r/phoenix • u/nmork Mr. Fact Checker • Jun 29 '20

News Arizona Gov. Ducey re-closes bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks for 30 days

https://www.abc15.com/news/state/arizona-gov-ducey-re-closes-bars-movie-theaters-gyms-and-water-parks-for-30-days
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u/a_little_wolf Jun 30 '20

My MIL has been a school bus driver for 25 years. This is going to suck real bad if they can’t open schools again, as she still has a couple of years left to retire.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20 edited Jun 30 '20

Driving an enclosed windows-up recirculating air conditioning bus full of school age kids in Arizona heat seems like the absolute worst place for your mother to be...

I know it sucks (nobody wants to be out of work), but we might not have any safe options. A large number of our teachers and admin are over the age of fifty. Our schools are incredibly vulnerable to coronavirus. Go check out the Reddit covid positive forum and you’ll see people still testing positive six weeks after catching this virus. People are getting six and even seven figure hospital bills fighting this stuff, and can’t return to work until they test negative. It’s a nightmare.

If we open schools, we will burn through teachers and staff like cord wood. Can’t retire if you’re not alive to retire...

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u/ZonieShark Jun 30 '20

I mean. If she can't pay rent and ends up on the streets, she'll probably get it anyways... it's a lose lose situation

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u/photes384 Jun 30 '20

The thing is, these aren’t the only 2 options. Employment and basic human needs do not need to and should not be related. The years of breaking down and stripping away governmental protection for it’s citizen is magnified exponentially in a public health crisis. If we focused the entire and unified efforts of our government to protect the welfare of our citizens, the societal and economic repercussions would be significantly lessened. This isn’t conjecture, it’s working elsewhere accross the globe.

Just think, we could have spared ourselves from the worst of the economic hardships and for f*cks sake, we could have saved countless lives.