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Lockdown eternalists tend to be rich, secure in their employment and absolutely certain of their moral superiority. They tend to be people like the ABC’s Jonathan Green.
Lockdown eternalists tend to be rich, secure in their employment and absolutely certain of their moral superiority. They tend to be people like the ABC’s Jonathan Green:
some of you will have to die ... https://t.co/kach9g84L6
— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) May 6, 2020
Lockdown or death - that’s our choice, as Green sees it. New York governor Andrew Cuomo was of the same view just a few weeks ago:
If you isolate, if you take the precautions, your family won’t get infected.
But Cuomo now reconsiders:
Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside, a “shocking” finding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday …
“If you notice, 18% of the people came from nursing homes, less than 1% came from jail or prison, 2% came from the homeless population, 2% from other congregate facilities, but 66% of the people were at home, which is shocking to us,” Cuomo said.
“This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home,” he added. “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.”
Fresh air and sunshine are our friends. Jonathan also wonders about “structural inequalities”:
i wonder how less tolerant we will be of the structural inequalities delivered by our economy, now that the price of those inequalities will be to be at greater risk of covid infection? it may make things a little more stark? https://t.co/T4O2Hv4jOv
— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) May 6, 2020
Here’s a structural inequality to consider: your taxes are Green’s wages.