[rxsid]

"Amazon had already announced restrictions on travel to and from China in January"

Hey! That's racist! It's Xenophobic!!

Has anyone confronted Bozos about this?

[Professional]

The hoax fraud flu continues...

[CharlesWayneCT]

I believe this is “business travel”. A lot of companies are shutting down non-essential business travel, because why take a chance of spreading a contagion that would put your workers at home and using insurance money that I imagine Amazon covers directly.

[A Navy Vet]

A good example why the stock market is tanking - commerce slow down.

[null and void]

All this fuss for just a flu...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[blackdog]

https://www.seyfarth.com/news-insights/coronavirus-employer-liability-issues.html

[DouglasKC]

Yeah, but it’s just the flu. /sarc. Remember how Amazon always warns all its employees not to travel at the beginning of the flu season?

[mewzilla]

Hmmm, I wonder what percentage of the 780,000 actually do any travelling for Amazon...

[thefactor]

I got a briefing from a world renowned doctor on this topic. She said she plays it safe when it comes to this stuff, but if she had any international travel scheduled over the next few months she would cancel the plans.

[Revel]

I would be a little worried about how the mail and packages may become infected with this virus.

[plain talk]

Not just travel. This virus will affect reduce and limit gatherings of people.

[OrangeHoof]

Anything they want can be sent by drone...

[jonrick46]

The economic cost of each action will add up. No one has considered the tipping point. Because of that, people had better work on alternatives to stopping travel or the export of materials. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) would be a technology worth exploring. Such technology is already being used in Tuberculosis containment areas for the treatment of air ventilation systems.

[minnesota_bound]

No deliveries, packages filling up warehouses!
If they deliver packages then they will be spreading the coronavirus!!

[palmer]

Just a cute way of maximizing profits. Travel costs are always far in excess of the value to the company.

[Fury]

I want my Planter’s Peanuts!

You better deliver them!!!

[sauropod]

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[Freedom56v2]

BUMP!

[redgolum]

Good idea