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I am in quality assurance for food safety. Most of the time I can work remotely, except this week is our scheduled biennial assessment for our accreditation. So, this week I cannot work remotely and need to be onsite for as long as the audit continues. We are taking it day by day in case there are further travel restrictions implemented and our auditor needs to leave early.

I had a long-planned week of PTO next week but it's going to turn into a week of self isolation with the family instead of a beach visit. Especially because I cannot stay home this week and will be around someone who has traveled almost continually for several weeks. The beach will be there when this returns to normal (assuming that happens) but I am selfishly disappointed and working on getting over that.

My company and my department are essential. They closed my office for shelter in place but we still need to work from home to support the manufacturing and retail locations. My role is unique in that it is not essential but I expect to get pulled into an essential role especially since I don't have much to do from home and we're hiring like crazy to keep up with demand. However, my kid came down with a fever last night so I don't think I'm going anywhere for a while.

I am a nurse in a hospital and my husband repairs garbage trucks so we both have essential jobs. Kinda wish we didn’t, at a time like this.

@MoonMoon: that’s what I am trying to check on. My OB said to avoid if possible, cdc says avoid if possible, but no one really knows. And I don’t want to be refusing assignments if I don’t have my manager and infection control making it clear. I hope my manager straightens this out but that will be highly unlikely. I emailed her and she said she would look into it.

IT at a mental health agency. The messed up thing is I had a small group in person trading today, then I went to 3 separate buildings picking up equipment. My company is trying to figure out this work from home thing but there are a lot of stumbling blocks: equipment availability, untrained workforce, lack of clear leadership decisions. Basically from the inside it seems like everyone is panicking.

@mrsbubbletea: I was listening to a podcast and a dr said that although they don’t have a ton of data, it looks like the outcomes in pregnancy in China have been good, no increase of mc and although there were some more c sections it may have been at the dr’s discretion and the outcomes were positive. Ugh I want to say I was listening to the daily but I’m not sure.