If they didn't open in summer 2021, when Covid numbers were down, when will they ever reopen? It's shameful and even though I love working from home, it is long past time to go back.
Over two thousand Americans died of COVID on Friday 1/7/22. The same day SCOTUS seemed to entertain nixing the President's vaccine mandate. The crisis is far from being all over.
1:20 Why is it shameful to preserve life? Undoubtedly both SSA employees and claimants would have lost their lives if the offices reopened. Just look at the current statistics on Covid hospitalizations and the facts about how easily the Omicron variant is transmitted.
Similar comments have been posted on several threads, about how he/she loves working from home but it's shameful and SSA workers should have gone back a long time ago.
It's shameful because other social welfare agencies have provided on person service for months. Even when numbers were way down months ago, no reopening to public other than 10 minute appointments for proofs, SS5s/SSNAP, etc. Keeping offices closed is not preserving life. It's making it more difficult for claimants to get paid, get problems fixed, etc. I think it is reasonable to assume most employees and claimants are going to the grocery store, putting has in their cars and conducting other business where they come on contact with others. A few may be living in bunkers. I point out I work for SSA because I want to present another viewpoint to offset all the fear mongering I read here from other employees. I work in an office of about 40 employees and of the ones I know only one is close on their thinking to the extreme fear shown here.
1:15 We are now in the middle of winter with a huge surge in Covid cases due to the Omicron variant. More cases now than ever.
Covid deaths are now also rising, the Washington Post says the 7-day avg. is 1,652, Weekly change plus 24.2% in deaths.
It defies logic to believe that nobody would have caught Covid in a SSA office and died, if SSA had reopened months ago and stayed open, as you advocate.
In the last year, 456,073 people have died from Covid in the US. During that same period 416,619 have died of pneumonia. 3,526,177 have died in the US of all causes during the last year. Omicron cases are way up but for most, Omicron is a cold. Hospitalizations for Omicron are up too but the average stay is 1.6 days vs 4 days for the previous variants. From April through August 2020, Covid deaths were under 1,000 per day average with lows in the 200s. Offices near me open for many months if not the entire pandemic--post office, Dept of Motor Vehicles, Dept of Public Social Services (welfare/medicaid/IHSS, etc), banks, doctor offices, urgent care, libraries, courts, schools, etc. Office not open--SSA.
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If they didn't open in summer 2021, when Covid numbers were down, when will they ever reopen? It's shameful and even though I love working from home, it is long past time to go back.
Over two thousand Americans died of COVID on Friday 1/7/22. The same day SCOTUS seemed to entertain nixing the President's vaccine mandate. The crisis is far from being all over.
1:20 Why is it shameful to preserve life? Undoubtedly both SSA employees and claimants would have lost their lives if the offices reopened. Just look at the current statistics on Covid hospitalizations and the facts about how easily the Omicron variant is transmitted.
I have my doubts that 1:20 really works for SSA.
Similar comments have been posted on several threads, about how he/she loves working from home but it's shameful and SSA workers should have gone back a long time ago.
It's shameful because other social welfare agencies have provided on person service for months. Even when numbers were way down months ago, no reopening to public other than 10 minute appointments for proofs, SS5s/SSNAP, etc. Keeping offices closed is not preserving life. It's making it more difficult for claimants to get paid, get problems fixed, etc.
I think it is reasonable to assume most employees and claimants are going to the grocery store, putting has in their cars and conducting other business where they come on contact with others. A few may be living in bunkers.
I point out I work for SSA because I want to present another viewpoint to offset all the fear mongering I read here from other employees. I work in an office of about 40 employees and of the ones I know only one is close on their thinking to the extreme fear shown here.
1:15 We are now in the middle of winter with a huge surge in Covid cases due to the Omicron variant. More cases now than ever.
Covid deaths are now also rising, the Washington Post says the 7-day avg. is 1,652, Weekly change plus 24.2% in deaths.
It defies logic to believe that nobody would have caught Covid in a SSA office and died, if SSA had reopened months ago and stayed open, as you advocate.
In the last year, 456,073 people have died from Covid in the US. During that same period 416,619 have died of pneumonia. 3,526,177 have died in the US of all causes during the last year.
Omicron cases are way up but for most, Omicron is a cold. Hospitalizations for Omicron are up too but the average stay is 1.6 days vs 4 days for the previous variants.
From April through August 2020, Covid deaths were under 1,000 per day average with lows in the 200s.
Offices near me open for many months if not the entire pandemic--post office, Dept of Motor Vehicles, Dept of Public Social Services (welfare/medicaid/IHSS, etc), banks, doctor offices, urgent care, libraries, courts, schools, etc. Office not open--SSA.
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