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The worker was exposed to covid-19, was told to quarantine, and came back on site anyway.

This strikes me as an egregious safety violation and a truly excellent reason to fire the worker.

He was exposed on March 11, and Amazon told him to self-quarantine only after he announced plans to strike, MORE than two weeks later.

If there's an egregious safety violation here, it's Amazon corporate who is guilty.

>The worker was exposed to covid-19, was told to quarantine, and came back on site anyway.

worker was exposed to co-worker with covid-19; Amazon knowingly allowed exposed worker to continue working; when worker found out of the exposure and Amazon's failures worker organized a strike; only after organizing a strike did Amazon require worker to stay home in quarantine.

>This strikes me as an egregious safety violation

Not only a safety violation by Amazon but a Constitutional violation.

I think the point is that more than just this worker was exposed to COVID-19...shouldn't the entire warehouse be shuttered?

It sounds like they quarantined everyone that was in close contact with someone that got COVID-19. We can argue about whether or not they quarantined the appropriate number of people / wide enough, but given the size of a warehouse, I don't agree that it is reasonable to shutter the entire warehouse based on 1 person.

Depends on the circumstances of his contact, what parts of the site he was in, who he came into contact...etc. I'm not sure one potential case warrants the entire warehouse being shuttered if appropriate disinfection and continued monitoring are in place. They seemed to catch his exposure via some string of events, so there is some effort in risk analysis happening.

It's not anthrax. You are unlikely to get it from just being the in same space a day after the fact.

Unless you, say, use the same push cart, flush the same toilet, etc

Shuttering distribution facilities will send more people to grocery stores and supermarkets. It's not really better on-net to shut down the Amazon delivery chain, as long as you take reasonable measures to disinfect the facility.

That is not an honest and accurate recitation of the facts.

If it is inaccurate, please provide well-sourced corrections. I have no desire to spread incorrect or misleading information.

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