In today's class, Olivia talked about how workers in the medical area are being warn down from all the COVID-19 cases. Although this may be true for many densely populated areas, smaller states that encounter less cases and deaths (like Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota) were having to lay health care workers off. This is due to recent laws to allow the essential cases to be COVID-19 cases and others to be non essential (not allowed). This causes there to be no income in these hospitals due to limited procedures and limited COVID-19 cases. Olivia also said that we should remain in quarantine, although 1000's of people in Wyoming are losing their jobs (oil-fieldworkers, coal miners, health care workers, small businesses) as I am sure other states and small business are as well. Do you agree with holding a longer quarantine even though it is affecting our economy tremendously and peoples jobs?
Unfortunately, the point is not jobs but lives. However, lives depend on jobs. This is a circular argument. Will these less densely populated states suffer from the pandemic. Yes; it has just not reached them yet. But at least, or it is my hope, that they will be better prepared than other states were to handle what awaits them.