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It’s not just the flaws in our healthcare system that are being laid bare. FFS, the only reason we aren’t all already in quarantine is because our entire economy is built upon people being out there, spending more money that they take in. So few people have saving to get them through a financial/health crisis. So many food insecure families that schools don’t want to close because so many kids will go hungry. Low wage workers, especially the service industry, have no paid time off or sick leave. They’re going to lose their jobs anyway, as the economy crashed and burns as those with money and the privilege of telework start isolating and stop going to restaurants and using Uber, etc. It’s all a house of cards. The already poor and the already sick are completely f***ed.[/quote]

By contrast, in China people have huge amounts of money saved up because they cannot spend it.  They can afford to be quarantined but other than that, they are not better off.  A nation of savers is not better than a nation of spenders.

Flaws in healthcare system, maybe. [b] Flaws in our fundamental economy, not exactly. [/b] We should save more, yes, but not a lot more.  We should have more capacity in our health care system, but not a lot more.  [/quote]

BS. There’s nothing else to call it when the vast majority of Americans can’t afford to miss one single paycheck. When do many can’t afford to buy groceries, or medicine, don’t have healthcare or paid leave., could lose their housing if one paycheck is delayed. This system is only working for a small subset of Americans. Luckily, I’m one of them. But I’m not so deluded to think it’s not sheer luck that this is the case. And that this isn’t the main reason we aren’t taking the measures that would keep us safe. [/quote]

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