Jacksdad

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1. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

2. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   Aloha551 - I voted no, but I would keep going in as long as I thought it safe (both for me and my family) or until there was no job to go to. The reason I say that is because I think the decision to come in will be taken out of my hands as supply lin...

3. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   Ayrmans right. PPE is very expensive. If you factor in pandemic waves lasting maybe several months each with two or three waves passing through during a pandemic (and the very real possibility of infection between waves) that's a lot of PPE. Good qua...

4. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   Perpetual Student is right. The UK and US governments have modeled a pandemic as going global in 2 to 4 weeks, and in reality there's no guarantee the general public will have the luxury of that much notice anyway. If it's a major pandemic it would b...

5. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   Absolutely right. The vast majority of the public lump pandemic flu in with Y2K and the like. To them it's nothing to worry about (probably because in most people's lifetime they've never encountered severe hardship). The days of putting a little asi...

6. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   I honestly appalaud the people that would go in during a pandemic, but I think the question will be moot if this thing mutates to a human form with a high CFR. At present less than 3 out of 10 patients are surviving H5N1, even with Tamiflu and respir...

7. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   Jacksdad replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   I've been following the news concerning H5N1 for a couple of years, and I've been prepping for a pandemic for about a year now. That means laying in enough supplies for a long period of isolation for myself and my family. Most of us have no personal ...