Wealthier people can social distance better and faster

[Nemo2]

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Originally Posted by Chuckanut Why not just shoot the donkey?

I wander where it wondered in the first place.

[neihn]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo Heck, the rich can hire people to social distance for them!

100% true.
Your post remind me of the late 70s after Saigon fell into the communist hand. In Saigon, they came up with a program that required every household had to have one person that must go to work in the new economic zone for one month. Rich family hired poor folks to do that for them. I was hired for 3 months from three different families :-)

[NW-Bound]

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Originally Posted by neihn 100% true. Your post remind me of the late 70s after Saigon fell into the communist hand. In Saigon, they came up with a program that required every household had to have one person that must go to work in the new economic zone for one month. Rich family hired poor folks to do that for them. I was hired for 3 months from three different families :-)

Nice.

The gummint got its free forced labor. The rich people avoided the hardship. The peons got a job. Everybody won.

[timo2]

There is speculation that when everyone comes out of their hiding places that the virus will have a second (or third) wave. For instance, a bank or brokerage in NYC has everyone teleworking. At some point that bank will want people back into the office. no vaccine, no immunity. Now the bank could pay for antibody tests for everyone, and the people that already had the virus 'get' to go back to the office. The others will have to do a a 'rip van winkle' wait for a vaccine.

[ls99]

Not only can they distance socially, they prefer physical distance as well from the great unwashed. That is OK, we all have our peccadilloes.

[Sunset]

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Originally Posted by timo2 There is speculation that when everyone comes out of their hiding places that the virus will have a second (or third) wave. For instance, a bank or brokerage in NYC has everyone teleworking. At some point that bank will want people back into the office. no vaccine, no immunity. Now the bank could pay for antibody tests for everyone, and the people that already had the virus 'get' to go back to the office. The others will have to do a a 'rip van winkle' wait for a vaccine.

Other options will be since folks have "learned", they could all wear masks at work, and maintain safer distance be not bringing back to office all the staff.

But, yes, without a vaccine or moderating medicine or solar flare ? , this thing is going to drag on for a year for sure.

[gwraigty]

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Originally Posted by timo2 There is speculation that when everyone comes out of their hiding places that the virus will have a second (or third) wave. For instance, a bank or brokerage in NYC has everyone teleworking. At some point that bank will want people back into the office. no vaccine, no immunity. Now the bank could pay for antibody tests for everyone, and the people that already had the virus 'get' to go back to the office. The others will have to do a a 'rip van winkle' wait for a vaccine.

That scenario wouldn't work so well for those who have become furloughed. It assumes that employers would be willing to pay for the tests, which may not be so. It assumes that at any particular location, enough employees have had the virus to allow the place to get back up and running again. It punishes employees who haven't had the virus, if the employer isn't willing to let them come back to work until they can get vaccinated, which experts keep saying is at least 18 months away. Unemployment has been extended, but not long enough to keep paying people until a vaccine is found.

[Winemaker]

In the long run, we are all dead.

[Nemo2]

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Originally Posted by Winemaker In the long run, we are all dead.

“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”

― Willa Cather

[REWahoo]

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Originally Posted by Winemaker In the long run, we are all dead.

I'm all in favor of a long run of living, it's the short term that concerns me at the moment.

[NW-Bound]

How long is a life long enough? 70 or 80 or 90?

One can just get infected and let the virus decide.

[DrRoy]

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And in other shocking news, what many have long suspected turns out to be true - the Pope is Catholic.

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Heck, the rich can hire people to social distance for them!

+1 lol

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by NW-Bound How long is a life long enough? 70 or 80 or 90? One can just get infected and let the virus decide.

From my perspective at age 76, I would like another 20! (that should be enough)

[Teacher Terry]

It’s awesome that the soldier carried the donkey instead of shooting it!

[Nemo2]

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Originally Posted by Teacher Terry It’s awesome that the soldier carried the donkey instead of shooting it!

I imagine that the donkey would be loaded up and hauling supplies afterward....if it wasn't barbecued, that is.

[jollystomper]

DW noticed this when teaching her online classes. Some of her students are from modest backgrounds, and their families are in apartments with many family members where they cannot take a class in private. One poor girl is trying to take the class in the bathroom. She can hear the apartment doors constantly opening and closing as people go in and out. It is difficult to social distance in such close quarters.

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by Nemo2 What's Captain Renault's reaction?

Or Captain Obvious?

Heck, wealthy people can do just about everything better. Why the heck would people work to obtain a skill, education, or just plain work harder to build wealth if there was no advantage to it?

Clearly, a lot of people are going to need help, I'm not oblivious to that, but what's the point of an article about it ? I'd guess it has more to do with pushing an agenda (wealthy people bad) than presenting informative "news".

-ERD50

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by Teacher Terry It’s awesome that the soldier carried the donkey instead of shooting it!

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Originally Posted by Nemo2 I imagine that the donkey would be loaded up and hauling supplies afterward....if it wasn't barbecued, that is.

Reminds me of a presentation I saw on the Shackleton expedition (to the South Pole). You see all the dogs they started with. After getting trapped for months in the sea ice, I don't recall seeing any dogs?

-ERD50

[travelover]

Slightly off topic, but it occurs to me that this nation was pretty much founded on a land depopulated by a series of epidemics. When the Pilgrims showed up, there was all this nice cultivated land and no one around. Such irony.

https://slate.com/technology/2012/11...s-disease.html

[Markola]

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Originally Posted by travelover Slightly off topic, but it occurs to me that this nation was pretty much founded on a land depopulated by a series of epidemics. When the Pilgrims showed up, there was all this nice cultivated land and no one around. Such irony. https://slate.com/technology/2012/11...s-disease.html

Entirely, factually true. Great observation.