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
If you can show me anyone anywhere who's actually said that it's okay for men to hire men to come into the house to do nonessential manly tasks I'll yell at them for it too But it seems to be something you've entirely made up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
You’re being disingenuous. You know full well that even in 2020 the majority of domestic & care labour still falls on women. Nobody has complained about male-dominated professions: Amazon/Dominos drivers, mechanics, plumbers, telecoms, refuse desposal. What a coincidence.
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There are gendered reasons why "intimate labor" that requires going into someone's home and breathing in their germs is much more likely to be performed by women, yes That's a conversation worth talking about in other contexts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
It is not a reason to concern troll the basic physical reason that being a cleaner is more dangerous during COVID-19 than other jobs, or to argue that we should ignore this fact in the name of gender parity That's a fucking horrifying thing to say
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
Cleaning staff, who are primarily women, were ALREADY A PROFESSION AT THE HIGHEST RISK OF CONTRACTING COVID-19 Thanks to the cleaners still working in "essential" workplaces (caring for the disabled, working in institutional settings) This is so fucked
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