[headstamp 2]

I see it all over. People are loving the extra 6 bills a week.

My neighbor is on it and his wife is a nurse so he’s in no hurry to go back to work. His boss even fired him because he wouldn’t come back. He’s a 35 year old skilled tradesman who could get another job overnight.

There are no checks on this as far as making people either go back when called or show that they are actively seeking work.

This is heroin and its going to be very hard to stop it except with cold turkey. Its morphed into welfare payments not unemployment insurance.

The damage this insane lockdown has caused to our national psyche is going to be felt for decades.

[Prince of Space]

My 67-year-old husband was furloughed from his server job at a casino on March 18th through October 31st with 1 day’s notice. I love Arizona but they have the second lowest UI payment in the country ($240/week max). Even with the extra $600/week, he’s still $1500 short of what he was making per month pre-Covid.

He’s also a real estate agent during the day and lost 2 deals in April because of the clients’ economic uncertainty due to the virus. There are many ppl whose livelihoods have taken a huge hit from the shutdown through no fault of their own. The govt has no right to decide winners and losers by not allowing ppl to work during this pandemic debacle, and they have an obligation to make those ppl whole by extending the pandemic assistance program.