I've been really struck by the number of people I know who are saying that commuting less/not at all and not spending all day at the office is really cutting down on their fatigue. Some peoples' kids are also doing better out of school.
There was also an article in the NYT I think about how public schools are essentially being used as support for poor families (warmth, lunch, social programs) and daycare for working families, and that's really being exposed now that schools are being shut down. It makes me wonder if at the end of this, there will be more support for daycares attached to workplaces and Great Society type programs. I mean all of a sudden there's more support for things like the CDC! And it turns out that the FDA actually does things, it's a bad idea to "drain the swamp" by threatening to move all the employees to Kansas! There's no real way to BOOTSTRAP during a pandemic.
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There was also an article in the NYT I think about how public schools are essentially being used as support for poor families (warmth, lunch, social programs) and daycare for working families, and that's really being exposed now that schools are being shut down. It makes me wonder if at the end of this, there will be more support for daycares attached to workplaces and Great Society type programs. I mean all of a sudden there's more support for things like the CDC! And it turns out that the FDA actually does things, it's a bad idea to "drain the swamp" by threatening to move all the employees to Kansas! There's no real way to BOOTSTRAP during a pandemic.