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The workers still have to be indoors. Do you not care about their well being? How many bar and restaurant workers get health insurance from their employer?
by humaniania 6y ago
The workers still have to be indoors. Do you not care about their well being? How many bar and restaurant workers get health insurance from their employer?
- zaroth 6y agoI care very much about their wellbeing, which is why it’s so important they are able to go back to work. NY is a Medicaid Expansion state. The bar and restaurant workers likely qualify for free (under 133% FPL) or substantially subsidized ACA plans. Right now, the mask-wearing hand-washing under 40-year-old restaurant worker in NYC, with a positivity rating of 1% (the noise floor) are probably more at risk from dying due to lightening strike in their lifetime (1 in 180k) than of COVID.
- pradn 6y agoI absolutely do. I try to wear a mask as much as possible, though it can't be 100% when dining. Some 30% of NYC renters haven't paid rent since March and may face eviction. If I can help restaurant staff do that, that's a help. And plus, infection rates are low and stable in NY. In an ideal world, we all go to sleep until a vaccine arrives, but we live in a world far from ideal.