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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Construction is the only thing keeping my business a float.

And food on the workers table.

Thank god something is still open.

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+1. Everytime someone gets this it does not mean we need to shut down an industry.  Insist on masks and go forth and work. This is insanity around shutting things down is causing food lines and civil unrest.[/quote]

NP. "Insisting" won't work. Are you, and PPs above, all willing to push for requiring masks on every worker, supervisor, everyone the entire time they are on site? With actual enforcement and consequences, up to and including firing, when anyone is caught without a mask or caught wearing it improperly, shoved down off his face instead of actually covering both mouth and nose? Are you all going to lobby for a rule (with consequences) requiring that cabs of construction vehicles be appropriately wiped down between different users, especially high-touch steering wheels, gear shifts, controls etc.? Tool handles cleaned? Mandate that breaks and lunch periods be taken so that workers are not sitting together?

If the virus is spreading through a largely outdoor work site like a construction site, SOMEHOW people are infecting each other on site so are you all going to put some effort into getting employers to enforce the practices that might actually reduce some transmission? Or are you just going to talk about the economy without addressing the fact that infected workers go on to infect others who aren't on the work site, who in turn infect yet others?

I'm betting none of you will utter one peep about real, enforced protocols to the mayor's office or anyone else. Let the construction workers get infected, and infect others off the sites, as long as buildings go up, right?

I'm in favor of construction continuing. I just believe that construction companies don't give a damn about the workers or about protecting them--and by extension, everyone else--from infection. [/quote]

It may be commuting together or at the pickup sites at the lumber/Home Depots?[/quote]

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