CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
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Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#2It's looking like Coronavirus will be rocket fuel for all things remote. Work, schooling, conferences... I think we'll see a lot of new tools and processes emerge. More companies, schools, conferences being remote friendly.
Anyone seeing concrete signs of this at your employer or school yet? And what other second-order effects do you think we'll see?
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#3I'm lucky enough to work remotely so if schools do close, I can still earn a living while the kids are at home. I can't even imagine what kind of hell it's going to bring parents if schools shut down for any extended period of time.
Same thing with small businesses - shutting them down is really going to hurt local economies. In my city, small business are about to shut down because of construction on a main stretch of road where people would ordinarily find parking. With no parking spaces, the businesses are on the verge of collapsing due to lack of customers. A shut-down due to this virus would really be catastrophic.
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#4Here are some actual documents on preparing for an influenza pandemic that the CDC is repurposing to prepare people for the coronavirus because of the similarity to the spread of the flu.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/pandemic-prepa...
States will have their own influenza preparedness plans that they will probably be following for the coronavirus as well.
One helpful thing that they advise governors to advise individuals to do is to store up food and enough (but not more than enough) medications.
https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pandemic-Infl...
One thing to note is that a lot of the slowing down of disease spreading is going to be from the voluntary efforts of individuals. We should prepare ourselves and help prepare people around us to know what's up and what to do if you think you may be sick.
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#5It's looking like Coronavirus will be rocket fuel for all things remote. Work, schooling, conferences... I think we'll see a lot of new tools and processes emerge. More companies, schools, conferences being remote friendly. Anyone seeing concrete signs of this at your employer or school yet? And what other second-order effects do you think we'll see?
My workplace sent out this update not an hour ago:
> From March 2nd, employees should not attend any large meetings or events that are not hosted and controlled by [company], or where attendees cannot be confirmed as following a comparable travel policy. Individual or small group meetings where you can verify the travel histories of all attendees are fine.
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#6I'm lucky enough to work remotely so if schools do close, I can still earn a living while the kids are at home. I can't even imagine what kind of hell it's going to bring parents if schools shut down for any extended period of time. Same thing with small businesses - shutting them down is really going to hurt local economies. In my city, small business are about to shut down because of construction on a main stretch…
Sure, but killing 2% of the world population instead of closing down a couple stores also seems bad.
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#7It's looking like Coronavirus will be rocket fuel for all things remote. Work, schooling, conferences... I think we'll see a lot of new tools and processes emerge. More companies, schools, conferences being remote friendly. Anyone seeing concrete signs of this at your employer or school yet? And what other second-order effects do you think we'll see?
On Monday, 200 million kids in China started the semester online (in at least a minimal form): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-china-2...
"The Ministry of Education on Monday introduced a 'national Internet cloud classroom' supported by more than 7,000 servers and designed to cater to 50 million elementary and middle school students at the same time. Lessons cover 12 academic subjects, including 'moral education' and 'epidemic education.'"
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#8Here are some actual documents on preparing for an influenza pandemic that the CDC is repurposing to prepare people for the coronavirus because of the similarity to the spread of the flu. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/pandemic-prepa... States will have their own influenza preparedness plans that they will probably be following for the coronavirus as well. One helpful thing that they advise governors t…
Thanks for posting these. I'm putting some time into preparing my family for any potential quarantine situations here in the US. These guides are aimed at policymakers and government officials. Have you, by chance, found any practical guides for what individuals can do to increase the resiliency of their households? I assume this is all very similar to having a well-stocked earthquake kit (which we do have), but I'm curious about any disease-specific preparations.
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#9It's looking like Coronavirus will be rocket fuel for all things remote. Work, schooling, conferences... I think we'll see a lot of new tools and processes emerge. More companies, schools, conferences being remote friendly. Anyone seeing concrete signs of this at your employer or school yet? And what other second-order effects do you think we'll see?
My workplace sent out this update not an hour ago: > From March 2nd, employees should not attend any large meetings or events that are not hosted and controlled by [company], or where attendees cannot be confirmed as following a comparable travel policy. Individual or small group meetings where you can verify the travel histories of all attendees are fine.
Are you US based? Care to say what city?
Re: CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
#10It's looking like Coronavirus will be rocket fuel for all things remote. Work, schooling, conferences... I think we'll see a lot of new tools and processes emerge. More companies, schools, conferences being remote friendly. Anyone seeing concrete signs of this at your employer or school yet? And what other second-order effects do you think we'll see?
We have a forced 2-week work from home policy for people who've just returned from China. My employer is known to be relatively remote friendly, so it wasn't a huge deal.