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Trials
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Is that anything like a hardware store?
Todays "Looking at the bright side" stats.
The "Best case scenario" outlook generated in mid March for today, April 16'th, was 1150 people in ICU's.
Todays actual stats, 807 people are hospitalized, 248 are in the ICU and 200 of those are on ventilators.
The "Best case scenario" outlook generated in mid March for today, April 16'th, was 1150 people in ICU's.
Todays actual stats, 807 people are hospitalized, 248 are in the ICU and 200 of those are on ventilators.
O.k. Now look at the dark side.
Very few people are being transferred from ltc to icu, they are just dying at the ltc homes
. Now, that may be the best approach as their prognosis isnt much better in the ICU and there are some downsides to the transfer.
Do share.
I'm presuming you mean infection numbers.
That's gone from a doubling rate of 3 days in early march to 10 days as of yesterday.
Still positive...even though they're increasing. Reality is...that's going to continue for some time.
Mad Mike
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I don't think this is unusual -- but it's certainly not the average. If you decide to start a career flipping burgers, you could end up doing the same in 20 years later -- or you could learn and build a decent career. That works for retail, banking, and the civil services.
To make a decent living, education is not the most critical factor. Behaviour is. Education opens doors and sets some up for a lucrative career, but it really just opens doors -- once you start going, behaviour and performance takes over -- I rarely see a degree make a difference when two peers are competing for a promotion.
Trials
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Watch to the south over the next few weeks.
That depends a lot on the boss. I know some bosses draw a hard line and those without a degree cannot ascend above that line. I think that is a bad approach but that's the way it works some places. For some bosses, that line is drawn around their organization. No degree means you can never start working there to show what you can do.
This.
If you don't have a degree, you never see the inside of an office that only hires degreed professionals, so you don't know what you don't know.
I'm sure there are some high school or college grads who make more money than university grads.
But as a general rule, if you have a university degree, you are out-earning high school or college grads.
Digging yourself out of debt while paying back the school loans... now *THAT'S* an entirely different matter. And that might put the income/debt payback trajectory in the college grad's favour.
BigEvilDoer
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Can’t... resist....
And yet you still dumped it over a pine cone...
*ACK*
Note: This is purely in jest and intended as a light hearted Covid moment...
Lots of large companies--multi billion dollar--(but not all) will have degree requirements either to get in the door or to go past x level, they are blanket HR policies that almost never get lifted. Some even Masters above a certain level.
Not all are like this, but a surprising number are.
Not all are like this, but a surprising number are.
Ugh tell me about it. I work for a large consulting firm and have been told repeatedly I’ll need my PENG and PMP to move much further up.
Be thankful. I know of at least one large "engineering" company that discourages staff from getting their P.Eng. They have a couple P.Eng stampers that review and stamp. Terrible system. I'm not sure of the logic, maybe to save money, maybe to keep the employees less mobile.
Weird. Depends on the firm I guess. They outsource us for projects so the more letters I have behind my name the higher the rate they whore me out at.
Don’t mean we have to let them in. Let’s see how our govt deals with this one.
Trudeau has to put on his best "Angela Merkel" and be really tough about this.Be a world class leader ffs.
"Them in" isn't the problem should we choose to not open our side.
It's "our own back in" that's the issue....unless we prevent exits as well. Which, at least in the short term until they get their **** together down there, should happen.
Or...if people insist, a qualification that should you choose to exit Canada right now, when you return home you get sent directly to a supervised locked down mandatory isolation facility on your own dime for 14 days until you're proven symptom free.
I know some people don't believe social distancing helps in keeping COVID-19 contained. This chart to me seems to indicate otherwise:
Spike in US cases the week after Easter weekend when a lot of Americans traveled all over the country to visit family.
Spike in US cases the week after Easter weekend when a lot of Americans traveled all over the country to visit family.
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