Here's another nail in the shutdown coffin. I predict this shutdown will last only a few more weeks.
In late April Dr. Tony Fauci made it clear he opposed the decision by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to lift the lockdown orders in his state. “If I were advising the governor, I would tell him he should be careful. Going ahead and leapfrogging into phases where you should not be … I would advise him not to do that.”
But Dr. Fauci was wrong again. In fact, it starting to look like this guy is NEVER right about anything? It must be nice having a government job and not have to worry about getting fired!
Fauci and the critics were all wrong. Today Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced on Saturday the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th and the lowest total of ventilators in use.
Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th.
Today also marks the lowest total of ventilators in use (897 with 1,945 available).
The only reason this is happening is because businesses aren't really re-opening and customers aren't "getting back to normal". In the absence of public policy on how to safely proceed, people are staying home.
My son's company never closed, but they got advice on how to keep their workers safe, and they gave staff a choice about working. Those who chose to stay home were given immediately paperwork to collect unemployment insurance and laid off. Those who chose to work wear face masks, have their own personal equipment, which is deep cleaned daily, and social distancing is rigidly enforced. My son said they're real Nazis about it. In a company of 3200 employees, they haven't had a single case of covid. They have converted their electronics manufacturing from amplifiers and speakers, to making motherboards for ventilators. They have closed their stores and gone to curbside pickup or online sales. They are currently at 70% of pre-covid sales.
Covid is not going away, and companies have a choice - evolve or die. What they cannot do and survive, is to endanger the lives of their workers. The union movement in the USA grew out of the callous disregard for workers safety during the industrial revolution. When hundreds of workers started dying in factory fires, Americans revolted and demanded safe working conditions.
Trump is trying to force workers back to work while a pandemic rages, while doing NOTHING to protect those workers, and worse,
REMOVING THE WORKER'S RIGHT TO REFUSE UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS, AND THE RIGHT TO SUE THEIR EMPLOYERS SHOULD THEY GET SICK AS A RESULT.
Protect the employers at the cost of lives. No protections for workers. This is BULLSHIT.
ROFL! Companies aren't responsible if you catch the flu, so why should they be responsible if you catch COVID? YouTDS morons are using COVID as an excuse to implement your entire agenda.
People under 70 have little chance of dying from COVID. Most don't even know they have it. Older people can isolate themselves. There is simply no rational justification for keeping people from going to work.
This isnt the flu, you stupid dolt. This is a highly contagious form of viral pneumonia that attacks the heart, lungs and kidneys, as well as triggering strokes, in younger people, and rare reaction in children that is killing them as well. There is no cure, and currently, more than 25% of those who have tested positive in the USA, are dying.
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While the virus isn't killing young people in healthier countries, the USA has the least healthy general population in the first world, as well as the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease - all of which make your general population far more likely to both catch the virus and to die from it.
Couple that with a large uninsured population of low income workers with no savings, and no resources, and this is the end of the US economy as you know it.
What is about the happen is the death throes of a sick society, which values money more than people.
Those of us who put our people first, aren't trying to sell the idea that workers are "warriors" who should go to work without protection. In our country, companies are being given clear guidelines on how to keep workers safe. If people are getting sick at work, they shouldn't be going to work until employers can keep them safe.
If you can't keep your workers safe, how can you keep your customers safe? And if you can't keep customers and workers safe, you certainly can't keep vulnerable populations safe because either workers in care facilities, or family members who work are going to bring the virus to them. So start with making the workplaces safe so workers don't get sick.
If you're forced to go back to work, and your company isn't offering face masks, private equipment, barriers and social distancing to protect staff, and you get sick - damn skippy you should be able to sue their asses. If your boss has the right to force you back to work, he'd better make damn sure it's safe for you to be there.
Time and time again, we see the same factories which were the subject of ICE raids a few months ago, are now being closed for Covid Clusters today. If these people were so cavalier about flouting immigration laws which exist for the safety and security of the nation, what makes you think they're now follow health and safety laws, when doing so will cost them money and reduce production?
The difference is that now their workers really do threaten Americans. If these workers get sick, they won't have the money to seek treatment, and they will spread these viruses to the rest of the community, just by shopping, going to restaurants, and playing in public parks.