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BubbySoup · May 12, 2020

Hoss said:
So are you the first confirmed case of a board member getting it?

What did they treat you with? Were you hospitalized?

I can’t say. I guess so if nobody else has posted otherwise?

I wasn’t hospitalised and self medicated with paracetamol to keep my temperature in check. I got pretty rough in the second week and called 111. After a consultation they sent an ambulance out to check me over. They decided not to hospitalise me as my blood oxygen levels were good and my lungs appeared fairly clear. 2 days after I was on the mend.

For clarity, I live in the UK and work for the NHS. 111 is an NHS service that anyone in the UK can call if you have a medical issue that you want advice about or that you feel is not serious enough to warrant a 999 call.

Hoss · May 12, 2020

BubbySoup said:
For clarity, I live in the UK and work for the NHS. 111 is an NHS service that anyone in the UK can call if you have a medical issue that you want advice about or that you feel is not serious enough to warrant a 999 call.

I was totally about to ask about that. Were you a precog before the plague or is that a new development?

Gurgeh · May 12, 2020

chaos said:
I had heard the same thing so I tried searching, the top 3 results included 1 positive study, 1 negative study, and 1 inconclusive study all released/reported on in the last week of April. So, cool cool cool.

All the studies show that it reduces the viral load significantly faster, we don't know yet if the outcome are better. At worst, it just makes you less contagious and you recover faster, but it doesn't help if you were going to need ICU/die.

Alex · May 12, 2020

Fuck this. It'll likely happen up here if it's happening down there. I might move back to Ohio for the summer.

LA County's stay-at-home order will likely remain in place for next 3 months, officials say

Los Angeles County officials are recommending that the stay-at-home order be extended for the next three months as the region continues efforts to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

abc7.com

Noodleface · May 12, 2020

Alex said:
Fuck this. It'll likely happen up here if it's happening down there. I might move back to Ohio for the summer.

LA County's stay-at-home order will likely remain in place for next 3 months, officials say

Los Angeles County officials are recommending that the stay-at-home order be extended for the next three months as the region continues efforts to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

abc7.com

Really gonna be feeling that 1 minute commute from my bed into work when they finally tell us to come back in

Alex · May 12, 2020

Twitter announced today that employees are no longer required to go into the office. Even after this is over. WFH is an option for everyone.

Noodleface · May 12, 2020

Alex said:
Twitter announced today that employees are no longer required to go into the office. Even after this is over. WFH is an option for everyone.

I don't want to assume anything but Dell is trending towards that idea as well

Kiroy · May 12, 2020

Noodleface said:
I don't want to assume anything but Dell is trending towards that idea as well

I feel like it's going to kneejerk the other way after a year or two. There's an actual term, which I forget, that describes how when workers get a large perk such as less hours, work from home, ect they vastly over-perform for a certain period of time (I think it's in the months timeframe cant' remember) but then fall into the routine and start to game the system - and working from home makes it particularly easy to game the system. Productivity eventually starts to plummet.

We'll see though

Noodleface · May 12, 2020

Kiroy said:
I feel like it's going to kneejerk the other way after a year or two. There's an actual term, which I forget, that describes how when workers get a large perk such as less hours, work from home, ect they vastly over-perform for a certain period of time (I think it's in the months timeframe cant' remember) but then fall into the routine and start to game the system - and working from home makes it particularly easy to game the system. Productivity eventually starts to plummet.

We'll see though

That's probably true. I hammered out work the first month and now I'm back to my old pace. There are definitely people at work doing nothing

Alex · May 12, 2020

I could never get away with doing nothing. The tech enterprise sales life. Never-ending. Unless you work with a company that's going down the shitter. Then sales is really easy because you're not selling shit. You're just in a depressing environment.

Kiroy · May 12, 2020

Alex said:
I could never get away with doing nothing. The tech enterprise sales life. Never-ending. Unless you work with a company that's going down the shitter. Then sales is really easy because you're not selling shit. You're just in a depressing environment.

but you could get away with being 15-20% less productive for a long while, average that out for the entire work from home workforce and you've got an assfucked company

Noodleface · May 12, 2020

Alex said:
I could never get away with doing nothing. The tech enterprise sales life. Never-ending. Unless you work with a company that's going down the shitter. Then sales is really easy because you're not selling shit. You're just in a depressing environment.

I could get away with "damn boss I spent the entire day yesterday trying to debug the code"

yamikazo · May 12, 2020

chaos said:
I had heard the same thing so I tried searching, the top 3 results included 1 positive study, 1 negative study, and 1 inconclusive study all released/reported on in the last week of April. So, cool cool cool.

The latest study I saw led to it causing more deaths & increased severity of symptoms.

In researching this treatment, I'd pay attention to sources outside of the US because of the Trump effect.

If I were to request anything right now, it'd be a placebo.

chaos · May 12, 2020

When we get to the point that everyone has to just request their own medication, then we are truly fucked.

Hoss · May 12, 2020

Unless we can make it political and trick libtards into requesting the medicine that is poison. Then we're all saved.

Larnix · May 13, 2020

There have many doctors that have come out and said they are using the combo with great results if used early. This Dr. Has been promoting it for some time and still is. I think I would try his recommended dose before I tried the the new remdesivir. Hopefully I'll never need either.

Dr. Zev Zelenko (@zev_dr) on Twitter

On a side note we border Illinois on the Iowa side and the county over have changed the way they report positive cases. Now if you test positive everyone you live with is automatically added as a positive case. I'm not sure if this is a county only policy or all of the state but expect a rise in price cases.

Gurgeh · May 13, 2020

Larnix said:
There have many doctors that have come out and said they are using the combo with great results if used early. This Dr. Has been promoting it for some time and still is. I think I would try his recommended dose before I tried the the new remdesivir. Hopefully I'll never need either.

Dr. Zev Zelenko (@zev_dr) on Twitter

On a side note we border Illinois on the Iowa side and the county over have changed the way they report positive cases. Now if you test positive everyone you live with is automatically added as a positive case. I'm not sure if this is a county only policy or all of the state but expect a rise in price cases.

That's kinda retarded as the likelyhood is under 25% according to all studies so far...

TheBeagle · May 13, 2020

My aunt is an ER doc in Tulsa. I haven't wanted to bug her too much with everything going on but I'll ask her what they are doing for treatment, what they've tried, and what's worked and what hasn't worked. She's always been non-political so should be able to get objective answers.

Noodleface · May 13, 2020

Larnix said:
There have many doctors that have come out and said they are using the combo with great results if used early. This Dr. Has been promoting it for some time and still is. I think I would try his recommended dose before I tried the the new remdesivir. Hopefully I'll never need either.

Dr. Zev Zelenko (@zev_dr) on Twitter

On a side note we border Illinois on the Iowa side and the county over have changed the way they report positive cases. Now if you test positive everyone you live with is automatically added as a positive case. I'm not sure if this is a county only policy or all of the state but expect a rise in price cases.

That is one of the most retarded things I've ever heard. That all but confirms they're padding numbers for govt funding

Larnix · May 13, 2020

Gurgeh said:
That's kinda retarded as the likelyhood is under 25% according to all studies so far...

Noodleface said:
That is one of the most retarded things I've ever heard. That all but confirms they're padding numbers for govt funding

At the very least it's going to be used to justify extended shutdowns. We both work for the federal government and technically in Illinois, my wife is part of the committee that will transition the base back to work. The plan is to lag behind the state by about 2 weeks but at this point they wont be back to work until 2022.. I'm essential and actually enjoy how little traffic is here now.

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