The answer is not to reopen the economy; it's to freeze the economy. The government should provide everyone with the economic wherewithal to survive this period without leaving home. It's criminal to make people have to choose between their livelihood and their health.
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But if you pay grocery clerks to stay home because making them work is immoral, what then? And why should the farmer risk himself for your gluttony. We should pay them to stay home too. But that's okay... the first victims of bolshevism were the farmers too.
I’m not talking about essential workers. Everybody knows that.
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Marianne, are you saying you support and advocate for lockdowns based on the scientifically untethered, absurdly illogical "Essential/Non-essential" filter?https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1253656080078434305?s=19 …
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I think your idea would lead to a much better solution, we need a middle ground. I really believe we can fundamentally change the way Americans work, and expand our economy into an increasing online presence, it's trending that way anyway. We can re-assign values
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As has been pointed out essential workers are often blue collar workers. In my community it's meet packers, cheese shredders, car mechanics and plumbers. So they mist risk themselves and stay at work so that the bougie can stay safe and sated.
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And their reward. A little bit of extra money when there is nothing extra to spend it on. No luxuries, just the basic product you exploit them for. Scratch that. There's always booze I guess.
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Agreed. We cannot allow essential workers to stop providing for the non-essential workers. That simply wouldn’t be fair to the non-essential workers. Sorry, essential workers! Now hurry up and bring me my dinner!
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Maybe we can create squads to go into the countryside to confiscate food for home sitters. At least 2hen the bolsheviks did that they were confiscating to supposefly feed factory workers. American Red Rose brigades would confiscate to feed middle class layabouts.
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