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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I tend to think that some actual members of the working class might reasonably want reopenings for reasons that have little or nothing to do with GOP CEOs’ stock holdings.  [/quote]

You should find an actual member of the working class and ask them. I guarantee that you are not one.
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I guarantee that these decisions should not be made based on upper middle class perspectives from those who telework in comfort. [/quote]

You have things backwards. Those that can telework won't be endangered by re-opening the economy. It is the working class -- those that have to fill factory floors, take mass transportation to work, or interact with hundreds of customers per day that will get infected. They will be assuming the risk of illness to protect Trump's political fortunes and your wallet. While they are risking their health, you will be safely protected.
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My protection remains to be seen.

I assume that if governors in blue states deem it reasonably appropriate — following actual  scientific guidelines — to ease off on the stay home orders, that they will be doing so for reasons other than to preserve Donald Trump’s political fortunes and a wallet (certainly not the meager contents of my wallet). The advice here about shut downs bothers me a little because I think it too often seems to reflect an incomplete perspective.  I do not necessarily  see this as a red/blue divide, even though there is obviously great merit  in the argument that some red state governors have acted like reckless fools, and that Trump has too.  He will surely be defeated because voters are sick of looking at him.

At some point, offices have to open.  Where I happen to have little faith in employers is in what they will do when employees return.  My personal hope is that more employees recognize that they have tremendous potential power to band together and act collectively.  If part of that means striking to avoid going in to face unsafe circumstances, that’s part of it.   But I am a little old fashioned about that.   As for telework, I think people should not kid themselves—employers singing its virtues today are very likely to take it away and do their best to make sure it never returns.  They’ll commission studies purporting to show all its negatives.

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