CoronaVirus

Spooler · 04-20-2020, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

Look at it this way. Mother nature doing some house cleaning. Darwinism at work. Thinning out the heard. Don't care on what side the fence you sit on politically. This virus is taking lives. How many, who knows. Won't find out for at least 2 years after most of the studies are done. We really don't know if this virus is any worse then other ones. It's to early to tell. Do know that some ARE trying to taken advantage of this.

I can see why people are up in arms over the lock down. In my county. We have 66 cases, and 3 deaths. Only a handful of business are open. People are laid off and are about to lose they homes. I be up set too. If you never been close to losing you home. STFU! My neighbor to the right of me. School teacher, wife is a nurse. Neither have worked since this started. Plus they have 3 girls in college. Neighbor to the left. Works in the steel mill. Working 3 days a week now. Wife's hours cut back to 18 hrs a week. 2 kids in college. The boy broke his collar bone Saturday. There people are fvcking worried if they will have a home in June.

This is what I worry so much about. Lives are being ruined by financial demise. It's time to go back to work and let the cards fall where they may. People are going to die but the other result is way way worse.

redondoaveb · 04-20-2020, 09:33 PM

What I think is amazing is that there are around 3 million grocery store workers and only 40 deaths and 1500 infected. I would have thought they would have been the hardest hit with their exposure to the general public.

Rusty · 04-20-2020, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Spooler

This is what I worry so much about. Lives are being ruined by financial demise. It's time to go back to work and let the cards fall where they may. People are going to die but the other result is way way worse.

I agree.

Before anyone else chims in. If you ain't losing your house or close to it. SHFU! You have no clue. People WANT to go back to work. LET them. Barrel of oil hit 1 cent for a barrel of West Texas crude today. Do any of you know how people just lost their jobs over that? It's going to take years, if not decades to get back where we was.

cossie1600 · 04-20-2020, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

I agree.

Before anyone else chims in. If you ain't losing your house or close to it. SHFU! You have no clue. People WANT to go back to work. LET them. Barrel of oil hit 1 cent for a barrel of West Texas crude today. Do any of you know how people just lost their jobs over that? It's going to take years, if not decades to get back where we was.

You cant say that without explaining what would happen after 5% of the population get sick. Restaurants will Slowly close down, factories will close. You get a month worth of extra pay and then you have to shut down? You could argue we can do it like Taiwan and Korea where people work with gloves and masks, except China took all the supplies and we outsourced everything.

I am supporting my laid off parents and paying my nanny, so yes I am getting dragged into it too.

I was in HR/Payroll in my previous role. If your company isn't a cash rich corporation, 5% of your workforce calling out sick will pretty much force you to close the company. Remember most insurance require the employer to pay for some days before STD kicks in. Since the virus has a Ro rate of higher than 1, the more employees you have infected, the more they spread to other employees. You are going to run out of money from just sick pays alone. God forbid they file a lawsuit against for wrongful death, you are going to be f-ed.

Spooler · 04-20-2020, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cossie1600

I am supporting my laid off parents and paying my nanny, so yes I am getting dragged into it too.

What are you going to do when you can't do that? When you get to that point, you will change your tune.

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