I think going anywhere in Europe would be kinda similar bad at the moment. I think if most people take responsibility to stay home the moment they get even the tiniest symptom (temperature, dry cough etc) and wear a facemask during close interactions, that would probably keep the spread manageable, but it's not really clear yet which communities will be the ones where a critical mass of people do those things. I'm not sure we can easily predict it, but i do think countries with decent sick leave policies (like Germany) might do better than ones where people feel forced into work.
Germany is doing quite well atm with a slow and controlled re-opening, masks obligatory in shops and any other public places. There are a few crowds of conspirationists here and there banding together with the neonazis, but until now it seems manageable.
This: do "meeting after the meeting" in Chinese so the Chinese team know what the European team was talking about in English. INFURIATES me. We do this all the time and it offends my deeply held sense about the point of meetings. Either this is important enough that you need all these people, in which case we slow down and invest in translation infrastructure so that everyone can participate and understand, or you don't need all those people and they can just get an email. But making them (and in my work, it's almost always me) sit in a meeting where they can't understand the byplay for 'face time' reasons is asinine.
I know, right!!! It's such a waste of everyone's time. I can understand that sometimes people get carried away and forget that they need to slow down for others on the meeting who aren't following, but when this happens over and over again the leadership really should be working on a better solution.
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Ugh.
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