03/17/2020
🔴OFFICIAL COVID-19 UPDATE FROM AETHER 🔴
Our team is working from home during the next two weeks, practicing Social Distancing to eliminate a change from contracting Coronavirus from interpersonal interaction. Most of our clients are in B2B or industrial markets providing services that are not primarily consumer-related, whose staff is also working from home during the health alert. We have only experienced minimal disruptions but these are limited to some of our clients in B2C markets. Still, the world needs many basic industrial, manufacturing and supply chain services that cannot slow down and will simply adjust their production based on the availability of personnel—should any of them fall ill.
At this point, everyone is our team is healthy and we believe "Social Distancing" is an effective way to slow down the spread of Coronavirus. This is a basic concept that eliminates the chances of contagion by avoiding leaving your home for a generally-agreed incubation period of up to 14 days (as suggested by the Center for Disease Control). In the event any of us gets sick, we would heed the advice of the CDC and seek medical help only if we develop severe symptoms.
The world is more fragile than we care to admit. A tiny little virus is more powerful than any terrorist threat, more damaging than any country's political madness, and definitely, a more disruptive force than any other economic or market challenge experienced to date. But like any other problem, there is a solution or a range of them. We need to stay strong and resolved to do our part, so we can look back at this in a few months and decidedly claim victory. Prayer helps too, so let's all be strong in our faiths and yes—LET'S ALL WASH OUR HANDS AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE
It is everyone's job to play a role in this worldwide threat. More than ever before, this is a time for people to come together (not literally) in support of a massive global effort to slow down the infection rate. None of us have ever lived through a health threat of this magnitude and very few people remain alive who would have been around during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. This is an unprecedented event and it requires an unprecedented change in behavior to ensure we can all overcome this challenge.
As always, please visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/covid19 for more information about prevention and how to react to potential contagion.