COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Oye said

Ontario just closed all non-essential businesses. You can find their list of essential businesses at this site, in case you're curious:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-essential-workplaces

There are 74 types of businesses under the following 19 categories:

• Supply chains
• Retail and wholesaling
• Food services and accommodations
• Institutional, residential, commercial and industrial maintenance
• Telecommunications and IT infrastructure/service providers
• Transportation
• Manufacturing and production
• Agriculture and food production
• Construction
• Financial activities
• Resources
• Environmental services
• Utilities and community services
• Communications industries
• Research
• Health care and seniors care and social services
• Justice sector
• Other businesses
• Business regulators and inspectors

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That's a lot of people out working. I get that we rely a lot on all of these, but its gonna make reducing the spread of this thing near impossible. Whether it's enough to keep hospitals from exceeding capacity is an open question I would think.