How does Coronavirus COVID-19 alter our workflow?

Some of my friends who work at the local grocery stores are the current front-line heroes in my humble opinion. At work every day in too close contact with hundreds of people a day with known Covid-19 cases around. Not only do they have to deal with the waves of binge hoarders they have to go home at the end of every shift wondering if they've been exposed. They don't get to wear gowns and masks like the medical professionals.
-AJ
 
I showed a picture of empty grocery shelves to my dad the other day. He said, “How thin the veneer of civilization.”

Anyone involved in the food supply chain right now (growers, processors, packers, shippers, grocers) is doing God’s work as much as doctors. We are not a society that has the knowledge or ability to feed itself anymore. We’ve become so “advanced” and interdependent that we can’t do anything for ourselves.
 
My high school job, early 70’s, was bagging groceries.

$1.92 ½ per hour...yes, and a half cent...lol. I asked our union steward where that came from. He chuckled and said it was based on a percentage of the negotiated wage of the butchers

When was the last time there were ‘courtesy help’ at the grocery store? There are always helpers to pack my cart at Costco
 
I work for one of the big outfits. Looks like we’re either shutting down or going to “essential personnel” only. This is when my PHC work starts and I’m one of the few with consistent work so I’m hoping to be one of those. Also hoping they don’t lay anyone off, as big as we are they can afford it.
 
Spot on @ppsavage , seems like society’s blinders get closer each year. Wendell Barry wrote “be joyful though you’ve considered all the facts” which I find difficult to master but easy to remember.
 
moss said:
Some of my friends who work at the local grocery stores are the current front-line heroes in my humble opinion. At work every day in too close contact with hundreds of people a day with known Covid-19 cases around. Not only do they have to deal with the waves of binge hoarders they have to go home at the end of every shift wondering if they've been exposed. They don't get to wear gowns and masks like the medical professionals.
-AJ
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We live on the west side of our town - more to the west of us are newer neighbourhoods with the nouveau riche - gigantic mansions in the millions some of them. Nothing the matter with having money, but it's gone to their heads in a lot of them - I have witnessed a couple of cases of customers treating grocery store checkout staff like they were dirt. And in one case I spoke up and the b--ch left red faced. No reason for store folks to have to put up with these turds BS.

The grocery store folks ARE heros for sticking in there and should be recognized as such. Social media where are you?

My mother was a very Catholic Grey Nuns nursing supervisor who the doctors didn't dare cross (including hospital board members and department heads) and she used to say:
"In the eyes of God we're all made the same"
"How do you know this Mum?"
"Well, Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar or Judge,
They ALL have beads of sweat on their foreheads the first time after the Hemorrhoids operation!"
(and some of the wealthier ones melt like Jello!)
Cheers all
 
Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania to close their physical locations to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Pennsylvania
United States
Total Confirmed Cases
189
Active cases
188
Recovered cases
0
Fatal cases
1

Thankful that We don't have a store or need to meet/greet clients. But I am expecting signed jobs to start getting canceled now.
 
DSMc said:
Hoarding food and supplies, leaving others with nothing but bare shelves is "appreciate"?

Using a pandemic to advance personal and political agendas is "appropriate"?

Hospitals are flooded annually with hundreds of thousands of flu victims needing icu care, it fluctuates wildly. We are not in peak flu season and the numbers with this new virus are vastly smaller. Why has this become a global immobilizer?
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I guess we will find out soon enough if the panic was too late. we do have examples to go off of now in both china and Italy what happens if you dont address the situation. we also have examples of what happens when we do address the situation at the right time. Are you of the mindset that it is a hoax? or are you just convinced, that scientists and "experts" are full of shit.
 
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treebing said:
I guess we will find out soon enough if the panic was too late. we do have examples to go off of now in both china and Italy what happens if you dont address the situation. we also have examples od what happens when ou do address the situation at the right time. Are you of the mindset that it is a hoax? or are you just convinced, as usual, that scientists and "experts" are full of shit.
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We will have some evidence as to what the right coarse of action is soon enough. The entire Bay Area has basically been shut down and its 8 million inhabitants have been sheltering in place. New York City and its 8 million inhabitants have not.....

If the current trend holds true then listening to the scientists and experts was the smart play, and the Bay Area will be much better off for doing so.....
 
Jzack605 said:
I work for one of the big outfits. Looks like we’re either shutting down or going to “essential personnel” only. This is when my PHC work starts and I’m one of the few with consistent work so I’m hoping to be one of those. Also hoping they don’t lay anyone off, as big as we are they can afford it.
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Where are you?
 
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