I can tell you Ken, we’re all hunkered down here watching news from the US and the UK and it’s terrifying to watch. Can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to be trying to cope with on the ground. Stay safe lad, this one’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

Netflix and Youtube aren’t the things to worry about, and there’s a lot of capacity on the backbone networks. The main use of capacity is spam, believe it or not. The problem will be corporate VPNs being put under stress, and a huge push to ratchet up privacy-violating things like Zoom’s tracking whether or not you’re watching the window it’s showing in or if you’re reading something in a second window.
They’ll adapt – we all will – but there may be some disrupted days ahead of us first.

Well put and what we are all going through. At least you have a functioning government, we are at least 9-10 months away for it to even be possible. The best we can hope for is the Rs use the Bush-Obama model of 2008 and step aside after the elections.

If my company doesn’t shut down soon I expect to be infected as I work in a small dark box with folks that have traveled the world. It may be time to retire.

BTW, had to go pick up my meds today, the grocery was a mad house of panic buying. Luckily the pharmacy was separate from the grocery.

Take care and good luck,

ken