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Well to do folks can work from home, or not work from vacation homes, have all their needs delivered, and not catch this thing. All the "essential" people will
by cmurf 7y ago
Well to do folks can work from home, or not work from vacation homes, have all their needs delivered, and not catch this thing. All the "essential" people will catch it and some will die, and the well off will consider this very cheap, good, proper, and mandatory for economic reasons.
It's hardly worse than the exploitation for profit of the tobacco industry. Known for decades it would maim and kill, but millions invested in, were shareholders, were owners. And they've never been sanctioned. This will be no different. The lower class will take one for the team, again, for the greater good of society so that the better classes can live with minimal inconvenience.
By all rights, essential workers should quit. But they have a boot on their head: landlords and debts. It's economic coercion.
- WalterBright 7y agoIt's been well known for over a century that smoking is a slow poison. The well off smoked as much or more than the not so well off. My dad, who went to high school in the 1930's, said they were known as "coffin nails" then. Any doctor who cut open a smoker knew what smoking did to the lungs.
- eddieplan9 7y agoThat's a very cynical view. Doctors are by no means lower class. Most if not all of them can quit, and are not subject to "economic coercion". Yet almost of them choose to work and overwork. I am not an "essential" and am working from home, but I donate and try to help my local community, and if I am called to help in other ways, I will. And no, I don't actively invest in tobacco.
- gizmo686 7y agoMany doctors have a substantial amount of debt from med school that they took on with the assumption of having a doctor's income.