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We shouldn't be reopening until we got a safety net for workers who feel at risk or have a risk factor in place. We don't. People who are have a risk factor or feel their workplace isn't safe really don't have anything to fall back on. Imagine your brother being told to work and you know he is diabetic.
I'm 100% with you on this. You know, I am very on the fence about reopening. Well, actually I'm not. I'm really in favor of getting this started. What I don't like are the people who are screeching and whining about it and saying "You know, if YOU don't want to go out, STAY HOME." It's just not that simple.
The minute a county/state reopens, the businesses reopen and employees who are sitting safely at home for various reason now must go to work or they will lose their unemployment benefits.
My hairstylist, for example, is a young mother with 2 children and one of the children is immunocompromised with a lung condition. She's at home now collecting unemployment. It's not the amount she normally makes but she's doing okay wit the $600 bump up. She is not comfortable going back into work with such a high infection rate in our district. But if she doesn't go in, she loses all of her income. So it's just fine and dandy for folks to stay "Just stay home" but you can't always do that.
I think we are reopening/emerging too soon--sooner than the initial guidelines put out at first that no one cares about anymore. We can't seem to do anything right. So I'm going to call this early reopening an experiment. And I think that's fine if we want to try it, but you need to leave that safety net in place so people can MAKE THEIR CHOICE as so many are advocating here for those that don't want to go out.
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Rand Paul has been consistently correct on every single issue over the years whether it be foreign policy, ophthalmology, or domestic policy. Heck, he was right four years ago when he said "a speck of dirt is way more qualified than Donald Trump to be president."
Well, you know, broken clocks and the twice a day thingie.
Look I am not the biggest Trump fan, but where is your evidence to back it up that he is incapable? And don’t spout your friends from the MSM. Step away from the noise and your emotions and try to evaluated fairly. Is he not advocating a slow return to normalcy? Is he not recommending proper protection for employees? Is he not leaving some of the decisions up to the local authorities in each state because they can best decide what works for them? Yes to all of these. What more do you want?
He has been bankrupt multiple times, living in New Jersey I have watched him rise and fall every time and personally know the contractors and employees at his casino that he burned.
Just because I don't like Trump MSN is not my source.
Just because you support Trump I hope FOX or Breitbart aren't your only sources.
Yeah, Rand Paul sounded like a petulant, petty, little ar$e. As usual, Fauci gave the perfect response. These idiots are so ridiculous they don't even realize that Fauci is just doing his job. They don't like his facts because they might make the cult leader look bad.
That is exactly what it is. Trump should learn to keep his big mouth shut.
I'm quite sure Rand Paul will get whatever haircut he needs, when he needs it. Remember, it was so long ago that the COVID-positive "good" doctor decided the rules weren't meant for him and used the Senate gym.
No Rand Paul cultivated the "look" he had going today.
Rand Paul has been consistently correct on every single issue over the years whether it be foreign policy, ophthalmology, or domestic policy. Heck, he was right four years ago when he said "a speck of dirt is way more qualified than Donald Trump to be president."
Now he has to stay on Trump's good side or he will be called names.
Really? Now we need a GOP senator sparring with Fauci, claiming he's not the "end all be all?" What is wrong with these GOP senators? And it's such a shame that Rand Paul is a physician.
Not many good things that come out of Kentucky other than Bourbon and horses. You got Rand Paul and then the worst, Mitch the idiot, McConnell.
Stop antagonist talk and come together as a government. Probably something the US government/politics will never do in my lifetime. Half of these idiot politicians shouldn't be making decisions.
"When the senator suggested Fauci was not the “end-all” who makes the decision, Fauci replied: “I have never made myself out to be the end-all, or the only voice in this.
“I’m a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence. ... I don’t give advice about economic things. I don’t give advice about anything other than public health.”
But it might not be "safe." You need to stay home for a few years for your own health.
Did you ever hear of mail-in ballots?
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