1/ There's a growing...I don't want to call it "point of view", bc it doesn't actually seem to have a coherent PoV or argument, but a growing...tone? I see in some places: "the lockdown is fake bc white collar people stay home but blue collar people work in trucks & stores"
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11/ These two would work equally well, and would benefit everyone, in both groups. But (a) people want to make some moral claim, but (b) ... they can't / won't actually spell out what it is.
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12/ yep ... but even then ... what of it? Even this steelman doesn't quite SAY anything. What now? Should they stop proposing lockdowns? Should we rise up and call them bad people? What's the desired goal here?https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1328352812892377089 …
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13/ This is a coherent point, and I continue to not have an opinion on the ROI effectiveness of lockdowns, but ... this, being a nuanced policy argument is NOT what I'm discussing in this thread.
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14/ OK, now THIS is the first stab at it that makes sense. "Lockdowns are unfair bc you put COSTS on blue collar people (work, chance of getting sick), but remove BENEFITS (relaxation, socialization)." OK, interesting. ...but now what? What's step 2?https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1328353643926523907 …
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16/ Right. I ENTIRELY agree that the prog elites are absolute hypocrites. This thread is not defending them, not defending lockdown-for-Thanksgiving-but-not-for-BLM. This thread is asking "what does X mean / hope to achieve?".https://twitter.com/scareduck/status/1328354469877309440 …
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17/ OK, guys, I'm getting a ton of people who are going off topic and telling me that progs are bad, that lockdowns are bad, etc. And ... fine. I agree with the first and have no opinion on the second. I'm trying to understand one PARTICULAR RHETORICAL POINT, that's it.
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You’re missing something crucial here The absence of the white collar worker does not reduce the R0 among the blue collar workers who still have to go to work, usually in more crowded conditions like factories, every single day. Right now at my mother’s factory...
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A ton of people are out sick with COVID, people who can’t work from home, because they work in such proximity that even a mandatory quarantine of some didn’t not stop the outbreak. Look at class and demographics and you see the blue-collared class gets infected at a ...
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