To rephrase it in more serious terms: We have no way of keeping nurses or doctors truly safe. PPE is a good, but all it does is reduce viral load. However, their services are vital, so we don't just stop having them.
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Replying to @Lenoxus @Tiggles15 and
Are cleaning people equivalent to them? Mayyybe if everyone in the household is disabled or something. Even then, though.
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Replying to @Lenoxus @arthur_affect and
I don’t think it’s really the same as doctors/nurses... more that we can’t stay locked down forever. You can’t ever remove the risk completely, only mitigate it. I’m shielded so it’s a worry for me, but due to various personal reasons I do need some help. It’s a balancing act.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Lenoxus and
My issue is that what is quite a personal decision to be made by me and the cleaners about what risks we’re prepared to take and why has been taken over by a culture war which just doesn’t fit in my case.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
It's not a personal decision Any increase in the infection rate makes the whole population more vulnerable This is the basic logic of public health during a pandemic Jesus Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
You are completely ignorant of the situation, as you keep proving. I have no interest in being drawn into the nasty US culture wars, we have enough problems of our own. Mind your own business, leave women alone. We don’t need you to be our judge or our knight in shining armour.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
It is my business, and we can easily "leave women out of it" by just saying that no one should be hiring anyone to travel to their home for any nonessential service regardless of what gender coding you put on the job
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
I don't want to get sick and die and I don't anyone I care about to get sick and die and I don't want the world to collapse because the death rate rises too high for the medical system to manage Everything else is secondary to that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
Even if I accepted the insane, bizarrely sexist framing that cleaners are employed by women and contractors are employed by men - as though they're not all working for everyone who lives in the house - that wouldn't change anything You shouldn't have ANYONE coming to your house
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
We HAD to have somone in my grandmother's house for an emergency repair and my sister and I both spent hours keeping her away from the poor guy, even with masks and distancing it wasn't something we would have done if we had any other choice.
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Yeah I mean the tweet comparing "cleaner" to "landscaper" or "electrician" was dishonest in the first place - it's much easier to go no-contact with a landscaper and an electrician may well be repairing something life-threatening But whatever, nuance
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