Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

April Is Canceled

aprilcanceled.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 127 posts

Re: April Is Canceled

#91

Post by Exmoor »

fideloper wrote: post #78
mcv wrote: post #18

I wish I had time for any of that. I keep reading ideas for how to deal with the boredom of self-isolation, but nobody writes about the stress. My wife and I have to homeschool two kids while also doing our own jobs from home. We're lucky of course that we have jobs, and we can do them from home, and we have two awesome and healthy kids. But homeschooling while we work really is a bit much.

can’t upvote enough, 5mo old and a 2yr old here and it’s.......a lot.

My wife and I are trying to manage a 6 year old and 3 year old and the original comment made me try to imagine what the theoretical hardest age to try to work from home with would be. 5mo and 2yr is roughly what I came up with in my head.

Not that it helps much, but you have my sympathy. If it feels like it's really, really hard, stressful, and frustrating it's because it is. And that's okay.

Re: April Is Canceled

#92

Post by mirimir »

01100011 wrote: post #3

Eh, some of us just have to keep working. No time to work on our magnum opus, because we're trying to remain productive in the ersatz offices we've cobbled together at home.

My home office for years was a walk-in closet. Just big enough for a small desk and a chair. Because I'd turned my old office into a server room, and it was too noisy.

But before I did that, I hacked used cube farm partitions into office space in said server room. It didn't actually work, because the scream of those 1U servers was very hard to block. But it would have been fine in the living room, or wherever.

Re: April Is Canceled

#93

Post by dntbnmpls »

ecopoesis wrote: post #20

Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone. You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

> Millions of people are going to die.

Maybe. So far only a few thousand have died so how about toning down the fearmongering hysteria? Also, 60 million people die every year. Every single year with or without the pandemic. Actually, it's more likely we'll have a lower death total around the world as a result of this pandemic as quarantine has prevented people from dying in car crashes, other diseases, etc.

> It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number.

No. It's very unlikely even in your worst case scenario. Unless you have the loosest definition of "friends".

> The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone.

The world isn't going to be different. People are still going to eat, sleep, go to work, etc. Life will go on. Just like it did after the spanish flu, ww2, vietnam war, iraq wars, 9/11, etc.

> Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

Oh god. Stop watching the news. Unless you are paid to spread lies and fear, you aren't benefiting one bit from the hysteria. It doesn't help you, the toxic hysteria only hurts you.

Re: April Is Canceled

#94

Post by madeofpalk »

beart wrote: post #32
01100011 wrote: post #3

Eh, some of us just have to keep working. No time to work on our magnum opus, because we're trying to remain productive in the ersatz offices we've cobbled together at home.

I find myself working more hours lately because I no longer have a hard break from leaving the office.

I was already not very into or committed to my job, so working from home made it even harder to focus (or care), and now I just spend most of my time playing video games

Re: April Is Canceled

#95

Post by 11235813213455 »

ecopoesis wrote: post #20

Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone. You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

There's the short-term: thousands of unfortunate deaths due to a respiratory virus

and the mid-term: environmental issues caused by the over-consumerism and excessive activity in our societies. We can feel it with those lockdowns, improvement in air quality, noise stress reduction, etc.. those factors cause millions human deaths every year, as soon as this frenzy will start again, let alone for the rest of animals and vegetables

Re: April Is Canceled

#96

Post by readme »

johnmarinelli wrote: post #83
readme wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hate all you want, you know an American company will probably invent the vaccine.

and then an american will patent it and sell it for hundreds at the consumer level god bless the us :')

I got a good laugh out of this.

Re: April Is Canceled

#97

Post by kiliantics »

ecopoesis wrote: post #20

Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone. You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

> it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone

It could be, if we let it go that way. Or we could use this crisis to our advantage, learn from it and restructure things to be better for people in future.

This situation has exposed many problems that were already pervasive but just not as destructive to so many people as they are now showing to be under the stress our social system is being subjected to. The fact that so many people live paycheck to paycheck, that so many have poor access to healthcare, and generally have little to no safety net when times get just a little bad, through no fault of their own.

The pandemic has really shown how undervalued many of the most important workers in our society are and how fragile the systems we have in place are, due to the mismanagement of our institutions and the disproportionate power we have given to very greedy and callous people. We have an opportunity to reject the institutions in their current state and hold those in power to account for the crimes they are committing which are the same crimes they have been committing all along.

Re: April Is Canceled

#98

Post by ck2 »

tathougies wrote: post #29
TechBro8615 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this site, I haven't seen it before. This predicts a peak usage of 32k ventilators, but I don't see any data for how many ventilators we already have?

In 2010, there were about 62k ventilators in American hospitals, more than any other developed nation at the time: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21149215 If you take into account non-'full time' ventilators (not sure what these are but apparently they exist), the US has 99k.

It's not the count but the distribution.

NY State only managed to come up with 6500, feds finally gave them 4400 more but the federal "stockpile" turned out to be a lie.

There is also a good chance given how complex the machines are that many a decade old from 2010 are no longer functional?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-v...

Re: April Is Canceled

#99

Post by lovetocode »

mcv wrote: post #18

I wish I had time for any of that. I keep reading ideas for how to deal with the boredom of self-isolation, but nobody writes about the stress. My wife and I have to homeschool two kids while also doing our own jobs from home. We're lucky of course that we have jobs, and we can do them from home, and we have two awesome and healthy kids. But homeschooling while we work really is a bit much.

I’m right there with you. I get so irritated seeing stuff like this because I wish I could use my time to get ahead but we are just trying to stay afloat. At least we got our health which is what really matters.

Re: April Is Canceled

#100

Post by WantonQuantum »

rabryan wrote: post #37
ecopoesis wrote: post #20

Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone. You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

Millions? Where and when? Plus why criticize something thats advocating staying home in order to save lives.

The exponential growth can make it unintuitive but here are some numbers to consider:

In the last 5 days (data from CSSEGISandData) the total number of deaths (excluding china) has doubled from 20679 to 38798.

In the 5 days before that, the total number of deaths (excluding china) also doubled.

So worldwide (excluding china) the total number of deaths looks like this:

  In 5 days: 77,596
  In 10 days: 155,192
  In 15 days: 310,384
  In 20 days: 620,768
  In 25 days: 1,241,536
Unless things change really really quickly.
Post reply on HN