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Gizmodo By Sam Rutherford
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tdgeek:
I agree. The vast majority of that 80000 are resdients overseas. Its unlikely many of them would be able to find a way home anyway
The number of NZers overseas at any given time is far higher than 80,000. From memory there is something like 18% - 20% of our citizens/residents overseas at any given time. There's hundreds of thousands in Australia alone living on SCVs.
The 80,000 figure is so small it could only represent short term departures. If you say that's less than six months, there would easily be 80,000 across Europe, NZ and Aus combined.
When is a person considered recovered? Is it a re-test or xx days/weeks without symptoms.
Worldwide stats say quite a few but none yet in NZ (of course the we didn't get our first confirmed case until 29 Feb).
Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?
tdgeek:
Batman:
it is not a bad thing to have the virus do the round, slowly.
you see, barring a miracle (near perfect vaccine), this virus will be doing the rounds in the world for about a few years.
let's say we lock our borders and have no infection. then the chances of an outbreak disaster here remains high for 2 years. in fact the chances of an outbreak is even possible at 5 years. how long can you close the borders for?
but if we have the virus slowly doing its rounds, and half the people have some immunity and the chances of an outbreak disaster is a bit lower.
it's not all black and white. it's more a watch and respond. this is our new life. 2019 is gone. we're in this for the long haul (years).
my opinion of course.
Boris was already ridiculed for herd immunity
Either we do what we are doing, which is being widely criticised here as too little too late, not proactive, not enough, or we do soemthing else. Im struggling to get anyone to suggest what we do instead. Ideology doesnt cut it, we need alternative suggestions that can be put in place and under what rules. A clue is Italy's lockdown, didnt work.
I mean closing the boarders mid feb would have solved a lot of problems. Nevertheless that horse has bolted.
It gets difficult. What do you shut & what do you keep open.
To me closing all bars & night clubs is a no brainer. I would also ban seating at restaurants. Make restaurants takeout only
Then wait till community spread is detected & aggressively isolate.
Some-one gets Covid 19 on a construction site. Shut the site & send every one on site to 2 weeks isolation.
A high school student gets Covid 19. Shut the school & isolate the students for 2 weeks.
I also think that a special Covid 19 "isolation leave" would be appropriate. Anyone that has to do isolation should be paid by the govt to sit at home.
I guess what I am advocating is a partial shut down.
freitasm:Gurezaemon:
About bloody time. I have had no end of trouble working with clients in different parts of the world saying "we'd like this back by 12:00 pm", where figuring it out from context is impossible.
Well, 12 pm is midday and it is not ambiguous.
Midnight on the other hand can be either the start or end of a day.
I'd argue both are ambiguous. P.M. means post meridian, (after the meridian (noon)), and midnight is 12 hours after that. After all, 12:00 pm is one minute after 11:59 pm... :p
tdgeek:
Scott3:
Given we have failed at to keep Covid-19 out of NZ, it is very frustrating that we haven't yet taken the domestic threat seriously. We won't know the damage for two weeks, but we still stand a realistic chance of stomping out covid-19 if we act now. In two weeks it may be too late.
It is crazy that schools, nightclubs etc are still open.
What are your solutions to take the domestic threat seriously? If we act now, please list your measures
The big issue is that the information we get regarding cases is about 2 weeks old. So we need to act 2 - 3 weeks earlier than the data we have suggests. The issue is that with a doubling time of 3-4 days being shown overseas, we can go from having a handfull of cases, to having the hospital system over-run within 3 weeks (as shown in Italy).
Domestic measures center around social distancing. We are already doing aggressive contract tracing.
Take your pick of social distancing policies from europe and north america:
- Close schools, daycares, universities, training establishments. (exemption for the children of those in critical industries that can't arrange alternate childcare)
- Close nightclubs, bars & resturants (take aways / delivery only)
- Ask those who can to commence working from home.
- Drop Gatering limit to 10 people
- Limit gatherings of co-workers to say 30. If you need more than 30, break your workplace into zones, or do a red shift & a blue shift that work different hours & never meet. - Exemptions available for the like of food supply industry.
- Strongly advise people not to use public transport.
- Change self isolation to enforced self-quarantine where the likes of domestic flights are not allowed.
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MileHighKiwi: The WHO says we have local transmission, and the data is a week old. Local transmission is CT.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
Case #3 and Case #5 in NZ were local transmission, where the original family member had travelled from Iran, but these were close contacts rather than true CT cases. So yes we had close contact local transmission in NZ, most likely in late February.
Community Transmission implies transmission via members of the community that aren't close contacts, but might travel on the same bus, eat at the same cafe or shop for rice and toilet paper at the same supermarket.
We might have those and if you're placing a bet, then bet on CT, because you're probably going to be right sooner or later.
But that doesn't mean we divert resources from close contact tracking and testing, (which has been successful in places like Singapore) to random testing of the wider community.
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Don't spread this people, if it is not released or and with no evidence.
Quoted text is still showing on the post above. It's like stamping out a virus - need to be thorough. :-)
And thanks BTW.
Gurezaemon:
I'd argue both are ambiguous. P.M. means post meridian, (after the meridian (noon)), and midnight is 12 hours after that. After all, 12:00 pm is one minute after 11:59 pm... :p
I have never understood why countries like NZ and USA can't wrap their heads around 24-hour time like Europeans and the military do. 1200 = noon. 2400 (or 0000) = midnight. No ambiguity at all. It's not rocket science.
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Bill Gates also confirms social isolation is working.
There are people saying the virus gets weaker and weaker by passing through people, I hope it is true and the one in NZ is a minor version.
dogstar001:
I mean closing the boarders mid feb would have solved a lot of problems. Nevertheless that horse has bolted.
It gets difficult. What do you shut & what do you keep open.
To me closing all bars & night clubs is a no brainer. I would also ban seating at restaurants. Make restaurants takeout only
Then wait till community spread is detected & aggressively isolate.
Some-one gets Covid 19 on a construction site. Shut the site & send every one on site to 2 weeks isolation.
A high school student gets Covid 19. Shut the school & isolate the students for 2 weeks.
I also think that a special Covid 19 "isolation leave" would be appropriate. Anyone that has to do isolation should be paid by the govt to sit at home.
I guess what I am advocating is a partial shut down.
With all due respect, you are not advocating a partial shutdown, you are advocating a fully reactive response. Once the horse has bolted (your words) then react.
The big issue is that the information we get regarding cases is about 2 weeks old. So we need to act 2 - 3 weeks earlier than the data we have suggests. The issue is that with a doubling time of 3-4 days being shown overseas, we can go from having a handfull of cases, to having the hospital system over-run within 3 weeks (as shown in Italy).
Domestic measures center around social distancing. We are already doing aggressive contract tracing.
Take your pick of social distancing policies from europe and north america:
- Close schools, daycares, universities, training establishments. (exemption for the children of those in critical industries that can't arrange alternate childcare)
- Close nightclubs, bars & resturants (take aways / delivery only)
- Ask those who can to commence working from home.
- Drop Gatering limit to 10 people
- Limit gatherings of co-workers to say 30. If you need more than 30, break your workplace into zones, or do a red shift & a blue shift that work different hours & never meet. - Exemptions available for the like of food supply industry.
- Strongly advise people not to use public transport.
- Change self isolation to enforced self-quarantine where the likes of domestic flights are not allowed.
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You are requiring a lot of trust, and while you are closing some places you are leaving a lot open. Gatherings only 10, but you want gathering of workers at 30, and which is far more time involved as well? Yes your ideas will help, but its like a boat with 20 leaks and you fix 4 of them. Its not a lot tighter than what we have now, which is widely criticised here
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