On 2020-03-23 9:41 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful. > > More please :) Greetings from viral Cascadia.
Vancouver is in two levels of State of Emergency. BC has declared one, and the city has also declared one. We just need Canada to declare one to get to level three. We have Canada's most deprived district here, the Downtown East Side, with US-style tent cities and street sleeping. These are not people who are able to "stay at home". We also have people who, whether due to idiot libertarianism, economic or theological delusions of invulnerability, or just not being online enough, are going ahead with gatherings of all kinds. These are not people who are willing to "stay at home". I hope the city gets its act together to help and hinder these groups respectively. And I hope that the cultural politics around wearing masks here evaporate. Seryna and I both work at home anyway so it hasn't been too much of a transition for us. We've dusted off the Wii to get some exercise indoors. Rock Band is hilariously mid-2000s. I recommend joining in with live hangouts/podcasts/zooms/whatever for "outside" social contact. And just video call people to check in. Everyone seems to be playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch but if that's not your thing dust off your Second Life account or try to remember your LambdaMOO password. I'm continuing to work on projects that started long before the current moment and have no plans to immediately change this. Art isn't journalism. But I am enjoying other people's musical reactions to the crisis. If anyone is new to working remotely here's a guide I sent in the last round of Links that I recommend (I worked remotely for CC for 3 years, they are very good at it) - https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/13/advice-on-working-from-home/ - Rob.
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