We could be trying to rebuild infrastructure (schools roads bridges) We could be retooling

[onecaliberal]

for a green economy. Millions of jobs. Hire and train people to trace and track the virus. We need tens of thousands of them.

Why can’t we stop waiting for jobs to return that never will and start thinking more about innovative ways to put people back to work with a new reality? In the meantime give people a monthly minimum income and free access to healthcare.

[Loge23]

1. Please, you're making way too much sense

Sadly, the answer to your thoughtful and very reasonable suggestion is that we're no longer capable of doing good things as a nation.
The good ship USS America sailed long ago and we're left on a rat infested wharf cane-poling in polluted waters for a bite.
The reality is that instead of doing the very things you suggest, which make way too much sense, we're struggling to hold together an infinitely fractured country that's teetering on the brink of social, economic, and administrative collapse.
The only thing I wonder these days is how we will survive.

[onecaliberal]

2. I'm feeling completely destroyed.

It’s difficult to understand how we can allow a minority of people to take us all down. I now see how the Holocaust was allowed to proceed.

[Loge23]

3. I'm with you - I totally agree. (eom)

[totodeinhere]

4. We need a lot of work on our infrastructure, however, I think it's too dangerous to do any type of

work like that right now. It would not be possible for the workers on such projects to properly socially distance themselves. I think we need to wait for a vaccine first before we start projects like that. However, I agree with your call to hire people to trace and track the virus.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Roadwork has increased tenfold around here. (Metro St Louis)

I think they're trying to take advantage of less traffic to move up projects that were slated to be spread out over years.

[onecaliberal]

6. Nice. Not here though. Just saying it could put people back to work.

Bridges are crumbling as is a lot of other infrastructure. It could create jobs to put money in pockets immediately.