baseballhs posted:TPM posted:baseballhs posted:I think by the end of this month people are going to be angry and wanting to go back to work as they start losing everything. At some point, people are going to say, if I get it, I get it...we can't stay inside forever. jmo
My friend has it, you don't want it, seriously.
No one wants it, but I also think at some point people will not be able to swallow losing everything they have worked their whole lives for. People will not be able to recover from that either. No one wanted swine flu and 50M got it, including my son. 12K died in the US, we didn't shut anything down. Going forward, I think a lot of the practices like disinfecting shopping carts, being more aware about washing hands frequently throughout the day are going to be more of the norm. This isn't going away. That said, at some point everyone is going to have to say, how much are we all willing to lose to hide from this when eventually, we have to come out.
I have one person who works with me already requesting to return to our NYC location on Tuesday upon the completion of his 2-week quarantine due to other people at my firm coming down with the virus. NYC has 50k cases and over 1,500 deaths! He is asking for financial reasons. Just so we don't say its a macho thing we have the same situation in the Atlanta office. A woman insists on coming into our office to work. In both situations, it's 100% social distancing as no one else is going in. I have been out of NYC since 2/29 and would LOVE to get back into the office. Once restrictions are lifted I will go right in but I think companies will, or should, accommodate work from home for those that don't feel safe going back out into the world after restrictions are in fact lifted. The cure really shouldn't be worse than the disease. There are no easy decisions.
I am also still counting on some of my sons HS season being played. They have all sorts of contingency plans for the length of season etc if / when CT lifts stay at home restrictions. There was a positive call on this subject yesterday but it depends on virus data over the coming 3-4 weeks.