Re: Anyone decide not to return to work?

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

No one that I know personally but there are three families on my street that have young children. One family the children go to private school with no more than 10 children in a class. The other has a "pod". Four little boys the same age being taught by a teacher who does not want to go back into the class room using the online criteria. The parents split her salary. This seems to be the new thing where I live. The other family has hired a teacher to home school their two young children. If I was a teacher I don't know if I would want to go back.

conlt · ‎03-16-2010

I am 62 and I work at home. I am fortunate. I am at that age where I am not old enough for Medicare but wish that I was. So I work at home. I am an RN and I do lots of care coordination but it is all on the phone and with a computer. Our office manager is planning a skills fair where we rent an auditorium like room at a college and we have our employees come through and they get checked off on their skills, like inserting IV catheters, wounds, etc. I am mortified that she would plan an event like this without social distancing. Unfortunately, I will to go. It is in about 1 month. I will be extremely careful. If I had a choice, I would not go.

I don't get the people who think that a reduced number of people in a room will prevent covid from spreading. It only takes 1 person to infect another, then so on, and so on. Look at that wedding in remote Maine, 65 attendees, now 147 cases directly linked to that wedding and 3 deaths so far.

As a RN, I take this very seriously, always use my mask, hand sanitizer, wash my hands, hair, body, clothes after I go somewhere.

I have been out very few times since the end or February.

just bee · ‎03-10-2010

I'll be 61 next month and I'll continue to work in the psychiatric emergency room. No plans to leave voluntarily.

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Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Porcelain wrote:
No one who is at risk or takes care of anyone at risk should be expected to put themselves in harms way. It's a choice and should not be coerced in any way. Pretty fundamental.

There are millions upon millions of people who are considered at risk (let's face it, you just have to have something as common as diabetes or be over weight, or have arthritis to be considered at risk) or live with/take care of someone who is at risk. They all cannot just stop functioning.

The fear has gotten way out of hand with this virus. Millions upon millions of people have never missed a beat and worked every day, some overtime through this. Many of them worked months with no PPE no barriers etc. Most of them have not gotten sick, or have recovered fully if they did.

Yes, some people have gotten very ill, and some have died.

But if some people had their way, the world would be shut down indefinitely to fend off this virus.....and it still wouldn't go away completely.

How at risk one is, or their family members they live with or care for are, and the decision about what to do with that is indeed individual, there will be no one size fits all answer for it. Some people absolutely should not incur any more risk than necessary.

But the most of the world is going to have to, need to, and should get back at it . If 'at it' needs to be different for them for the foreseeable future, so be it, but those that have had the luxury of hiding out all these months need to get back to it, if at all possible.