I know. I don’t enjoy the loss of control. OTOH we can’t have 330 million people each deciding on their own pace what the response should be. These are emergency powers.
I am alarmed at the rapid rise in cases we are seeing in NYC first case March 1st now 3615, the caseload doubled 12 times in 18 days. First death March 14th now 22 deaths 5 days later.
When you are in the middle of something doubling that quickly there is no guarantee where it will end up. Comparisons with the flu may be reassuring but there is no guarantee that they will hold in terms of mortality and long term effects.
I don’t actually agree with our prior pandemic responses. If the CDC had not been so cavalier and had been more results oriented we might not have had 10-50K people dying yearly. What if it was standard process for companies to require daily temperature checks in flu season and sick leave pay was mandated in flu season for documented fever? The same thing could be done at schools to quickly isolate infected people.
Like this isolation it would be a PITA but if the Country agree that sick time would be required & would be covered paid covered for a documented sick person or the parent of one we could save many lives.
covered paid covered for a documented ...that got garbled.
My point was sick leave would be mandated for a documented elevated temperature in flu season and would be paid sick time, not counted against sick time otherwise given by the company. That last point is because the isolation of the sick is in the Country’s interest and if people are penalized they will apply an ice pack or wash their foreheads not to stay home. Maybe the above would phase in if a community had a certain # of cases. That’s the CDC’s job but they haven’t been doing it.