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by elicash 7y ago
Instacart could pay someone to make hand sanitizer if they wanted. They can purchase soap.
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My experience is that the more powerful the employer, the harder it is to organize. To your direct point, this is why you organize entire industries within a given geography for service work rather than employer by employer. (It's also
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by elicash 7y ago
It also could do the opposite, as small businesses get crushed and only larger businesses recover -- creating more income inequality and leading to the most powerful having even more power over our economy. Workers may have less ability to
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by elicash 7y ago
Did a quick search and "Trader Joe’s and Walmart employees have received bonuses, while Target, Whole Foods, Amazon, and the Texas grocery store chain H-E-B are offering $2 per hour raises." https://civileats.com/2
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People handling our food not having sick leave, not having access to things like soap and hand sanitizer -- that effects their customers, too, and puts them at risk. Food deliveries are generally safe for customers to receive assuming we wa
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by elicash 7y ago
Here are their demands: https://medium.com/@GigWorkersCollective/instacart-emergency... - Safety precautions at no cost to workers — PPE (at minimum hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes/sprays and soap). - Hazard pa
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by elicash 7y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison, personally. Getting your hours cut is a big deal and might mean you can't pay your bills. Like I said, I think it's great to split them out if you can, but let's not minimize
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by elicash 7y ago
I think the person you responded to was saying was that both of those things (being laid off and having hours cut) involve not receiving some amount of pay. And that that's the reason they were grouped together. Basically that it was a
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I was thinking dark mode.
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This site has A TON of personality! Both in the copy "I'll keep it short" and also that it's unlike anything else on the web.
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by elicash 7y ago
The U.S. did not suspend all travel from Europe. The WH issues clarifications and corrections shortly after the speech. First, it's not all of Europe -- 26 of 44 countries in Europe affected. Second, it doesn't include cargo (the
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by elicash 7y ago
Honestly, all I need is a string.
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by elicash 7y ago
Yes, many small business owners are freaking out about how much time they have before they go under. There are, however, ways of addressing those problems that elected officials are considering -- for just a singular example, loans.
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by elicash 7y ago
Here's another idea: Start wearing a bracelet or something else to give yourself a little reminder when you are reaching for your face. I have no idea whether bracelets themselves are germ traps, of course.
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Worth noting that even we today still haven't banned all travel from China and doing so FULLY is not really a great option unless we did a ton of other things first. We're still having goods imported from China and there are folks
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by elicash 7y ago
I don't think public health experts should be taking partisan views of the public into consideration, or need to be experts on what can and cannot pass legislatively, personally. They should be objectively speaking from experience as h
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by elicash 7y ago
What's your argument that none of the items listed in that section would slow the spread of COVID-19? Some of them are being considered on a short-term basis by political officials right now on the very basis that it could slow that sp
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by elicash 7y ago
I'm against partisanship, as stated above. But this idea of yours that by disagreeing with you, it means you're right, is absurd. If we agreed, would that mean you were wrong?
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by elicash 7y ago
Loans and tax breaks for small businesses are exactly one of the POLITICAL recommendations being considered right now. If one party is against them, should experts (in this case economic) not weigh in?
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How far should scientists take this principle? If a political party decided to take the view that this whole thing was no big deal and that big events in key geographies shouldn't be cancelled, should public health experts stay out of
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by elicash 7y ago
This author has "a masters degree in public health from the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as well as a background in infectious diseases and vaccine development." They are not literally at somebody&#
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by elicash 7y ago
Paid sick leave (including caring for family members) is one item that can absolutely be dealt with in the moment during this ongoing pandemic, and MUST be dealt with to have an effective response. Same for how we deal with a lack of hospit
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If one of our two political parties was calling for everybody to lick doorknobs in areas where there have been coronavirus outbreaks, does arguing against that suddenly become partisan? How about experts talk about what's in their expe
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by elicash 7y ago
Partisanship I'd argue is bad. Politics, however, is not. The idea that we should ignore the state of our healthcare system because we find politics icky is counter-productive to building an effective system for dealing with public hea
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by elicash 7y ago
> We live in a world that has had to come up with labour unions when spirals of mistreatment and cost-cutting got out of hand The OP story is one reason that unions in certain geographies will attempt to unionize the entire industry all
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Edit: wrong story!
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I know it's widespread. The extent to which that's the case, unfortunately, we have no idea because there hasn't been enough testing. Not sure what you mean by "ordinarily" tested. This pandemic is quite a unique si
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by elicash 7y ago
Vigilant diagnosis? Isn't the biggest issue for the U.S. right now that we're not able to test nearly enough people? As far as stocking up, my understanding was that the reason for picking up an extra couple items each time you go
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by elicash 7y ago
Aren't significantly fewer (tens of millions?) people taking the mortgage interest deduction due to tax reform that doubled the standard deduction? Doesn't seem to have driven a collapse in housing costs. We need more density in l
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The entire point of housing policy at the local level, where it matters, is to make housing more expensive because people's wealth is in their homes and they're relying on housing prices to rise steadily. Renters have less politic

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