[dvdplm]

This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.

[b112]

Will you force them with a gun? To forgo all friends, family, comforts of home, and be literally trapped at work for months?

Money doesn't just buy people.

You'd essentially be drafting them.

[nmfisher]

> Will you force them with a gun? To forgo all friends, family, comforts of home, and be literally trapped at work for months?

Seems far more reasonable than locking down entire countries for months, asking people to forego friends and family (without even mentioning the consequent unemployment).

You wouldn't need to force anyone with a gun. A five-fold increase in wages - untaxed - would be more than enough incentive. The cost would be a drop in the ocean compared to the damage wrought by the measures adopted so far.

[aaaxyz]

>You'd essentially be drafting them.

In every country (except maybe Iceland which doesn't have a standing army), the military has plenty of medically trained soldiers who are used to doing these things away from home for months

[usrusr]

That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of care workers needed, at least in countries that are not massive outliers in terms of both low life expectancy and a very large army.

[jessaustin]

GP said "pay staff triple". For 70% of nursing home workers in USA, that would be enough to get it done. The other 30% aren't rich enough to ignore tripled income, but rather they have family situations that would make it impossible. It's a pipe dream anyway, since our Congress is only capable of giving public money to rich people.

[hvis]

I'm sure there will be plenty of other people willing to do this for 3x the pay.

No need to use a gun. Just a strict contract.

[Afforess]

Yes, then draft them. I'm in favour of martial law for this crisis.

[sooheon]

I'm curious if you've ever lived through martial law or know someone who has.

[chasd00]

not a good idea, at least not in the USA. there's lines out the door every weekend at every gun shop I know of.