4 ms·
I mean, if it hits here in a big way something is going to have to happen with this. Whether you're in a hospital for a 2 week quarantine, or laid up in bed for
by Gene_Parmesan 7y ago
I mean, if it hits here in a big way something is going to have to happen with this. Whether you're in a hospital for a 2 week quarantine, or laid up in bed for 2 weeks because you're sick -- either way you're going to have 2 weeks where you aren't working.
Beyond that, if it REALLY hits here, you're going to have entire businesses shut down temporarily. I saw a CDC estimate that if it goes pandemic, we should expect 40% - 70% of the population to contract it. Imagine your place of employment, but with half of its employees out sick.
- boring_twenties 7y agoEither way you're going to have 2 weeks where you aren't working, but in one of the ways you also have a $100,000+ bill. I can survive 2 weeks without work, but I simply can't pay a bill like that no matter what I do.
- Gene_Parmesan 7y agoThis is why I said they're going to have to do something. When quarantines are imposed there is going to have to be some national consideration paid to these questions. We are talking about quarantines. In other words, forced. Containing the virus as much as possible is well within the sphere of national security concerns. I don't know what the answer is, but if the CDC, HHS, and the government writ large are going to be serious about containing it, they are going to have to come up with some sort of solution that most definitely does not discourage people from self-reporting illness, and also doesn't bankrupt the populace.