Most workers are more concerned about feeding their families.
1200 dollars only goes so far.
If a person is scared, they can isolate themselves, but let people make their own decisions.
The only way to conquer this is through herd immunity. By allowing the low risk people to go back to work, and yes some of them will get the virus. However, their mortality rate will be no different than the flu. It then establishes herd immunity which helps the high risk.
Otherwise, we will get rolling waves of infection until a vaccine is created, which could take 18 months.
If isolation is needed, isolate hotspots. Not the whole country.
You haven’t talked to many workers then. None of my hubby’s 30 something coworkers want to tangle with this thing after the early 40 something in new orleans was in the icu for several weeks. Who can pay THAT bill? Make a few bucks back at work and then whammo you can never retire.
And it’s 1200/person.
Family of four gets 3400.
I don’t understand why there is not more isolation of hotspots, that would help healthcare a great deal. I don’t know why it has to be all or nothing.
I think the only way to get through is an ebb and flow. Shut down. Let up, shut down. Let up.
Once we let it into our county, this is the only way to manage it. It’s a balancing act.
Herd immunity is better achieved by flattening the curve and developing a vaccine than by Deadly Disease Affirmative Action that crashes our HCS - possibly for good - and kills 1 in 11 after that, crashing our economy, anyway.
Why do you keep presuming that those who are self-isolating are “scared”?
Common sense and conservative precautions are not “scared”.
Scared is buying the stores out of toilet paper when some bad news comes along, be it a virus or a snowstorm.