Holdout governors face pressure to issue stay-at-home orders

Da Mole said:

Ha Ha on me. Just got a 3 point penalty for referring to the first portion of your name. A name that would suggest that you are familiar with such an item. Go figure!
Come to think of it maybe you should be scolded for suggesting that I am a drunk. Isn't booze a drug also?

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That's going around like, well, you know.

Hamish,
Caught 3 points for less.

HumblePi said:

There was an EMT from NY that said that EMT workers are afraid to take this home since they're in direct contact, so they're not going home at all, they're living in their cars. A friend of mine is a policeman, he had to put a suspect in the police car, the guy was positive for coronavirus so now he's forced to quarantine himself at home, he and his family may all be vulnerable to that infection.

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My city just announced that they are putting our coppers up in the pretty now vacant hotels downtown. As described above, they don't want to infect their families. We're running a 10% call-in-sick rate, with them.

Da Mole said:

What's wrong with this back and forth? I made a lighthearted comment regarding a bong which is in you name. You answered with a similar comment which I certainly too no offense to. The overly sensitive powers that be dinged me, claiming that I was calling you a drug user. All out of proportion, enough already!

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I guess maybe it would pay to choose your words more carefully and I also guess the mods didn't think I called you a drunk either, which I didn't. You twisted my comment into that one.

Chomsky said:

To note:

My city just announced that they are putting our coppers up in the pretty now vacant hotels downtown. As described above, they don't want to infect their families. We're running a 10% call-in-sick rate, with them.

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The main problem is how they're being infected. Of course, they're at higher risk to get this than anyone except the medical direct care staff. These EMT's, Police, Firemen, and all those people that work with TSA or baggage handlers, ticket agents. These are people that absolutely have to take the risk and be there in the public.

It has to be drummed into their heads every single day before they go out to the public to report for duty. They must have protective gear, they must be aware not to touch their face, they must keep their hands clean either by hand washing - which is nearly impossible on their jobs, or by using hand sanitizer after touching anything or anyone. Every item they touch, every person they encounter must be viewed as a 'red alert' threat whether they are or not. That's why this pandemic is going to continue to rage because it's not shut down properly or uniformly.

editing to add something about the police being held in motel or hotel rooms to separate them from their families. That may be good and it may not. Those hotel rooms have been used by people who may have carried the virus and left it on surfaces. We know that it can last on hard surfaces for many days. I don't know if hotels have been that careful with disinfecting those rooms. It could be less dangerous if they self-quarantined right in their own home. It's possible and I know that because my son that flew back from Colombia on the 21st has been self-quarantining inside our home and it's been working fine. Not only that but the emotional stress of them not having family support must be terrible for them.