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Originally Posted by kpic

Thought I would share a real-world example here (as opposed to DC where not sure what would happen to a post)

Work in a considered "essential" field in a developmentally disabled facility. Not going to go into too much details concerning all of this but the numbers are no secret, they are out there - but still not sure where the ethical lines are here for this so I'll be as basic as possible (sorry!)

There is no social distancing here, the population I work with doesn't understand that, PPE and\or washing yourself - so this is of course an extreme case.

Covid hit about 3 weeks or so ago, prior to that and continued all employees get some questions and temp in and then temp out.

For the residents; we have about 30+ and counting (out of "about" 300-400, yes I know the exact but again I'll give you a rough idea rather than being specific). Of those 30+ positive cases we have "officially" 2 dead (possibly 3), now a few of those if they caught a bad flu or anything else they were likely not going to make it, 1 was really a surprise, thought that person was pretty healthy. The fatal are all up there in age.

Employees; PPE is basically working pretty well, about 16+ positive but most of that were direct contact prior to knowing who had what and who you were working with.

My overall thoughts are that it seems very virulent in this type setting of course, I have been working for over 30 years in this field and I think I can only recall one really, really bad flu season in that time that spreads like this thing and once it hits it seems to hit pretty hard (on this population anyway) so everything you heard about those aspects I think are correct.

I have a friend who watches this stuff all over the news with the numbers etc. I tell him to relax, I really think in the general population you'd have to be unlucky, doing something you weren't supposed to be and\or careless or a little of each to get this thing - now having underlying conditions would of course be a problem and you won't see me going to any large gatherings for a long while but the average person who is shutting in and so-on will be fine I think, yes I think some of this is being overblown for the average person but I understand hospitals could be overrun in certain areas if not careful.

If there are any other follow-up questions I'll be glad to answer them as best as I can.

You must quit with this reasonableness. Only extremeness is allowed here on CP.