Anyone else still at work through this Coronavirus pandemic?

[sqlsavior]

Although the rule of men may be worse, the rule of law has problems, too. Instead of applying common sense to individual situations, ever more complex laws are written to treat the situations uniformly, when the situations actually differ. We need people smart enough not to send a battleship after a lone paddle boarder. And rules flexible enough to allow for judgement.

 

[AdamAnt316]

I work for a tax accountant. Even though the filing deadline has been moved to July 15th, I'm still going in a couple of times a week to help him out, running errands, working on the computers and whatnot. He has asthma, so he figures he wouldn't do too well if he got infected, so he's put himself into 'lockdown' in his home office, having clients mail him their documents and discussing them over the phone.
-Adam

 

[whyaskit]

I am the nurse manager of an ICU at the largest hospital in Salt Lake City.

Yeah. I’m still working, more than I ever have.

stay safe everyone. This particular virus, when it hits, it hits like Tyson in his prime.

 

[BMWCCA]

So that means in our city, for those who don't own lawn equipment and/or can't cut their lawns, they will not only attract rats and other vermin from the overgrowth, they will also get tickets from the city for letting it grow.

Ignoring your obvious political bias (might I guess what network news you watch?) I'd say it's doubtful anyone is getting a ticket for not mowing their lawn.

My state has suggested everyone wear masks in public "if they can't practice social distancing". However, wearing a mask in public violates state law. The Governor says they won't enforce that law. He's also asked the police not to enforce the state inspection law for vehicles so you can't stay at home and only shop for essentials and then get arrested for an expired inspection sticker while doing so.

My Mom was a legal resident of the state of Michigan and lived there half of the year for over 40-years until she passed away. It's a great state with many uniquely beautiful spots. But, like anywhere these days, the urban centers are hotspots for the virus to expand into the population which is disproportionately poor, underemployed, and black and brown. To impose temporary restrictions on an entire state to protect its most vulnerable population is just something we'll all be putting up with—if not now, soon. Just think how those in rural New York State feel? (Yes, there are beautifully rural areas of NY, too, for those of you too parochial to realize it.)

 

[ng0k]

I work for the power company so yes.

 

[biscuithead]

Our new solar array was supposed to have been hooked up to the grid, and to our house, on March 19th. At that point, schools and churches had been closed since the 13th, but the stay-at-home order hadn't been issued yet (23rd). The solar company (SunPro) cancelled, saying the state inspectors were not working. So now we have a wonderful, useless solar array, and for how long? Will SunPro survive long enough to finish it?



Time's a wasting, and we're burning daylight.

But, we're still alive...

Im back doing solar inspections. Call the municipality and explain that it is a ground mount. If the interconnection is made outside at the meter-main the inspector never needs to go inside. Just have the one-lines in a plastic bag next to the equipment.

If this can’t be done then talk to Sunpro about dumping the load into a resistor bank. Depending on the type of module, extended exposure without hook up can damage the panel through copper-migration at the P-N junction. Or cover the array with a tarp.
This only matters if it will be months.

 

[biscuithead]

My wife is a healthcare worker. She caught it but is doing fine and should be back to work on Tuesday. I work for a cellphone carrier. Our company temporarily closed 80% of its stores. We lobbied our manager to adopt "virtual retail" where instead of doing in person sales, we do it over messaging via a pipeline from our website. Since my wife got sick, I am out until the 28th.

Thank you for everything you and your wife do!
Do you have kiddos at home?

 

[RamblinE]

Thank you for everything you and your wife do!
Do you have kiddos at home?

I'll pass it on to my wife. She's the one who deserves it. And no kids. Just pets.

By the way as a follow up. The loss of smell as a symptom is no joke. It's her only symptom now. She held some Vicks Vapor Rub up to her nose earlier and claimed she couldn't smell a thing.

 

[halkaloogie]

It seems to me that people are starting to ease their fear and are trying to get back to some form of normalcy. I have work coming in again, albeit nothing like before all this. It might be the stimulus checks and tax returns, but for the first time in over a month I have a little money coming in. Not enough to cover all my monthly bills, but it feels nice to at least have something to do.

I drove by Home Depot yesterday around noon to grab some things for a job, and the parking lot was completely full and the line to just get in wrapped all the way around the building. I said F it and went back this morning at 7am when they opened hoping that it would be fairly empty like most Sunday mornings and there were probably 100 people waiting to get in.

 

[ehoove]

Please let's keep the politics out of this!
Thanks,
Jim

 

[ironcoder]

I am retired, so still have a job. Kidding kinda. I still do design jobs that companies want. It is just part time. I have a project now for a music company. They send me email about what they want. I draw a schematic. I then mock it up and correct schematic. Ah, now working. Then I design a pcb and send the design to China to ship the company the pcbs.