I feel that it is not the number of deaths that this virus causes being the major issue at present as that would seem to be low. It is the fact that those who are infected are generally "laid up" for at least ten days it would seem.
Therefore, it is the threat to the overall infrastructure that has to be considered if large numbers of people were off work through illness.
To give a very basic example to the above, who will keep the lights on if a great many employees at the power station cannot work through illness. There is also the very likely situation that any business could be forced to close by the authorities if persons working there are found to be infected.
Like many businesses in the last few days we worked until late last night thinking through who, and how, our employees could possibly work from home should a situation arise where ether of our offices was forced to close.
The situation with those that work by way of going into other people's offices and homes we are going to address later this morning at another meeting.
The above are only precautions as it may well be that such plans will not hopefully be needed. However, in the current situation, many organisations are laying out such plans which are a necessary requirement we believe at this time.
