Amazon to pay California $500k for ‘concealing’ Covid cases among workers

Nothing deserving of jail time happened here. Maybe we should also start jailing people for parking wrong or driving slowly on the left lane?

Jesus, HN has really gone almost full reddit at this point. For a touch more context.

"In a statement, Amazon spokeswoman Barbara Agrait said the settlement addresses how the company conducts mass employee notifications related to COVID-19. There is no required change to, or allegations of any problems with, the company’s protocols for notifying employees who have been in direct contact with a potentially infected person, she said."

I seriously wonder if all govt agencies themselves are doing sufficient mass notifications. I wonder how UC systems pandemic controls are especially with sports etc.

Full disclosure: Because the weekly testing I have to do through a lab runs $350/test and takes too long to come back I often use Amazon's COVID testing at $39. It is overnighted back to them, I generally get results back by noon the next day. Because I don't pay for the non-amazon test I do it as well.