Intro
Currently the whole world is in panic over COVID-19 and with good reason. Companies are shutting down. People are working from home. People are stockpiling food, toilet paper and Purell. Although I think the latter is unnecessary and just people freaking out YOU need to be the guy that’s not freaking out. You need to be the leader in whatever situation you might find your self in. Prepare for the worst with out invoking fear of those around you. You need to be the rock in the face of chaos. You need to be the one confident in making decisions. You need to maintain frame and calmness in front of your friends, family, plates, LTR, and everyone else around you.
Situational Awareness & Making Decisions
Take inventory of your surroundings and what is going on. Your average person is panicking and has no idea what to do. Your job may have no idea how to handle this. You need to be using sound judgment while maintaining emotional control.
For example the CEO of my company as of yesterday evening is mandating people come into the office that houses 700 people and is open to the public and resides in NYC. They are presenting a major risk to the people that work here while 90% of peoples jobs here can be done remote. We have people coming in from areas that are quarantined because they are in fear of losing there job (your average person is too stupid to make the right decision here). People are freaking out and being morbid in the office. Not doing any work just bitching and fear mongering about getting infected and asking people why are we here.
Your job doesn't know what's best for you. It’s a hard thing to walk away from your job but its stupid to listen to company who cant see that most major organizations have started WFH/remote work or putting it in place. This company is flat out telling people to come in even though we have the technology to have everyone work remote and still do business. In times like this is where being a leader and exercising those Machiavellian skills you learned here come into play.
I wrote an email this morning saying I'm sick and am quarantining my self. End of story. If they want to fire me so be it I will find a job in the next few weeks.
It’s a risky decision but I know what's best for me and my family. I know I can get a job else where.
Being a leader involves making risky decisions. You know what's best. Do it.
Bad leaders get people killed.
Update: My company had to change their tone based on local government. They remained opened until the 9th. They emailed us on 3/19 and notified us several people were infected during the the time they insisted we come into the office after saying for a week no one in the company was infected. Most of the infected people were on my floor that I work on which is overcrowded with people.
This only validates my actions.
Be a leader.
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To those saying there's nothing to fear. Yes if you're healthy and young there's nothing to be very afraid of. However, that doesn't mean whoever you transmit it to during the incubation stages are healthy and young.
Grandparents, people with underlying conditions etc are more at risk. We have finite hospital resources. Slowing down the spread will mean hospitals are less packed. A packed hospital may have to decide between three patients to save, compared to a less packed hospital which would probably be able to save all three.
If we are cautious in the next couple of months the long term situation will be much better. I've decided for the next three or so weeks I will do home workouts and jogs rather than go gym. I have a very sick relative and elderly grandparents and in this scenario better safe than sorry. Once the situation gets better can gym all I want.
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About 20% of infected people (safe to assume most people will get infected evetually) get pneumonia and that shit scars your lungs and you could lose up to 40% of capacity or more. Will you die? very unlikely. It would SUCK nonetheless. I don't want that happen to my kid, that scares me.
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My brother is a doctor , a young thirty year old college doctor died of the virus today . We just don't know enough of the virus and other risk factors involved like smoking which most likely increases your risk
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I used to put viruses on a pedestal, ended up with fever and diarrhea. Made Ebola and H1N1 my plates, now viruses treat me like a king. People get excited about Coronavirus, but you can't just have one-itis for a single virus like that. Go out there and just DNGAF about SARS, Coronavirus, HIV... at the end of the day they're just another bug. t. Chad Thundergerm
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Corona will will the US economy really HARD. Trust me, this is just the beginning. The fear for decades of communism and socialism to the public will hit the US harder than any other Western country. Why? Because the US health system is unfunctional for times like like this: limited times for sick days at jobs, the whole medical system is privste and insanely expensive, people will avoid going to the doctor as much as possible or call in sick. The numbers of infections will rise beyond your imagination within the next two months. The US medical system will break down. This will cause a severe crisis. Germany, the U.K., and Scandinsvian countries will manage to get through this but the US... i will get ugly in the months ahead. Brace yourselves guys. Its going to be a HARD RIDE.
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Bro, did you read? No offence. "Due to lower demand"?! The US is at an early stage of the Corona outbreak. The demand will SKYROCKET.
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You’re a leader because you decided that you’ll work from home?
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