The Phony Coronavirus Class War

… Lately some commentators have suggested that the coronavirus lockdowns pit an affluent professional class comfortable staying home indefinitely against a working class more willing to take risks to do their jobs.

Writing in The Post, Fareed Zakaria tried to make sense of the partisan split over coronavirus restrictions, describing a “class divide” with pro-lockdown experts on one side and those who work with their hands on the other. On Fox News, Steve Hilton decried a “37 percent work from home elite” punishing “real people” trying to earn a living. In a column titled “Scenes From the Class Struggle in Lockdown,” The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote: “Here’s a generalization based on a lifetime of experience and observation. The working-class people who are pushing back have had harder lives than those now determining their fate.”

The assumptions underlying this generalization, however, are not based on even a cursory look at actual data. CONT.

Michelle Goldberg, New York Times


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  1. Anonymous says:

    We are sick and tired of hearing about this whole virus thing,, stop it and stop reporting it every day and night,,, we are tired of masks and social distance and plexiglass,, what a very sad society we have become!!!!! But we sure as heck enjoyed our lives,, we live in the USA and not China or in any other communist country,,, it’s an election year and drug companies are very powerful!!!!!!

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