USFK Moves to Primarily a Telework Status Due to Coronavirus Spread in South Korea

I wonder how long USFK is willing to keep so many people in a telework status if the spread of coronavirus in South Korea continues at its current pace?:

Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division wear masks as they wait for their meals outside a restaurant near Osan Air Base, South Korea, Oct. 20, 2020.

The U.S. military command in South Korea is raising its coronavirus risk level and imposing new restrictions as the peninsula experiences record-breaking levels of new infections.

South Korea counted 1,078 newly infected coronavirus patients Tuesday, a pandemic record for that country, and 12 deaths, according to the country’s Central Disease Control Headquarters.

U.S. Forces Korea is returning to Health Protection Condition-Charlie, which reflects a substantial risk of the virus spreading, starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, according to a Facebook post by the command on Wednesday evening.

Only mission-essential personnel will report for duty, according to the statement. All others will telework. USFK will review the higher protection level Jan. 4.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link, but doing telework through the holidays is not a big deal when mostly everyone is on leave or half day schedule anyway. After the holidays is when the hard decision is going to have to be made because keeping soldiers on telework will eventually impact readiness.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
4 years ago

And here I thought The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

setnaffa
setnaffa
4 years ago

Combine this with the SolarWinds/FireEye fiasco and you realize there is more trouble than the carefully-crafted narrative alleges.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
4 years ago

You can’t telework the mitary…just silly. Even staff you need secure networks…unless your name is Hillary…what are they going to do, run SIPR lines to everyone’s apartment?

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
4 years ago

Oh. And a effective treatment already exists, ivermectin. https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w

2ID Doc
2ID Doc
4 years ago

Flyingsword you know we can’t use that, it been around for 40 years, it’s cheap and it’s effective…the drug companies can’t rake in rail cars full of “oranges”

Korean Man
Korean Man
4 years ago

Next news headline. USFK soldiers telework from home after North Korea attacks.

Tbonety1r_lives
Tbonety1r_lives
4 years ago

Wait, I thought USFK was almost COVID free? LOL So happy we finally have an adult in the white house come January 🙂 Party on you losers!

Tbonety1r_lives
Tbonety1r_lives
4 years ago

Chickendead, you’re such a dick, have been ever since your club was closed down by Osan. LOL One of these days you’ll get over the PAIN!

setnaffa
setnaffa
4 years ago

I thought our local trolls would appreciate being noticed for the fine job the 1010-cent-army has been doing.

nypost com/2020/12/16/how-china-uses-internet-trolls-to-help-cover-up-its-atrocities/

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
4 years ago

Silly Tbonety1r_lives, you haven’t even seen my ability to be a dick.

Keyboard warrioring is to being a dick like eating a picture of a sandwich is to eating a sandwich.

You can skip my dickishness with that little scroll wheel and not even notice it happened…

…if you choose to.

And if you don’t choose to, well, thanks for giving me power over your mind with so little effort.

Usually, I have to work to control people.

Andy
Andy
4 years ago

I know on the civilian side, there were already complaints of not being able to get a hold of some of the off these off base teleworkers by email or by phone. Granted, I know its hard to work from home if you have little ones running around tho. 🙂

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