Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Sheilbh]

I didn't say it was

[Valmy]

In France, anti-vaccine/"vaccine hesitancy", ©Sheilb, is far from being a right-wing nutter cultural war issue.

It's pretty common among Greens supporter and even their leadership e.g Michèle Rivasi, number 2 for the Greens in the last European elections, trying to organise a screening in the European Parliament of a Wakefield anti-vaccine propaganda movie.

Oh the left has always had vaccine shit going on. Evil corporations and evil western medicine and all that stuff.

Just now we also have a right wing culture war against them as well.

[Grey Fox]

Also the fact that no covid vaccines are french.

[Duque de Bragança]

Also the fact that no covid vaccines are french.

Anti-vaccine people don't care if it's Pfizer-BioNTech, Sanofi or Institut Pasteur.

In other news, restrictions lifted in advance. Starting next Sunday, no more 23.00 curfew, itself not very enforced lately. Plus no compulsory mask outdoors, except in crowded areas, from today oN.

[Maladict]

Work from home order to be lifted next week. I'm not ready to go back 

[Tamas]

Work from home order to be lifted next week. I'm not ready to go back 

Allegedly the government here is considering making work from home a basic employee right meaning the employer must prove its essential the job in question is done in the office.

Would be pretty easy to get around of course, but could be an important step, and can protect people from insecure bosses ordering them back together the moment restrictions are lifted.

[Sheilbh]

Allegedly the government here is considering making work from home a basic employee right meaning the employer must prove its essential the job in question is done in the office.

Would be pretty easy to get around of course, but could be an important step, and can protect people from insecure bosses ordering them back together the moment restrictions are lifted.

I think it'd be pretty tough to get around - essential is a very high bar even for employment lawyers to try and clear. No doubt some employers will do it as a risk decision and should probably hope they don't end up in a tribunal

[Tamas]

Allegedly the government here is considering making work from home a basic employee right meaning the employer must prove its essential the job in question is done in the office.

Would be pretty easy to get around of course, but could be an important step, and can protect people from insecure bosses ordering them back together the moment restrictions are lifted.

I think it'd be pretty tough to get around - essential is a very high bar even for employment lawyers to try and clear. No doubt some employers will do it as a risk decision and should probably hope they don't end up in a tribunal

Just read that Hancock denied there are such plans, which is pretty much a confirmation. 

[Barrister]

Under Alberta's re-opening plan we're set to remove virtually all public health orders 2 weeks after 70% of all eligible Albertans (so everyone 12+) gets their first dose of vaccine.  Yesterday we were at 69.9% so today appears to be the day they'll announce - which would mean July 2. we're wide-open.  There would still be a requirement to isolate if you have a positive case of Covid-19 but that's it.

We shall see... Cases and hospitalizations have definitely dropped dramatically, but we're still at around 100-ish / day new cases so it is still circulating out there, and that 70% is first-dose only.

In fact given the date I wonder if the province won't cheat on it's own rule and declare all restrictions lifted as of July 1 - Canada Day.

[Barrister]

Yup - they're saying Alberta hit 70% first vaccine doses as of yesterday, so everything lifted as of July 1.

[Syt]

Quite impressed with the testing efficiency here. Since I'm at the office tomorrow I needed to do a Covid test. Since the big walk in testing facilities are 15 minutes or so by tram I opted for a pharmacy around the corner. Had an appointment, but there was only two persons in front of me. Arrived at 8:15, got the nose jab 5 minutes later. Went to the grocery to pick up lunch (where I waited longer at the checkout than at the testing site), got home at 8:40 and already had my result in my inbox.

[mongers]

Quite impressed with the testing efficiency here. Since I'm at the office tomorrow I needed to do a Covid test. Since the big walk in testing facilities are 15 minutes or so by tram I opted for a pharmacy around the corner. Had an appointment, but there was only two persons in front of me. Arrived at 8:15, got the nose jab 5 minutes later. Went to the grocery to pick up lunch (where I waited longer at the checkout than at the testing site), got home at 8:40 and already had my result in my inbox.

[BoJo]

Ah, but does that make it a World Class test and trace system? 

[/BoJo]

[Syt]

So first day back at the office. There's also an off site management meeting, so it was just me and my two team mates, plus our external IT guy. Spent  the morning in calls. We went for lunch together which was nice. The afternoon, our external IT was supposed to install various updates on my laptop. It took him 4.5 hours to get the basics done, because my account was set up weird way back in the day and was never fully fixed, so it was a nightmare for him to get everything sorted out. (It was set up by his boss, so he couldn't grumble too much.) So I spent the afternoon completely unproductive, chatting with my team mates, reading, and surfing the web on my phone.

[Josquius]

I habe started going back to my office on an ad hoc basis. 1 day a week. Its a strange wasteland. A handful of people doing the same, receptionists, security, tech support guys.
A change of space definitely helps clear my head. But going all that way when I barely speak to anyone as everyone is busy... Pff

[mongers]

Met up with my cousin and her husband, outside of course; the first time I've had a social event with anyone outside the immediate family in about 17 months.