{"id":1640,"date":"2020-09-25T21:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2020-09-25T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:54:31","slug":"eighteen-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/09\/25\/eighteen-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen percent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d214ef31-7a5c-4bb5-894f-17c7057ab999\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> about? Why do so few people with COVID-19 symptoms isolate when push comes to shove? My guess is that when you&#8217;re in that situation, shoving comes very hard, and the other 82% feel they have no choice &#8211; work or you end up jobless; work, or your children starve. These values have been built into our whole way of being for generations now. We need the profit motive (the &#8216;feed my children&#8217; motive) to make people want to work.  But COVID is one of the profit motive&#8217;s spectacular failures. It can&#8217;t stop people going in to work when even when their illness puts other people at risk &#8211; quite the reverse. This philosophy also (it seems to me) misunderstands big parts of what actually motivates people, particularly in the undervalued &#8216;caring professions&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I wouldn&#8217;t expect the hog-whimpering plutocrats who run this country to be any less ignorant of this stuff than I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this about? Why do so few people with COVID-19 symptoms isolate when push comes to shove? My guess is that when you&#8217;re in that situation, shoving comes very hard, and the other 82% feel they have no choice &#8211; work or you end up jobless; work, or your children starve. These values have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/09\/25\/eighteen-percent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eighteen percent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}