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Wealthy and poor people are experiencing sheltering in place in far different ways.
Those people with the means to do so can escape the virus more easily. It buys them social space. They have larger homes, apartments, and second homes and are far more likely to have a job they can do from home or a business that they can run from it.
Personally, our family falls in the middle of the middle when it comes to income and social class. We reside in a single-family home in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, but most people reading this will have a nicer and more spacious home than we do.
I have been working from home with the exception of coming in for a few hours per week to take care of some things that simply must be done in person. Everyone else in my wife’s and my circle of friends and most of our relatives is working from home and most have nicer and more spacious digs than we do with more rooms to spread out in.
Except for one extremely notable exception, that being our daughter who is working her shift at Dairy Queen as I type these words.
Furthermore, the owner of the franchise is doing a piss-poor job of protecting her employees. She is obviously far more concerned with making a few extra bucks to remain in business than concerning herself with the health and well-being of her…
