'I'm Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Going to Take This Anymore'

Townhall.com ^ | April 5, 2020 | Wayne Allyn Root

[Kaslin]

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore."

Remember that line from the famous American movie "Network"? It's time for a rebellion. Every out-of-work American and every out-of-business American business owner needs to open their windows and shout it, shout it so loud it reaches President Donald Trump, Congress and every swamp politician from Washington D.C., to New York to Boston to Beverly Hills, California.

It's time for this madness to stop. Mr. President, do you understand how many suicides of prominent business owners are going to start piling up?

Here in Las Vegas, a business owner closed his business, laid off his 45 employees (with tears in his eyes) and then went home and committed suicide. Did you see that in the news?

It's happening across America.

Do you understand the pain of the employees? People can't even get through to file for unemployment benefits. The websites have been down for days on end. No one answers the phones.

Do you understand how many lives are being ruined, how many jobs are being killed, how many great businesses will never reopen? The people are getting desperate and despondent. They have no money for food, rent, gas or survival.

We can't stay closed. We have to open up the U.S. economy. There is no more time for debate. There is no more room for caution. I have ideas and compromise below.

First, these coronavirus "death counts" have to stop. You're scaring people half to death. I suggest new kinds of death counts be put up on the screens to compete:

-- JOBS KILLED by this complete business shutdown.

-- BUSINESSES CLOSED.

-- AMERICAN DREAMS DESTROYED.

-- SUICIDES.

Another Great Depression will destroy this great nation. And we're on the way, unless you open this economy again.

And why not open America for business again -- with tight restrictions? What is happening now makes absolutely no sense. We are allowed to shop at big-box stores like Costco, Walmart and Home Depot; health food stores like Whole Foods and Sprouts; grocery stores; pet stores; auto part stores; pawn shops; marijuana stores; liquor stores; and gun stores. And get this: Golf courses are open.

If all of that is allowed, why can't we open all stores and businesses but with the same health precautions and restrictions?

I love and appreciate the UPS drivers and Costco cashiers on the front lines. But if they can work, why can't the rest of us? Do Costco checkout guys and gals and supermarket cashiers have a big S on their chest? If they can face it and survive, why can't the rest of us?

The liberal Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, just recommended everyone wear masks and scarves. Isn't this the compromise to get us all back to work?

Here's the mantra for the day: Wear a mask. Get back to work!

We need to open the U.S. economy before it's too late, before we're all doomed -- not from coronavirus but from the fallout of a Great Depression. Here is the compromise. Here are the new rules.

Anyone who wants to stay home can. If you want to collect welfare, food stamps and unemployment, you can. Anyone at high risk -- seniors, the sick, the obese, those with illness -- should shelter at home.

But the rest of us (the working people of America) are willing to take the risk; to keep our businesses alive; to save jobs; to save the economy; to prevent a Great Depression; to prevent mass suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, poverty and misery.

We can all work -- just like the Costco employees and supermarket cashiers and UPS drivers. We can all wear masks. Our customers can wear masks. We can all practice social distancing. Employees can stand six feet apart. Stores can limit customers. New customers can be allowed to only go in when others leave. We can sanitize our workplaces and stores like never before.

It's time to start organizing a mega call campaign to President Trump, Congress and local politicians across this country. It's time to tell them that the American people want to take precautions, that we'll accept restrictions but we need to get back to work. Or we're holding you accountable for ruining our jobs, careers, businesses, dreams, lives.

The pandemic is horrible. But we can't keep the economy closed. Your caution and fear are killing our lives more than any pandemic. The politicians are destroying America.

Shout it: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

[EnquiringMind]

If I could flick a booger on you, I would just to see you scream like a little girl. You may even wet your pants!!!LOL at the thought.

You just confirmed the irresponsible, selfish, dangerous mindset of the Flubros.

[Citizen Soldier]

I agree with the article. If I can stand in line at Costco for three hours just to get a chance at tp and social distance then I think I can handle the same precautions at other places. Let’s not ruin a great country.

[Tunehead54]

Businesses just have to adopt an older model:

Going out of business sale.

We’ve got a furniture store on an access road to a major North/South freeway that’s been going out of business for at least 15 years.

;-)

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. I knew a group of college guys who started a band and adopted that model for their gigs at the local bars. Every time they were booked for a gig, it was announced all over the campus as “The Band’s Last Appearance!”

[semantic]

Anything other than an objective calendar point-to-point series comparison requires one to make "assumptions". Why 12 days instead of 18, why not 24 days? 8 days is 8 days since the start of each respective country's CV mortality experience. If anything, the US should be doing better than Italy. That is, we had them & Iran as examples, which gave us more time to prepare. I would imagine most would believe we have a better, more adaptable HCS, and presumably our demographics are less vulnerable (age, smoking, health).

It turns out that 18 days is merely the result they were looking for aka goal seeking. They set a target and went about finding the date(s) to fit the curve. Speaking of which, I think a lot of people would be surprised at just how flat Italy has been:

		
Date    	Day	Daily
3/20/2020	29	627
3/21/2020	30	793
3/22/2020	31	650
3/23/2020	32	602
3/24/2020	33	743
3/25/2020	34	683
3/26/2020	35	712
3/27/2020	36	919
3/28/2020	37	889
3/29/2020	38	756
3/30/2020	39	812
3/31/2020	40	837
4/1/2020	41	727
4/2/2020	42	760
4/3/2020	43	766
4/4/2020	44	681

This essentially flat day-day plateau is also reflected in US stats if we remove NY, which is now almost 43% of all US total CV deaths (day 36, 2/29-4/4):



However, the biggest 'tell' of all is how the promoters have moved into negotiation - and a little bit of anger - in trying to rationalize why they were wrong. OTOH, maybe they were actually right, and the results we're now seeing are the result of the lock-down and social distancing policies.

Those are all great topics for discussion, and will launch 1000s of PhD theses in the coming years. But, for now, the main idea is to start living again.

[wastoute]

Thanks. Great graph, too. Tells the story in an instant.

[RipSawyer]

I used to be a small business owner, MOST are NOT sitting on millions in personal wealth, many have walked a financial tightrope for years and have nothing in reserves or even have a net negative financial position. Even those few who do have a personal fortune are not going to willingly pour it into a money losing operation. They will shut down and hope to live on their reserve capital.

I expect to see a drop in real estate followed by depression at best. I won’t even mention what less than the best looks like.

[wastoute]

IMHO with our mitigation efforts in place this country is “flat” as you say, minus the NYC area. Let’s hope the rest of the country stays that way, NYC “burns out” and we can begin to emerge after Easter. I do believe I heard Fauci say the “top” is some 6-7 days away.

[BrandtMichaels]

The crazy thing about that - what do they need to be in a hurry for anyway! Are we not all on the same twiddle your thumbs standstill?

[central_va]

I used to be a small business owner

May I ask what is your personal net worth? How much of it was obtained running a small business.

[FreeReign]

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.

Yes, I got the same impression, even from Fauci.

[Cap Huff]

Thanks semantic. I look forward to your charts, stats, and opinions/analysis.

[kabar]

Yesterday was the the day that IHME was supposed to update the model, which hasn't been updated since April 1. After promising for several days to check back on April 4 for the updated model, the new message is "As the pandemic progresses, we are working to incorporate new data about the virus in the US.

The model has not been updated. The hospitalization projections have been way off. They are hiding something or they are changing the model itself.

[FreeReign]

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.

Conversely, the people who sit at home, who don't work and who don't contribute to an economy that is able to pay for such ICU healthcare, ventilators and medical breakthroughs, cannot use any of the healthcare resources.

Because money doesn't grow on trees, nor does healthcare resources.

[kabar]

Have you seen this?

[Honest Nigerian]

Central_va
That is an irrelevant and stupid question. You are hopefully a better person than to be asking such a Bernie Sanders canard.

[FreeReign]

Have you seen this?

The Daily Hospitalization numbers have already peaked, both in NYC an nationally.

[FreeReign]

IMHO with our mitigation efforts in place this country is “flat” as you say, minus the NYC area. Let’s hope the rest of the country stays that way, NYC “burns out” and we can begin to emerge after Easter. I do believe I heard Fauci say the “top” is some 6-7 days away

The NYC New Daily Hospitalizations numbers are already flat. It's been that way for about a week.

The horrific NYC Daily Deaths are a lagging indicator. They are from infections that occurred about 20 days ago, before mitigation.

[RasterMaster]

"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."

Best bring an ARMY and plenty of body bags!

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA LINK

Bill Gates: Coronavirus Means We Need ‘Digital Certificates’ To Prove Who Received Vaccine LINK

Can I offer you a new tattoo?

Bill Gates, MIT Develop New ‘Tattoo ID’ to Check For Vaccinations LINK

Your COMMIE masters send their gratitude!

China's Xi Writes Thank You Note To Bill Gates For Virus Pledge LINK

[Sequoyah101]

You did right and she did wrong. We live with others and we need to respect them and their own rights along with ours. I had to tell people yesterday to keep their distance after having avoided them as long as I cared to.

I’m thinking this tack we are on now is a waste of time, all this shut down. The President should not be blamed though. He acted in the only way he could with the advice he was given. It looks like what the Bio Boffins have told him is a lot of wrong with a little right. What we are doing now is not turning the curve very fast at all. I believe that will be proven in the next week or two.

COVID may be novel but it is no different than any other epidemic / pandemic disease and epidemiologists are supposed to know how to handle these things. We pay them well when there is nothing else to do to study, plan and prepare for these events and not be SJWs. They have not used their heads very well at all and CDC were not prepared and when they do something they do it wrong. They are to blame for the disaster that is probably coming.

I think it is time to mask up, keep your distance, wash your hands a lot, test everybody, quarantine and go back to work but stay at home if you feel vulnerable, we will because we can and we are older.

I also think this isn’t the flu. It is much worse so be very careful.

As for restaurants, worst times than most. Really bad, a lot will not survive and others will open in their place one day.