I haven't seen anyone I know changing anything at all. I do see a lot more worry/fear/distrust in people's eyes, but what's it matter? I mean, if you've seen the news, there won't be life after this Bologna care it's the GREAT DEPRESSION
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Not going to work when sick.
That lasts 10 minutes. If you are an engineer where I work, you can probably work from home more. If you interface with customers - job titles like Clerk, Sales Manager, Cashier, then if you don't come in, who will? The business has to be open. Probably the people with these positions won't carry a sick day balance.
My co-worker an engineer, always seems to have 0 sick time. My Sis-In-Law has like 500 days of sick time (approx 20 years accruing) - she is deemed "essential" and hates that she has to be a the hospital working during this crisis.
I've worked with broke jackasses, self-important fools, the guy afraid to lose his job and just plain selfish bass turds all my life who go to work when sick.That lasts 10 minutes. If you are an engineer where I work, you can probably work from home more. If you interface with customers - job titles like Clerk, Sales Manager, Cashier, then if you don't come in, who will? The business has to be open. Probably the people with these positions won't carry a sick day balance.
I was fortunate (and still am) that I can do my job (if I had one, which I don't now, but the layoff was not due to CV) at home - easily, and actually better.
But I always only used the mandatory (by OR state law) paid sick leave when I was actually sick. I usually had more than 40 hours accumulated. That said, I can understand how people in public facing positions can get sick more often - more exposure.
I work construction for me to not be in the dump truck costs the co. $100 an hour.
I get 2 weeks paid vacation and 1 week paid time off. I rarely work between Thanksgiving and about Easter so I just cash out my time right after the first of NOV so it doesn't effect my winter unemp check and I have some money to work on projects while I am off all winter. Done this for like 16 years., Don't think I have taken any paid time off. And that includes when I torn the Bicep muscle off my right arm. I just went on light duty and took safety classes on line and helped the mechanics and ran parts.
Yep.Seems to be a consensus among the knowledgeable that a vaccine for this corona virus is at least a year out, with an expected resurgence next winter when things go damp and cold. As far as developing a vaccine, there was never one discovered for malaria or aids... only prevention and treatment have reduced those diseases. We may be stuck with this for awhile...
I think we have just seen what the future global flu seasons will look like. No more local flu seasons. One person gets somewhere in the world.... we'll all get it. Think of all this COVID stuff as a grand social experiment.I thought it would be interesting to have you post what you think life will be like after the CoronaVirus. Will the CV come around every year? Will there be deadlier virus' in the pipeline?
Some things to think about:
Public transportation (planes, trains, buses, and subways), will people realize that these are dangerous with regards to transmitting diseases?
Schools, will there be more virtual classes offered to students?
Jobs, will more employers embrace virtual, and realize that their employees who use computers can do their work remotely?
Sports, will they televise the events so that fans don't have to be jammed in like sardines in a stadium?
Concerts, same as sports? Charge fans to watch it on TV?
How many restaurants will survive?
Will we go back to the single use plastic bags?
What do you see in the future for us?
Thanks,
Ron
probably debatable.. but the federal reserve is going to destroy the US dollar. And I look for a debt jubilee. Just wipe it all away, or inflate it away -and start over. Never ends well for the common folks.I think the biggest impacts will be to the healthcare system and to the Federal Reserve.
If you thought the number of people wanting universal health care was huge before, wait until we have 40 million people unemployed and kicked off their insurance over the next couple of weeks.
And the Federal Reserve has gone from simply providing emergency liquidity to getting the Federal Government knee deep in private equities. They are working overtime pumping TRILLIONS into the market and buying up high-risk assets they have never thought about touching before.
I'm not as smart as you are, and I have been saying that since I was 16. I'm 34 now.Hopefully the realization that China is not our friend, there are bad actors and it's high time we as a Nation bring manufacturing back home.