Yes. It will mean they went to work or otherwise left their house.
Not everyone can stay in their house for two weeks without ever leaving. If everyone did this, who would do the jobs that are needed to keep people fed, who would handle Police/Fire/EMS/Medical and other work?
It's easy to say "the German people are responsible for Hitler"; but it turns out that most any population under the same conditions is susceptible to the same thing. We've seen it over and over.
I'd go quite a bit farther than that; but we agree that he is part of the problem.
The prevailing attitude was that a certain group was 'The Problem' and Hitler, et al took that as the basis for their plan. It wasn't the first time it had happened, but it was the first time for that level of inhumanity. They were blamed for plague and pandemics- the thought that they needed to be exterminated wasn't held by a small group and sadly, some are blaming them for COVID-19.
You are an electrician and you need to run power cable to two homes.....
You are doing road construction.....
You need to clear land to build two houses that are each 1500 ft^2.....
You need to go to the grocery store.....
You are a delivery driver bringing goods to 2 grocery stores.....
and so on and so forth.
I meant public infrastructure- if someone wants to pay for this reaching their property and homes, let them- the utility doesn't do it at no charge and if you know of anyone who inquired about getting electric service installed over 5000' (and more), it's very expensive.
2) It turns out: Big business isn't spending any time looking out for you. I know this is shocking, but capitalism is inherently not promoting social welfare.
Big business isn't there to care for everyone unless that's specifically part of their plan but the heads of these businesses can look at what's happening and discuss it with their board of directors or whomever is in control- a CEO can't just do whatever they want, any more than POTUS and CEOs don't have executive privilege.
So I'd say the question is: Why wasn't the US government taking the threat of a pandemic seriously? Especially after the Swine Flu and Ebola? Why was our dedicated pandemic team disbanded and the responsibility put back under a different group that already had a different job.
Why did subsequent epidemics occur after the first ones? Because they looked at the odds and made their decisions. This one is different in that it is more contagious and it SHOULD have been taken far more seriously but CDC funding was cut before T was elected.
After the coronavirus crisis, if policymakers decide to permanently increase infectious disease spending, they should match it with cuts to the vast subsidies in the $1.4 trillion HHS budget.
www.cato.org
We don't elect leaders that take these things seriously because we have the memory of goldfish (the cracker, not the fish).
Definitely! I usually say that some people have the attention span of a thumbtack and describe some as being similar to a June Bug that can't get itself out of a corner.
