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People in factories, ships, trucks, farms etc didn’t stay home.

• bluGill 5y ago
  Many people in factories did stay home. When the pandemic started my office was in a factory and i was told I wasn't allowed in the office. To get some test equipment sitting on my desk I had to get permission a week ahead of time. Likewise a lot of factory managers didn't go to the factory. The people working the line in the factory need to go to the factory. However my company was paranoid that something would happen to them. If enough people working the line get sick production stops and then all profit stops. By contrast if a lot of people not on the line are sick but production continues - over a year is balances out.
  • newsclues 5y ago
    And yet many factories continue to operate. Notice how we have a backlog of ships to unload and not empty ships? That’s because factories continued operations.
    • bluGill 5y ago
      Exactly the point: factories operated, but the managers tried (to various level of trying, some not very good) to protect the factory.