In Florida, DeSantis cut jobless aid just as virus began terrifying new wave

MSN ^ | 22 August 2021 | Washington Post via MSN

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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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They do, yes, but not like this. I have med professionals in the family—a nurse and a physician—and they’re worn thin. People are having to wait for hospital beds in my area. One ER had a record number of patients with 3 Covid deaths night before last.

At the same time, the government is absolutely using the situation to control.

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One ER had a record number of patients with 3 Covid deaths night before last.

That would be because they are slapping them on ventilators.

My wife and I had it before it had a name, and I have the persistent IgG and IgM antibodies to prove it.

It was the worst flu we ever had in terms of crap in our lungs that we had to cough up.

It literally took months to clear it all out. We were worn out from coughing day and night, but our lungs finally cleared out.

The key is coughing to clear out your lungs.

The worst thing they can do is put you on a ventilator so you can't cough and the crap keeps accumulating in your lungs.

I personally believe they want to kill people to pump up the numbers.

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PS - We survived it without doctor visits or drugs.