I just got a text from my boss asking for volunteers (paid) to pre-screen patients...

[Laffy Kat]

...walking into our urgent care clinics tomorrow. They will all be patients without appointments, so they won't be telephone screened. It sounds like management is expecting (preparing?) for an influx. All the urgent care clinics are far away from my home clinic, so I won't be volunteering. I'll just stick to my regular shift and location, which will be crazy enough on a regular Monday.

[sheshe2]

1. Stay safe.

[Laffy Kat]

6. You stay safe, too sheshe2!

[BigDemVoter]

2. I work in San Francisco.

I do not look forward to going to work tomorrow. I work in a city hospital.

[Laffy Kat]

4. I understand. You stay safe, too, as best you can.

The HMO where I work won't give PPE to the frontline patient registration staff, just the physicians and nurses. We were told it was due to the shortage, but one manager told me it's actually the "optics" of having the members see us in masks as soon as they walk in. Truthfully, it's probably both.

[pecosbob]

3. I work in retail...fully half of those approaching my register are wheezing and coughing.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Oh, it's terrible right now.

We are experiencing the second wave of the flu, which I think is worst than the first. There are also other cold viruses out there; plus, since we've had some warm weather, we're seeing a lot of allergy sufferers, too.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I worked in retail (Visual Display) for many years

then went back to college and got a second degree in teaching. I went from bad to worse as far as passing germs onto others in a work environment is concerned.

[pecosbob]

8. I try to keep a distance from everyone as best I can

I'm wearing nitrile gloves at the recommendation of the Southern Nevada Health District and using an ammonia-based food service sanitizer that is specifically listed as effective against Coronavirus (ATCC VR-740, Strain 229E). Of course this is only useful on hard, non-porous surfaces.