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To: Black Agnes

Wow, sounds like you have something against people who have money.
Very un freeper like, if you ask me.
Those employees at Walmart, Kroger and Target are still working because they are considered essential. I do not see them quitting. They can if they want to, and someone else will take their jobs.
It is called capitalism.


150 posted on 03/24/2020 12:05:31 PM PDT by kaila
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To: kaila

“Those employees at Walmart, Kroger and Target are still working because they are considered essential.”

If you are an executive for one of these companies, or you serve not the board, you need to get into the stores and get to work. It’s your patriotic, American duty to lead the way. We will even let you have a mask.


157 posted on 03/24/2020 12:11:07 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: kaila

Work! you peasants at walmart, even if you catch the virus and end up with a million dollar medical bill! EEEEEARn that $10/hr.

Kaila needs her walmart crap!

If you don’t like serving Kaila, quit and live in a box under a bridge.

(and people wonder why the youngsters hate ‘capitalism’)

Because Kaila’s capitalism has no ‘social contract’. Only benefits for Kaila’s portfolio...


167 posted on 03/24/2020 12:14:40 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: kaila

You are so wrong here. I would love to be able to handle all this from a capitalist perspective but that horse has left the barn when we left the borders open.

First of all my husband is a business owner, he just found out he cannot shut down because he is an “essential business”. He could quit, we can afford that, but that leaves 50+ other people without jobs. He won’t do that to them.

Second, none of these employees are allowed to wear PPE despite my husband having stocked it for them because the corporation says “no”. The healthcare system, administrators, and CDC did not do their jobs and stock it for their healthcare workers, so we all have to do the good communist thing and share the risk.

So, my husband puts himself at risk and lives in a camper in our driveway in order not to put his elderly father at risk. Healthcare workers all over the country are in much worse situations, and are front lines of a war that half the country is arguing does not exist.

Finally, my son has no choice but to go to work every day at a hospital, in and out of hospital rooms, and was just exposed to cv through a coworker. He would love to stay home, but cannot quit, he does not have the means. He knows we can only carry him so far. His company will not close until the governor says so.

There are a lot of people who will lose their jobs if choose to stay home to protect their grandma, or themselves, and a lot of companies who cannot or will not shutdown without some directive from the governor or mayor.

So all your talk about “choices” really falls apart out here in the real world. There is very little choice for people to go to work or stay home. As much as you’d like there to be that cut and dried world, it is a lot messier than that.


187 posted on 03/24/2020 12:25:00 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: kaila

Because getting the latest video game at Wallyworld is essential.


218 posted on 03/24/2020 12:40:21 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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