Also, not everyone had the option of staying in. That was a benefit reserved for the privileged few. At least in America, the lack of government support meant that lots of people had to choose between starving to death or potentially catching a (probably non-lethal) disease. Hell, there weren’t even regulations passed regarding the right to work from home, so it was entirely at the employer’s discretion if you got to stay home.

My employer mandated that every worker was essential, and had everyone continue coming into work. On the one hand, it was nice having a solid 40 hours straight through the pandemic. I never had to deal with the unemployment BS. On the other, it meant I was constantly seeing my office mates and couldn’t properly isolate. Hell, the same job one city over let everyone go home for two full years and paid them a fucking full salary the entire time. That could have been my job too, but due to differing leadership I had to continue going to work every single day.

That’s what had people pissed last time. People started tracking changes and quickly realized Reddit was censoring things.