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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would everyone who can't possible take any sick leave do if they were sick with something else?  Wouldn't you have to take an advance, LWOP, vacation?  [/quote]

Honestly, probably apply for for the voluntary leave transfer program, but now the program is going to get flooded with requests.

Also, it?s one thing to use up my leave (or advance leave) for my own and my children?s health. But being essentially forced to use leave because of quarantines in order to save older people seems unfair. Why should I burn up my accrued leave because of a virus that isn?t even likely to harm my family? The older people can use their leave to stay home, they have use or lose any way[/quote]

It?s not just to save older white collar workers. It?s to save the 60 year old admin who is raising her grandkids or the 60 year old cleaner whose family abroad is dependent on her remitting her wages. [/quote]

The lack of understanding of public health measures is really troubling here, and shows the need for much, much better communication.  Mandatory telework and school closures are NOT quarantines.  They are social distancing measures to slow the spread of the virus.  The reason to slow the spread of the virus is not "just" for 60+ year olds.  It's to keep the medical system from being completely overwhelmed ... which would mean that NOBODY could get ANY emergency care.  Break your leg? Get cancer? Kid has a bad croup attack and needs medicines?  Good luck with that while the hospitals are dealing with thousands of COVID19 patients. [/quote]

But what is the end goal?  It will be months before a vaccine is available- say you implement all these draconian measures to slow the spread- for how long?  And who's to say as soon as you turn everyone loose again that the transmissions doesn't just resume again?[/quote]

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