It doesn't make them more admirable but it does make the virus hard to contain - there are a lot of essential workers here and our cities are very dense. Not exactly rocket science to determine why the virus is hard to contain even with vigilant PPE use. People touch their mask, they touch other stuff, other people touch that stuff and then touch their mask, then they go home and spread it. Rinse and repeat.
Trump effect? Really? At what point do you start holding local/state government responsible? The president has no say in how states run themselves regarding non-federal matters. And of course the policy is company by company - a tech company can make certain allowances that a in-person service company can't. You can't exactly run a business that requires in-person delivery of services. You can't telecommute HVAC for example. And companies can't keep paying workers who aren't working - they may have been possible in the short duration but impossible in this nearly year long scenario.US “essential” workers aren’t getting any assistance with that. Company by company policy. Decentralized government. Trump effect as well obviously as mentioned.
I worked in a hospital infectious unit and operating room and PPE enforcement wasn't exactly that strict either - and the people in charge were familiar with the data. If those with acute knowledge of infectious control transmission let procedures slip, I don't expect better from the politicians who seem to be using the finger in the air method for determining public health policy especially when you look at the size of the country.Wearing a mask and staying home... I’ve done them fine. If it was 5 years ago when I was working at a grocery store, I’d look at the lack of enforcement of best practices, lack of PPE, slow rollout of “suggestions” and state by state variations.
https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions - seems like we have lots of company. People will want to travel. Planes will continue to fly (they delivery supplies and food too while carrying passengers).Look at little to no travel restrictions (e.g. UK still flying to US).
A country founded on that very principle hence the separation of powers and the state versus federal jurisdiction. Some consider this an important tradeoff hence the Revolutionary war and the American Civil War. We're willing to die for what we believe in for better or worse. Thank you Europe for making life so miserable in the colonies that we decided to undertake this great experiment.Also very individualistic society, with no centralized control. Not surprised the reaction.
Patriotism is a funny thing. Feels like if US was less obsessed with patriotism, more educated, less individualistic, wouldn’t be a virus hotspot.
Not true - viruses care not for education or individualism. Viruses care about population, means of exposure, and variable conduits of infection.
It's convenient how Europe has their COVID hotspots spread out amongst their members while the US is treated as a whole. If you combined Europe's population, their hotspot rate would look equally bad. The US has 17 million cases and Europe has 23 million cases (combined); only by adding South America do our number exceed European numbers.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographi ... ncov-cases:
America: 33 216 866 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are United States (17 844 839), Brazil (7 263 619), Argentina (1 547 115), Colombia (1 518 067) and Mexico (1 325 915).
Europe: 23 081 330 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are Russia (2 762 668), France (2 473 354), United Kingdom (2 040 147), Italy (1 953 185) and Spain (1 819 249).
There are 55 million essential works in the USA - 55 million people who can potentially spread the virus. Having 55 million potential hosts of infection makes it hard to contain a disease. It's not being defensive - it's being realistic.Essential workers working is not a contentious issue. Yes I can stay home. No I can’t rely on contact tracing, United action/policies, can’t close borders, screen trackers, can’t track citizens have to rely on them just telling me who they came into contact with, if they want to and if they ask.
And I think the US is defensive about these things. Not all the US, but doesn’t have to be all Americans to make it a problem.