But since the Bay Area practically bans new construction of housing and infrastructure, you get the overcrowding, stress, and income disparity instead.
Being rich, I can afford the regulations. A new immigrant? Not so much. And if my poorer immigrant competition starts climbing up the ladder by ignoring the regulations, I can report them and have them shut down.
How low of an IFR would it take before you accepted that exposure? Would incidentally exposing them to the common cold be ok?
It's not the infections that matter - it's the deaths. And, with Tesla's 10k factory workers and the assumption that they're heathy people between 20 and 60, you'd see somewhere between 1 and 50 deaths. (Assuming that Italy's health care worker CFR is representative) Is this worth it? I don't know. But there's a point where it would be.
> How low of an IFR would it take before you accepted that exposure?
If we lived in a sane world that valued EVERY individual human life above the self-serving dreams of an egotistical, arrogant sociopath, the answer would be zero.
> Would incidentally exposing them to the common cold be ok?
Such a question screams for a sarcastic answer: in case you haven’t noticed, Covid-19 is not the common cold.
I was unaware that Tesla workers were slaves. Unless they aren't - in which case they would have the option to not return yet.
> If we lived in a sane world that valued EVERY individual human life above the self-serving dreams of an egotistical, arrogant sociopath, the answer would be zero.
Well, factories kill people in accidents. Not often, but it happens. Does that mean we can never reopen factories, even without disease?
> Such a question screams for a sarcastic answer: in case you haven’t noticed, Covid-19 is not the common cold.
No, it isn't. But this is a thought experiment - and an example of orgs willingly exposing masses of people to a disease.
What is important is that (a) it is voluntary and (b) it is disclosed.
Your comment is very insensitive. You come from a position of priviledge. Not everyone has the option to stop working. People have mouths to feed. Debts to pay. Parents to support. I am sure there is more than 1 tesla worker that is anxious to return back to work.
Why would you hold them back? Do you really think you know better than the person affected ?
Is it really bad to have unregulated food? Is it really bad to have regulated legal service? Unregulated medicine? The poor might have a difference of opinion on the flexible trade between money and life.
Frankly, it's hard to fathom how any auto production line would want to make it's home in the Bay. Halfway to Sacramento, sure. But Freemont? I don't understand.