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What were your first impressions
when you came back to the building?

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Some of the uncertainties I had was would
the building be musty and stuffy like after

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a three day weekend for instance when the
heating, ventilating and air conditioning is turned down?

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How would the physical conditions reflect the
reduced needs of the very limited occupants that had

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been here while we were away?

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I was surprised to learn upon entry that
it was very comfortable and the ambient conditions

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were not even a little close.

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and as expected, there were signs posted to help remind of the new norms and expectations.

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Don't enter if you have COVID-19 or have been
exposed to the virus, limit of two people in the

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elevator at any time, maintain social distance
and capacity limits on conference rooms for example.

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So did you feel safe coming back to the workplace?

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Yes I did, absolutely.

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There were lots of new hand sanitizer stations
that had been placed around at each floor,

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at least one in each bay.

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There's cleaning supplies distributed for
the common areas in each bay, and as I walk through

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the building to check, I saw the supplies were
staged at the kitchenettes on top of the refrigerators.

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I also observed that the deep cleaning of
the building was underway.

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Starting with the restrooms, and cleaning the
surfaces in common areas and stair wells was

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being finished with the janitorial staff, very
visible doing daily cleaning more frequently than before.

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I wasn't surprised by all of this, but rather
it increased my confidence that things were

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being done in accordance with CDC guidelines
and the clarifications that the Command Surgeon

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had been providing to mitigate risks of our reassembly.