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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 292914" data-attributes="member: 1485">What irks me is right now we've been dealing with this for several weeks in the US, and less regionally/locally. The rest of the world much longer. The powers that be have had time to research, discuss and plan, and yet we still seem to be flying by the set of or pants. Knee-jerk-reaction policies may be short-term solutions -- like making a fire break to keep a forest fire from spreading -- but it's not long term. If this stay-in-place stuff goes much longer, it'll cripple our economy. Timing literally could not be worse for my industry. We're in the 'tween season when it's always slower, and now this has virtually put things at a standstill. Our cancellation rate from customers is huge for THEIR fear of COVID-19. That fear spreads worse than the virus, to the point we have employees asking to be laid off because they want to self-quarantine. No techs to run calls means no dollars in the door. I'm OK with that if we're given some sort of timeline or benchmark to plan for. As it stands, there's nothing but "flatten the curve." You do realize what flatten the curve means, right? It has nothing to do with decreasing the amount of people who get sick or die. It's everything to do with allowing the hospitals time to take care of the people who do get sick. We need plans/policies in place that allow us to pivot businesses models without crippling the ability to allow folks to work and make money. First order is to reopen schools. That'll immediately allow 20 percent of hospital workforce to go back to work, thus allowing their capacity to be greater to handle testing and care for COVID-19 patients. We also need to keep hammering the fact that you CAN allow people into your homes/lives as long as both parties (customer/company) are screening ahead of time, and everyone follows social distancing protocol. I think disinfecting/hand washing goes without saying. I'll do my civil duty and follow protocol -- to a point. But everyone has their limits, and if this continues for weeks or months with the same tired buzz phrases and no substance, a lot of folks are going to say enough is enough.</blockquote>

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