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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by jacksnipe on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:08PM (#23875585)
Lives are only lost in a lockdown scenario because of god awful policy. Pay people to stay home. Feed the poor.
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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by rayiner on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:58PM (#23877005)
How do you think food gets made and distributed?
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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by gowld on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:01PM (#23877034)
See way it is now, by essential workers wearing masks. Not by packing halls with protesters holding coughing parties.
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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by lostapathy on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:13PM (#23876578)
That only works when we have food to feed everyone ... which requires a surprising amount of people to stay at work. Besides the obvious people working in the fields/farms, there's a lot of support businesses that need to stay open. The people who repairs the tractors, the people who make parts for the feeders in the barns, etc, which need support for their own manufacturing equipment.

We can't just "shut it all down" worldwide and not run out of food.

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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by gowld on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:02PM (#23877041)
No one is saying to shut down essential workers. Just to push pause on the silly luxuries we've come to expect.
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