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> mandate paid recovery days

A big problem for this sort of intervention, and one of the reasons why covid is as socioeconomically predestined as it is, is that many of the sort of people a mandatory paid recovery day would benefit from are paid under-the-table or in other informal work arrangements. If your way of putting food on the table involves standing outside Home Depot until a crew needs you, a benefit administered through the above-board employment system is useless and you're going to be turning up for work (and infecting your co-workers) regardless.

I generally agree with the thrust of your comment, but it's easy to underestimate the additional barriers faced by the poor. I won't get into the whole litany of disadvantages here, but I think you get the idea. The whole thing honestly smells a little like the "well, why don't they just get an ID?" shit in voter-identificaton debates, just from the other side.

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> I generally agree with the thrust of your comment, but it's easy to underestimate the additional barriers faced by the poor.

Oh, I totally agree that more thought would need to be put into than my drive-by examples. I just object to the common attitude that some policy should be scrapped because of some marginal issue vs. modified to mitigate that issue. Policies need to be evaluated holistically, and if an issue causes one to be scrapped, it should probably be a fundamental one.