The COVID-19 Blues

alistair

Kumquat Loved that episode. It’s all good to these eyes. Stop raining on the parade.

Kumquat

Yeah, it was ok as a standalone and has enabled them to bring Ciro back for the final series.

Along_the_Wire

alistair I still can’t find out anything about the Ciro prequel L’immortale

Along_the_Wire

-si- Sorry, replied before I read that.

Along_the_Wire

It was on Sky Atlantic on 28th August. Looks like it’s available on demand. The missus is out all day and night on Saturday - sport, gaming and this. Fucking mint!

loopdokter

So what inspirational shit have you got up to? Anyone remodelled their kitchen or save starving Bengali children?

Surely the years we’ve all spent in darkened rooms with flashing lights and loud music must have amounted to more than going for a bike ride and drinking lots?

Hursty

loopdokter You’ve nailed it, plus running a bit!

Smallman1

I’ve learnt to eat octopus daily in Corfu.

Will add to my CV at some stage.

Along_the_Wire

I’ll reveal a little of what I’m going through at work a little further down the track. Consultation was meant to finish today, but it’s not gonna. It’s an absolute fucking nightmare.

Smallman1

That does not sound fun Grant.

Millsy

I’ve been involved in delivering such consultations mate. They fucking suck. Is there any way you can wangle a package out of it (not one like Eds obv)? I managed to do that last time I got involved in such codswallop.

Along_the_Wire

Millsy Two have gone full legal.

alistair

More COVID farce

Millsy

Along_the_Wire yeah been there mate. Not fun but inevitable most of tne time. I have also witnessed union walk outs. Hang i there chief.

Old-Dutch

Grim. Sorry to hear that Grant. What a cunt of a responsibility and completely destroys personal friendships

gcw

I’m coming towards the end of recruiting for a role in my team at the mo. All the candidates I spoke to have been made redundant in the past few weeks. Had to tell one guy this morning that he wasn’t successful at interview, he was gutted. Asked me to call him if any of the other choices knock me back. Really felt for the guy, it sounds very grim in the market at the moment

IndustryStandard

gcw Horrible to say but its only going to get worse ….. this winter is going to be very tough. Personally have felt pretty down this week vs this whole saga. Lockdown in March was scary but simple. Just stay in and order in. Everyone was in it together and you saw numbers go down and lockdown eased……there was light at the end of the tunnel.

This second wave has been a bit of a mind fuck, people against each other due to conflicting information and risk averseness, the UK Govt being all over the place regarding direction, worrying about “at risk” loved ones overseas…..and the obvious economic climate.

Suppose time is your friend, the longer it goes the closer we are to fully understanding transmission, safety and getting a vaccine. This piece of work seems promising.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/uk-scientists-begin-study-of-how-long-covid-can-survive-in-the-air

If we can count out certain scenarios and put lifecycles around airborne particles we could eliminate some scenarios and make things safer - fingers crossed. Data should be available within a couple of weeks.

loopdokter

gcw I’m coming towards the end of recruiting for a role in my team at the mo. All the candidates I spoke to have been made redundant in the past few weeks. Had to tell one guy this morning that he wasn’t successful at interview, he was gutted. Asked me to call him if any of the other choices knock me back. Really felt for the guy, it sounds very grim in the market at the moment

I’m happy that I’m pulling in an income and generally work in a rather recession/depression safe industry in IT, but the rates at which things were paying are no longer applicable. I haven’t fully thrown myself back out into the job market to see if I can land something better, but I feel like I should try to get myself in a better economical shape.

I enjoy the fact that I don’t have the same stipulations of working in an office, but at the same time I enjoy being challenged and this gig isn’t it.

loopdokter

IndustryStandard Suppose time is your friend, the longer it goes the closer we are to fully understanding transmission, safety and getting a vaccine. This piece of work seems promising.

I kind of equate our lack of understanding of this whole thing to what happened in the 1980s when the AIDS crisis happened. There was all sorts of shit being bandied about in terms of how you could get it, transmit it, etc. because no one had a firm grasp on the science behind it. Like COVID-19, the science was ever-expanding and evolving and our understanding is as well.

The problem we face is there seems to be so many counter-intuitive directives being given by governments that further complicate an already complex situation.

Millsy

Any jobs going at RIM?

loopdokter

Millsy Any jobs going at RIM?

Always mate. They’re one of the leading IT security companies in the world and they’re actually doing quite well with their shift into artificial intelligence and the like. There’s even talk of them making another phone, which if they do will be the best phone on earth as you well know! 😉

I still rock a BlackBerry Motion.

IndustryStandard

loopdokter the unknown, the learning, the trying to understand peoples behavior vs your self preservation has been tough. Maybe people are so used to having answers immediately, what with the internet/Google etc, having this mysterious killer disease is making them behave in irrational ways.

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