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kentuck

(111,079 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:12 AM Apr 2020

If they decide to send workers back to work?

They should start at the bottom and work up, in my opinion.

They should start with the smallest employers, from 1 to 20 employees. This small number could be instantly tested. They could have strict rules for working and associating with the public. This seems like a logical point to begin, in my opinion.

Larger employers could draw up plans on how they could bring their employees back, with the required testing and distancing.

In the interim, all these employees would be eligible to receive their unemployment insurance. Until there was a safe plan for them to return, they should follow present procedures.

Almost everyone believes that people have to return to work at some time. What must be prevented is a second wave, which can prove much more deadly than the first.

Just my opinion.

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secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. Isn't a second wave expected in the Fall...
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:16 AM
Apr 2020

and the vaccine isn’t expected until sometime next year?

kentuck

(111,079 posts)
2. In the last pandemic, in 1918, they had a second wave...
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:31 AM
Apr 2020

...that resulted in more casualties than the first wave.

But, the extenuating circumstances were that the troops were returning from the war and there were many huge victory parades for them. This was believed by many to have created the "second wave".

History seems to have taught us a lesson, if we pay heed?

OnDoutside

(19,953 posts)
3. Yes there WILL be a second wave in the Fall, and that's why the testing needs to ramp up massively.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:37 AM
Apr 2020

Not just testing for those who are showing symptoms, but testing the general population for the asymptomatic, as well as those who've had it historically had it without realising. The same advice from January of Test, Test, Test is even more vital now, but i don't see any serious attention being paid to that.

tirebiter

(2,536 posts)
4. Janitors will go in a day or two before
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:41 AM
Apr 2020

Who else knows the mdss filledx T'd also wonder who would put out all the cleaning agents but that depends on budget now, doesn't it?

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