Cobb County...

Get all your employees a letter detailing why they are considered part of the Nations Critical Infrastructure. Here they have started to question people. I have not personally been stopped, nor have I seen anyone. There is a fine associated with not being at home if you are not going to the doctor, grocery or gas station, bank...stuff like that.

The below is for the hotel industry...but it give you an idea:

To whom it may concern:

This letter identifies its holder as an employee who works at __________________ (“Hotel”). The Hotel is located at:

XXXXXXX

Pursuant to the March 19, 2020 memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, hotels are considered part of our nation’s Critical Infrastructure as they provide essential services in the form of shelter to others. This shelter is important for health and safety reasons, as well as supporting COVID-19 mitigation and containment measures. Accordingly, workers of the Hotel are considered part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers.

Employee’s presence at work is essential in order maintain the continuity of operations of the Hotel, which is part of our nation’s Critical Infrastructure. The Hotel is a 24-hour operation. As a result, Hotel workers, including the holder of this letter, must be able to travel to get to work throughout the day and night. Therefore, we request that you please allow the Hotel’s workers to travel to and from the Hotel in accordance with their status as an Essential Critical Infrastructure Worker.

Please contact XXXXXXXXXX at XXXXXXXXXX should you have any questions.

Thank you


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Well, this is dad's chemo week. We're taking him, no matter what. Cops are welcome to follow me there. Anybody else can mind their own business. He had some chest pains two nights about and was trying to decide the worst evil- go to the ER with the sick folk or just chance it at home. Lucky for us it cleared up in a few hours.

Can't imagine what Italy is going through in their hospitals. Wonder if they mark a heart attack victim that might have lived if they were not overloaded with virus patients as a victim of Covid?
 
For the life of me I can't explain that exact scenario to a person I'm debating with over the virus. He just doesn't understand that hospitals are out of resources and decisions are having to be made regarding who gets priority for any type of medical procedure. I may be wrong but I don't see "every" hospital being overrun by patients but I know for sure some certainly are and I feel sorry for those patients with other serious medical conditions not related to the virus. It just infuriates me when people don't understand the strain this is placing on the medical community, whether or not it's a real or perceived threat. Good luck this week, may prayers are with you and your family.
 
The hospitals are not overrun yet, at least here, but if this blows up I expect them to be. As of last night, there were over 300 hospitalized cases. This is on top of the normal emergencies they handle all the time. Stopping the optional procedures will have freed up enough beds for that, but since it seems to take a two or three week stay in the hospital if you have a bad case, those beds are going to be in use a while if the victims survive.

Trump is falling into the same trap that Hong Kong did, thinking that if social distancing gets the rate of new cases down, then it's all over. It's not. It's not going to be over until 60% - 80% of the people in this country have gotten the virus and survived and are immune. Otherwise, there is still too big of a population that doesn't have the anti bodies in their blood and someone who has it can still give it to lots of people, restarting the trend up.

There are two keys to keeping the survival rate up.

1) - Spreading the cases out (i.e. keeping the current number of people who have the virus at a low enough number that the medical system can handle them). To do this, it will take six months to 18 months for us to get to the 60% mark.

2) - minimize the severity of the cases. People seem to think that one strand of the virus will kill you. Nope, nothing is that deadly. However, the initial number of strands that you get are critical to determine if your body can fight it off as a slight case of the flu, or no symptoms, or if you die.
Keep social distance and you only breath in a few, they start multiplying, but the immune system sees them, creates antibodies and they are destroyed and you are immune. You have a mild case or no symptom case and are immune.
Sit next to a guy who has it at the bar for 4 hours one night, breath in hundreds of the strands and it can overload the immune system and you have a sever case that may kill you as all those strands begin their exponential growth.

If you have time to read, check out "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy. Its a story of a biological attack on the US using Ebola. His president actually cut off travel at state lines to keep it from spreading, but in their case it was only 3 days from exposure to symptoms and this seems to be much longer. Interesting book.
 
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