What is there to do? I'm not going to be going back to work until people are confident enough to hold mass gatherings again.
If you don't mind answering, what do you do?
I am afraid that the reality is that many people are going to be forced to " reskill" and find employment in other fields in order to find employment at all before the end of this in order to survive.
We already have groups of republicans conspiring to restrict,remove and reduce unemployment benefits. Their plan here is to force people into working for less wages and harsher working conditions by removing social safety nets and placing as many obstacles as possible to prevent people from being able to use them. As Agema kindly pointed out to me, by the government removing the lockdown while this is going to get worse and ignore it happening, they will also be able to use that as an excuse to remove their benefits.
The South Carolina senator said he believed the additional unemployment funds would incentivize people not to work.
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Sen. Graham of SC said state unemployment systems are being overrun in part because workers have been incentivized to leave jobs in COVID-19 outbreak
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One in three Americans are struggling to pay their bills, but the Senate majority leader sees no reason to act after he passed tax cuts to millionaires and a $500 billion fund for large corporations.
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Many businesses are using the pandemic as an opportunity to shift to automation, replacing workers jobs with machines that cannot get sick:
The pandemic has sent millions home and out of work. Some of those jobs will be given to robots.
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Find out how the same automations that businesses are using to address demand surges during the coronavirus pandemic can also be used after COVID-19.
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Coronavirus is forcing companies to speed up their plans to replace jobs with automation, according to a report published today by analyst company Forrester.
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This necessarily means that many jobs will not be returning at all. Many jobs will never be done the same way they previously were again. We do have to accept that this pandemic changed the world we live in, and we can expect some of those changes to be lasting as this was only one of the many obstacles we will be facing as we have ever increasing numbers of challenges thrown our way in the face of climate change. We are already seeing an urgency to change the way we farm due to the severe impact on farmers already. We are seeing a change in the way we shop, by an increase in online shopping and delivery services, an expansion in technology services as more people will be working remotely. How we move to do things in the future is necessarily changing, which also means we will have to change what we do and how we do it as well in order to adapt to the challenges we are presented with.