Having one technician per unit (open and special care), instead of one for both units, will ultimately benefit the entire unit by increasing safety and creating a better environment for everyone. Furthermore, sufficient staffing will allow staff to have more time to assist and comfort patients and will let technicians also be able to greater assist nurses. With more assistance, nurses will be able to provide better care to their patients. Lastly, sufficient staffing will prevent burnout in all staff, therefore possibly decreasing overall call outs and turn over rates. For reference that Mcdermott is insufficiently staffed, Boys town has a ratio of 1 psychiatric technician per 6-8 patients (according to their psychiatric tech job application). On their website this number is stated to ensure a constant safe ratio of staff to patients and allows technicians to consistently provide the highest quality of care. According to California Law “(13) The licenses nurse-to-patient ratio in a psychiatric shall be 1:6 or fewer at all times. For purposes of psychiatric units only, “licensed nurses” also include psychiatric technicians in addition to licensed vocational nurses and registered nurses. Licensed vocational nurses, psychiatric technicians, or a combination of both, shall not exceed 50 percent of the licensed nurses on the unit.” At Mcdermott there is 1 tech for up to 21 patients and two psychiatric units. This number includes special care, a unit which has a higher acuity and requires significantly more attention. According to the job description of a Mental Health Technician at CHI our main job is described as to assist patients with their individuality, self-expression, acknowledging and accepting responsibility for psychological and behavioral patterns, participate in admission procedures, orient patient and family to unit, lastly, perform basic tasks such as vitals. Rounding is not listed, nor prioritized as the main job function in the description. Electronic rounding for two units is time consuming and only leaves a few minutes between each round. A few minutes is hardly enough time to get a patient necessary items, such as toiletries, let alone have a conversation with them and work on all the other factors described in the job explanation. The mission of CHI emphasizes human dignity and social justice while creating healthier communities. The core values include reverence, integrity, compassion and excellence, and the spiritual mission is to address each patients spiritual and emotional needs as well as physical. Working towards CHI’s mission while understaffed and in unsafe conditions is impracticable, unsustainable and unjust to patients and employees. https://www.boystownhospital.org/services/behavioral-health/psychiatric-inpatient-care https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I8612C410941F11E29091E6B951DDF6CE?contextData=%28sc.Default%29&transitionType=Default

We, the undersigned workers of Jimmy John's are concerned about the COVID-19 Health Crisis, and are worried about how our current work situation is putting us and others directly in harm’s way. We do not feel it is safe to be allowing customers to continue coming into the lobby when the CDC and medical community agree that we have not yet even reached the peak of this crisis. Even with the precautions that management has taken to make things safer, the reality is that our stores are mostly small enclosed spaces, COVID-19 is highly contagious, and cases in Indiana are continuing to rise by the hundreds each day. Also, our state does not have regularly accessible testing so the actual number of confirmed cases and deaths are likely far higher than what they are reported as now. We understand that sales are down, but we believe that management must put the lives of its customers and staff over its own profit. If one of us gets sick and is unable to take paid time off or the lobby is opened then they have significantly greater risk of spreading the virus to the rest of the staff and to customers. We cannot in good conscience put ourselves, our families, and our customers at even greater risk by keeping the lobby open and increasing the amount of direct contact that could likely spread the virus further. The close contact at the register and in the lobby means that anyone taking orders and drivers returning from deliveries come well within six feet of many customers and put both parties at risk.

Walmart is giving immunocompromised workers 14 days off without penalty of termination. The attendance policy is that we can only miss five days in a 6 month period before we are terminated whether you are ill with the flu or not. With COVID19 our days should be extended.

I, like most Amazon employees, have a family to come home to and we cannot afford to stay in hotels like some healthcare workers are having the opportunity to do. I have a fiance, a 6 year old and a 10 month old at home and everyday I go into work I feel like I'm risking their lives to help deliver Amazon products to many families getting paid more than me on unemployment and I feel that is very unfair. Especially since my fiance and 6 year old both have asthma and are at a higher risk, I do not feel that Amazon has our health and saftely at heart, just their bottom line and trying to get back to their 2 day delivery promises to its customers.

Errol Blackstone, a current student at Grinnell College, said it best: "We all know that crises like the one we are facing affect marginalized people more harshly and COVID-19 has created large inequity in the education that Grinnell College has promised us." Grinnell itself states that "[b]ehaviors designed to intimidate or hinder others from accessing the benefits provided by the College are strictly prohibited." However, current Grinnell policy hinders hundreds of students from being graded based on competence rather than circumstances. It places a burden on students from marginalized groups who already carry the weight of injustice on their shoulders. We are living through the crises we study and leaning on the science that was once constrained to two-hour labs. Now is not the time to force pedagogical learning when our lives are our classroom. Our responsibility is to ourselves and each other, not our transcripts. Thank you, The Grinnell College Community (https://www.grinnell.edu/about/at-a-glance/mission)

It is important for everyone to stay healthy and to reduce the risk of spreading germs and viruses to those whom we come in contact with. Employers should be encouraging their employees to protect themselves with PPE and create a safe environment for them to work.

We deal with everybodys garabage and recyclable

Grocery employees come into contact with countless strangers every day, and this not only puts them and their families at risk, but also the public who depend on them to provide essential supplies. A high percentage of cases are believed to be transmitted by asymptomatic carriers. Waiting for symptoms to present merely compounds transmission and endangers employees and customers alike.

Because employees feel at risk and afraid because they are dealing with the public and taking a risk everytime they clock in. There are cases of covid in some on the communities in which they work and they continue to come to work amd make the company money while feeling at risk.

We can not practice the 6 foot rule, and do not have proper PPE, and it is putting the lives of our patients (whom we have pledged to protect), our families, and ourselves at risk. For home health, most of the patients have just come from the hospital and are high risk to begin with, many have likely been exposed to COVID19 due to unsafe conditions there. As home health PTs, we are carrying those germs from patient home to patient home, knowingly spreading the virus, but forced to choose between our jobs and our lives. AND we are using valuable PPE (the little we get) that could be going to someone actively saving lives. NO ONE in home health is going to die without Physical Therapy right now.

There is a huge lack of CNA’s to care for our Loved ones. They do the brunt of work which is physical and mentally challenging. The facilities are always understaffed because they can’t find anybody to work for the little wage that they make and the care that they have to provide to residence. I know this because my husband has had caregivers for over 10 years and I hear the same shit all the time how they can’t find staff and that’s why range of motion isn’t getting done, there teeth aren’t getting brushed, only two showers a week. I could go on for ever.

Is very important becose with my salary pay rent , meats and other issues or things like utilities