FWIW, this 'Free' Government Handout ends next month for everyone. Let the rioting begin!
Posted on 08/22/2021 9:01:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
DAVENPORT, Fla. — By June, Meli Feliciano’s family appeared to have finally found a measure of stability after being jolted by the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. Her husband had secured a good job in construction, and she was receiving hundreds of dollars in weekly federal and state unemployment aid, giving her some breathing room while she submitted job applications each week. She kept records of it all in a pink binder that her daughter had once used in kindergarten.
That’s when calamity struck.
Her husband fell ill, temporarily wiping out his income. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) slashed her jobless aid by more than half to $197 per week, arguing that the federal boost to unemployment insurance was keeping people like Feliciano from getting back to work. The bill for her daughter’s college tuition and textbooks is due soon, nearly $1,000 that the family doesn’t have. And just as her husband was cleared to go back to work in August, her stepson Julian tested positive for the coronavirus, requiring the household to isolate for two weeks.
Last year, when their jobless aid briefly lapsed, the couple sold one of their cars to get by. But now they are running out of options. Do they draw further on the generosity of neighbors? Sacrifice tuition? Delay paying rent as long as possible?
“When you’re stressed as a parent, you don’t want it to show, but sometimes it shows,” said Feliciano, 42. “It’s a different issue going on every day. You just take it day by day and do the best you can.”
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My wife and I think we may have had it for 10 days or so just prior to Thanksgiving 2020. No respiratory symptoms but just extreme fatigue. During the worst of it (maybe two days), we could sleep 18-20 hours a day or more. I work in a building virtually by myself, and I never missed a day, but only worked an hour or two a couple days, plus several 4-6 hour days.
That cold that 99.8% of people recover from.
More free money! It cures all ills.
If he is in construction, talented, drug-free and shows up on time, he can get a job anywhere. Every business in the country has “Help Wanted” signs out. Restaurants around us have cut to 4 or 5 days a week because they can’t get help.
What a BS sob story.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. DeSantis is the MSM’s number one target now.
“Never give up on the con.”
Yep. Putting “terrifying” in the title is such a brazen gaslighting move.
Unemployment is low in florida. People should work, not get handouts.
Me either.
I have to show up and deal with the hapless, helpless, and hopeless.
They’re never short of sob stories.
See my tag line.
The MSM and their overlords must be terrified of DeSantis. I take this as a verrrrrrrrrrrrry goood thing.
2.2% would be over 7 Million dead Americans if we don’t reduce the death rate.
And even if you don’t die, you can get long term damage from covid19
2% of reported cases.
Doesn’t take into account the millions of unreported cases.
CDC estimates that from February 2020–May 2021: 1 in 4.2 COVID–19 infections were reported.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
FWIW, this 'Free' Government Handout ends next month for everyone. Let the rioting begin!
Lehigh County - 41,658 cases/875 deaths
Pennsylvania - 1.27million cases/28,075 deaths
~767,000 deaths per CDC
~120,000,000 infections per CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
Somebody check my math, but that comes to ~.64 fatality rate.
So it is not 99.8 survival. It is only 99.36 survival.
Fear porn.
And how many of those deaths was actually the flu? Or other causes?
“Its terrifingly terrifying”.
Author only gets a C minus as a propagandist. A real pro would have had people passing out just after reading the first paragraph.
I’ll take my chances. I also don’t trust the CDC’s numbers.
How many died with Covid as opposed to from covid?
Amazingly flu and pneumonia have almost been cured…
GOOD! My hero.
Most normal people consider it a form of mental illness to quote statistic as authoritative from an agency that has LIED ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING.
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