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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys, 
[b]My boss expects me to drive to work. I don't want to die. What should I do?  I don't want to die. It is not like I can take safety precautions like driving the speed limit, not driving distracted, wearing a seatbelt. 
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You see the rate of traffic fatalities. He is such a jerk expecting me to do the job I get paid to do. [/quote]

I'm honestly starting to think that this is something we will start to hear.  That it's unfair for employees to risk their lives driving to work.  After all look at how many thousands of people die in year in car accidents?  How is it fair to expect employees to RISK THEIR LIVES driving to work?
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In an average 6 month period, car accidents kill 16K Americans.  During the same time period, COVID has killed 10 times that many people.  During the same time period, COVID has killed more than twice as many working age Americans (18 to 65 year olds) as car accidents generally do.

And yet we accept, without argument, all sorts of rules to make driving safer for everyone.  For example, my life would be much easier if my 10 year old could drive himself places. He could run errands, take himself to soccer, etc . . . . But we have a society have decided that it's not safe to allow 10 year olds to drive.  If I demanded the right to let him do so anyway, in the name of personal freedom, my neighbors would be calling the police the second they saw him get behind the wheel.

Why are restrictions and modifications that protect us from COVID, people are up in arms.  Why is the state allowed to make rules about my 10 year old driving, and not about where my 10 year old spends his days?  Why do people think my state should be allowed to require me to have insurance, but not to require me to have a mask?  What is the difference?[/quote]

Should none of us drive until traffic fatalities are in 0? Asking for a teacher friend who says they won't go back to work until there are no more covud cases[/quote]

I will very happily go back to school, but not until: (1) there is a vaccine that's proven 100% effective, (2) zero new infections for at least 36 months anywhere in the US, and (3) everyone has been vaccinated, including every last anti-vaxxer and homesteader in Alaska.[/quote]

Are you a teacher? Let’s not go with your plan.

Signed,
A Teacher[/quote]

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