It is easy to stay at home if one is in the laptop class and have generous sick leave and vacation time. I don’t mean to be uncaring, but you can’t just shutdown a business or the economy because immune deficient people are at an increased risk of major health issues and death.
You keep going off into a land that has NOTHING to do with what I’m saying.
The math is very simple:
Companies that don’t give employees ample sick time are doing the wrong thing
People that have good access to sick time and don’t use it avoid spreading disease are doing the wrong thing
People that don’t have good access to sick time, refer back to point 1, find a better job
It’s especially true when you realize that the jobs most likely to not have good sick policies are food service. How screwed up is it that 1 job a society would benefit the most from not having sick people show is the most likely to force sick people to show up.
I said NOTHING about shutting down business or the economy. I’m saying people (including the people in charge of companies) should use the power of ENLIGHTENED SELF INTEREST and DO THE RIGHT THING.
Look at the countries that didn’t lock down in 2020. Most of those countries have a strong level of social pressure to not spread your illness. It’s already very standard in Japan and Sweden to recognize that just because you’re not very sick doesn’t mean that people you expose to it won’t get much sicker, so don’t be a vector. If you want to not have lock downs step 1 is get buy in for the social contract. For most jobs nobody is going to die if you don’t go to work for a couple days. But if you keep spreading a cold or flu eventually it will find somebody to kill.