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Business Obligations and moral conviction – a Coronavirus question
At the beginning of January i put a fairly urgent notice on my clients desks about coronavirus. I use to be a microbiologist in college and understanding the gravity of the threat I brought it up during my biggest client’s marketing meeting and was laughed out of the room.
Now the threat is much more real with communities actively suffering from sickness and the elderly actively at risk and dying.
I am starting to see small or large businesses enacting plans, isolation, quarintine, work from home policies and more to communicate. I think it common moral sense to do the same given we have a responsibility to the community.
I’m putting together copywriting and media about the disease for my clients now as some owners have gotten back to me with more serious questions.
Still others have been totally resistant or militant about putting any information out there for their community, obviously the pandemic might hurt business.I want to ask other social media people about their own responses to their communities and clients given this pandemic.
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I just emailed my fellow management staff about this last night. We’re in Ohio and a FEC. It hasn’t “broken out” here yet, but I figured we could at least email our staff with tips on hygiene, address their concerns (don’t come in sick – you won’t be penalized for calling off) and we can start preparations for wiping down equipment more frequently and how to deal with clients who wish to postpone or cancel parties due to sickness or being scared.
I looked online for some tips but there isn’t much for smaller retail businesses. So I think doing what we can and just weather the storm.
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I’m in Seattle where there are 9 deaths in the area
Honestly, i’ve been waiting to discuss it with my boss because I don’t want to seem paranoid/crazy or like I am trying to get out of work.
My job has a lot of large corporate events and my hope is that they will start postponing them. That is going to suck for me because essentially I am going to have to start padding my hours and inventing pointless busy work in order to get all my bills paid.
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The best thing you can do is be prepared and not feed into the fearmongering.
COVID-19 has a lower mortality rate than the yearly flu.
This isn’t the zombie apocalypse.
This isn’t even Ebola. And we had that shipped to Omaha too, remember?
Unless you are elderly, very young, or immunocompromised, you don’t have much to worry about.
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