"Robots" don't get sick. The whole COVID drama will encourage a variety of industries to automate more and faster = lots less jobs. Add a push for raising minimum wage, higher taxes, etc. = lots less jobs. Meat processing plants, fast food restaurants, manufacturing are already looking for a surge of automation. White collar jobs too.Originally Posted by JAD
No. Please don't do this. Just get the vaccine.
Actually COVID made me hate robots. Automation requires fewer, more skilled people. If I have a manual process that 10 people are trained to do and I lose two to quarantine, I’ll muddle through. If I have a robot that two people are trained to run and I lose one, I am fucked.
Last edited by JAD; 12-02-2020 at 09:45 PM.
Ignore Alien Orders
My concern was whether it's safe to hang out with people who were recently vaccinated vaccine prior to getting it yourself, especially since I assume it may be a while before all of us are able to get access to the vaccine. Or if I get it to be careful for a while around those that haven't yet. Sounds like pangloss said it's not quite right what the guy wrote, so that's promising.
Last edited by scw2; 12-02-2020 at 10:08 PM.
Probably the worst part, where I work, is if you have some process that maybe one dude in the whole place is the wizard at fixing said robot, nobody else knows how to fix it when it breaks, and the wizard gets quarantined because their spouse tested positive. That shit is no fun.
True story: back a while ago one of our technicians tested positive. On his contact list he listed every single member of the engineering team except me. So every single soul got quarantined but me. I was busier than a cat covering up shit for two weeks and I was/am new to this part of the plant. Not fun. The best parts were that none of the quarantined people ever developed any symptoms, and the job that the technician was doing that day that caused him to name everyone but me, I was there too. He forgot to list me when he was naming names because the list was so damn long. By the standard that was applied, I should have been working from home too.
The vaccine doesn't include any functional virus, so there is no risk that the vaccine will cause infectious COVID-19.
My kid sister the doctor is working nights in the ICU. She's not sure if they will run out of physical bed space first, or nurses to staff them, but it's coming soon. She's dealing with family members who are demanding they tell her what's REALLY wrong with their dying family member because COVID is a hoax.
Meanwhile, my 66 year old mother is still working as a nurse at a hospice facility that will be catching the overflow patients from my sister's ICU. Mom has a PICC because she's receiving IV antibiotics due to osteomyelitis caused by a botched dental implant. She should just stop working, but her facility is grossly understaffed. She figures if her dad could fight his way across the South Pacific in the 1940s, she can be in this one for the duration.
My mom used to really worry about me when I was in the military. Now the tables are turned.
Meanwhile, my in-laws in Florida are out licking door knobs and breathing on strangers because freedom.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
It's amazing (but not surprising) how stupid some people are.
I'm beginning to think it's a kind of mal-adaptive coping mechanism. "This is a scary existentialist threat and I don't have the scientific literacy to understand the conflicting information thrown at me, so I'm going to choose to believe it's a hoax."
It's the adult equivalent of hiding under the covers because then the monster in your closet can't find you.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
I've just stopped talking about COVID with most of the people around here, because "it's a hoax" and "masks are for pussies." Meanwhile, my cousin is in the ICU going on week #2 on everything they can think of to treat her and my wife's cousin is back in the hospital for round #3 as a "long hauler."
I'm firmly convinced this comes down to personal involvement. People who don't know anyone who's had a BAD case think it's a hoax. People who are in medicine or know someone who's had a bad case think it's the apocalypse. The truth is clearly somewhere in the middle, but getting either extreme to understand or even consider the alternatives is fucking impossible. Like damn near every issue in this soon to be ex-country of ours. We're doomed, just a matter of time before we take on full "has been" status.
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