I started hating web dev in general after working in web dev for few years. It's the same CRUD operations over and over again with some massaging of the data. On top of that everyone wants to apply their latest and greatest idealogy (tdd, pair programming, agile) like they are trying to solve world poverty or something.
I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.
Crippling economic depression? What's the proof this is going to cause crippling economic depression. If you are so concerned about crippling economic depression, what were you doing when the stock market crashed from 17,000 down to 6 some thousand back in 08? Did you go out and protest and made sure the companies need to be held responsible and punished?
And Churchill? Seriously? This is the guy who considered Indians and Persians and other colored people less than human and who literally caused hundreds thousands of deaths in either nation, believed in racial hierarchy and social darwinism. I don't give a flying fudge what Churchill thinks of me.
That's how that works. Take for example, HIV. Nobody dies of HIV, but because HIV causes immunodeficiency, you can die because of common cold or flu. That doesn't mean the person died because of common cold, they died because of HIV/AIDS.
Similarly if you have type 1 diabetes and you get infected with corona, you probably died with diabetic complications, but without corona you would have been totally fine.
Not sure how that doesn't change your point. In fact you are conflating two different things. On one hand you are arguing about overreporting and on the other hand don't even want to take into consideration common practices in disease statistics. Almost makes me think you are not arguing in good faith.
Ok, NY counted some that they shouldn't have. There's a vast majority of the country other than NYC that is affected by the virus and vast rest of the world too. You decided to nitpick one example and made it sound like a pattern.
I am sorry, but you read like fox news propoganda. "overinflatted corona reported deaths". Really? any proof to that? Pedantic, you need to be factual and truthful.
That sort of proves my point. UK didn't even want to restrict anything. Netherlands, Italy and Spain acted too late. Sweden decides to selectively restrict. In US people are willing to sacrifice human life for economic activity and no wonder all these countries are worse off as far as fatality rate goes compared some other countries like Germany or India.
May be for healthy, but not for the people with certain underlying conditions like diabetes, high BP, obesity etc. Also even if you are not vulnerable to the disease, you could be spreading this to the others who are even without showing symptoms.
Look at Sweden. They decided to let the people at risk stay home while others go out and about their business. Didn't work out too well for them.
So you are okay with 16 out of every 1000, 30-39 year old person with a family and young kids who are otherwise healthy, die just so you could go out to eat in your favorite restaurant?
You are willing to sacrifice them for your benefit. How altruistic of you!
I don't see the link here. Yes there are 22 million laid off. But given a choice between being alive and being jobless, I think people would choose being jobless. The people protesting are not the same people lining up at food banks.
I have seen wapo video of Michigan protest. People there were angry because they want to get their hair done or buy paint and fertilizer. They want others to go to work to they can stay home.
Your claim that the ensuing poverty will cause more deaths then corona virus. Do you have anything to support this? You made a claim so the onus is on you to provide supporting data. I don't need to refute anything at this juncture.
As another guy from India who was on H1B and started a company. You can start a company but you may not work for it. You can attend the board meetings and that's the extent of your involvement. If you do anything, even clean the floors of the office you are technically breaking the law as your h1b allows you to only work for the employer that sponsored your Visa.
Problem is finding people who have enough experience and skillset that matches with that experience. One of the places I worked at, I interviewed 4 candidates, but they couldn't even explain the stuff that they wrote on their resume or answer basic technical questions, questions related to simple data structures or questions about their primary programming language.
We literally gave up on the position and after two years the position is still not filled.
There isn't dearth of candidates, just the competent ones.
I did the exact same thing. Worked for two huge multinational corps and now working for a company thats is about 12 year old and employs about 30-35 people including the founders. I love it. Mostly because the people I work with are very easy to get along with and I have freedom to propose ideas and implement them.
First time in last 10 years I haven't updated my resume after being at a job for an year.
I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.