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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by sneak on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:48PM (#24147702)
It’s impossible to force a parent into the choice between working a life-threatening job interacting with the public or eviction so long as they have a child at home.

The parent will not abandon the child home alone to go to work, no matter how big the stick.

School being effectively state subsidized working hours daycare, it must resume before low wage workers can once again be coerced back into risking their lives to avoid homelessness.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by kazen44 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:59PM (#24147876)
> It’s impossible to force a parent into the choice between working a life-threatening job interacting with the public or eviction so long as they have a child at home

Impossible? definitely not. (i would argue this is the exact issue many people in the US face today).

highly immoral and with a total disregard to one's decency or life? absolutely.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by sneak on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:45AM (#24169681)
Parents simply will not abandon their small child, home alone for the day, to go to work. Not going to happen.

If that’s their only option, they will end up homeless, with their child.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by dfxm12 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:04PM (#24147990)
It’s impossible to force a parent into the choice between working a life-threatening job interacting with the public or eviction

It's a failing of the government that so many Americans have to face this choice.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by mindslight on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:08PM (#24148033)
How is this a failing? The system is performing well for its stakeholders - maximizing wealth extraction for the upper class, with a simulation of free market choice to keep the middle and lower classes occupied and pacified. From this perspective, a 1% fatality rate should merely translate into the stock market declining by 1%, and then we move on.
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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by Afton on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:39PM (#24148675)
Yes! It's also a failure of imagination of the American public. It's like a social safety net DURING A PANDEMIC is just too far outside the Overton window. It's crazy!
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