Education workers are being asked to choose between their safety and employment, while parents are being asked to choose between employment and education/childcare. Central to both is a question about the thresholds of risk. #onted

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What is the collective risk we assume under the practical possibility of an outbreak? And who assumes the cost?

Core to the social management of risk is a moral dilemma AND an ethical imperative to meet the basic standards of OBJECTIVE safety.

This is "the essence of political judgment and decision making" for Andrew F. Fritzsche (1996) who wrote about risk not just as a financial matter, but also a moral matter central to which are values, grounded in our individual psyche & related to our ideals + ethical principles.

. @fordnation and @Sflecce are willing to let children, working families, and women assume the imminent risk of outbreak. This isn't about budgets; it's about the ideals, principles, & values that serve the political elite.

We must impose collective will, as a moral imperative.