How Many Essentials are asked to work and are still working? I'm in California for the whole time!
We need special pay I would rather be safe at home!
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It's corporate policy to report to Xerox security if you think you've been exposed. They make the decision. And you will be paid if they tell you to self quarantine and might get a new manager out of it.
The cost of replacing a CSE is huge. Much less than a manager
PS: I am in Texas and they still have us working. There are rumors flying that most or all of us will be laid off next week, but nothing from management. Managers are in constant meetings about the virus, but the CSE-facing message is strictly business as usual. One guy who thinks he might have been exposed was told that if he self isolated, he wouldn't get paid.
Let's say it is 1.2%. Flu is typically 0.1%. So let's put that in real numbers.
It's estimated that 85% will catch coronavirus. Compare that to the 5-20% who catch the flu.
250,000 people live in my city. If we're generous and assume it's a particularly bad strain, about 50,000 people will get sick. Of those, 50 will die.
Now, coronavirus looks like it will infect around 200,000 people in my city, being generous and rounding down. If we are generous and use your 1.2% figure, and not the potential 5% that it could be if hospitals get overwhelmed, you are looking at 2,400 deaths before it's over. Pretty significant difference there!
And that number doesn't even account for the many survivors who will be left with scarred lungs for the rest of their life, making them more vulnerable to future infections.
THIS IS NOT THE FLU. STOP MAKING THAT COMPARISON.
Nationwide, we are looking at anywhere from 3.4 to 14 MILLION deaths before this is over.
For context, that is 3-14 TIMES the number of Americans that died in the Civil War, World War 2, and Vietnam combined.
This is not the flu. This is not the flu. This is not the flu.
How many times do scientists have to say this before the id–ts wake up and believe it?
Last post, John V. You need to go to bed. It’s past your bed time. Baby angry in morning with no sleepy.
I'm a working CSE
The CDC predicts that at least 12,000 Americans will die from the flu in any given year. As many as 61,000 people died in the 2017-2018 flu season, and 45 million were infected.
Driving in my territory is pretty hazardous to my health. 30,000 accidents per year with 1.5 percent mortality rate. I don't get future immunity from accidents if I survive one either.
The mortality rate in Wuhan was 1.2% of reported cases meaning it was actually much much less.
Everyone needs to get a grip.