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What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? The majority of US citizens don’t have the funds to stop working for more than a week

by d4mi3n 6y ago

What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? The majority of US citizens don’t have the funds to stop working for more than a week or so. What about all the nurses who die in the line of duty treating all these new infections? Should they be allowed to opt-out of infection risk? I understand the desire to keep things going, but so long as there is community spread the lockdown can never end, and the virus would never go away.

dj_mc_merlin 6y ago
> What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? What's being done about them now? How is this better? They're losing everything they own, their house, and getting $600 from the government? Many would take a chance of corona over that. > What about all the nurses who die in the line of duty treating all these new infections? Should they be allowed to opt-out of infection risk? Nurses (along with all healthcare personnel) should always receive priviledged treatment. One nurse dying is not a person dying, it is many people dying. > but so long as there is community spread the lockdown can never end, and the virus would never go away. Vaccines will hopefully change that. .. all good points though, and I thought of them too as I was writing out my thoughts. I'm not fully satisfied with these answers, but I do not believe the direction we're headed in right now is much better.
- d4mi3n 6y ago
  Thank you for the thoughtful response. I agree the economic issues are problematic and painful. Sadly, I don’t see a way around a lot of financial pain for everyone over coming months regardless of the status of a lockdown. Depending on your job and industry, there simply isn’t any work to be done while there’s a real risk of death (tourism comes to mind). I think one big sticking point for me around arguments to reopen boil down to our medical care workers—doctors, nurses, and everyone who supports them. I’m not comfortable telling _anyone_ that they need to die to keep the economy going, especially when our medical workers don’t have a say in the matter.

by d4mi3n 6y ago

dj_mc_merlin 6y ago

> What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? What's being done about them now? How is this better? They're losing everything they own, their house, and getting $600 from the government? Many would take a chance of corona over that. > What about all the nurses who die in the line of duty treating all these new infections? Should they be allowed to opt-out of infection risk? Nurses (along with all healthcare personnel) should always receive priviledged treatment. One nurse dying is not a person dying, it is many people dying. > but so long as there is community spread the lockdown can never end, and the virus would never go away. Vaccines will hopefully change that. .. all good points though, and I thought of them too as I was writing out my thoughts. I'm not fully satisfied with these answers, but I do not believe the direction we're headed in right now is much better.

d4mi3n 6y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I agree the economic issues are problematic and painful. Sadly, I don’t see a way around a lot of financial pain for everyone over coming months regardless of the status of a lockdown. Depending on your job and industry, there simply isn’t any work to be done while there’s a real risk of death (tourism comes to mind). I think one big sticking point for me around arguments to reopen boil down to our medical care workers—doctors, nurses, and everyone who supports them. I’m not comfortable telling _anyone_ that they need to die to keep the economy going, especially when our medical workers don’t have a say in the matter.