I live in the kind of district where two-income households are common and parents go nuts when school’s close and the snowfall isn’t epic.
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I wonder how much the two-income parental model is degrading our ability and willingness to close schools during a pandemic. A depleted “social surge” capacity
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If NY state closed all downstate schools, and prevented the spread, parents would be screaming their lungs out that it proved unnecessary because “it wasn’t so bad.” These are high earning, high achieving nitwits.
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The British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care actually made a very convincing argument about why some intuitive measures like banning people from coming in, closing all schools, prohibiting large gatherings, are in fact not effective.
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The main thing to do is identify infected persons and isolate them to stop the spread of disease. The other main thing is sanitation. But some measures you see in places like Italy, Japan, Korea are not going to be effective.
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Those darned women and their determination to have a life outside of the home!
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Pandemics are a good opportunity for a society to rethink its low valuation of caretakers.
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Even better, rethink reliance on paid, nonfamily, to raise their young children.
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Who is the best writer/analyst/economist around these days on the “two income trap”?
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Once upon a time it was Elizabeth Warren.
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