My job just announced they're locking all doors (not really, lol) to non-essential faculty and staff for the next 2 weeks.
Great.
They've already made me burn 1 of my 2 weeks of coronavirus vacation pay, and now I'll be out for 3 weeks.
My remaining PTO will cover that, but it's running out fast.
How TF are people who aren't as lucky as I am going to deal with effectively being unemployed for weeks on end?
This is getting bizarre.
Don't get me wrong. That whole, "we're 10 days behind Italy" warning has hit home, and people are making the hard choices.
I get that.
I'm not saying we should just overload the health system and let old people die because even harder choices will become real.
It's just
Wow
is all
I seriously hope this is a wake up call to the people funding pandemic preparedness and such. This coronavirus is small potatoes compared to what researchers are afraid of. While the mortality rate on this is high compared to a flu, it's got nothing on the black plague.
Pandemic researchers are scared of something more like the plague with the spreading rate of coronavirus, and we can't even handle this?!
C'mon humans. Figure it out.
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Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
