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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP here, we do need some kind of national mourning and recovery.  There should be a program like Teach Across America except it's therapists helping people process the last 15 months.  Mental Health Across America.  Give people a sticker or a snack for going, like they do at the blood bank.

I also love the idea of a culturally agreed upon quiet time when everything is closed and you just stay in and reflect.  The concept of a Sabbath is valuable even if you don't attach religious significance to it. To PP's idea, I would love for us all to agree that we'll buy our groceries early or eat our leftovers and back-of-cupboard foods for a week, and refrain from flying or driving except in emergencies, so that as many essential workers as possible can have a break. Subsidize businesses that close or go to drastically reduced hours during that time (like we should have paid businesses to stay closed during covid).[/quote]

I just don't see the need for a 'recovery' person for workers who sat at home in bath robes and zoomed to work. I think the essential workers - grocery, doctors, firefighters, EMS, nursing, police, infrastructure, virologists, pathologists, morgue workers, factory workers, and epidemiologists - should be the absolute priority.

Pay all of them 3 months of salary and tell them not to come to work for 90 days. Tell the hospital workers or essential staff who quit or quietly moved to different fields just as Covid started to come back and take on their job (with pay) during that time.

But the people who really saved this country deserve to be lauded. And yes the dead and the family caregivers deserve time to mourn.[/quote]

This is clearly a fantasy thread, not a serious policy discussion where we need to "prioritize" who gets this imaginary benefit of a week off.  No need to be stingy!   Let's give everyone a recovery week.  Sure, the essential workers can have 3 months for their extra efforts.

Let's take it one step further, and make mandatory paid time off for all workers, every year, because everyone deserves a break. Many of us already have such a benefit, but why shouldn't everyone have it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country

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