Hello 2021..

 Ok, with the current state of things here in the US, I have no comments I want to post. 

Everyone, think. Be careful. Be safe.

I am well, so far.. I was asked on Saturday to change shifts on Sunday and work on Monday night. 

All good, no problem. I would not find out the the reason why, or even have thought on those lines, till the Tuesday, my only day off this week. 

Apparently someone who works in a different part of the building, and isolated area, is out due to a positive Covid19 test. So that department, where some have the ability to work from home is down 1 person, and one of their co-workers is home on 14 day quarantine, pending the results of a test. This all happened the week of Christmas.. I was out on Vacation.. 

BUT.. 

One of my co-workers, that sits right behind me, 6 feet or so.. who none the less is very cautious, and nervous about the virus, was working as fill-in on Christmas Day in the infected persons area, and also spent more than 30 minutes in the room with the infected person on one of the days they worked, before testing positive. My co-worker was out on vacation the next 5 days after I got back to work. We did work the same shift that Thursday and Friday.. we worked on a couple things together...This person was scheduled off Saturday and Sunday..Saturday when they were contacted about the other persons Positive test, they were informed to stay out for another 5 days to finish a 14 day quarantine.  ? .. I was not contacted.. except to cover the shifts... Now it is Wednesday.. and my co-worker is back, and healthy.. they did not have a test done.. I am healthy as well.. 

BUT..

It would have been nice to know, beforehand... so if I chose to get tested, I could have.. instead, I read a bunch of emails from the infected persons co-workers complaining that they were also not notified, other than those that could work from home, to do so....

I understand the Health Care laws that are in place to  protect your data and privacy, keep you from being fired for being sick and such.. but in the midst of a Pandemic, you would think, to reduce the possibility of spread or an outbreak, that they would be more cautious with our health and right to know, than whether they are going to be sued because someone told the company they cant come in because they tested positive.. and maybe you should warn the people they have been in contact with and the people they have been in contact with...

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I had a personal thought, unrelated to the rest of this, but it is no longer near my fingers .. so I dont think it will make it to the keyboard.

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R 1/6/21