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Re:Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff ... by inferiorhuman on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:32AM (#22501907)
I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.

San Francisco just reported its first cases today, but there's definitely been panic shopping. The city closed down Lowell today as a precautionary measure (but that leaves nearly 200 campuses open).

Even if you don't suffer any health or financial effects (unlikely) you'll still be effected if:

- More schools close, even more if parents have to take time off from work en masse

- Public transit becomes a big vector and BART or Muni try to shut down or reduce service

- People continue to panic shop. NPR had a photo from a Marin Target with shelves bare of disinfectant wipes. Rainbow in the city was almost completely out of canned tomatoes on Monday.

- On a federal level, if our idiot president succeeds in closing the Mexican border you'll definitely feel some pain

Re:Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff ... by rsynnott on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:08AM (#22502672)
> if our idiot president succeeds in closing the Mexican border

Wait, is he trying to do that? Why is that his solution to everything?

Re:Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff ... by mcv on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:12AM (#22502700)
He just got given a new excuse to close some borders. It would surprise me if he didn't make use of that.
Re:Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff ... by inferiorhuman on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:09AM (#22542908)