People are over estimating Trumps impact on C19 in the US. He is a scapegoat.
The US has an incredibly unhealthy workplace culture. People are incentivised to work when unfit to do so (spreading infections, causing workplace accidents, lowering productivity) and aren’t provided the care and support they need to recover promptly to once again become a productive worker generating worth.
Social pressures means workers will come in when they shouldn’t as employers run skeleton crews as they see employees as a cost to be minimised, not a profitable asset.
Tying healthcare to employment is fundamentally sound, but insurance needs to cover paid time off and conditions for cancelling a workers employment need to be fair.
America would deal with the virus much better if workers weren’t being made to choose between Blingy’s food line now because their employer dismissed them as they wanted to isolate and got made unemployed or Mead’s Cleric Epic cos they kept attending work despite being exposed to C19 risk.
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