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Public health experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have leaked their recommendations on how to safely reopen businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic—after officials in the Trump administration rejected the guidance and allegedly told CDC officials their plan would "never see the light of day."
The 17-page document (PDF found here) was initially set to be published last Friday but was nixed. Instead, it was released to the Associated Press by a CDC official who was not authorized to release it.
The guidance lays out detailed, phased recommendations for how to safely reopen child care programs, schools, day camps, faith communities, businesses with vulnerable workers, restaurants, bars, and mass transit. Though some of the general points laid out already appear on federal websites—such as an emphasis on hand hygiene—the document uniquely offers tailored recommendations for each type of business.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday May 08 2020, @12:49PM (4 children)
A lot of people seem to have a hard time swallowing the idea of "re-openining" the country/states/businesses. Basically, it boils down to how poorly this concept has been presented to the public.
I propose a new buzzword to get the message across: "Smart Opening"
The entire idea is that it will not be business as usual. Where possible, extra steps are taken, such as extra sanitation, keeping customers further apart, or worshiping imaginary sky fairies from home because it is scientifically proven to be just as ineffective. Hopefully these steps have been reviewed by "smart" experts. The public won't understand this, but understand "smart phones" are kewl so "smart opening" must also be kewl. Even those who disagree with re-opening may like the term as "smart" often means "stupid" these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @01:38PM (2 children)
Smart phones should detect when they are within 6ft of another smart phone and start beeping and going nuts. Smart people will know to move 6ft apart.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @02:26PM (1 child)
so one must now own and carry a smartphone before they're allowed to leave the house?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by helel on Friday May 08 2020, @03:30PM
In my experience most people would support encoding this in law, implicitly if not explicitly.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fyngyrz on Friday May 08 2020, @03:09PM
Donald Trump is deeply involved in (mis)managing the re-opening of the country's businesses and so forth, so the use of the word "smart" becomes an oxymoron and will just confuse the issue further.
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