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Well, yours is better, though we both know covid is not an automatic death sentence, although no picnic, I assure you. Understand it is a responsibility and yes, you are even talking logically to hard asses when you talk about the money to treat if allowed to get sick (you did that on purpose thinking you got my number) and it does make more sense than opening up the cell doors and letting them free.You know me, independent hard ass, so you will not be surprised that I do not favor priority for the incarcerated. People of all races and creeds should prioritize behavior that will not get them incarcerated. If you choose the quick way up the mountain and fall, making subject to injury or death, while laying there, hard to imagine not thinking "maybe should have chosen to stay on the safer trail up that hill". Choices suck when you make the wrong one. Just saying,...It actually makes a lot of sense considering the atmosphere of correctional facilities where social distancing between officers and inmates isn't possiblewhat a stupid thing to say
Not all choices deserve the death penalty though. When you incarcerate someone (and frankly far more end up icarcerated than should be because it is an industry), you assume a responsibility for their basic needs since you have removed the opportunity for them to do so. On a more practical stand point, in a close confined situation like that it can be very expensive to treat those that become sick and impossible to isolate them, and protective gear is often not provided. IMO, any large group facility that can not accommodate basic preventative measures or contains a particularly vulnerable population should be prioritized.
A priority, yes. How far down is not for me to say, thankfully. Definitely Guards and staff first.