The Division Commander paid a visit to our encampment because as a Recruits Training Battalion, we had the largest number of soldiers quarantined. The numbers were close to 20: 3 corporals originally from this battalion and 17 recruits who just entered. None had any symptoms or contacts – just those who came from ‘regions of occurence’ or overseas.
Now there was a new task: to renovate the barracks such that each barrack was separated into 6 aerosol-tight zones.
In the military, you will be surprised how little they are willing to delegate the job to professionak contractors. Instead, the master sergeants decided to do the job themselves.
Not exactly by themselves: they saw three familiar faces in the quarantine zone, and decided to conscript us into the work. Not exactly a ‘quarantine’ if we stand right next to each other and share carpentry equipments.
It is a pity that I cannot take photos in the barracks for security purposes, but the completed work was not the most reliable structure. Curtain holders drilled into the ceiling, long sheets of vinyl plastic drapes and musking tapes to hold them at the ground.
Not only were there gaps for the supposed ‘aerosol-tight’ separation structures, anyone could just accidentally lean on it and rip the whole sheet off.
Then again, everyone seemed satisfied with their work, even with the obvious flaws. When the job was done, they left and never came back to check it.
A couple of days later, half of the sheets started separating from the ground as the tape adhesives lost its grip.
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