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Regrettably cynical view but I’ve seen first hand 3 people use long covid symptoms to extend pandemic related benefits which are paying at a rate approximate to
by slickrick216 5y ago
Regrettably cynical view but I’ve seen first hand 3 people use long covid symptoms to extend pandemic related benefits which are paying at a rate approximate to their past/current jobs.
At both the micro and macro level there are perverse incentives beginning to form that will make this thing roll on longer than it has too
- OliverM 5y agoIncidental bad actors don't invalidate the entire approach of safeguarding people's livelihoods. The 3 people you describe would likely try to exploit any system unfairly. The perfect is the enemy of the good here as in most other places.
- slickrick216 5y agoYeah agreed they would and do. I’m not saying it invalidates anything but what this may indicate is inflated numbers which in the current situation causes overreaction.
- resoluteteeth 5y agoNone of the pandemic benefits in the US required people to claim to have long covid symptoms.
- slickrick216 5y agoNot everyone using HN lives in the US.
- breakfastduck 5y agoWhere did anyone mention the US? Or is this just the classic assumption that all people on the internet are American? Funny how no other nation does that.