A vaccine isn't happening this year. People can't stay at home unemployed the whole year. How to go back to work safely?
Can helmets with battery powered filtered air work better than face masks? Why aren't they used? Or diving air tanks?
Can helmets with battery powered filtered air work better than face masks? Why aren't they used? Or diving air tanks?
Certainly everyone should wear face masks, home made if necessary. But we need to do far more to enable the economy to function while we wait for a vaccine some time in 2021 or 2022 or possibly later.
How to make workplaces safer ought to be a major topic of conversation.
How to make workplaces safer ought to be a major topic of conversation.
We should also scale up coronavirus testing capacity to tens of millions of people tested every day.
But while waiting for that scale up how to carve out safe virus free areas? We should be figuring out how to do that.
But while waiting for that scale up how to carve out safe virus free areas? We should be figuring out how to do that.
We are in a financial disaster. Companies are going bankrupt, closing permanently. Many more will follow every week for months to come. City governments will default on bonds, do layoffs. Possibly even US states will go bankrupt. EU might break up, governments go bankrupt.
Seriously, we should find some drastic things to do.
One option: workplace cocooning. A group of people live and work in the same place (e.g. a factory or an electric power plant) with no exposure to people outside.
One option: workplace cocooning. A group of people live and work in the same place (e.g. a factory or an electric power plant) with no exposure to people outside.
Another way to create a workplace quarantine is with currently closed large hotels. Put a fence around one, set up engineers or other office workers inside. Lift supplies over the fence periodically.
