Now that Sonoma county is requiring a shelter in place until April 7th, how is that going to affect/impact Twit TV?
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We have plans in place to allow us to produce shows. Thanks for supporting us 
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@ant_pruitt I love that @Leo is taking care of his team and practicing best practices. I was watching IOS Today with he and Mikah earlier and I thought it was very honorable of him to be the staff person actually reporting from the office and allowing the rest of his staff to work from home. BTW I did get a glance of your home office and I love the colorās. Kinda wish we could get a home office tour of yours. 
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So @leo and some employees are at the studio? What is the definition of āshelter in place?ā
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Keep healthy and safe, team TWiT!
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I wasnāt sure how shelter in place worked myself, but evidently going to work (In some cases) is allowed.
The press release says this āEssential work may continue to maintain the basic systems of modern lifeā¦ā. I think Twit TV fits that description! 
As long as itās safe to do so of course. The health and safety of Leo and everyone at Twit is much more important then our daily fix of tech news and entertainment. Stay well. 
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Yeah, I think @Leo was saying that TWiT counts as media, which counts as essential.
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Yeah as @MacPhyle mentioned, TWiT is āessentialā since weāre media. But, we are practicing to keep everyone safe while still producing content. Pretty awesome how good the squad is in all circumstances.
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My office is a MESSš. Iāll show a lil soon.
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Itās a bit eerie right now at TWiT.
The idea of āshelter in placeā is to contain the virus spread by separating people as much as possible. As media, weāre considered an essential operation, but to protect myself and everyone else, Iām strongly encouraging everyone to work from home or take time off, but some staff feels they have to come in to do their job. Weāre letting them as long as they sanitize and maintain social distance.
All the hosts, except me, are working from home.
I can work safely in my office studio because Iām the only person allowed in there - I keep it locked at all times. I wear a mask coming and going from the studio to minimize contact with the skeleton staff in the office.
One TD at a time works the Tricaster - thereās no way to do that remotely unfortunately. When thereās a shift change the engineer leaving sanitizes the work area and the new engineer sanitizes before beginning. The handoff is conducted at distance.
One studio engineer at a time is in the building. Theyāre necessary to keep everything running.
A few other office staff come in for one reason or another but most everyone, including editors, is working at home. There are at most five people in the office at any given time. Weāre requiring anyone in the office to maintain social distance. No one is working in the same space as anyone else. All meetings are conducted over Zoom or Hangouts.
I think weāre doing a good job of maintaining social distancing while getting the job done. There were a few hiccups at first: three engineers were scheduled at once yesterday. I sent two home. Our two ad sales guys, Max and Dano, were both working together in the same office today. We separated them. A few staffers canāt seem to bring themselves to stay home. I scold them.
Itās harder than you think to do this - many of us feel isolated. Others still minimize the risk. And itās just beginning. But I seriously donāt want anyone to get sick on my watch, so Iām being a big meanie about it.
The longer term impact is hard to predict. We can already feel the economy shutting down. A number of advertisers are pulling out. Lisa is very concerned about finances. Like every small business in the country weāre doing everything we can to stay afloat, but itās challenging, and I expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Stay safe, friends. Weāre all in this together. 
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Youāll notice the mess didnāt stop me 
Donāt be shy now LOL
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Itās a dream job for sure when youād rather be at work than at home!
I really hope the getting better happens soon. If only everyone would be as diligent as TWiT staffers with distancing, maybe this virus could get eliminated within the U.S. in just 2 or 3 weeksā¦? If Iām understanding all this.
A friend of mine is still going about her routine, tomorrow taking her weekly trip to the next town over to clean her exās house because he pays her for that. I know she needs the money, but she has family whoād help her out for the couple of Thursday paydays sheād miss, so I told her I wish she wouldnāt go. Itās not just about her limiting who sheās in contact withā¦ Also about how many people her ex has been in contact with. I worry. 
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I had to ask what the meaning was in the chat room.
The flaw is bad grammar as the sentence is actually saying that a covid shelter is in place.
We are already familiar with āself-quarantineā which is very clear in meaning.
Like it says at the beginning of Hawkwind - Sonic Attack āStay in your homesā
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Well heck, if Iād known there was Going to an English test, I would have invested in Grammerly!
Unfortunately, I canāt edit the title, fortunately most everyone understands what I mean.
D@mmit Iām an artist, not a grammarian! (Best McCoy impression) 
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I think the classic example to demonstrate is the question,
Is it a man eating lion, or a man eating lion ?
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Same everywhere @MacPhyle. We have a good friend and neighbour who decided last week to travel to northern France/Italy for a holiday. He seemed completely unaware of what was going on, and was evacuated back to the UK on Monday when they shut the ski resorts just before they locked-down the country (France).
He announced to everyone when he arrived home that he is just as likely to catch it here, is not in the risk group, so wouldnāt be following the advice to isolate for a period and has been going about his business as usual.
My family are under strict distancing rules anyway due to us being high-risk. But people just donāt seem to get it. Itās the vulnerable people you infect weāre concerned about, not just you.
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Isnāt that also a result of the UK government following a herd immunity strategy? Most other nations appear to go more cautious routes.
Maybe more correct to say it was the mediaās interpretation (spin?) of Sir Patrick Vallanceās comments on herd immunity in one of the early PM briefings.
Iāve watched all the briefings, and Iāve never thought herd immunity was a primary objective. More a useful by-product if we were able to throttle the infection rate whilst protecting the vulnerable.
Yet all the headlines the next day was about Borisā intention to infect the nation.
Here you go:
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Thank you sir. Enjoyed the tour. 
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