Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by komali2 on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:16PM
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The response difference between the people I interact with regularly (friends, coworkers, HN people, twitter people) and I guess "the rest of the world" is crazy. I just watched a video on Fox News where they interviewed this dude with his kid on his lap talking about his experience in coronavirus quarantine now that he's released. He couldn't stop coughing throughout the interview, was sharing water with his kid... madness.
Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by jacquesm on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:06PM
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That was a very scary video. I was physically cringing all throughout watching it and when he drank from the same bottle vocalizing 'no!'. Very depressing.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by dang on Saturday February 29, 2020 @01:22AM
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Joe, please don't post like this, regardless of how provoked you feel. We have to ban users that post like this on HN, and I don't want to ban you. I'm going to put it down as going on tilt this time (it happens), but please don't do it again.
Also, while I have you: can you please stop the inflammatory political comments? We don't want those either, and you've been doing it a lot lately.
The top-down restrictions of who is allowed to get tested have been quite limited, so there's easily tons of people infected who we don't know about, many of them asymptomatic - yet who could still be transferring the virus to vulnerable/less healthy people [1].
Access to testing kits is going to be another constraint going forward if this thing continues spreading and testing criteria does indeed expand (which no doubt are probably correlated).
I have a feeling once the CDC and WHO expand the criteria for who gets tested there is going to be a significant spike in the number of people who we know have it. There's going to be a lot of post-de facto reviews and lessons learned from this experience in the coming future, no doubt.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/health/coronavirus-asympt...