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Excellent op-Ed piece about what’s really the problem with how we are handling the Covid crisis - open or not - more broadly

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) May 14 '20, 12:52

“This is at the heart of the conflict over reopening the country or allowing people to continue to shelter-in-place to suppress the virus. But if the social distancing and closures were ever going to be successful, it would have meant providing all workers with the means to live in comfort at home while they waited out the disease. Instead, they have been offered the choice of hunger and homelessness or death and disease at work“

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-reopen-workers.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage (www.nytimes.com)

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Part of the “American way of life” for at least some of these elected officials is keeping workers just poor enough to ensure that the “essential” - JD May 14, 13:09 1
- It’s totally true when you can’t explain away things like construction or amazon non essential deliveries that even the N.Y. governor defended and tha - JackDawson May 14, 13:15

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Excellent op-Ed piece about what’s really the problem with how we are handling the Covid crisis - open or not - more broadly

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