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It...kind of makes sense, though? SNAP: People are going to be out of work because of this, not everyone has a job they can work from home with, and emergency
by kick 7y ago
It...kind of makes sense, though?
SNAP: People are going to be out of work because of this, not everyone has a job they can work from home with, and emergency savings in America are sparse enough to where it's a real concern.
Food bank services: People are going to be out of work because of it, so on, and encouraging people to keep in one region delays the spread of the virus.
Student Meals: ?
Senior nutrition programs: Reducing spread among the most vulnerable, plus most of those programs are about increasing the quality of nutrition, which might help boost immune systems.
Medicaid increase: (explained in that blurb)
If anything, it seems like this would be agreeable among both sides overall, especially when taking into account 45's television address, which focused heavily on the elderly. It makes sense, because there's a strong incentive for the Republican side of the aisle to keep them alive: too much of them gone at once and more than a few of them would be at risk of losing their seats.
- majos 7y agoRe: students, a nontrivial fraction of students get meals from the schools they attend, so if schools close this would help cover that demographic.
- kick 7y agoOh yeah, of course! Thanks for pointing that out!
- mmcnl 7y agoNobody is saying it doesn't make sense, but does it really need to be on the same bill?
- kick 7y agoThings will get worse without those things, so it seems like it does.
- PeterisP 7y agoIf you want mass testing, you need to create circumstances that allow people to go and get tested. If a positive test would result in a quarantine without a financial "safety net", then people won't agree to be tested or will ignore test results and the goal of the bill will fail. Actually doing the tests and "here's what will happen if you get tested positive, and it's not horrible and won't bankrupt you" are two sides of the same coin. I mean, the end goal is not tests as such but to restrict spread of the disease. If "tests are available" but if the vulnerable parts of the population (e.g. the dude putting stuff on the shelf of your local store or the girl at the counter) don't have that safety net, then the testing was useless because they'll still go to work and infect you and others. So this safety net is a key part of the bill.