[macspoofing]

>What's a few avoidable deaths between friends, after all?

There is no vaccine coming for a year, maybe two, maybe never. "Flattening the curve" is ONLY a delaying strategy to not swamp the health-care system and hope that some treatments are developed (no guarantees there either). COVID is going to be part of our lives.

Are you saying we should shelter in place forever?

>A starting point would be Amazon providing tests

What tests? Are you expecting every employer to test their workers every day?

>along with ensuring everyone has masks and gloves and enough time to thoroughly wash their hands throughout their shift.

That's reasonable. Masks + social distancing + gloves, and policies for hand washing and disinfecting of commonly used surfaces. I suspect Amazon isn't too far from that, and if they are it's only because of the global PPE shortage.

[kevingadd]

IMO a starting point is: Single test for all employees before return to work, 100% guarantee that everyone has a mask for their shifts, the facility has ventilation, and they have gloves. 100% guarantee that facilities have soap and running water.

In the past all of what I mention has been a problem in warehouses, and it's why employees are protesting. Amazon can fix this, but it's been a problem very recently.

It's super reasonable if they can't gather up a bunch of N95s and medical grade gloves, but paper surgical masks or cloth masks should be feasible by now. It sounds like they're working on their own testing infrastructure, which is great.

[CuriouslyC]

The death rate with proper medical care is very low. The avoidable deaths are a direct result of a swamped medical system.