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Wow, this is a gross mischaracterization of that argument. Gig workers, day laborers, waiters, house cleaners and such are “lives” too.  A lot of folks on here are salaried, cushy workers who are very far removed from the carnage a prolonged shutdown will bring.[/quote]
Are you one of the hourly workers? Otherwise, how do you know for a fact[b] that they don't care about protecting their health too?[/b][/quote]

DP here.  Hard to protect your health when you cannot afford food.[/quote]
If you're so concerned, donate to and volunteer at your local food bank. Encourage your city government to source shelter meals from local restaurants. Order take out. Have you done these things?[/quote]
Everything is under quarantine!! Good lord.[/quote]
Also a stupid suggestion because it will do next to nothing to address the scale of the problem. You scored your “points” though 🙄
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US population is 330M. If just the wealthiest 1/3 donated $10 to a foodbank each, that's on the same order as WIC for a year. If they donated $100 each, that's more than SNAP for a year. No one's suggesting these things are a panacea, but if you're worried about low-wage workers starving to death, it's an easy thing to do...and far more useful than posting anonymously on DCUM.

If you can't bring yourself to actually donate money to feed these people you are supposedly so concerned about, call your Representative and Senators and tell them to pass a stimulus bill that will protect them. Because if you think that these jobs won't be affected if we just let things run their course without distancing measures, you're an idiot. At least half of Americans will be too afraid to go out, which will still depress the economy.[/quote]

That's just the thing. That scale of people ain't donating right now. Stop being pedantic and argumentative just because people view the harm of this crisis through a different lens than you. Businesses are closing, NOW.[/quote]

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