Posted on 04/05/2020 4:32:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many other businesses are now at the point where they may as well stay closed for the protection of our customers and workers to hide the fact that they wont have any customers if they open tomorrow anyway. Ill give the entire U.S. auto industry as a perfect example.
The clock is ticking. In yesterday’s presser Trump seemed to get it, Pence seemed to get it, and even Fauci seemed to acknowledge it.
Dr. Tony has been given 30 days to mitigate. After that America opens for business and whatever happens happens.
That boat sailed in January.
The question in my mind is will the Rats let us open up but continue to weld our borders shut?
Bttt
I did something out of character for me yesterday at my local Meijer store. I was in the 20 items or less self check out lane watching a gal two people ahead of me with a FULL shopping cart. When it came time for me to move to one of the scanners, I asked the Meijer employee monitoring the lanes why she didn't tell the lady with the full cart to go to the proper check out lanes. The employee told me she wasn't allowed to.
So after I checked out my few items, I went back to the girl who was still checking out her items and told her she shouldn't be in that lane and pointed out the 20 item limit sign. All she said was I'm sorry.........I said you're not sorry, you are rude and you did it on purpose. Then I shook my head and walked away.......
Obama voter undoubtedly.
Open up everything next week. Order all health care providers to treat coronavirus, hell, everyone with Hydroxychloroquine; assuming we have enough. We can’t let this country go down the tubes as the demonrats want.
It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
-Sam Adams
Perhaps it’s time to face the fact that Ben Franklin’s observation about the impossibility of purchasing security by removing freedom is as true today as it was in the 18th Century. Risk cannot be removed from life, it can only be mitigated at a certain cost. It’s now time to realize the cost is about to overwhelm the ability of the economy to recover.
As far as where the line of “reasonable restrictions” should be drawn, social distancing as a sensible suggestion by health officials is about as far as I believe it should go. Each individual can make decisions on mask-wearing or staying secluded due to personal health risks. This whole matter has allowed a crop of petty tyrants to erupt like crabgrass in a spring lawn. Each town mayor, county executive, and governor should be made to reflect on their actions that have removed livelihoods and collapsed their tax base.
The caveat should be if you choose to not quarantine at home then if you get sick you cannot uses any healthcare resources such as an ICU room or ventilator because the whole purpose of isolation is to keep the number of infection low enough so that those who are truly innocent can have access to life saving care. If greedy self centered people want to risk their lives fine but they get zero access thus they cannot take resources away from someone who did not be a selfish a$$hole. This would be easy to implement track the cellphones and toll tags if the person was not at home for extended periods of time the obviously they broke quarantine. Harsh but effective.
Now stay home don’t make the national guard force you too, I have zero desire to be recalled and have to police up the idiots but will with ruthless efficiency as will my troopers who will follow my orders to do so. We did in Kosovo, and a host of other places they will follow orders here given by a lawfully elected officials none of which is unconstitutional in a time of national emergency. The Supremes won’t even get involved this was decided over a hundred years ago the precedence is already set.
This is spot on.
Democrat governors will not open their states on the President’s orders. They closed their states and only they will open them. Here in Pa. Gov. Wolf (D) is so giddy with power I can’t see him opening anything until mid-summer. By that time half of the small businesses will have ceased to exist.
The current situation cannot continue. The engine that drives prosperity, productivity, has been killed. Many businesses will fold. Contrary to what the left thinks, businesses don’t have infinite money. There must be sale of product.
When you see that no money is coming in, but the expenses continue, and the taxes will have to be paid, you realize that it will be months or years before you can once again on the positive side, assuming that you can open this summer, and so you close everything.
Knowing when to hold and when to fold is essential.
The government has NO resources, and it is insane to think that the government can pay everyone not to work indefinitely. It has already committed to deficit spending that will hurt us bad, assuming there is a recovery someday.
I wish that were true, so what border is that to which you refer? Which border is sealed shut. Doc, I think you are crazy.
Thanks for the compliment.
What douche bag comment. FOAD.
While I agree that this "lock down" needs to end today i.e. NOW I still have the feeling that some, maybe a lot, of the small business owners are sitting on millions in personal wealth while we feel sorry for their temporary cash flow problems.
Till now Trump has solidly stood behind the governors. That will change. Once it does the legs will be taken out from under the resisters. Particularly as other states reopen and start collecting revenues again.
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