(09-04-2020 10:28 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote: How many on this board are still working remotely? My building is mostly empty with the majority of staff working remotely. If that doesn’t answer your question then nothing will. Said differently, if you are working remotely and think the season should be played - then you should show up for work in-person next week.
You are comparing a completely different set of circumstances, and I know that you are smart enough to understand that DJ96.
Although the central focus of this forum, athletics are subordinate to the overall mission of running the university. In the face of Covid (which in my own view is more overblown hysterics than actual fact), the school has no choice other than to make in-the-moment decisions on what accommodations are necessary and appropriate and what are not. The decision on whether to close down sports for the fall season is one that no one on this board has all the necessary facts to say for certain what was the correct move. And none of us will know for sure until long after the season is well behind us.
What our gov’t leaders have done to private business, to our school-age children, and to our vulnerable citizens who rely on community services, on the other hand, is a completely different question. We all are better positioned than Governor Moonwalk to decide what is in our own best interest in dealing with this disease. The gov’t is, in most instances, completely unqualified to make the correct call on what functions are best handled remotely and which must be performed in person. It would be as if we on this board were commanding the university to play football this fall - - something we may have an opinion on, but at least are aware enough to know that we don’t have the final say on the matter. The gov’t, on the other hand, is more than willing to play dictator.
And what is worse, these from-the-top decisions are being made without the least bit of humility. I could not care less whether Nancy Pelosi got her hair washed and whether or not she chose to wear a mask. That’s her own personal business. But what makes that offensive is that she is part of the gov’t that decreed that whole segments of our private sector must shutdown, unless they get special recognition from unqualified know-it-alls as what is and is not an essential business.
Neither you nor anyone else are in any position to insist that someone else go into in-person work - - because you have no idea what their work situation might be. Neither does Governor Moonwalk, who (like Pelosi) is delighted to insist on mask-wearing for the masses but considers himself to be too important for that. But you know who does know best? The employer and the employee.
There used to be a time when our gov’t was “by the people, for the people”. That time seems to be no more.