by Wayne23 » Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:47 pm
4/3: #5 Oklahoma wins the national title.
4/4: Awards: Tafa Akpo made PAC-12 1st team. Flip Hart made the 2nd team.
Once again, will I move? It would take an exceptional offer.
The flu is decimating the ship, and it has gotten a lot stronger.
Nothing approaching a good offer.
We're losing no one and bringing in 2 very good looking recruits.
4/23: I ask for $.
We get $11,000. It definitely will help.
The flu is overwhelming our limited medical staff. The Captain has all medical personnel on 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week and she has called for anyone with any medical training to assist the staff. People are dying in large numbers. An estimated 400 people have died. That's a significant portion of the crew.
We're back on 12 hour shifts for the entire crew since everyone with any medical training of any kind is now working with the med crew. That means the rest of us need to do their jobs, as well as the jobs of the ill and of those who have died. This is a very difficult time.
4/25: It's still getting worse. We're in an emergency situation and only the absolutely essential work is being done. About 600 dead, 3/4 of the living crew are ill.
4/27: The Council met this evening.
"Captain, is it time to go to robotics as a solution?"
"I was just about to bring that up. The Council needs to decide how much, if any, of our energy needs to be devoted to 3D printing large numbers of robots to do the work we can't do. We've always had the capability to print robots with specific talents. What are your thoughts? Adam"
"I don't think we have a choice. We're barely managing to do all the things we absolutely have to do to keep the ship running. I'm not sure how much longer we can manage even that, especially since the flu doesn't seem to have peaked yet."
"Lainie?"
"I agree. We don't have a choice."
A small minority worried about reliance on robots, or a robot take over, or other such things, but the vote was 10-2 in favor. And the geeks are on it.
4/30: We have 850 dead, nearly everyone else ill, and robots doing most of the work, especially the routine maintenance, care of crops, water and sewer management...
The robots are preparing and serving the meals and cleaning up the kitchen since that is a likely area of high chance for spreading the flu virus. People who are not in the hospital/infirmary are restricted to quarters except for the bridge crew. Meals are delivered to crew quarters. Hopefully this will stop the flu, or at the very least slow it down.
On a personal note, Lacy got the flu but it was very early on and it was a mild case. June and I have escaped it, at least so far.