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I'm in Austin. There was a confirmed case in my building and the best we got was a vague email from the management saying that someone had it and that the perso
by whoisjuan 7y ago
I'm in Austin. There was a confirmed case in my building and the best we got was a vague email from the management saying that someone had it and that the person had used the mailroom the Saturday before (we got the email on a Wednesday).
- pjc50 7y agoRemarkably I hear that Austin is going to be un-locking soon? Is that true?
- Jac21 7y agoOur state is going to attempt "phases" - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/texas-loosen-restrictions-staggered-reopening-212160 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/texas-loosen-restri...
- brundolf 7y agoTexas in general and especially Austin have also had a very mild version of all of this compared to some places. At peak we used something like a quarter of our available ICU beds before things started going back down, from the numbers I've seen. There basically haven't been any shortages of anything (at worst, people would buy up all the toilet paper in the morning and it'd all be restocked the next day). Of course, one way to reverse that situation would be to start opening things back up.
- clairity 7y agoassuming that that person self-quarantined, it seems reasonable they informed the building but didn't do anything other than maybe wiping down the mailroom and door handles to mollify the paranoid. just having someone in the building doesn't pose appreciable added risk. would you rather they didn't tell you?
- enraged_camel 7y agoManagement is being vague on purpose, due to HIPAA.
- edmundsauto 7y agoHIPAA only covers health care providers, so does not apply to employers.
- nikofeyn 7y agoit's unlikely an apartment building's management is familiar at all with HIPAA. it's more likely incompetence or like most things in the u.s., a lackadaisical attitude towards the viral outbreak. i doubt HIPAA applies to a global pandemic. that's not its purpose.