3) We were wrong about the kinds of people who were going to catch this (e.g. poor folks, people of color, people in nursing homes, prisoners, people who work jobs they can't freely leave in meatpacking plants), who while they'll fill up a coffin just the same as anybody...
...are also all groups less likely to go to a hospital / ER even in GOOD times, and even when they do, tend to be treated like crap (e.g. assumed to be "drug-seeking", have their pain dismissed, often end up overlooked in triage, etc.)
This is the same old haves vs. have-nots story we've been telling, taken to a while new level -- if you're wealthy enough to be able to work from home, you've likely just been hunkering down and wondering what all the fuss is about.
It's not about fear-based leverage, it's about one group of people refusing to admit they're too insulated from the rest of society to see that the lower rungs that keep everything running are getting massacred.
...are also all groups less likely to go to a hospital / ER even in GOOD times, and even when they do, tend to be treated like crap (e.g. assumed to be "drug-seeking", have their pain dismissed, often end up overlooked in triage, etc.)
This is the same old haves vs. have-nots story we've been telling, taken to a while new level -- if you're wealthy enough to be able to work from home, you've likely just been hunkering down and wondering what all the fuss is about.
It's not about fear-based leverage, it's about one group of people refusing to admit they're too insulated from the rest of society to see that the lower rungs that keep everything running are getting massacred.