Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

TenderLovingKiller® said:
Well there goes my weekend plans.
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Plans back on? 😆

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My office here in Canada is gearing up to head back to work (although I will be in earlier this week to prep some new areas that require new IT access). Our head office is in a "red state" down in the US and they had one question as to why we are not already in the office (they are already back in their offices):

"Is it illegal to go to work in Canada?"

...and that was it...we have been instructed to go back in. :(
 
nolalady said:
When I went to the grocery last week, only about 30% of people were wearing masks.
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I went to the grocery story this weekend in a very blue section of town in a very blue city. Most people were wearing masks (I was) but physical distancing appeared to be happening a lot less than when fewer people were wearing masks. Perhaps a false sense of security? This is purely anecdotal, of course. People were not respecting the one-way aisles - marked by both hanging signs and signs on the floor - and would walk inches away from you.

At some point, this sort of thing is going to get physical. People are wound pretty tightly at the moment. People should respect each other in grocery stores... but in my neck of the woods, it isn't happening.
 
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High Rant District said:
I went to the grocery story this weekend in a very blue section of town in a very blue city. Most people were wearing masks (I was) but physical distancing appeared to be happening a lot less than when fewer people were wearing mask. Perhaps a false sense of security? This is purely anecdotal, of course. People were not respecting the one-way aisles - marked by both hanging signs and signs on the floor - and would walk inches away from you.

At some point, this sort of thing is going to get physical. People are wound pretty tightly at the moment. People should respect each other in grocery stores... but in my neck of the woods, it isn't happening.
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If everyone would just have a drink and relax a bit the world would be a much better place. Also, if people would THEN start to value life in general that would be great.
 
High Rant District said:
I went to the grocery story this weekend in a very blue section of town in a very blue city. Most people were wearing masks (I was) but physical distancing appeared to be happening a lit less than when fewer people were wearing mask. This is purely anecdotal, of course. People were not respecting the one-way aisles - marked by both hanging signs and signs on the floor - and would walk inches away from you.

At some point, this sort of thing is going to get physical. People are wound pretty tightly at the moment. People should respect each other in grocery stores... but in my neck of the woods, it isn't happening.
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Yep, physical distancing isn't happening. The governor told restaurants that they cannot serve people outside at tables, but that people can eat outside at tables if they ordered takeout. Well, this is Louisiana, and the weather right now is spectacular. So come Saturday, everyone and their mom is outside of restaurants eating and socializing--no distancing and people are saying hi to friends, etc.

We're going to see another wave, but I don't anticipate it being bad until the weather cools off. I'm still going to wear my mask out, probably until 2021.
 
nolalady said:
Y'all have been busy this weekend.

Nothing new here. We're waiting to see if the governor will start with phase I of our open up the state plan. When I went to the grocery last week, only about 30% of people were wearing masks.
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ugh same. A lot of people have seemed to think things are cool on this side of the state.

Yesterday I saw an older gentleman without a mask go into a gas station to buy lottery tickets and I thought you have more of a chance getting covid than winning the big prize. cool cool cool.
 
Smansmith said:
My office here in Canada is gearing up to head back to work (although I will be in earlier this week to prep some new areas that require new IT access). Our head office is in a "red state" down in the US and they had one question as to why we are not already in the office (they are already back in their offices):

"Is it illegal to go to work in Canada?"

...and that was it...we have been instructed to go back in. :(
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That sucks.

One thing I have noticed around Boston is pretty much every office that has its head quarters in Boston, or their head quarters in NYC or California and offices in Boston are in no hurry to open back up. They are going to extend working from home well past state mandates and bring people back into the office in phases.

Then you have the offices who have corporate headquarters in Red States or are owned by a holding group / investment firm that manages senior leadership. These businesses are very much going to have their employees return to the Boston office soon and as fast as legally possible. It was made clear before the stay at home order that senior leadership does not believe working from home is acceptable. That WFH is just a vacation day for their employees.

I know someone in Boston who's leadership at the Boston office wanted to work from home earlier than the stay at home order. Back when things were getting bad and many other offices had started to work from home. However, senior leadership said no. Working from home is not acceptable and to continue business as usually. They wouldn't even let them plan or start preparation for potentially working from home. So when the state order hit 3 weeks later, they were caught totally unprepared. They had a lot of IT issues to figure out such as setting up VPNs, rolling it out to employees. Buying software like Zoom and so on. It took them a week to be able to set everything up so people could actually work from home and have access to systems.

All that could have been figured out earlier, but wasn't because senior leadership refuse to budge on their stance.


The conservative mindset is working form home is not acceptable. It's just a vacation day for employees and no work will be done. Even now after employees have done much more work than usually and proving that they can work from home doesn't change senior leaderships mindset. They remain blind that to the fact that work is getting done and still hold the assumption that employees would just goof off if they are allowed to work from home.

It's also like they are managing their employees like they are resources and not people.
 
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nolalady said:
Yep, physical distancing isn't happening. The governor told restaurants that they cannot serve people outside at tables, but that people can eat outside at tables if they ordered takeout. Well, this is Louisiana, and the weather right now is spectacular. So come Saturday, everyone and their mom is outside of restaurants eating and socializing--no distancing and people are saying hi to friends, etc.

We're going to see another wave, but I don't anticipate it being bad until the weather cools off. I'm still going to wear my mask out, probably until 2021.
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There was also a bunch of this happening across the country yesterday :cry:

 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
100% this. Lots of internet whining.
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Saw a news report this morning that said there is a growing trend of violence over masks across our country. People are angry that they are being told to wear one and people are angry at people who are wearing masks.

Authorities are saying you should never confront someone over not wearing a mask for your own safety. If someone eggs you on about wearing a mask you should not engage with them.

They are also recommending that store employees/security not intervene if someone is refusing to wear a mask, and instead call the police.
 
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