Ross: Australians have just what we need to reopen
May 18, 2020, 7:51 AM | Updated: 12:30 pm
A rainbow lorikeet parrot lands on a table as diners have lunch in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
As states start to drift back to normal, businesses are having to deal with a confusing set of safety requirements that can vary from state to state, and sometimes county to county.
So I called up Dr. Erin Bromage at the University of Massachusetts, who teaches scientific communication — or how to accurately explain complicated stuff.
“I get my undergraduate students to go into a fourth grade classroom and give a talk on a scientific topic,” she told me. “If they can鈥檛 explain it to those kids, they can鈥檛 explain it to me.”
He also wrote clearly explaining how not to get COVID-19. It got 14 million views.
What American businesses need now, he says, is a clear explanation of how to reopen safely. Something like the government has done in his native Australia, where there鈥檚 an online tool called 鈥淪afe Workplaces.鈥� You enter the type of business you鈥檙e in 鈥� restaurant, gym, hair salon.
“And you click on this and it gives you the best practices that we know of right now in order to get your store, your business, … back open.”
The advice is tailored to your business. And while we wait for clear guidelines here — and since the rules of biology are the same in Australia — there鈥檚 nothing to stop Americans from using it. Just search for
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