The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Should have been termed "low risk" vs. "essential".

I'm in manufacturing and will continue working. I'm in a 25,000 building with maybe 6 other guys right now. We also have full time cleaners that just started disinfecting everything all day long.

I'd imagine a construction site is similar risk, lots of space for very few people.

Plus many sites the workers are primarily outside. Not like your typical office environment.

This is really about flattening the curve and not about eliminating it. I do believe that most people will catch this at some point. But if only a few are getting it at a time, then our healthcare system survives.

I do think the messaging around this was poor, they shouldn't have called it "essential", because now it will be harder to shut more things down if this isn't sufficient (it isn't an all or nothing, there is a spectrum of levels of shutdown we can take), it will be harder to shut more down because they've already blown it on the option.

That being said, there's a lot more shut down that people think, I suspect they look at the long list and think, oh, eveything is open, but all of education, most of the retail and service industry, and all of entertainment is shut down...that's....not small.