Dirty Work by Eyal Press explores jobs which are not usually celebrated and which many may consider to be unpalatable or morally compromised , while remaining necessary to society.
When I look over this list of the best books of 2021, I see what’s not there, what didn’t make the final cut and deserved the hosannas. Rebecca Solnit’s discursive
transmission occurs in those one to two days before you develop systems, those two to three days after you develop systems. if you map that out, those five days account for somewhere between 85% to 90% of all transmission that occurs. we want to make sure those first five days you re spent in isolation. that s when most of it occurs. okay. let s put in writing what dr. walensky just said. what she s saying is 85 to 90% of transmission occurs in the one to two days before you develop symptoms or the two to three days after you develop symptoms. the cdc s thinking is for days six, seven, eight, nine, ten, why are we isolating people if they re ace ssymptomatic or get better when they re most likely not contagious. let s get them back to work, especially if they re doctors or nurses or have other essential jobs. amara. elizabeth cohen, thank you
symptoms. focus on that second line there. what she s saying is beyond three days, your chances of transmitting covid are very small if you are asymptomatic or if you ve had symptoms and you re getting better. so what she didn t go on to say, but i ll go on to say based on what they did, many people have essential jobs, they re doctors, they re nurses, they re airline pilots, they have jobs they need to do, so do we really want to be keeping them away from those jobs if the chance of them giving covid to anyone is so tiny. that s the basic underlying justification for this new policy. phil? elizabeth cohen filling us in as always with details. here to share his expertise is the dean giving us his time as always. there is a lot of questions over the last 48 hours about this decision and kind of the rationale for it.