Quote from: five points on August 10, 2020, 12:21:33 PMYes I agree on a shared house but it wouldn't be viable for someone to move to Ballyhaunis on a minimum wage and rent a flat on there own.Quote from: Maiden1 on August 10, 2020, 12:16:45 PMQuote from: sid waddell on August 10, 2020, 10:01:59 AMMinimum wage workers live in cramped shared accommodation because they are on a minimum wage and can't afford to pay the rent and other bills on there own.Quote from: seafoid on August 10, 2020, 06:35:28 AMMinimum wage workers have a "personal responsibility" to ensure they get their own flats rather than live in cramped shared accommodation, no doubtQuote from: sid waddell on August 10, 2020, 01:16:05 AMQuote from: highorlow on August 10, 2020, 12:41:13 AMThis is like bad satire.
It's a case of personal responsibility at this stage but some of the foreign nationals don't get that, particular the Muslims and the ethic travelling community.
Sure why focus on the actual personal responsibility of the owners and management at meat processing plants to ensure safe working conditions when you can just lump it all on low wage workers and ethnic minorities.
The vacuous right-wing mantra of "personal responsibility" is both a dog whistle and a self-consciously fraudulent grift to protect untrammelled corporate power, and lack of corporate responsibility, and incompetence or worse.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/meat-plant-clusters-may-be-down-to-softly-softly-approach-1.4324924?mode=amp
We know now what works to stop the virus: distance, hand hygiene, masks. We know where the risky environments are: crowded indoor spaces, meat plants, shared accommodation.
Rents in places like Timahoe, Ballyhaunis or Ballyjamesduff aren't outrageous, especially for house shares. Many people come here to work in meat plants so they can save or send money home.