Costco has a masks required policy. I wore this in to cancel my membership.
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You do realize that Costco's hand here is basically forced don't you?
If any major retailer doesn't take every reasonable and prudent precaution to protect their workers from getting sick who do you think will be slapped with the lawsuit when employees contract Covid or die from it?
This isn't an attempt to make you conform to any worldview. It's a policy put in place to help keep workers safe and to limit liability should they fall ill.
But that's just it. Today it's Costco and Sam's. Tomorrow it's every grocery store. Once they're all on board, how are you going to get your groceries? Congratulations, you've arrived at the "new normal".
So what? The virus is a reality right now. Businesses have to take reasonable precautions or they will be found negligent in a court of law if an employee becomes sick from workplace exposure.
And it should also be stated that many companies have a real concern about keeping their employees healthy that comes from an ethical moral desire and not just a risk management assessment.
You think these companies want to do this? Hell no. But there exists at the current time a combination of factors that mean this a prudent step they must take.
Then they have every right to resign. Many jobs carry risks. You assume those risks when you accept the job. The annual sniffles aren't an OSHA compliance issue.
When all is said and done and the studies are in, I agree that the Chinese Virus will likeky be more like the "annual sniffles" than anything remotely near the scenarios painted in March.
It's entirely possible, if not probable at this time, that we will conclude that a nation wide shutdown was not needed and that where we did shutdown, we did not reopen as soon as we could have.
Costco didn't care when everyone was shoulder to shoulder 2 months ago for TP hoarding. No social distancing. No masks. No disinfectant.
They don't care about people. They care about optics and PR stunts. If they cared, they wouldn't have had stores full to the brim of shoppers during the height of the scare.
As a member, I'm seriously considering not renewing on the fall because of their handling of this. They should've made masks required 2 months ago, not now. It's pointless to do it now that the weather is getting warmer the and virus will naturally have a harder time to spread.
At that time "the height of the scare" two months ago there was basically only one area of the country, near that nursing home in Washington state, that had any appreciable number of confirmed cases.
Granted that based on the new Chinese Virus antibody tests we now know that it is very likely the virus has been in America since December. But nobody knew that then. Confirmed cases were few and far between except for that nursing home in Washington so there was no perceived need for everyone in America to wear masks.
As for not following social distance protocols at that time, that's because there WEREN'T any!
Once the CDC announced distancing protocols companies across America adopted them fairly quickly.
It pointless to apply Monday morning quarterbacking to the decisions that were made at that time. Every major retailer acted as expeditiously as their corporate structure permitted to the rapidly changing and evolving sets of guidelines issued by the CDC, and state and local governments .
To say that companies only care about optics and PR stunts is a facile explanation that doesn't hold water. Yes companies do care about optics, but it is far from the only thing they care about.
What if I told you that I actually know what I'm talking about here since I work in this commercial sector and have been involved in implementing Chinese virus response actions as new guidelines unfolded? Would you still call me a concern troll simply because I have a different opinion than yours?