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Keeping our employees and partners safe during coronavirus

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Are we going to see here every announcement of this kind from every single tech company?

There is always a fine line between corporate responsibility and opportunistic marketing moves.

One sentence summary:

Twitter suspends all non-critical business travel and events; says nothing about potential changes to COVID19 content moderation.

> We also have the responsibility of ensuring that the health and safety of our employees

Ok, so are they encouraging people who can to work from home? Why not?

>Something had to be done, and this was something.

(I fully support twitters effort to make sure correct information about coronavirus is promoted on their platform)

So:

1. There are cases in over 80 countries now.

2. Evolutionary studies suggest it's been spreading about 5 weeks longer than the first recognition phase discoveries suggest.

3. The incubation period is 2 weeks.

4. A number of individuals contract it with few symptoms and transmit it far and wide.

The most reasonable conclusion is that it's going to hit almost every country hard, come back in August in the northern hemisphere, and possibly once again after that. It could be stopped at about this point, but that would get in the way of corporate profits, people flying to and fro during a pandemic and people who go out in public while sick and don't sneeze or cough into their shirt, so 10-100 million people "have to" die... potentially more numerically but less percent-wise than 1918.

The time to work remotely is now, because no one can see or tell who is infected. And after the first pandemic wave, it will be necessary to maintain vigilance for roughly 1.5-2 years.