It is a shame the email from the CEO this morning did not address the most important concern which for the next six months will be the coronavirus. Apache should now be considering telling office personnel to work from home. A delay in reaction will cause just one person to transmit it to the whole office. Covid-19 is no joke. It is worse than the flu, and people in their forties and fifties are being hospitalized in serious condition. It is not just serious for folks over 80! Wash you hands folks, stay at least ten feet away from others and for god's sakes stay home if you are feeling sick!
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Also, just so no one attacks me-I have been checking former coworkers social media profiles waiting for them to update if they are looking for a job bc I know of a couple openings.
I’m sorry about more cuts. I’ll do what I can to help.
After speaking with my father, an epidemiologist, I changed from making jokes about about curing Coronavirus with lime to realizing closing the older folks homes is a necessary measure. Apparently the older death rate is 15% or higher. Yes diabetics are higher risk too.
It’s not about not getting sick. It’s about not getting sick all at once bc that will strain resources. Ex: Italy has canceled all elective surgery bc they need the OR oxygen supply for COVID-19 infected patients. We’ve got to get infected more slowly (“flatten the curve”).
Look I don’t work for Apache anymore. My new company announced today remoting in from home. My husbands company refuses such measures (they are still using Kingdom8 so...).
I’m saying something because I too hold APA stock and I care about my former coworkers and fellow humans.
Don’t panic. Wash your hands, eat your fruits and veggies, don’t fight at HEB over TP, etc.
Perhaps the best thing is to try to find remoting in solutions. Explore apps like Zoom, GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, etc. Not knowing what email y’all are discussing, perhaps coming up with some solutions preemptively will help? (I hope so cause I care about y’all).
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/11/21173157/coronavirus-health-effects-age-covid-risk-diabetes-hypertension-disease-isolation
Thank you for some "color," as they say (God I hate that sh–). And hey, I'm all for reducing the number of meetings. I'd rather drive a thumbtack into the back of my hand than sit through some of those.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-deaths-from-coronavirus-are-so-high-in-italy/
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/21165973/coronavirus-death-rate-explained
Yes, 3-6% represents the percentage of deaths over ALL confirmed cases, not all agre brackets. You, personally, at 30 years old may have an extremely low risk, but someone over 80 has an 18% chance of fatality. Your parents, grand parents, retired friends, etc.
100 million Americans have diabetes or pre diabetes. 50 million have high blood pressure, a major risk factor to Covid-19. Another 50 million Americans are over the age of 60. Obviously there is overlap in those populations, but all of them have major risk factors for this virus.
And while we don’t need to panic, cancelling a BS meeting that could just be an email, or allowing office employees to work from home hardly counts as panicking.
Okay, so you've investigated those numbers and know exactly what they comprise? It's 6% across the board, for healthy people with no immune system issues or other diseases? That means people who aren't in hospitals or are otherwise in good health are getting knocked out at a rate of 6%? Get real, dude (or lady). Have you considered that the 6% or 4% is almost entirely composed of individuals who are already in poor health, or are elderly, or are in a hospital recovering from some other condition and in their weakened state happen to catch it there? When this thing starts infecting 70+ million people per month (about what it would need to do to hit the same percentage of population as Spanish flu), then I will concede that I am not talking out of my a–. I never once suggested we shouldn't take it seriously. I did, and only did, suggest that we don't panic about it.
Pales in comparison to the Spanish Flu? Sorry but you’re talking out of your a–. Italy’s fatality ratio is 6%. Wuhan was 4%. Those are very much Spanish Flu like numbers we have to look forward to if we act like the pandemic isn’t a big deal and let our hospitals get overwhelmed. The only thing that has worked in keeping those numbers down is social distancing.
No worries. We will all be "working from home" soon. Working to find another job.
Coronavirus is scary...kind of. If you have a preexisting condition or are elderly, yes it's cause for concern. But it pales in comparison to the Spanish flu or certainly to hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola. If people would stop panicking about it, it wouldn't be nearly the issue that it is.
The bigger concern, honestly, is our company facing insolvency. It's why they took the drastic measures they did this morning. But will those measures be enough? We've all got pretty sweet gigs here, despite the fact that work has s—ed for a long time now. I guarantee you once you're a day or two from getting over this bug, you'll be focused on the next thing in your life, which is this company coming apart at the seams before our eyes.