scientists to develop new vaccines, but I have some confidence that epidemiologists do. And they seem very, very concerned.

One of the talking head medical scientists I saw said, this just in not the flu and people need to stop the comparisons. What seems unique to me is the rate at which it spreads from just one person to a large number in short amount of time and with limited contact. For example, the synagogue in New York, or the Kirkland nursing home, or the religious sect in South Korea. I can see some panic over-reactions but some of the containment and self-isolation advice makes sense to me.

[JaneV2.0]

Yeah, I understand that it isn't the flu, but it doesn't--on the face of it--look a lot different. I think one of the problems with it is that we don't yet know much about it. That's why I'm not an epidemiologist.

[Yppej]

Isn't it a variant of the flu, also a virus, transmitted the same way amongst people, but as a novel virus one that no one has developed immunity to yet, and for which no vaccine has been developed yet? I find the comparisons pretty accurate.

[Simplemind]

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coron...e-f4d3d9cd99ca

Interesting article