Posted on 04/05/2020 4:32:55 AM PDT by 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!"
That’s not an answer you crazy ex flesh mechanic..
Beat me to it.
1. Even if every business in America opened tomorrow, how many would have enough customers to stay open?
2. The employer-employee relationship has almost certainly been permanently damaged as a result of this idiocy. You’re going to have employees staying home sick for even the tiniest signs of illness, and employers have no real recourse to deal with that. I expect productivity to plummet as a result of this in many industries.
Having become a little familiar with you as a freeper I have to say, I get some comfort knowing you think I’m crazy. Sorry. Just the way it is.
We’ve got to start reopening long before 30 days. If we start next week, I think we might survive - although it will be difficult.
People are afraid and angry. I noticed that New York City is beginning to board up its stores. They’re expecting trouble soon.
We have to get moving on this right away.
You FOAD, if low intelligence people are going to risk their lives at the expense of other people access to medical care who didn’t CHOSE to go against the advise and lawful orders to stay home then they get what they deserve. You sound like one of the spoiled flubro brats for people like you I would take great pleasure in locking you up with the entire weight of the federal government behind me and my troopers some times people need to be taught obedience the hard way.
You again...?
charming as always aren’t you. It’s Palm Sunday. Maybe you could water down your invective and reflect on what God has done for you
Which border is sealed? Which border is sealed shut.
I expect the governors of Pennsylvania and Ohio will serve as case studies for executive stupidity when this is all over.
Pipe down, IMO the “medical community” has a lot to be ashamed of. You too. Go cover yourself in hand sanitizer and shout some incantations to Bal.
Fine. I have a lot of employees out sick, maybe you could come up to one of my negative pressure zones and wash up some patients - they get sweaty on the ventilators. But bring your own PPE, we can't spare any for you.
Hear hear! I agree with every word he said. The sooner we get America moving again, the better.
It doesn’t take much intelligence to see that 95% of the general population is not at much of a risk at all. Less so than the annual flu. Screw you pal.
I’ve been crunching available comparative stats up, down and sideways for almost a month now. The stats coming out of Korea are clearly the most definitive to date; stats from China are junk; CDC has decentralized statistical tracking since labs throughout the states have stood up testing; and stats coming out of Europe are all over the place. I’m sure you’ve read the stories about Italy and their testing/tracking data.
Consider:
Number of pneumonia and flu-related deaths in the US since Week 40, 2019 - the “official” beginning of the 2019/2020 flu season: 88,902 (There’s a reason CDC tracks and associates flu and pneumonia; the relationship between flu and pneumonia has been acknowledged and studied since the 40’s, but the relationship is difficult to quantify since tracking is decentralized and reporting standards are inconsistent.) Annual infection rates of influenza are believed to be between 8 and 10 percent, based on hospital and outpatient visits.
Number of pneumonia and flu-related deaths in the US since Week 3, 2020 (When COVID-19 was first identified in the US): 39,212
Number of COVID-19-related deaths in the US since Week 3, 2020: ~8,800
Number of worldwide COVID-19-related deaths to date: 47,245 (Some believe that China’s statistics are understated)
South Korea (as of 4/3/2020):
Total Tested: 443,273
Total Positive: 10,062 (2.2%)
Total Negative: 414,303 (93,5%)
Number of Deaths: 174 (1.7% - 174/10062)
Active: 3,867
Recovered: 6,021 (~60%)
...and draw your own conclusions.
Really? Why?
And is a nation "great" if it can be destroyed so easily? Is it even a nation?
Yes, I saw a bunch of them in the ICU family waiting area yesterday.
Oddly, none of them were concerned about the economy...
Quit projection your medical daily experiences on the to rest of us. Like cops who only deal with criminals all day long so they think everyone is a criminal. It s called projection. You are projecting your daily experiences onto the rest of us. Stop it. That is what liberal do.
The only way Tommie the Commie is going to re-open the state is if the outcry from the citizens of PA becomes too loud to ignore. Right now, his primary concern is for his voters in the Philthydelphia and Pittsburgh areas - the people who elected him.
How many of your COVID patients have no high risk pre conditions or under 65?
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