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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    Going to all electronic signatures if possible. You'd be amazed at the number of people who don't have an email account. I think these are the people buying up all the toilet paper and using up China Virus test kits without showing symptoms.
    You'll never go back once you implement a robust e-signature process. SO MUCH BETTER. Silver lining I suppose.
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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    State govt, for now, is reporting to work as usual. Ark Gov wants regular operations to continue for as long as possible with as much normalcy as possible. WFH requests are being considered by dept heads on a case-by-case basis from individuals with documentable childcare, eldercare, immuno-medical, etc. issues.

    I'm having a board meeting tomorrow, but we're making arrangements to allow members to participate remotely.
    My aunt is a social worker at the VA. They have to report to work as normal as their bandwith (according to her) can't handle the employees logging in remotely at the numbers probable if they keep all non-essential employees home.
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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    I am not sure most companies do. You can stagger hours and keep nonessential Webb browsing off the system. I started at 5:30 to avoid the problem . I also used a vpn and my normal internet for non confidential email .

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Business as usual for me (engineer in industrial manufacturing), although some departments that spend most of their time in the office (Finance, etc.) have been instructed to work from home. All business travel is suspended, and all meetings are to have 10 or fewer attendees.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Below is a post from two of the best pulmonologist and intensivists in Georgia. Thank you Dr. Shankar Kandaswamy and Dr. Mayur Patel for sharing. Please take this serious and help us #flattenthecurve.

    Understanding COVID-19.....simply A complex disease

    Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

    It has to do with RNA sequencing.... i.e. genetics.

    Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

    Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

    Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

    H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

    Fast forward.

    Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

    This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

    And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

    That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

    We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

    Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

    And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.

    #flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Thanks for sharing that.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Yes, thanks for sharing that. Hopefully some among us, like Goosey, will stop bar-hopping and realize he can spread this virus to those more susceptible to it.

    BTW, there is one minor mistake, misinformation, in there, but let's not split hairs. The important thing is to treat this virus with the respect it deserves.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Yes, thanks for sharing that. Hopefully some among us, like Goosey, will stop bar-hopping and realize he can spread this virus to those more susceptible to it.

    BTW, there is one minor mistake, misinformation, in there, but let's not split hairs. The important thing is to treat this virus with the respect it deserves.
    And hopefully China will quit lying to the world.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS View Post
    And hopefully China will quit lying to the world.
    Are you familiar with the expression that “you can catch more flies with honey.”? When you wage a trade war, and say disparaging things about someone, sometimes that makes them less likely to help you.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Yes, thanks for sharing that. Hopefully some among us, like Goosey, will stop bar-hopping and realize he can spread this virus to those more susceptible to it.

    BTW, there is one minor mistake, misinformation, in there, but let's not split hairs. The important thing is to treat this virus with the respect it deserves.
    Lol. I have been more cautious than almost anyone. As soon as we had a known case of community transmission in the Houston area I started practicing social distancing where at all possible. That was over 2 weeks ago now.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

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    Are you familiar with the expression that “you can catch more flies with honey.”? When you wage a trade war, and say disparaging things about someone, sometimes that makes them less likely to help you.
    Strait from CNN, MSNBS, and the ultimate Trump hater...

    This is all Trump's fault.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

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    Below is a post from two of the best pulmonologist and intensivists in Georgia. Thank you Dr. Shankar Kandaswamy and Dr. Mayur Patel for sharing. Please take this serious and help us #flattenthecurve.

    Understanding COVID-19.....simply A complex disease

    Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

    It has to do with RNA sequencing.... i.e. genetics.

    Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

    Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

    Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

    H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

    Fast forward.

    Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

    This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

    And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

    That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

    We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

    Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

    And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.

    #flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
    I call bullshit on most of this liberal talking point. Some may be accurate, but this is certainly a scare piece designed to make us dig deeper in our bunkers.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    I call bullshit on most of this liberal talking point. Some may be accurate, but this is certainly a scare piece designed to make us dig deeper in our bunkers.
    You do need to dig into your bunker for the next few weeks at least. That is what the actual experts say.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

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    Lol. I have been more cautious than almost anyone. As soon as we had a known case of community transmission in the Houston area I started practicing social distancing where at all possible. That was over 2 weeks ago now.
    That's good. Keep doing your civic duty.

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    Re: How is Covid-19 affecting your work?

    We were already in the process of going to SLACK (replacing internal emails). The last two weeks have given us the opportunity to play around with it and get a little practice. I am SO used to email for work, that it is still presenting some challenges. I find it great for project teams, but difficult for everyday communication. Good tool for work, though! In 2 months, our internal email will disappear and this will be how we communicate. As stated above, our organization is spread out and people mostly work from home, already. External email will still exist for us, of course. https://slack.com/lp/three?utm_mediu...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

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