Cwalker935
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Hank has good discussion going and I do not want to distract from that. I am at the office day and have had time to reflect on social distancing since my current job is pretty much dealing with employees and their issues. The majority of my reports do a lot of their work in the field and almost everyone has the ability to telecommute. As such, I have one entire side of our office to my self. I have four people in on the other side but my interaction with them has been limited. As a result, I am having a lot of social distancing. So much so that I took a long walk at lunch time and the streets were sparsely populated.
I am one of two baby boomers in the Division and I send the other guy home due to underlying health issues that place him in the high risk category. I've gotten several lectures from millennials in my office. Despite being a healthy 63 year old, they apparently think that I on the verge of death.
The empty streets and office prompted to reflect on social distancing. As I understand it, the concept is to reduce the rate of infection so that we do not overwhelm our hospitals, to develop more testing capability and to be better prepared. In other words, flatten out and extend the curve. Given the relative isolation I am experiencing, the thought occurred to me that if we are too successful in slowing down the rate of infection could we simply be shifting the infection peak to another time since we cannot practically continue wide spread social distancing on a sustained basis. I do think that we are acting prudently but cannot help having some contrary thoughts given the hardships that many people are experiencing.
I am one of two baby boomers in the Division and I send the other guy home due to underlying health issues that place him in the high risk category. I've gotten several lectures from millennials in my office. Despite being a healthy 63 year old, they apparently think that I on the verge of death.
The empty streets and office prompted to reflect on social distancing. As I understand it, the concept is to reduce the rate of infection so that we do not overwhelm our hospitals, to develop more testing capability and to be better prepared. In other words, flatten out and extend the curve. Given the relative isolation I am experiencing, the thought occurred to me that if we are too successful in slowing down the rate of infection could we simply be shifting the infection peak to another time since we cannot practically continue wide spread social distancing on a sustained basis. I do think that we are acting prudently but cannot help having some contrary thoughts given the hardships that many people are experiencing.