1. Anderson Cooper raised an interesting point here: are people calling for a quick re-opening of the economy (before testing-and-tracing infrastructure is in place) willing to work in dangerous places?https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1253069469804490752 …
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3. So: a modest proposal: if this is a war, then all sectors of society need to be drafted: dangerous work should be shared by all. Trump should work a day a week as a hospital orderly, Brian Kemp should work in an Amazon warehouse.https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dangerous-work-shared-coronavirus/ …
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One thing to keep an eye on is that in some cases the reopen push seems to be a way to cut people off from unemployment insurance.
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Yeah, I think that's part of what is going on with the more extreme GOP governors.
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The Soviets at Chernobyl were more forthright with the men they were sending in and showed a much greater regard for human life.
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The relationship between the loudest voices for "reopening" the economy and those whose lives would be most immediately put at risk if that were to happen is actually an argument in favor of the accuracy of the war metaphor.
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Jeet, with all due respect, that’s every war
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