Posted on 03/10/2020 4:53:46 PM PDT by onona
So think about the potential changes to life / education / industry due to the response in the US from CV.
Colleges just changed to allow online completion (south carolina) for the remainder of the school year.
Fedgov - got the insurance companies to waive costs for testing, and to give breaks to companies to allow workers to stay home.
Fedgov - covering test costs - diagnostics
Fedgov - payroll tax cut (holiday) impacts both workers and employers (helps for unpaid sick leave).
And so.......
these are the type of things that people should look at and say, wow, could that not be the way all the time ???
Thanks freepers !
I’ve wondered for a long time why people choose to live all bunched up in super dense locations when access to work via computer is so common now.
Well, I would rather have a degree from Georgia Southern University or the University of Northern Colorado (my two Alma Maters) than the University of Phoenix.
I was talking with my kid yesterday. He works at NASA. Everyone stayed home Friday to test whether their systems could handle everyone working remotely.
He “drives” satellites so his job would be very hard if not impossible to do remotely.
“10/29/2016”
will they ?
Their ego isn't fed via a virtual world. If they can't see the employee, command the employee to come to their office and stand before their metal desk, they lose something of their ego.
If the boneheads would think they'd empower their folks to work from home.
Driving a satellite is already very remotely done.
Is he watching Trump?
And cyclo's kid can rocket science from home........
well, there it is
Our reactions to events in the past 25 years have been overblown:
The dot-com stock market crash
The 9/11 attacks
The subprime mortgage crisis
Everything we worry about doesn’t turn out to be as bad as expected, and life in the US goes on pretty much as before. The subprime mortgage crisis was the worst, and caused a lot of people a lot of pain, but the nation as a whole managed to recover.
I predict that a year from now, we’ll be worried about something else. It is very unreasonable to expect history to stop, and no new problems to come along. We seem to be better than we think at dealing with them.
Why is the first word in your post “so”?
Ummmmm...because a major chunk of stuff which keeps you safe isn’t able to telecommute. Not everyone “chooses all bunched up” to live the easy life.
Taxes will have to be raised or grow the debt further. Also, I’ll bet the cost of a college education does not go down.
Ask the global warming crowd why they don’t just have teleconferences
My daughter decided to get a computer science degree online in addition to the one she got at a 4 year college. She’s liking the online degree so far. She just started it and has finished a few classes in a week.
Nothing changes here.
We go about life and shake our heads over the immense stupidity which goes on in the cities.
He said its feasible but security is a bigger challenge
OR....someone has to be the front line. Son-in-law works to put together vaccines. Can’t do that from home. *eye roll*. Other family members have clearances which don’t include telecommute. Geez.
Things that need to change...……..
End Diversity hiring.
End all Welfare to non Citizens of the USA.
End the Senators, and Representatives, not having to pass any kind of qualifications as to how Tax Payer Money will be spent.
End Sanctuary cities.
Deport all Illegals from the United States ASAP. No questions asked...…..just GONE!
Start checking Resume’s for accuracy, and fraud in all Government Positions Immediately!
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