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We need some awareness of categories here. You are in a particular category where that feeling is an option. I am in the category where my spouse and I retaine

by AlanSE 6y ago

We need some awareness of categories here. You are in a particular category where that feeling is an option. I am in the category where my spouse and I retained our jobs, but lost childcare. These weeks are a nightmare, but I am fortunate. More urban co-workers of mine do not have the option of outdoors. I am time-crunched and frustrated, but have plenty of sunshine. Neighbors of mine in health care have to do intense shift work with COVID patients. Some retained child care options, but some didn't, and if they did, anxiety about it exists. Many many more people out there have the terrible misfortune of too much time and unsteady finances. I feel the most sorry for these people.

dusted 6y ago
If people weren't messy and went about infecting each other left and right, healthcare workers wouldn't be under this kind of strain, and I wouldn't blame them for just going home and saying fuck it, they didn't start this and they're in my opinion under _NO_ obligation to lift that burden beyond what can be considered a normal call of duty in any other job. It's simply unfair to say "Oh, yes, I get to go home after my 8 hour workday, because I'm not a doctor, but _YOU_ chose to be a doctor so you're have to work yourself to the bone while I sit on the couch and infect my friends while watching the game." Childcare, if the fact that well educated people with good jobs and (assuming) reasonable income is in need of childcare, is not a demonstration of how wrong a society we've constructed.. Sure, in prehistory, some had to stay back when them while others hunted, but we didn't need to keep that structure in place as we progressed. How is it not crazy that we have constructed society in such a way that one has to offload them to someone else to be considered "a productive member of society". How is is not entirely broken that, despite the enormous amount of wealth generated in the world, people still starve, and there's pretty much no help for them if they lose their jobs? Community does not have to mean that we physically come together, it can mean that we pull the load we can, we contribute and share, we treat each other well and respect each other.

by AlanSE 6y ago

dusted 6y ago

If people weren't messy and went about infecting each other left and right, healthcare workers wouldn't be under this kind of strain, and I wouldn't blame them for just going home and saying fuck it, they didn't start this and they're in my opinion under _NO_ obligation to lift that burden beyond what can be considered a normal call of duty in any other job. It's simply unfair to say "Oh, yes, I get to go home after my 8 hour workday, because I'm not a doctor, but _YOU_ chose to be a doctor so you're have to work yourself to the bone while I sit on the couch and infect my friends while watching the game." Childcare, if the fact that well educated people with good jobs and (assuming) reasonable income is in need of childcare, is not a demonstration of how wrong a society we've constructed.. Sure, in prehistory, some had to stay back when them while others hunted, but we didn't need to keep that structure in place as we progressed. How is it not crazy that we have constructed society in such a way that one has to offload them to someone else to be considered "a productive member of society". How is is not entirely broken that, despite the enormous amount of wealth generated in the world, people still starve, and there's pretty much no help for them if they lose their jobs? Community does not have to mean that we physically come together, it can mean that we pull the load we can, we contribute and share, we treat each other well and respect each other.