#pwbm

“According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), reopening states will result in an additional 233,000 deaths from the virus — even if states don’t reopen at all and with social distancing rules in place. This means that if the states were to reopen, 350,000 people in total would die from coronavirus by the end of June, the study found. ... That figure far surpasses estimates and models that the White House has cited from the University of Washington, which put the death toll at roughly 73,000 by the start of August. ... partially reopening would also cause the death toll to rise, the university’s data found. An additional 45,000 lives would be lost, according to Wharton’s Budget Model, bringing the U.S.’s death toll from COVID-19 to 222,000.”

What if “job” isn’t referencing the whole trip but perhaps the specific mission that she’s carrying out while in Zood! And maybe it’s a job that she knows the crew wouldn’t agree to not because they aren’t skilled enough to carry it out but because it’s immoral? If it were something involving stealing resources from Zood there’s no way that the crew especially Montgomery would ever agree to that, so someone “more up to the job” would be like a criminal or imperialist who’s willing to do unconscionable things, which the original crew aren’t

Jinx at least has Silco and Sevika. If anything, Vi was the one who was abandoned