[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/13/2020 9:17 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-03-12, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> For those of us that survive 2020.
> 
> I was reluctant to raise this, given that it is totally off topic,
> but it affects everyone here and I was wondering what the situation
> is really like on the ground around the planet compared to what the
> media are and are not reporting.
> 
> I've marked the thread as off-topic and started a new thread so that
> it's easy to kill file or skip over.
> 
> Here in Northern England in the UK, there's a lot of low-level concern
> but not a massive amount of panic buying yet (apart from the various
> hand gels). There is some concern that the UK government is not reacting
> strongly enough or quickly enough yet and there's a real feeling that
> things could escalate out of control over the coming weeks due to that.
> 
> How are things in your part of the planet ?

I follow US, Denmark, Poland and Italy pretty close.

And the pictures seems very similar across:

* Most orgs are ordering IT people and other "paper pushers" to
   work from home
* Many schools and universities are closed
* Many places has put restrictions on public gatherings
   prohibiting either >1000 or >100 people
* Travel had come to a total standstill: some countries
   does not allow entry, companies are cancelling business
   travel, airlines are cancelling flights, people do not
   want to travel
* politicians like to go on TV and pretend they can control
   the situation
* people are stocking up on supplies, but true panic is
   rare

Arne