Matt Smillie
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Cross of kewpie doll & rugby player. Less ornery Mark Ruffalo. Straight Capote. Founder, Little’s Law Appreciation Society. Not my fault if Slack is down.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined December 2008
RT @jpaulreed: Certain roles tend to just fall into playing canaries in your organizational coal mine (often unexpectedly. sometimes unwi….
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RT @TRyanGregory: Everyone has access to information about COVID evolution and ongoing impacts of the pandemic. It is not necessary to wait….
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If someone told you, on July 8 2020, months before clinical trial results, that the next two months would be the *safest time* for two more years, would you have believed them?.
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RT @a_longhurst: Hello @GovCanHealth, where is vax for our littlest ones? We’re heading into the worst wave — BA5. No pop immunity, no four….
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Update #3 from @Rogers, they will contact you to reschedule service appointments 🤣. Only on Twitter, too, not the forum thread 😵 linked from on their own site.
Dear Valued Customers - due to the network outage, if you have a previously scheduled service appointment booked with Rogers, we will contact you to reschedule as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding as we resolve this issue.
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I just realized that Rogers has 10M wireless subscribers, which was approx the number of simultaneous users of Slack for outages where I was the first responding engineer 💅. (Also, separately, outages I personally caused 🫣😐😶🌫️🫥). Our comms were way better.
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Here is update #2, 11 hours into a complete outage.
On behalf of all of us at Rogers, we sincerely apologize to our customers, and we will continue to keep you updated as we have more information to share, including when we expect service to be back up.
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This is one of those times where “presented without comment” feels extra passive aggressive.
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For all my incident response friends, a case study. - outage is nationwide (as far as I can discern).- total outage, no phone service at all.- this was the first public comms.- posted 8 hours into the incident (measuring from when I first noticed no service on my phone).
We know how important it is for our customers to stay connected. We are aware of issues currently affecting our networks and our teams are fully engaged to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We will continue to keep you updated as we have more information to share.
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What sociopath approves a “get vaccinated” ad in a province where despite the advice of all federal authorities, WHO recommendations, the looming wave of the most contagious variant yet…. You can’t actually *get vaccinated*?.
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It’s been 5 months and a week since my last booster, and after weeks of warning, BA.4/5 is ramping up locally, and can I get a booster?. Fuck no. And it’s not just a six-month eligibility schedule now, it’s wait until “the fall,” so between 8-11 months since my third shot.
Boosters are the most effective way to restore your immunity and help prevent serious illness.
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These R values are in highly-vaccinated populations like Australia. And R has a *very* intuitive meaning: a person with COVID BA.4 will transmit it to 18.6 people, averaged.
So just for context . Wuhan strain 👉🏼 R0 of 3.3.Delta strain 👉🏼R0 of 5.1.Omicron BA.1 👉🏼R0 of 9.5.BA.2 👉🏼 R0 of approx 13.3.BA.4/5 👉🏼R0 of 18.6. We still don’t know for sure what it is for BA.2.75. The game has changed, make wise decisions and #WearAMask.
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