asg70 wrote:sparky wrote:.
medical orderly paid 37 thousand bucks a year ! ...to risk their life
Why stop there? How about grocery store staff?
And to be fair, (educated) medical staff should know (but maybe not the folks who throw out the medical waste) that part of their job will entail them being at a certain level of risk to infectious disease over the course of their lives -- to the extent they work near patients. (Those doing pure research, possibly not so much, depending on what they're doing).
Someone like a grocery store (or ANY) check-out person, well, even if decently educated, probably only "signed up" for more risk of getting colds and flu when they decided on doing that kind of work.
From what I can tell, the better companies are at least TRYING to make things safer overall. Last time I went to Kroger, everyone waits 30 seconds to get in. This temporal spacing helps avoid a huge in-store population. One door is only in, and another door on the other side of the store is only out -- so reducing cross-traffic spread. When checking out, I saw they'd installed a nice big, sturdy plastic shield which shields the cashier from getting breathed on by the customers. (And vice versa, since thus far, almost NO one is wearing masks in such places, despite the advice. I was concerned by simple pullover face mask might be frowned on as I don't sew, but hell, I was only one of about maybe 10% of customers and ZERO% of employees wearing ANY kind of mask, from what I saw).
So hopefully, over time, re such precautions, employees aside from front line doctors, nurses, EMT's, etc. will be taking less risk by interacting with the public on their job environment.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.