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Old 07-19-2020, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Central Mass
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Yep. If only we could be like Kentucky with their 4.3% unemployment.


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Old 07-19-2020, 08:46 AM
 
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The 7 day average according to the New York Times is 27 per 100,000. Nantucket is 44 and Bristol County is 37. I’ve noticed that outdoor mask usage with less than 6’ of separation has tailed off and fewer people are honoring separation in stores. It would be good to improve on that. Connecticut is 17 per 100,000.
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Old 07-19-2020, 08:53 AM
 
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The worse of it is that if you lost your office job, you aren't going to seriously sniff another one until companies start to go back to the office, even if the company wanted to hire. It'd be such a pain in the butt to onboard someone remotely.

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Yep. If only we could be like Kentucky with their 4.3% unemployment.
Hard to brag about number of cases when MA was hit so hard in the beginning. There's got to be some amount of herd immunity helping things now.
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Old 07-19-2020, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Western MA
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The worse of it is that if you lost your office job, you aren't going to seriously sniff another one until companies start to go back to the office, even if the company wanted to hire. It'd be such a pain in the butt to onboard someone remotely.



Hard to brag about number of cases when MA was hit so hard in the beginning. There's got to be some amount of herd immunity helping things now.

Not necessarily true. My company is hiring while we're 100% remote. My group just hired three people this week alone.

We've been on-boarding people virtually since March and it has worked out fine.
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Old 07-19-2020, 11:46 AM
 
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The worse of it is that if you lost your office job, you aren't going to seriously sniff another one until companies start to go back to the office, even if the company wanted to hire. It'd be such a pain in the butt to onboard someone remotely.
It depends on the industry. I hired two people a month ago and it's been fine. I know of at least a handful of former colleagues that changed jobs during COVID without any problems and some are actively interviewing.
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Old 07-19-2020, 01:40 PM
 
Location: Boston
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It depends on the industry. I hired two people a month ago and it's been fine. I know of at least a handful of former colleagues that changed jobs during COVID without any problems and some are actively interviewing.
Agreed. In tech, the recruiters are still circling talent like vultures in their efforts to fill head count.
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Old 07-19-2020, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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I don't know how that website calculates that number, but it can't be correct.
It's the same website that was showing us at 0.7 a few weeks ago.

https://rt.live/us/MA
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Old 07-19-2020, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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The Globe addressed this yesterday in a front page article. The high unemployment is a direct consequence of not re-opening as quickly. Guess what? There's certain businesses which will not open until Phase 4 (bars come to mind)...so we will not fully recover until then or maybe even later.

What these numbers say is--our Gov & his admin made a conscious decision to favor public health over economic health. To point out the number of cases in MA vs. KY is a non-starter with me, because MA was hit early (it's clear...based on Northeastern University's model, that the virus was circulating in Boston all through February). KY would never get the constant volume of overseas visitors and domestic business travel that MA gets.
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Old 07-19-2020, 06:59 PM
 
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The Globe addressed this yesterday in a front page article. The high unemployment is a direct consequence of not re-opening as quickly. Guess what? There's certain businesses which will not open until Phase 4 (bars come to mind)...so we will not fully recover until then or maybe even later.

What these numbers say is--our Gov & his admin made a conscious decision to favor public health over economic health. To point out the number of cases in MA vs. KY is a non-starter with me, because MA was hit early (it's clear...based on Northeastern University's model, that the virus was circulating in Boston all through February). KY would never get the constant volume of overseas visitors and domestic business travel that MA gets.
I do agree MA and much of the northeast got hit early. I have a different opinion that as long as the hospitals weren't overloaded they should have opened up right after. I still think it was completely unconstitutional for the government to decide which businesses could and can't open and when.
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Old 07-19-2020, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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I do agree MA and much of the northeast got hit early. I have a different opinion that as long as the hospitals weren't overloaded they should have opened up right after. I still think it was completely unconstitutional for the government to decide which businesses could and can't open and when.
I disagree but don't want to engage in debate, as the Coronavirus master thread has plenty of it . As I said, the Gov favored public health, not just hospital capacity, as the main criterion, and this is the result.
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