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Echostatic · #1 Posted **Apr 12, 2020, 4:07 PM**

It's a blurry photo, but I can definitely make out masks on all but a few workers that are facing the camera. It's not an essential business by any means, but I guess Abbott thinks otherwise.

Armybrat · #2 Posted **Apr 12, 2020, 10:07 PM**

For large projects like that, schedules have to be met. And it affects all the material suppliers down line.
The business of America is business, and people working. Not hunkering down. The nation did not fold up completely during the Spanish Flu pandemic.

hookem · #3 Posted **Apr 12, 2020, 10:16 PM**

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For large projects like that, schedules have to be met. And it affects all the material suppliers down line.
The business of America is business, and people working. Not hunkering down. The nation did not fold up completely during the Spanish Flu pandemic.

And 675000 Americans died.

Armybrat · #4 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 2:05 AM**

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And 675000 Americans died.

That’s because there weren’t any antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection.

hookem · #5 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 3:10 AM**

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That’s because there weren’t any antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection.

... bacterial pneumonia that they got because they contracted the virus. Shutting things down is about stopping the spread.

StoOgE · #6 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 9:42 PM**

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For large projects like that, schedules have to be met. And it affects all the material suppliers down line.

So? Every industry in America has schedules that have to be met and suppliers up and down the line that are harmed by closures.

My company makes products that we sell to distributors who are now closed because the stores they sell to are closed.

It's a dumb argument because literally every single industry is impacted economically by shutdown. Construction isn't special, they just have the right friends in the right places.

the Genral · #7 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 12:12 AM**

I have to wear a mask at work. I have to say, it is very uncomfortable during an 8 hour day. I'm constantly tugging at it and adjusting it. Not to mention, it makes my glasses steam up. And I'm not outside in the heat busting my ass like most of these construction workers are day after day. I have to admit, I mostly wear mine under my chin when no one is looking.

StoOgE · #8 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 9:44 PM**

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I have to wear a mask at work. I have to say, it is very uncomfortable during an 8 hour day. I'm constantly tugging at it and adjusting it. Not to mention, it makes my glasses steam up. And I'm not outside in the heat busting my ass like most of these construction workers are day after day. I have to admit, I mostly wear mine under my chin when no one is looking.

The job-site for the new Juul building on Oltorf had about half the guys with Bandanas over their faces and the other half I could see not wearing any face-covering.

Geographer · #9 Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 2:16 AM**

The Spanish Flu was caused by a virus for which antibiotics are useless. We don't have any reliable treatment for COVID-19 at the moment. Hospitals around the world are treating COVID patients pretty much the same way: supportive care, intubation, and ECMO if comes to that.