The answer is not to reopen the economy; it's to freeze the economy. The government should provide everyone with the economic wherewithal to survive this period without leaving home. It's criminal to make people have to choose between their livelihood and their health.
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And who will produce for the needs of the locked down. This is the fundamental absurdity of all socialism. The belief that production and productivity persist without human agency. Magical thinking.
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Maybe read more.
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I read and reread and your tweet keeps telling me the same thing. Everyone should have the wherewithal to stay home. So. Who would produce? A few chose heroes? How would they be convinced? Via conscription? Propaganda posters?
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But if you pay grocery clerks to stay home because making them work is immoral, what then? And why should the farmer risk himself for your gluttony. We should pay them to stay home too. But that's okay... the first victims of bolshevism were the farmers too.
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Replying to @osniezko
I’m not talking about essential workers. Everybody knows that.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @osniezko
Marianne, are you saying you support and advocate for lockdowns based on the scientifically untethered, absurdly illogical "Essential/Non-essential" filter?
Daniel Ƀrrr @csuwildcat
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We should obviously modify, limit, or suspend jobs where the risk of viral transmission is significant and cannot be mitigated, but these "non-essential" lockdowns are basically an idiot test, and any politician or advocate who supported them should be tarred and feathered.
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As has been pointed out essential workers are often blue collar workers. In my community it's meet packers, cheese shredders, car mechanics and plumbers. So they mist risk themselves and stay at work so that the bougie can stay safe and sated.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @osniezko
Agreed. We cannot allow essential workers to stop providing for the non-essential workers. That simply wouldn’t be fair to the non-essential workers. Sorry, essential workers! Now hurry up and bring me my dinner!
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