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Sarthak Sharma on March 21, 2020

This is the time when keeping yourself safe can help save others. The COVID-19 situation has been devolving into a bigger mess by the day, becoming...
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Utkarsh Talwar

"Despite the instant availability of facts and figures related to this crisis, it makes me sad to see that many people are still not taking it seriously."

I know, man. I just saw that the death toll in Italy is reaching catastrophic levels. Over 600 deaths in a single day. It's crazy! People do need to start taking this very seriously.

Anyone who can should be working from home. This is going to take time to settle down. Self-isolation for 1-2 days won't be enough. We need to practice weeks of social distancing in order to break the chain of transmission. The governments around the world also need to ramp up proactive testing.

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Sarthak Sharma

BE SAFE BRO !!

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Utkarsh Talwar

You too, bro!

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lamka02sk

And yet some people still think it is just a little bit stronger flu.

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Sarthak Sharma

Well if you know such people. Run away from them.

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Jordy Lee

Hats off to you for this excellent post. It too disheartens me that STILL so many people (e.g. here in Australia) seem to not be taking COVID-19 100% seriously, either because they think it doesn't affect them or because their country hasn't yet reached Italy-level meltdown. The uncomfortable truth is that it's only going to get much worse for everyone.

So articles like this are invaluable, as we're all going to be working from home for a very, very long time...

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks Jordan Lee πŸ™πŸ½

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Eric Ahnell

Already working remotely and have a system in place. A lot of these things actually happen fully or semi-automatically for me already - one of the benefits of being on the autism spectrum I hadn't considered. However... Item 4 does NOT come to me naturally. No better time than now to practice I suppose!

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Utkarsh Talwar

Good idea, Eric. Let's all be there for each other. 😊

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Sarthak Sharma

But 4th is also the most important one here.

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Shauna Gordon

It is, but it's also one of the misalignments between Autistics and Neurotypicals. Reaching out, especially in the ways Neurotypicals value and appreciate, very often doesn't come naturally to Autistics, and may in fact be harmful to some of us.

The distance of remote and the inherent accessibility of text-chat-as-default can (and likely will) help a great many Autistics and Neurotypicals bridge that gap.

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Eric Ahnell

To everyone BUT me, it is, which makes it even HARDER for me to deal with. I've been trying to reach out via text chat to my coworkers.

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Martin Garcia

Very good post. I couldn't agree more with it. And I saw you recommend something I didn't see on other posts: πŸͺ” Aromatics. In my case, I have a different one for the working area than the rest of the home, so it helps me to separate ambients.

I'll add one more thing to your list, on the communication part I'll add: don't be afraid to use emojis, a lot of emojis. Written messages sometimes can feel rude although the intention isn't, adding emojis helps to express emotions together with the message that makes them more friendly.

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Jeremy Smith

In regards to reproducing that coffee shop atmosphere at home... there is this:
coffitivity.com/

I've found it useful to just have that murmur going on in the background. Sometimes I play my own music over it.

Figured I'd share.

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Giacomo Alonzi

Great article Sarthak, I'm locked down since 23rd of February in the north of Italy. I started to do a lot of things eg. this open project covidlive.it, studying typescript in a deeper way, cooking πŸ™ƒ

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Alishan

Our government has implemented a lock down from tody. And today I was working from home on a web form and along with that I was having a breakfast 😦.
And some water fell on my laptop 😣.
Now I have turned it off took off the battery and trying and waiting for it to dry.

So all the remote workers should keep all liquids away from their desk.

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Mohammad Quanit

very well written, will do follow this article for sure, infact i bookmarked it

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks Mohammad 😊

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LyAVALE95 • Edited

Our job are making us work during the beginning of the phase 2 in our country (MX).
Now I'm in my place, but I'm a little bit scared. I had asma during my entire childhood, so, If I catch that virus that'll be the end.
I'm considering to leave my current job and find another one. They just don't care about it

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tonnoz

Hello, nice article!

I made a video about how I am facing the quarantine as a tech. Link to Youtube: IMAGE ALT TEXT

We have a lot of overlapping topics!

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Sunmi

good posting

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks

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Petros Demetrakopoulos

I actually believe that COVID-19 is a real opportunity for our community. So here are a few things (many are obvious) we can do to make the days we will pass much more time in our homes count and offer more to our community.

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Sarthak Sharma

Exactly !!

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks for sharing !!

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Rifai Martin

Good time to gain laern new skills