I hope they give them masks, and ideally total body coverage, one time use, like One Time Passwords.

I really hope it.

Lots of key workers here without masks.

I dont know whether you know the joke about going to war without weapons.  We did kid about Russians doing that in WWII, and about others in WW1.

If you do not have masks, please make mask yourself, do it yourself, tissue, elastics, its easy; cut a rear pocket from the jeans.  Constalty wear it, but also when distanced from others remove it.  One can see to a longer distance than one can breath the virus spread.  But stay away and dont breath if mask down.  It's also good to wear eye glasses, like 'shades', to avoid virus intake by the eyes.

When one shows face to others its good, somebody can tell have seen that person.

If you do wear gloves then make sure you change them after each time you touched something.  Changing gloves involves a particular technique: whhen ungloving avoid touching the external side of glove with your skin.

Do not put your gloved hands in your elbow angle while waiting  patiently and showing force (some security people wear gloves, then cough in elbow, and then display force by putting palms in elbow angle - 'croiser les bras', french).

Alex

UK gov notification of key worker status inc Telecommunication/Data Centre workers

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

Col

On 19 Mar 2020, at 21:36, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

The U.S. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) has issued new Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce.

The memorandum is advisory, not presecriptive.  DHS is only one of several agencies assigned some National Essential Functions so it is not exhaustive list.  It looks like someone found the three-ring emergency plan binders. Sad its needed, but appreciative of the experts which helped write those planning documents over the years.


https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure
-workforce

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The attached list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working construction, and performing management functions, among others. The industries they support represent, but are not necessarily limited to, medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works.

We recognize that State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are ultimately in charge of implementing and executing response activities in communities under their jurisdiction, while the Federal Government is in a supporting role. As State and local communities consider

COVID-19-related restrictions, CISA is offering this list to assist prioritizing activities related to continuity of operations and incident response, including the appropriate movement of critical infrastructure workers within and between jurisdictions.

Accordingly, this list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered to be, a federal directive or standard in and of itself.
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