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

[Andrew Shaw]

On Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 12:17:08 AM UTC+11, 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 ?
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> Anyone know if there are any open positions at the IceCube lab ? :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

Down here on the other side of the world - Australia, we have panic buying going on in epidemic proportions. In some supermarkets we have police rationing the distribution of toilet paper, which by now you pretty much just cannot get - at all.

Most of our States have now implemented travel lock downs and closed their borders, so even interstate travel is no longer possible. My company, and indeed most are on enforced Work from Home. I myself have been on enforced WFH for many months now due to Cancer and have been practising "Social Distancing" long before it became "de rigueur". That puts me fairly and squarely in the "vulnerable" pool with a massively compromised immune system. COVID could quite seriously be the death of me so I am lying very low !

I have to say though that I love the WFH approach - I may never commute again !