Jobs like electric power plants, water supply, transportation of food and water and prisons? A prison/jail in Ohio talking about letting prisoners out. Will these stay operational? Or shut down as well?

I imagine the goverment will keep them operational, but they'll probably be prepared to run with lighter crews.

If you let power, water sanitization, etc. go then everything is going to get 100x worse - you want mad max? Shut off power and the supply of clean water....

I'm in the wastewater business, and our plants will stay operational. We may be forced to reduce the number of operators on shift and back off PMs for awhile, but we will continue treating wastewater.

Edited to add that water, electric, and solid waste will take the same approaches.

I think keeping your distance wouldn't be as difficult in water/power. You just don't want a significant number of them getting sick at the same time.

Prisons have already banned visitors. Staff should be screened before entering. This viral beast would love those close quarters.

Prison or county jails? I've already heard the push here in Hennepin county in Minnesota to release low level non violent offenders who are basically in jail still because they're poor and can't get bail before their court date, which is going to have a huge backlog.

Prisons I highly doubt

Johnny2Fan said:

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Jobs like electric power plants, water supply, transportation of food and water and prisons? A prison/jail in Ohio talking about letting prisoners out. Will these stay operational? Or shut down as well?

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Depends if they have Toilet paper !

Don't want to whipee with an electrical cord !

These facilities should and will all remain open

I work at a refinery. We have moved to tiered staffing with only essential operations, maintenance, and lab personnel working at site while non-essential staff work from home. Those who are at site are practicing social distancing and are required to have their temperature tested twice a day while at work. High touch-point areas like control rooms are being constantly cleaned and access is being highly restricted.

If this situation turns for the worse we would probably move to live-in crews who would be locked in to run the facility at a reduced capacity (much like hurricane response). They would remain at the facility 24 hrs a day until relief crews are brought in or quarantine are lifted.