Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?

• piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What “childlike view”? Do you remember which jobs were considered “essential” during COVID-19 or were you too young?

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I sure do. Of course doctors and nurses were essential because it was a health crisis. But it was grocery store workers, Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers. I remember sports teams and reality TV contestants being put in quarantine so they could safely compete. I remember it wasn’t teachers, as classes went online only for about a year and a half.

    So what’s your point?

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where I live, we’ve been treating…

  • Nurses very poorly. Underpaying and overworking them, while not training enough new ones.
  • Family Doctors (aka. GPs) very poorly by removing the kinds of services they’re allowed to provide, increasing expenses without increasing compensation, and again, not training enough new ones.

  Doctors are paid well, but they also have incredibly high expenses (and often high student debt, too).

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