While I appreciate how difficult dealing with this situation is, the government have been frustratingly inconsistent at times:
People who are not in essential services should stay at home.
Let's cut public transport to encourage people to stay at home.
Only essential workers who can't work from home should use public transport.
Wait a minute - why are people still packing out the tubes? They should be running a full service to prevent this from happening.
People who can't work from home and are not essential workers can still go to work if their office can practice social distancing.
WTF?!
I am a field technician involved in customer facing services. We have been given the green light by Department of Homeland Security (fwiw) to provide communication services as essential. I suppose there is some additional risk involved but an $8 per hour pay bump above my hourly for a few pay periods convinced me. Just follow CDC guidelines and minimize your social contacts and you should be fine. But sadly, no live concerts or large gatherings until further notice! Carry on.
Common sense???...….
..showing respect and consideration for others, what our actions ultimately will mean for other people (and animals), and always showing this basic decency, it's not difficult!...just like we always should, including like we should have for many years before this virus reared it's ugly head.
It always seems to take something catastrophic to make people sit up and look at their actions and how they do and how they should behave..at least until things get back to some kind of 'normal'.
We’ve been staying in since 9 March.
Granted, I got sick that afternoon. Was down with chills, fever, uncontrolled coughing & joint pain for about four days. My wife came down with it a couple days later. Knew it wouldn’t do anyone any good for us to go out.
The only time I’ve been anywhere was to get groceries last week. And I tried to make that as short as possible.
Kansas City has issued a “shelter in place” order. Stay home. The State of Missouri has done no such thing, but then no one expected any more from the idiots controlling State legislature.
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They are obviously packing the tubes because there are people who are NOT staying at home. You should not be going out to work unless your work is ‘essential’ - it isn’t a difficult concept to grasp. Social isolation is to be used in workplaces that ARE essential, otherwise STAY AT HOME!!! If your job isn’t essential, then there is no reason why people should be going to work and potentially murdering thousands of people because of their stupidity!