[blueplum]

SOCAL - Infrastructure - Riverside Co.

Employees to Begin Living at Workplaces to Keep Water, Electric Operations Running for Riverside-Imperial Counties
“This is a sacrifice,” the district’s public information officer said. “They will be away from their families for three weeks.” …

..The program is aimed at keeping employees safe from COVID-19, and to insure the utility’s services remain operational during the pandemic, officials announced on Wednesday.
Thirty-two employees have volunteered to work 12-hour shifts every day for 21 days, Robert Schettler, the district’s public information officer, told City News Service.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/employees-to-begin-living-at-workplaces-to-keep-water-electric-operations-running-for-riverside-imperial-counties/2350805/

[Black Agnes]

Makes complete sense.

And it’s something that, largely, wasn’t required in 1918.

[calenel]

Not unexpected. Services will not be allowed to fail, even if that means sequestering the people that maintain them.

They will have to do this with food supply people, too. They will probably figure that out soon.