@ chastising workers for not being able to find steady work during a global pandemic where businesses in certain counties ( I'm in one) haven't been open since early March. I mean everyone has the skills and infrastructure set up in their place of living where they can just find a job that allows them to work from home now right? You have your own business that isn't allowed open that you still have to pay for, tend to, and prepare for post-COVID operations (at some date?) but you can work another job at the same time, can't you? Put down the beer and get off the couch with your chronic conditions, bum. Taking a minimum wage front line essential job can also pay the bills of a family of four right?
It's painfully obvious at this point in history, as the CDC is banned from testifying about schools re-opening,
Trump hocks beans from the oval office and has his cronies write factless op-ed's against the nation's most respected epidemiologist, that this government does not give a
**** about any of us. Stay and sink with the ship at your own risk.
We must all realize that there's no national shutdown coming. There's no national testing, tracing, and mask program coming. The days where this
might have even been possible are long, long over. I'm sick of seeing politicians asking for this. There are already too many cases to track in "hot spots" and not enough tracers. There won't be enough materials to test effectively and not even enough PPE for workers on the emergency front line. Not enough ICU Beds (How long until people are dying in hallways?), 10-day results for tests are useless and laughable. As far as the simpletons in this administration are concerned, Covid-19 has been defeated and we'll just have to "live with it" until a vaccine or like the soon to be 200,000+ others in the country "die from it." We're all going to get it at this rate. Hope your body is tough enough or you have health insurance..oh, wait...
The total economic downfall of this preventable catastrophe will be nothing less than staggering. The toll on small businesses will be monumental ( reported 66,000+ closed nationwide already), personal debt will cripple families and class mobility, gun violence is up in major cities, no grand jury's in session, civic civility is at an all-time low, education gaps will be more pronounced due to schools "yo-yo-ing" opening or never being able to fully open at all, the evictions and homelessness will destroy lower-income brown and black folk neighborhoods at a higher more disproportionate rate and the mental health toll will be incalculable. No sector will be untouched by this administration and it's accomplices arrogant negligence, spinelessness and greed.
Just Scum.
Record infections every day, shutdowns returning all over the country yet no more unemployment stimulus. What changed? "It's going away. We have it all under control. It's safe now. -
" PPP loans continue to go overwhelmingly to multi-million dollar entities ( The Ayn Rand Institute got a handout, should tell you everything) instead of those independent businesses which are the lifeblood of neighborhoods culturally and economically. It's simply a matter of time before they have to shut down for good, even those with loans that they'll never be able to pay back with only take-out service or 50% capacity (at best). 50% capacity won't even pay half a month's rent in northern California. I don't see how this isn't the intermission for the end of the United States democratic experiment.
If a society that proclaims itself to be the most morally superior, economically powerful, intellectually gifted and technologically advanced in the
history of human existence but can't or refuses to protect its constituents from preventable decay, death, and financial apocalypse while simultaneously a minuscule section of that same society accumulates even more obscene riches and power at the peril of those citizens; at what point must we ask ourselves, why that society as it's presently constructed exists at all?
. Waked up with my left eyes red, not sure it’s pink eye since never had it before in my life to tell. And my throat not really sore but for sure not feeling normal. Weird I don’t go anywhere but work and home and I wash my hands about 30 times a day and never touch my face.
