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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
The Austin situation is interesting. Some restaurant owners are AGAINST the ability to reopen (greater liberty). Why? They don't have ideas to protect ALL servers, e.g. Too bad. Govt can take away better choices. It can't average individually unique people to save them from risk.
Idea: it's hard to imagine such a creative community can't come up with a way to find socially distanced seating for smaller restaurants, by changing the job description of the servers or something (semi-deliverers). Maybe working with the musical community...add a small concert.
If only there was some way we could transfer money from those of us with a buffer to those who would lose everything, so they could afford the extended lockdown that will save lives in both groups. Maybe we could call it economic impact payment phase 2.
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