LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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Great so I can go back to licking doorknobs and going on cruises to Italy. Just kidding.
I like that universities are sending students home to prevent the spread but hotels and airlines are aggressively pushing to get young people to fly and go on vacation with super cheap incentives. Kinda see a contradiction.
3 TSA Officers Test Positive For Coronavirus At Mineta San Jose Int’l Airport
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-tsa-officers-mineta-san-jose-international-airport/
3 Cases in New Mexico today. The state made it to final 11. I bet Alaska will be last.
It is simply going to spread now. I like that we just stoped travel from Europe, that will sure help considering that the cow is out of the barn so to speak. Cases are starting show up in Santa Fe, not long now before it is in Los Alamos. So buckle up this train has left the station.
You have to be kidding, people are stealing toilet paper at the labs now? Please how much could that cost.
3/12/2020 1:26 PM
Its just the flu bro!
Sorry but did you really think China just shut down their entire economy and lock down everybody because it is just the flu?
There is some evidence and debate that there are actually two strains L and S and one has the 1% rate and other 3.5-5%. You wanna take a chance with 5% death rate for 1/2 or 2/3 of the population? It is the 4.5% that has some people really worried.
3/12/2020 6:49 PM
The sample is strongly biased to those that present SIGNIFICANT symptoms. I'm not sure we can say, at this point, that it is anymore deadly than the annual flu. Time will tell. If you do not understand, when was the last time you had the flu and when was the last time you were swabbed and received a lab result for flu?
The 2019 flu death rate for those who are hospitalized and over 65 years of age is greater than 8%. The death rate for those that require medical "visits" is 1.5% (2019 estimates provided by the CDC). These two categories are the best representation of the current bias in the sample and I would stipulate the current coronavirus sample is highly biased toward the higher rate at this point.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html#:~:text=
Those who are vulnerable should be protected but fear is a powerful thing. Knowledge is the only defense or you can just go buy a bunch of toilet paper....
3% or 5%
Based on the current bias, I would wager significantly less than 1% mortality after the dust settles. Again, vulnerable demographics need to be protected.
Really? You're stuck in 1991, before the Soviet Union dissolved? How sad for you.
I guess all those "old" people should just kill themselves, or e euthanized, right? WHy try to keep them alive if they are no one you care about?