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In this case, it's "born on third base, think they know precisely how everyone else can and should swing the bat." It's not impossible to "advocate" for people you can't really relate to, but it is very easy to get that horribly wronghttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/1256819545546735616 …
If you're working/middle class, whether you're better off under lockdown or a largely open economy has everything to do with specific circumstances — age, current health, access to financial assistance, housing security, etc. It's not the no-brainer it is to people with a buffer
IMO we do have a responsibility to take reasonable measures to protect our neighbors, too. But when people are looking at losing everything they've worked for & becoming homeless, retiring penniless, etc. it's not clear that advocating for extended lockdown is advocating for them
It's important to notice that if the difference between a 1-month lockdown & a 3-month lockdown is financially trivial to you, there are many who'll weather one & not the other, facing consequences so far removed from your own reality that you never even think to worry about them
e.g. Have you considered stealing, selling illegal goods or selling sex in order to make some money? Have you considered staying with a potentially dangerous person in order to have a place to sleep? There are people who will have to consider these because they cannot work.
fwiw I was (and continue to be) an early advocate of short-term lockdowns as needed to control hospital overwhelm, but the week-over-week cost to the most vulnerable doesn't merely grow linearly, and we have to respect how much we're forcing onto these folks' shoulders
How did we get to a place where the political economy of virtue signaling and privilege shaming became a thing? It's absurdity of the highest order and a total distraction from anything that actually matters.
Nice people just trying to do the right thing for "you" as a favor because they pity you are worse than having enemies
This whole thing stemmed from @jason calling her out on not understanding the impact of extended lockdown on the non-slack 'knowledge' worker class. So yeah, I'm missing the part where she's sticking up for the under-privileged other than claiming to do so.
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