I work with some of them in Greece. They have monthly contract extensions and are paid by day, no sick leave. Most offices have skeleton crew now. Technically it is not fb, but agency who employs them.
Hospitals are already stretched, it takes hours of waiting to treat normal injuries such as broken legs. Waiting list for some operations is years long.
How many people are going to die from other causes, if we shutdown entire country for 6 months? How many of those will be children and young people?
It may sound harsh, but as a younger person I prefer this plan.
There is nothing secret about RNA testing. Any decent lab can synthetise its own markers from a file downloaded from internet. It is like genetic research is illegal in US or what.
Honestly there are people who just do not care. Article has interesting content. But political stuff is just like ads, you ignore it, or go away if it becomes too annoying.
I am not even from US, we have universal healthcare, but it is even more broken than yours.
But genociding your engineers is probably not best idea.