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• Here we go again (Score:3)

  by ChrisMaple ( 607946 ) writes: on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:47PM (#59818888)

  Bored yet?

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  • Must be nice to be as selfish as the google (Score:2)

    by shanen ( 462549 ) writes:

    (Yes, we are bored with you [607946].)

    Hey, if the google wants to ignore the problem, let’s return the favor and ignore the google and all of their little ads.

    And why should we risk our lives to produce food for the little googlers to eat?

    Feeble jokes, but the point I’m trying to make is that the google’s selfish response is NOT helpful. Yeah, it’s great if you have a business model where you can keep on profiting without taking any risk, but someone is still paying for the economic havoc.

    • Re:Must be nice to be as selfish as the google (Score:4, Interesting)

      by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) writes: on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:01PM (#59818948)

      Google’s selfish response is NOT helpful.

      That’s what you take from that? Sure, some people can’t work remotely, but for those who can, it means less people moving around and lowering the total population that can become infected and then infect others. It’s even a recommendation of the WHO. How is that a bad thing?

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      • Re: (Score:2)

        by shanen ( 462549 ) writes:

        I understand your lack of imagination. You’re just some Slashdot identity.

        But don’t you think the almighty google should be able to come up with some sort of more constructive solution approach?

        No, I don’t have a great idea, but obviously I’m not smart enough to work at the google. I really think we’re in a batten-the-hatches situation. China basically shut down everything and just focused on pumping enough food into Wuhan to keep MILLIONS of quarantined people from starving. China could do that and may hav

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by MrL0G1C ( 867445 ) writes:

          I get that many people can’t work from home – I can’t, I literally stopped working yesterday and told the company I’ll start again when they get their act together. I could have been a major spreader of the disease if I kept working, companies I visit already have cases.

          But I don’t see why Google shouldn’t ask people who can work from home to do so – that’s exactly the right thing to do, what would you expect them to do? (I don’t like the slimy fuckrs by the way).
        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Gilgaron ( 575091 ) writes:

          I’m at a loss as to what else Google could do but have everyone that can WFH do so? How many other people can work from home if Google shuts down for the duration of the pandemic? If Amazon, Google, and Microsoft just switched the lights off and called it a day then I’m pretty sure something I’d depend on to get my job done remotely would fail, and most of our stuff is on-premises.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by OrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes:

      And why should we risk our lives to produce food for the little googlers to eat?

      Reducing the number of people moving around in public would reduce the amount of contact for those who can’t work from home.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by lactose99 ( 71132 ) writes:

      How is Google being selfish by taking WHO recommendations for its employees?
• Work from home! Adjust all work to be from home. (Score:2)

  by Futurepower(R) ( 558542 ) writes:

  Working from home makes sense! Avoid the huge amount of time driving to and from work!

  How can that become the normal way of doing things?

  Obviously, manufacturing will need to become more robotic. Many jobs now require humans to do some work.

  • You’re on /. right now (Score:1)

    by OrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes:

    People barely do any work when at work. They’re all on Facebook, Reddit, Imgur, and Slashdot. Now you’re asking them to “work” from home. Good luck!
• COVID-19… the political virus? (Score:2)

  by leonbev ( 111395 ) writes:

  Has anyone noticed that the response to COVID-19 outbreaks seems to fall on political objectives instead of actual health guidelines? If you’re working for Google or going an urban hipster conference like SXSW, you already got shut down. If you’re going to a NASCAR event or work for oil company, though… it’s business as usual.
• • Re: (Score:2)

    by plopez ( 54068 ) writes:

    why not? In the past working in software and IT I found I could work from home most of the time. Occasionally I might want to show up at the office but not too often. Maybe 1 day a week.
• It’s madness I tell you… Madness. (Score:1)

  by NathanWoodruff ( 966362 ) writes:

  Also… WSB TV [wsbtv.com] announced this morning that Google employees in Atlanta should work from home.

  I ride a bicycle to work on days that it isn’t raining and rode to work this morning. On a major road this morning, a 2 to 3 mile stretch of US Hwy 23(Buford Hwy), I counted 3 cars. My ride to work [garmin.com] Most mornings there are 200 to 300 cars.

  The mother of my son is not letting him go to school because 2 Atlanta schools are closed because a teacher has tested positive for the virus. All grocery stores are out of t
• But Trump says go to work (Score:2)

  by plopez ( 54068 ) writes:

  And he’s a stable genius.

  • Re: (Score:1)

    by CoolStoriesBro ( 6610564 ) writes:

    You guys sure are obsessed with Trump.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by spun ( 1352 ) writes:

      You sure are obsessed with getting people to believe this virus isn’t a big deal. It’s just about all you’ve written about since you created this account a month ago.

      Who else wants us to believe this virus isn’t a big deal? Hmm, who could it be? Maybe someone who owns a lot of hotels and is afraid of losing business, and therefore not being able to pay back the Russian mafia. Know anyone like that?
• Seen an article about Mass/Public Transportation (Score:2)

  by pgmrdlm ( 1642279 ) writes:

  I normally take public transportation to work, but i seen an article where people are starting to question if they should be using it. This was from the U.K. and not U.S. But still, I am supersized that I have not seen more comments/articles about the closed environment of public transportation.

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by MrL0G1C ( 867445 ) writes:

    Anecdotal but I heard about a science paper that said one infection was on a bus, the 2 people were 4.5 meters apart, they never went on the same part of the bus and yet one of them supposedly caught the virus from the other meaning that it is very highly airborne. They said they’d ruled out all other possibilities and checked the facts carefully. But I think that still needs confirmation. It would explain though how so many people on a cruise ship caught the virus whilst quarantined – if the virus was trav
• Relax (Score:2)

  by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 ) writes:

  Relax, Google and Amazon and Microsoft do this all the time!

  Oh wait, no they don’t. In fact they’ve never done it before. They must all be a bunch of pansies, panicking like this over a simple pandemic, huh?

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