Where's the petri dish thread?

[Shirley]

This is less than not helpful:

[Shirley]

March 10, 2020 at 12:21 p.m. EDT
The Ivy League canceled its men’s and women’s postseason basketball tournaments in response to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, the league announced Tuesday, becoming the first Division I conference to take that step.

Other Division I conferences have announced increased safety measure as March Madness ramps up; some Division I conferences have already completed their postseason basketball tournaments while many of the bigger events have yet to begin.

The Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were scheduled to be played in Cambridge, Mass., starting later this week. A number of Ivy League schools, Harvard among them, have canceled on-campuses classes in an effort to halt the spread of the virus.

League officials announced that Yale, the men’s regular season league champion, will advance to the NCAA men’s tournament, which begins with First Four games on March 17 and 18 and first-round games on March 19. The decision particularly rankled Harvard (21-8, 10-4 in the league), given its two regular season victories over the Bulldogs (23-7, 11-3). The decision came four days before the men’s conference tournament was scheduled to start and three days before the Ivy League women’s tournament.

[Shirley]

Considering the disruption to commerce and especially supply chains, what's the over/under that Force Majeure clauses in existing and future contracts are being reviewed with greater vigor than before the COVID-19 outbreak started?

[jfish26]

This is less than not helpful:

(All this, of course, is why we've only tested about 5,000 people as of this morning. So long as the administration can suppress testing numbers, it can say this is media hysteria. There is no bottom - next it will be a dispute about causes of death on death certificates. Trump has really caught a break that covid doesn't, like, turn people's skin purple.)

[jfish26]

Considering the disruption to commerce and especially supply chains, what's the over/under that Force Majeure clauses in existing and future contracts are being reviewed with greater vigor than before the COVID-19 outbreak started?

It is OFF.

[ousdahl]

Today we’re finally getting calls from guests trying to cancel, or at least inquire what our cancellation policy is in the context of corona virus.

So far, management has not made any decision - which is to say, they’re leaving it up to the staff to explain to guests that even if there is a pandemic going on, well then y’all should have thought of that before agreeing to a strict cancellation policy.

[twocoach]

Got an email from Disney that we can cancel our cruise with 100% refund or reschedule any time in the next 12 months. Odds are that we will be cancelling. I cannot have my oldest child get quarantined for 2 weeks. It would be devastating to this semester. Maybe we try again this fall.

The brother and father of the Omaha woman who tested positive have now both tested positive for coronavirus. And our school system had to send out an email asking parents to stop sending threatening emails to school system administrators. Everyone was fine here until a school got shut down and some folks had to self quarantine. Now folks are losing their shit.

[jhawks99]

NPR had a reporting in Miami. She said she was witnessing thousands of people boarding cruise boats. Probably a good time to pick up some cheap tickets.

[ousdahl]

Crazy preggo chick has been out for a couple days with sneezing and coughing and general sickness. Management told her to stay home til she feels better.

She said she can’t afford to not work, and besides, we should stop making a big deal just cuz the media is over hyping it, it’s pretty much just the flu so who cares, and in case no one has noticed, pandemics happen every election year.

She’s sitting at the desk next me hacking up a lung.

[Deleted User 289]

Another case of who knows wtf they are doing, not doing, should be doing, shouldn't be doing. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 46076.html

[Deleted User 289]

Crazy preggo chick has been out for a couple days with sneezing and coughing and general sickness. Management told her to stay home til she feels better.

She said she can’t afford to not work, and besides, we should stop making a big deal just cuz the media is over hyping it, it’s pretty must just the flu so who cares, and in case no one has noticed, pandemics happen every election year.

She’s sitting at the desk next me hacking up a lung.

Quit

[ousdahl]

that would be the entitled asshole thing to do, wouldn’t it?

[zsn]

We have already been informed by some of our suppliers that they are looking at possibly invoking Force Majeure later this year. Granted some notifications are more theoretical than others but two have made specific plans for alternative supply strategy.

In what we do (Biopharmaceuticals) the highly regulated nature of our business means changes to supply chain is not as simple as switching to Home Depot from Lowe’s. They have to be evaluated, filed and approved by regulators before they can be incorporated into approved products. For clinical stage products it’s less cumbersome. Consequences are far reaching to say the least!

[pdub]

So DC's thing is to trash just a bit on the president but if other people do it, it's why we have a problem in the USA and why the president got elected?
Got it.

no

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[TDub]

National guard sent to "assist" with setting up perimeter of NY suburb for containment and quarantine.

[jfish26]

[DCHawk1]

We have already been informed by some of our suppliers that they are looking at possibly invoking Force Majeure later this year. Granted some notifications are more theoretical than others but two have made specific plans for alternative supply strategy.

In what we do (Biopharmaceuticals) the highly regulated nature of our business means changes to supply chain is not as simple as switching to Home Depot from Lowe’s. They have to be evaluated, filed and approved by regulators before they can be incorporated into approved products. For clinical stage products it’s less cumbersome. Consequences are far reaching to say the least!

I smell xenophobia.

[Shirley]

Another case of who knows wtf they are doing, not doing, should be doing, shouldn't be doing. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 46076.html

Yet more proof that the administration sees this as a public relations problem to be managed, rather than the public health issue that it is:

Immigration court staff nationwide were ordered by the Trump administration to take down all coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which falls under the Department of Justice, told all judges and staff members in an email Monday that all coronavirus posters, which explain in English and Spanish how to prevent catching and spreading the virus, had to be removed immediately.

“This is just a reminder that immigration judges do not have the authority to post, or ask you to post, signage for their individual courtrooms or the waiting areas,” wrote Christopher A. Santoro, the country’s acting chief immigration judge in a mass email to immigration court administrators nationwide.

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[Shirley]

This x 1,000:

(I don't think anyone could have guessed that!)

[Deleted User 303]

Officially sent home for next two weeks. They are splitting up our staff, half on and off