Campus is having committee meetings to try and get Research back on track. Everyone involved has "great ideas" that are are either logistically unfeasible or organizationally unrealistic. Simple things like limiting the number of people in areas and putting sanitizer stations outside bathrooms/lab entrances are being poo-poo'd as "not doing enough". The ideas that aren't getting shot down are straight from the Overreaction For Dummies handbook (Example: Propping bathroom doors open and posting monitoring staff to make sure people are washing their hands properly). Most depend entirely on immediate and consistent PPE availability, PPE which is currently unavailable in anything resembling necessary quantities (though they somehow think that thrice daily "reminders" to Purchasing about how important this is will somehow make more product miraculously appear). They necessitate the creation of a team structure which not only does not currently exist, it will take 4-6 weeks to develop and roll out. They also don't take into account the bulk of product necessary, the manpower needs involved, and the policing that will be involved for the programs to last more than a few days before people are so tire of the rigmarole that they start ignoring it altogether. At best, it will be implemented by mid-June, by which time the hysteria will have died down and attentions turned to whatever Emergency du Jour the media has concocted for Summer.
TLDR version: Whatever plan they come up with will take too long to implement, be too cumbersome to sustain, and will go into effect too late. It will be, at best, an annoyance that lets them claim to have done something.
I've exhausted my supply of shits to give for today.
Brad
