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I have friends working in the physical side of the chip industry- there is a lot of money being poured into the industry right now to increase fab output, but

I have friends working in the physical side of the chip industry- there is a lot of money being poured into the industry right now to increase fab output, but it takes time to build the physical infrastructure. Chip fabs are highly hazardous environments and need to conform to pretty intense standards. And of course, every time anyone on their specific team within the fab gets COVID-like systems, the _entire team_ goes home for two weeks. This has happened several times over the past year.

UncleOxidant 6y ago
You'd think that a fab would be one of the least likely work places where one would pick up covid. The air is constantly filtered, you're wearing bunny suits with face coverings and the density of people is pretty low.
- dharmab 6y ago
  This fab is in an ultraconservative city where masks and social distancing are not practiced. The workers have been getting COVID from the community, not at work.
  - ls612 6y ago
    But if I have covid and you and I are both wearing those weird space suit looking things (I don’t know what they actually are called) you would think the odds of me giving you covid would be minuscule right?
    - jacques_chester 6y ago
      I assume people have to eat lunch somewhere.
    - dharmab 6y ago
      Not everyone at the plant wears a full suit. A lot of the workers are sitting in offices most of the day monitoring systems, or are working on supporting systems like chemical pipes, or loading and unloading trucks. And then everyone sees each other outside of work anyway. Some of the people at the plant are family, or as close as family. Some go to the same church. Some go camping or fishing together on the weekends
      - baybal2 6y ago
        I once heard the story of a family of 6 all working in one Intel fab. So small is the industry.
  - seriousquestion 6y ago
    As though people don't get Covid in other cities? NYC has the worst stats in the country.

UncleOxidant 6y ago

You'd think that a fab would be one of the least likely work places where one would pick up covid. The air is constantly filtered, you're wearing bunny suits with face coverings and the density of people is pretty low.

dharmab 6y ago
This fab is in an ultraconservative city where masks and social distancing are not practiced. The workers have been getting COVID from the community, not at work.
- ls612 6y ago
  But if I have covid and you and I are both wearing those weird space suit looking things (I don’t know what they actually are called) you would think the odds of me giving you covid would be minuscule right?
  - jacques_chester 6y ago
    I assume people have to eat lunch somewhere.
  - dharmab 6y ago
    Not everyone at the plant wears a full suit. A lot of the workers are sitting in offices most of the day monitoring systems, or are working on supporting systems like chemical pipes, or loading and unloading trucks. And then everyone sees each other outside of work anyway. Some of the people at the plant are family, or as close as family. Some go to the same church. Some go camping or fishing together on the weekends
    - baybal2 6y ago
      I once heard the story of a family of 6 all working in one Intel fab. So small is the industry.
- seriousquestion 6y ago
  As though people don't get Covid in other cities? NYC has the worst stats in the country.