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> but we know recessions reduce the resources available at the margins for food, medicine and shelter, and increase the suicide rate OK, agreed, because of har
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> but we know recessions reduce the resources available at the margins for food, medicine and shelter, and increase the suicide rate
OK, agreed, because of hardship.
But a lot of that hardship is due to enormous wealth inequality (I'm assuming you're a US person). How about you don't have titanic inequalities instead? Would that work?
- pmiller2 6y agoIt would. The fact that a science-based public health response to a public health crisis is causing extreme economic hardship for so many people right now indicates that our economic system is broken. The science behind reducing transmission of the virus is sound. What's going to get people killed in the near term is twofold: people undermining or protesting the quarantine orders; and people who need to go to work in order to support their families and not get evicted, who end up contracting the virus and either dying or spreading it to others. The former is either due to some kind of fucked up value system that interprets a temporary public health quarantine as some kind of intolerable infringement of rights. The latter is because the American form of capitalism leaves so many people so far behind that they can never get ahead.