Red Mosquito

washing machine wrote:Mods, please change McP's title to "I told you so".

I had thought about starting a thread where people can share their planning/prep/circumstances/challenges during quarantine. I was going to call it Life During Wartime, but I Told You So is pretty good too.

The sheer number of We Didn't Start the Fire jokes/memes on Twitter over the past 24 hours is impressive.

Bi_3 wrote:I mean, realistically, no one has any idea what the future is or if the past even happened. Our brains are constructing all of this as we go.

I gotta say, if this is all in my head then I really hate myself.

bune wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:I mean, realistically, no one has any idea what the future is or if the past even happened. Our brains are constructing all of this as we go.

I gotta say, if this is all in my head then I really hate myself.

I had to read it twice to see what information it was actually trying to convey.

We had our PM announce the package of restrictions and measures earlier.

Just went to my local supermarket and it’s chaos.
Empty shelves. (Pizza freezer cabinets all empty except the ham n pineapple section lol )
If you haven’t gone and gotten some essentials and stock up a bit I’d do it now.

You guys have guns ffs.

dimejinky99 wrote:We had our PM announce the package of restrictions and measures earlier.

Just went to my local supermarket and it’s chaos.
Empty shelves. (Pizza freezer cabinets all empty except the ham n pineapple section lol )
If you haven’t gone and gotten some essentials and stock up a bit I’d do it now.

You guys have guns ffs.

I like ham 'n pineapple pizzas, so it's looking good for me.

Fucking hell

how many more Republicans do you think will retire in the next two-three months?

Some people are saying its a beautiful virus.

McParadigm wrote:This is where I’ve been for two weeks, now. We’ve been preparing since the first case landed in the US.

What a dumb statement

Please come to Brazil.

tragabigzanda wrote:guys no one knows what's gonna happen in my kitchen in the next five minutes. Please RT and like 5000x.

Right? It's actually irritating me that they even tweeted that

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:guys no one knows what's gonna happen in my kitchen in the next five minutes. Please RT and like 5000x.

Right? It's actually irritating me that they even tweeted that

It’s just about scale and scope, guys.

Let me give you a for instance: our electronic prescription system and medication history database retrieval system both went down this morning due to query volume, meaning we have to go back to hand written prescriptions and rely on patients remembering their medication history. Normally an inconvenience but hardly a big deal.

Right now, though, healthcare organizations in Seattle are ramping up Telehealth services because we simply cannot allow everyone who is sick to go to a clinic or a hospital (in fact we are closing many clinics to transform them into coronavirus response services). Telehealth working properly and being capable of handling large volumes requires electronic prescribing, but electronic prescribing systems aren’t really built to handle this kind of workload, and it’s pretty hard to just “fix” that after the fact.

It’s less a case of “nobody knows what’s going to happen in my kitchen“ and more a case of “nobody is sure where the bombs are hidden in my kitchen.” A lot of systems, functions, and processes are going to be tested that we don’t actually know are up to the job.