Covid 19 Fena advice thread.

A thread designed to cut through the bullshit and get to what you need to know.

The basics for you and your family.

Don't be fooled into thinking any one situation is worse than the other.
1 person doing the wrong thing is more dangerous than 500 doing the right thing.

Its not airbourne.

If it was the rate of infection would be way higher.
But it can travel in air if you cough or sneeze openly.

Obviously this has been true of the common flu since I was a boy. Its incredibly bad manners but one has to allow for it.

In this instance simply breathing doesn't transmit it. It has to be expelled.

How you cough or sneeze or spit will determine the consequences.

Avoid your hand. Even yawning with hand to mouth is an issue. Tissues, if you can get them, are gold standard if disposed of correctly.

Wash hands. Wash hands wash hands

Never put your hand to your face. Sounds easy, its not.

Studies show we touch our face up to 23 times an hour without realising.

This is the number 1 cause of transmission.

If you brush up against someone who used his elbow to cough into, if that surface touches your back say and you didn't know it, when you get undressed, your hand touches that and it's on you. What you do with your hand then determines the spread.

It can survive 9 hours maybe 12 hours on surfaces.

This means that high traffic touching surfaces are extreme risk.

The smaller the space the higher the risk.
Thats the very definition of a confined space.

When they aren't being sensationalist it appears its not as easy to pick up as you might be thinking provided hands stay away from mouth.

Using the F1 situation, 14 people were quarantined from the one confirmed team member. As of this writing no transferance has been credited to this individual directly.

A further Pirelli employee has been confirmed but no isolations for him have been required.

If you can work from home do so.

Avoid public transport and eliminate best you can touching surfaces such as ATM'S and touch screens if you can.

Public transport is really a huge no.

Its really is about controlling space around you.
Travel outside Australia is also a no right now.

Face to face for 20 minutes or in a room for 2 hours should be avoided.

Above all.

There is a clear age demographic that's impacted the most. Over 65 take extreme caution. If possible these people need to self isolate the most.

Don't worry or panic.

Stress has been proven to lower your immune system efficiency.

Replace these with awareness and diligence to control what you can.

I'm probably not in the right head space to contribute much to this topic other than please, try to quell panic and fear.

I've litterally just got off the phone from a customer wanting to cancel 9 months worth of commited works, a move that will sink me.

While caution and awareness is mandatory, our media have done an amazing job in fear mongering. If only they would report the facts that would actually help people understand, instead of seeing who can have the best headline, we would all be better off

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Norm, apart from the overall OTT situation business, especially small is going to hurt big time depending on the business model and finances.
Going to be a mammoth challenge for all.
I hope your company can find solutions in these trying times, all the best.
My own has already been hit as well, one of our large clients has already asked, no not asked demanded price reductions period.
They first off went to our fellow 2 competitors (yes they carry 3brands in this catergry) did the same, one was reluctant therefore they suspended the account so they get no orders, obviously they gave in after.
We had no choice but doing so as well.
Most of us in the game are dealing with the US$ as many would know, A$ currently at $0.60 - down 4.7% last 4days :(
Depending how much hock companies are in look out.
GFC times the A$0.50.

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Originally Posted by 4Vman

I'm probably not in the right head space to contribute much to this topic other than please, try to quell panic and fear.

I've litterally just got off the phone from a customer wanting to cancel 9 months worth of commited works, a move that will sink me.

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I hope you are ok mate. Contact me if I can help in any way, whatsoever even if it's just to chat. We have our hands full as well, but if there is one thing all us established small business owners excel at is our ability to endure suffering and adapt when shit hits the fan.

On this note, I'd like to share this inspiring article about a restaurant in Seattle. This area in the US is in the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90477161...to-coronavirus

As a business owner in times like these, it's worth asking yourself "What do our clients and prospective clients need right now? Is this what we're already doing, or do we need to change things to be of service?"

In our case, the things that haven’t changed are: Businesses need to operate and their consumers still need their products and services in most cases.”
For us, that translates into helping them to transition to online/digital initiatives and operations for continued trade will be most in demand. My focus now is making the necessary changes to ensure we can respond to this effectively to support our clients while also keeping everyone in our business safe, employed and supported.

Great link Colville.
You got to react !
The GFC got us to make moves and we benefited from it placing us in better position than our competitors the next few years after and this COVID19 business wise is another reset for all.
Make moves, ouside the square, proactive.
Sadly when there is adversity there is opportunity.

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Originally Posted by 4Vman

I'm probably not in the right head space to contribute much to this topic other than please, try to quell panic and fear.

I've litterally just got off the phone from a customer wanting to cancel 9 months worth of commited works, a move that will sink me.

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This is the reason I wanted to talk about this.

The sort of thing I don't get is the order in which things have progressed.

Its all backwards.

Overnight they placed a 100 person limit for indoors.

Really, now you get to confided spaces.

I don't know how you can expect things to be handled any differently tbh.
Its a global mosh pit just like any other global problem past to present.
Varying POV's, varying Gov's in power, media BS/hype, pressure here pressure there.
Just like carbon issue of the past, Iraq,Bin Laden, ISIS etcetc.....
If the world was ruled by 1 Gov I guess it may have some form of structure/process being just one word but thats utopia.

Gawd no, I know now I may have started a debate.

My local KFC store has stopped people eating in doors.

This is the sort of thing I was hoping for much earlier so that it gets attention onto the importance of what we each must do.

It’s a nice compromise that’s meaningful.

Apparently it caused trouble when one man decided no one was going to stop him from eating.

Some are saying this factor is why they haven’t shut everything down earlier. It’s about timing and a fear that if it drags on, authorities will lose control.

Every where I went today I saw notices requiring modified behaviour.