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I hope they're finding ways to help keep them safe in the process. It would be a huge benefit for people to be able to order things online, but not if the warehouses themselves become cesspools of transmission.

>>jfenge+(OP)
Probably Amazon is aware that if health officials shut down their warehouses, their entire retail business goes to hell. It's in their best interest to be hypervigilant.

>>Analem+U
If Amazon even meets a bump on the road in terms of its logistical performance, and merely due to acts of chance and nothing they could have anticipated, then the whole nation would be put on edge. How would lockdown even make sense without Amazon's logistics reassuring the population?

>>jfenge+(OP)
Lots of bottles of hand sanitizer, and a ban on fist-bumps and high fives from managers.

>>jfenge+(OP)
> I hope they're finding ways to help keep them safe in the process.

Amazon's track record with workers suggests this is unlikely, to say the least.

>>threat+12
You have to do it the old fashioned way, pre Internet. Restricted & spaced lines at physical stores or supply locations. Take/get a number access to shopping resupply at stores or supply zones that are cleaned frequently. You move into a real quarantine program. This sit at home and order stuff from Amazon approach, isn't anywhere near that.

It would require the US military and national guard to implement and keep functioning properly. You need someone with huge scale, federal power (overrule local bullshit), and national reach to ensure safety, supply, delivery and make hard decisions as they crop up.

>>Analem+U
I'm sure that at least Amazon grocery delivery would be considered a vital service and wouldn't be shut down lightly.