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To stop with the screenshots and just say it: this region went into lockdown a month ago. Cases have not gone down, they’ve gone up. Could it be, maybe, that the people who are getting sick are the same people who have been getting sick the WHOLE time?
It’s fine to ask people to stay home! But you have to explain it to people when there is a need to explain the dubious correlation between their behaviours and the numbers. People have nowhere to go. Numbers are skyrocketing.
Workplaces are a major driver — not the only, but a major driver — of new cases. How are governments going to encourage people to stay home when they gotta choose between feeling symptoms and working, and feeling symptoms and staying home and feeling like they can make ends meet?
Not to upload a screenshot I literally just tweeted but, if only there was a bill that didn’t just die, maybe there would be another tool in the government’s arsenal.
This is the disconnect: governments using scolding language to tell people to stay home, but pulling punches when it comes to addressing worker safety, and we can literally SEE the cases going up in workplaces.
People, by the way, we have deemed “essential.” People who work in factories, meat processing plants, warehouses. It’s a hell of a thank you.
There are governments who are taking steps to protect works AND asking people to stay home. There are governments who really like the memes. One of those has more credibility.
To conclude: when governments say stay home, I think they’re asking that from a place of desperation, because numbers are bad. That’s fair. But people have every right to ask: have you done everything you could before asking this of us?
