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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] I have some other thoughts, but for now I am just going to drop this one out. There are a lot of businesses and their employees that have decided that they can do quite a bit from home, provided the people involved have the integrity to do real work. Since I have worked most of my life in engineering, which is for the most part an office job I have seen that come about. Although I am essentially retired I have done a little work from home in the last months. In every case, except field work, as in visiting a site for inspection, it has all been from home with communication by telephone and email with a few exceptions where the meetings on the site involved more than one person and we sat outside eating and talking. There are quite a few people that are saying, "hey, this ain't bad, we could keep this up." I could see some offices having this as a practice for some days of the week, but I suspect there will be some felt need to see face to fact at regular intervals. There are even some of the admin people that I know to be working from home, including items relating to time and expenses. Should this occur, it could a a notable difference in road and transit traffic and trade at such businesses as restaurants and shops in office areas. It could also result in an even greater drop in public transit usage, two reasons, fewer people going and people being unwilling to be in close proximity with unknowns. I was in Taiwan during the SARS epidemic and saw how they handled it. Virtually everyone wore a mask. Virtually every building had someone at the door taking temperatures or an infrared sensor. Public transit traffic dropped by almost half. People who did not have to go to an office or site stayed home. Air traffic between Taipei and Hong Kong dropped about half and that was/is one of the heaviest traveled air corridors in the world. People who did not have to go out, did not go out. There near panic we are seeing here did not occur. There were a lot of seemingly small things done, but the massive closings did not occur. People simply took precautions when they did go out. Eventually the epidemic worked its way through or fizzled itself out, but we got past it, and things came to be back to normal. There is a general suspicion that this one also started in China, but that I do not say further. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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