It's possible the liability issues will hold in Canada. The US is likely to simply remove employer liability by legislative fiat.
My take is that the stacked partially effective things work against the average transmission threat surface; it's not at all clear they work if you get the bad luck to have someone who is both one of the optimal spreaders and is having their peak spreading moment. The information out of Japan, for example, really suggests that the generally effective things like masks and distance fail hard when inside if you get someone really shedding. And we do not yet know why that happens or how that works. And it wouldn't take very many much such events to make it difficult to get people into the office at all.
There's also the issue that office space is one thing; warehouse spaces, light industrial spaces, and most food processing and distribution are all big, open, echoing volumes. Re-designing those for reduced transmission risk would be difficult and really expensive. And things are already starting to get a bit wobbly; "supplier fulfilment delays" are getting longer, not shorter, the longer the pandemic continues.
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Date: 2020-10-06 03:27 am (UTC)It's possible the liability issues will hold in Canada. The US is likely to simply remove employer liability by legislative fiat.
My take is that the stacked partially effective things work against the average transmission threat surface; it's not at all clear they work if you get the bad luck to have someone who is both one of the optimal spreaders and is having their peak spreading moment. The information out of Japan, for example, really suggests that the generally effective things like masks and distance fail hard when inside if you get someone really shedding. And we do not yet know why that happens or how that works. And it wouldn't take very many much such events to make it difficult to get people into the office at all.
There's also the issue that office space is one thing; warehouse spaces, light industrial spaces, and most food processing and distribution are all big, open, echoing volumes. Re-designing those for reduced transmission risk would be difficult and really expensive. And things are already starting to get a bit wobbly; "supplier fulfilment delays" are getting longer, not shorter, the longer the pandemic continues.