Here’s a company that decided safety measures were too costly and apparently meant for other people.
Employers won’t take care of their employees unless they are called on it.
Until a system is in place that ensures everyone is provided proper PPE and sanitation measures, the ability to social distance at work, sick leave and medical care, and no threat of retribution for reporting noncompliance, we can’t expect people to willing go into places that are basically Petri dishes under normal circumstances.
And it’s great and wonderful if you and yours do what is right, but you will eventually be impacted by those that don’t.
The employees in the article were expected to show up without protection even though people at the plant were sick.
No show=quitting=no unemployment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877
There is going to need to be a new normal and we are going to have to give up the illusion of going back to business as usual. Sacrifices are going to be needed, comforts, entertainment, celebrations, other things we took for granted are all going to change. But IMHO, we should not be sacrificing the lives of those we collectively seem to deem disposable because our 401Ks are not doing so great or because our kids don’t get to attend their graduation ceremony. Sorry grandma, Bobby has been waiting his whole entire life for this 3 hour ceremony, but you’ve lived a long life, you get it.
I have seen people ready to throw away the last month of shelter in place because their kids are missing prom.
And on a side note, anyone been reading up on all the fun organ damage some of the people that have recovered are going to be saddled with for the rest of their lives?