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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), maintains a list of what they consider “critical infrastructure sectors.”

CISA issued coronavirus guidelines to help governments and businesses “ensure that employees essential to operations of critical infrastructure are able to continue working with as little interruption as possible.”

These are industries that CISA considers essential:

Chemical Sector
    Commercial Facilities Sector
    Communications Sector
    Critical Manufacturing Sector
    Dams Sector
    Defense Industrial Base Sector
    Emergency Services Sector
    Energy Sector
    Financial Services Sector
    Food and Agriculture Sector
    Government Facilities Sector
    Healthcare and Public Health Sector
    Information Technology Sector
    Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector
    Transportation Systems Sector
    Water and Wastewater Systems Sector

What about construction?

The construction industry didn’t specifically make CISA’s list. However, when you dig a little deeper, it’s clear that construction is an essential part of each one. The transportation sector is made up of highways, rail systems, and mass transit infrastructure. The water systems sector includes pipelines, plumbing, and wastewater treatment plants. The healthcare sector needs hospitals. And so on.

Every single critical sector needs contractors and suppliers to provide materials and build facilities that they use to deliver essential, life-sustaining services.

Construction industry leaders have called for government leaders to add construction to the list of essential businesses. According to a joint statement from the CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and the President of North America’s Building Trades Unions, “Government officials at all levels should treat the construction industry and the work it performs as vital and essential to the critical industries that must remain in operation.”[/quote]

Construction is a huge term. We should be limiting construction activity to essential work and keeping nonessential construction workers safe. Building a lab to study coronavirus? Essential. Supplying materials to contractors that build that lab? For sure. Repairing roofs, pest control, helping fix faulty electric orl eaking pipes? Yes, that is good, too. 
New kitchen tiles? A bathroom overhaul? New bedroom addition? Fancy new front door? Upgrading the carpets? Fresh mulch on the garden beds? Six new estate houses on that empty lot? A new pool for an apartment building? Landscaping the water trap area of a new shopping mall? NO. It can wait.[/quote]

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