Musicians aren’t (or shouldn’t be) the point so much as gig workers in general. With loads and loads of workers paid by taxpayers at their full rate without working at all (via the PPP incentive to small businesses)—while gig workers at best got squat through PUA.
In MA when restaurants reopened for outdoor dining only some musicians played in courtyards and other areas outside. This was quickly shut down by local authorities. Now some indoor dining allowed but no bar areas can be used and
places that are strictly bars have to wait a long time to reopen.
Example: rockin’ blues group Victor Wainwright and the Train would play a place in Beverly MA with a capacity of 200.With the shutdown these gigs disappeared. The best they could do was play some songs via Facebook live in their own spaces. They have a new album to support but people can order it online...
no “merch table” at gigs.
Festivals like Marshfield Fair in MA
would have entire days of several blues
or roots bands, outdoor stages.The whole fair got cancelled. Comic cons with music nights...
Music festivals...cancelled.
Forget about the regular workers... what about government workers who have been on 3 to 4 month vacations so far, with full pay and benefits? It's oh so Soviet for the government workers to be a special class--salaries, living accomodations, resorts, special stores, hospitals... We're heading that way. A Democrat/Communist revolution would only accelerate it.