What I see in the suburbs north of Philadelphia is downright snobbery. The white collar professionals have been working from home via zoom this whole time, and not missing a single paycheck. Select healthcare workers, government bureaucrats and other workers deemed “essential” got to keep their jobs. Schoolteachers are teaching from home or otherwise being made whole.
Meanwhile, lots of small blue collar contractors, bar and restaurant servers, and people in various entertainment fields, are laid off and reminded daily how “non-essential” they are.
From the conversations I hear, it is pretty obvious that when people talk about the need to stay closed a bit longer - they aren’t talking about themselves. They are almost exclusively well-off white collar snobs talking about how the bars and restaurants and diners need to stay closed.
The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
Same here in CT. Locally we have a bunch of FB nurses who haven’t missed a check, retired lib women or the work from home crowd who will tell anyone who even suggest we need to find ways to re-open inline with rules that grocery or big box retail is using is basically told to shut up and just stay home and wear your mask, why you missed 8 weeks of work, what’s two more. It’s just a little bit longer.
They also were/are the loudest it’s to soon to open, but I want it to open soon as my friend and I want a drink crowd.