1/ Those who say folk who want 2 go back to work should b able to & those who are afraid or at high risk can continue sheltering miss the pt. If large numbers go back many will contract & spread to others, including those who didn't choose that risk but still go 2 grocery, etc..
2/ ...or who live in their house, like kids/partner. And even their own illnesses will result in harms to economy, overburdened health care delivery, etc., so we do this again anyway. Also, what happens to those who can't risk it, or would rather not bc of asthma, high BP, etc?..
3/ Those are normally manageable conditions which people have & still work. But if C19 poses deadly risk to them, many will logically (even in the eyes of the "get back to work" folk) choose to stay home. Now, do the re-open brigades support protecting those folks' jobs?...
4/ Or ensuring them paid leave? Or supporting them with some form of short-term disability that would allow them to pay all their bills before returning? Bc if not -- and I'm guessing they don't -- they are really saying NOT that people should be able to choose work or home...
5/ But that everyone should be forced, in effect, to choose their money or their health and possible risk of death. To say "well, you can choose to stay home but if you do, you're on your own," is to say you think asthmatics, people with diabetes, hi BP etc are disposable...
6/ It makes you a monster. Meanwhile, those of us who support keeping shit closed do NOT WANT TO SEE PEOPLE GO BROKE. We support massive government infusion of $$$ to everyone until we're thru this...print money (it won't be inflationary - we risk deflation now) and distribute...
7/ This is what Denmark is doing: paying folks the equivalent of about 53k US dollars to stay home and healthy till it's safe to open back up. We could do this. The only reason we won't is to preserve the economic orthodoxy of hyper-capitalism, bc we value that more than lives...
8/ Our "way of life" is more important to these folks than the people living it...and if that way of life is dangerous and deadly they will stick with it rather than change direction. Because they are a death cult.
