Heh, I feel kind of stupid. I’ve been reading the case statistics from work all wrong. The Intranet webpage lists cases-to-date by location, and the total number of recoveries. I just assumed the total number was adding up the individual cases. So today, the number of cumulative cases at our work location is 111 and 326 for the total company. However, 271 have recovered and cleared to return to work. So, there are only 55 active cases across the company out of 7,500+ employees. The number at our work location should be even smaller, likely in the range of 20-25. That makes me feel better. I thought there were 111 active cases. Hopefully that decreases the chance of having an asymptomatic employee show up to work.
Since almost no one shows up on Sundays, chances are very low that I’m going to encounter an asymptomatic carrier. I think it’s safe for me to run in the office, dump off some documents to shred, clean up my desk a bit, and steal my 30″ monitor on the way out. My coworker said a lot of people have taken IT equipment home recently and physical security seems to be okay with it. She walked out with her 24″ monitor recently and no one said anything. Maybe I’ll put that theory to the test this weekend and see if anyone grabs me coming out of the building with a huge (but old) LCD moniutor.
Life with chronic diseases 