Say, I'm under quarantine -- I stay home, I watch a lot of TV, I read books. I never go out. For 21 days, 42 days, however long they say.
Does my employer still pay me? Does someone drop off groceries? Mail comes from my mailbox to my doorstep somehow? I pay bills -- and someone picks up the envelopes I just filled?? Does someone come and take away my trash?
Who is doing all of this stuff to help me? Where is money coming from to make this possible?
The news stories never have details -- it's like a magic wand: "You stay home and all of your little problems will be magically dealt with by elves."
I hear you, don’t think my employer would pay me to sit at home.
I was quarantined in the 40s because of scarlet fever.
My brother had it and my mother and I were also quarantined.(My father had died)
She was on her own——no pay and groceries dropped off——nothing went out-—I was too young to remember how trash was handled..
A quarantine sign was posted on the door and the address was published.
It was inconvenient but no big deal.
People didn’t whine in those days.
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I was under a “voluntary quarantine” in TX for seven months after contracting TB. My employer discharged me and after going through what savings I had, eventually lost my apartment, car, credit rating and everything else. So now I’m in a homeless shelter picking up the pieces.