Our company just had a meeting today and it is just getting so crazy!  I get it using precautions and now they have sanitizer in RA and gloves.  What gets me is for years we have had people so sick with the flu and passed it around and also no doctor note was good enough and even if you was in hospital you got pointed for not showing to work.  and now doctors notes ok and dont come in if you have fever blah blah blah  dont get me wrong I dont want to get sick but I think these precautions and doctors notes and hospital should have been accepted long before the CV!  I know the toilet papaer mill is probably getting some overtime!

32 cases in Texas. No deaths as of today. So yeah, I am sticking to the overreacting/hysteria theme. The cases are from people contracting it from foreign travel and passing it to their wife and 3 year old child and another passing it to their 77 year old father. So, I am washing my hands as we already should be and were taught by our mothers. I am taking Vingaex and a couple other supplements to boost my immune system as I do every flu season. 

I took it to mean SHE wasn't going into mass hysteria. . . Unlike so many other people worldwide apparently.  

I think as of right now, we have to use pto if we took a vacation and have to self quarantine. If we are exposed at work, they are paying for it. We have to call a hotline when we return from vacation before we can work. 

This person is an old-timer and has tons of sick leave.  I'll find out today what's going on but the feeling I was getting at the end of the day yesterday is that her manager is leaving for Hawaii today on vacation and wants this person coming back from France to cover her desk so no.............

At this point, if your company does not have a policy and they require her to stay home then it should be paid. If they have apolicy and she knows/knew the risk then I suppose she is responsible for her QT. 

I encourage people to research the actual stats comparing Corona to the other "deadly" flu's we have encountered over the years. There are charts and graphs available to see them side by side that I think are very comforting and informative. Am i going around licking toilet seats? No. Am I washing my hands? Yes (like I always do). 81% of those who contract it could easily confuse it with a typical cold. I bet so many people have had it and stayed home sick and didnt get tested. 

yes the elderly and weakened immune system folks are at higher risk... as they are with ANY virus. Just be smart people. Drink water, get rest, take a vitamin and wash your frikkin hands. 

VP Pence declared today that any Americans coming from Europe should self quarantine for 14 days.  I agree that this "may" be overblown but while the whole country is taking extreme precautions it would seem that our company should too.  This is more of a family business and even if you ran out of sick leave you would likely still be paid.  I saw video yesterday of patients in Italy that were seriously ill and they were not elderly.  They let this virus get totally out of hand.  President Trump initially stopping flights from China was a huge deterrent.

We had a company meeting and they said they plan on taking no action unless enough people her eget sick that we have to close. Just told us to wash our hands and if we do close we will have to try to file for unemployment as a temprary layoff to be paid. However people in my area still don't seem to be concerned about anything besides ****ting their pants or their tap water suddenly developing a deadly virus. I drove through town last night around 6:30 and the restraunts were slammed, Hobby Lobby's parking lot was full of shoppers, and the gyms were all packed as usual. Literally everyone in town was out & about. So nobody here in central IL is paying much attention to it I guess. 

Italy, like China, also has poor healthcare which is going to leave it being much worse there. Of course the media is going to show you there's younger people struggling with it, they're thriving off of this right now and want to twist things to make us think these bad cases are what they're all going through. They want us to panic, they want us to be crippled in fear of it. Never take what they portray as the truth. Especially when the people in america who have "survived" it so far are saying even though they tested positive nothing ever happened. Those sick people in italy could have othe rmajor health issues, for all we know they could have cancer on top of this, which the media is never going to tell you bc they want you to think its an average healthy person. The people who are freaking out about this and not the flu, (which is way way wayyyyyyy worse and you're at higher risk for), are hypocrites. 

I wish I could share the facts that are from the CDC but put into graphs. They break down the deaths, age and their pre-existing condition. I dont have access to it at work but it is very eye opening. 

I have read interviews from both a 30s female and late 60s male who both are recovered, the male had pre-existing health issues too. he said spiked a high fever and had a dry cough but otherwise was fine for majority of his time in QT. They provided him gatorade. 

ETA: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nrTQVpchF/?igshid=177ngir60fyh8

My boss was suppose to fly from Rapid City to Salt Lake next week and our GM shut that down.

Our GM flies to and from Califonia every week, he said he's flying home today and probably won't be back for a month.

They've now cancelled all travel for my company. 

No official statement from the company yet, but I'm betting there will be one soon.

They've postponed our high school prom, there is less than 200 kids in the whole school, they've done 2 nights of their school play and have postponed the rest. . . and word is they're going to start doing classes online.

I'm still just floored how it has crippled the entire country.

President speaks today and it's believed he'll declare a national emergency.   It would be easy to want to believe none of this is necessary but on the other hand something is dreadfully wrong.

Nobody is being the bad guy in this case, its just everybody should be looking out for each other, {I didnt read all the coments.} I think common sense should be used in how things are handled..