Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’

Yes, but that doesn't mean they're immune from the coronavirus risk. The whole point is that they face the coronavirus risk because they're continuing to work.

We use Zoom internally, some customers are on Webex, still others use Hangouts.

Webex has been having difficulties ever since the mass exodus to work-from-home. Audio quality especially has been inconsistent over the last few weeks. Hangouts is pretty good from a quality standpoint, but I (and others, apparently) find their UI confusing.

I've never been asked yet to use Jitsi or any of the other also-rans.

That's it.

There is nothing else. They managed to do one thing well.

This thing that skype used to do correctly but now don't.

This thing that no other free softwares seems to be able to manage correctly either. Not teams. Not hangout. Not Jitsi or BBB.

It makes you think.

The point of staying at home is not that if you get this disease you are going to die. The issue is that if we ALL get it then a larger proportion of people are going to die because we don't have enough hospitals.

We had to choose some people as being important enough that they are allowed to be out and about and use some of that valuable limited healthcare resources while the rest of us try really hard not to get sick and risk going to the hospital. If this goes south, you may wish that you were one of the people who got the disease early.

Farm labor has always gotten the short end of the stick and this is an added burden. I would vote to give them extra income during this period if that was being considered. But the fact is that they are part of the food chain in this country and so are considered "essential" people to continue doing their jobs.