<story><title>‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The &amp;#x27;Back to work movement&amp;#x27; just seems like a way to push people off of unemployment.</text></item><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>This is part of why I am not confident about any economic upside of us opening up.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve had numerous meat processing plants close down or run at reduced capacity due to workforce illness and people refusing to work due to the concentration of COVID-19 cases.&lt;p&gt;And I think about how in the restaurant business how a rumor of someone catching food poisoning can kill your business... what&amp;#x27;s going to happen when a review lands on your Yelp&amp;#x2F;Google page that a customer took grandma to eat at your restaurant and 2 weeks later she died from COVID-19? Your reputation will be absolutely trashed.&lt;p&gt;Just seems like everyone is getting set up to fail... except for those who are already able to work comfortably from home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Ohio’s setting up a snitch website for employers to report on employees too scared to return to work, so that benefits can be stripped.&lt;p&gt;If I were reading this kind of stuff in a history book and the next paragraph said “and the revolution started in...” I wouldn’t be surprised. Punishing people for being afraid of a pandemic is not a smart move.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The &amp;#x27;Back to work movement&amp;#x27; just seems like a way to push people off of unemployment.</text></item><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>This is part of why I am not confident about any economic upside of us opening up.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve had numerous meat processing plants close down or run at reduced capacity due to workforce illness and people refusing to work due to the concentration of COVID-19 cases.&lt;p&gt;And I think about how in the restaurant business how a rumor of someone catching food poisoning can kill your business... what&amp;#x27;s going to happen when a review lands on your Yelp&amp;#x2F;Google page that a customer took grandma to eat at your restaurant and 2 weeks later she died from COVID-19? Your reputation will be absolutely trashed.&lt;p&gt;Just seems like everyone is getting set up to fail... except for those who are already able to work comfortably from home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>There are two basic frames:&lt;p&gt;(1) Most jobs were make-work. Parking everyone up doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter.&lt;p&gt;(2) Most jobs add a little bit to society. Shutting everything down substantially reduces the buffer between people and a 1,500AD standard of living.&lt;p&gt;Which frame a person accepts as more reasonable probably determines how they feel about the shutdowns.</text></comment>