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What lockdowns? The travel industry alone is destroyed and that's by people's choice. People aren't travelling. Planes aren't flying. Hotels, restaurants, attractions are suffering. All the businesses that supply and support them. That's a lot of employees right there. Poof. Their business is gone and you can't flip a switch and turn it back on.
And the democrats won't do anything to help them !!! Democrats believe that causing them pain increases their election chances !!! They are willing to gamble with the lives of people in need to try and win elections !!! We shall see how that works for them !!!
The house passed a bill that's been collecting dust on Moscow Mitches desk for 9 weeks he wants to fill it with pork before it passed.
RE: lockdowns - yeah we have opened up a bit from where we were 4 months ago, but there are still shutdowns in place and likely to get worse in the fall.
That's above my paygrade.
But the "plan" we had, failed.
Well, what else could have been done? Doing nothing has proven to be disastrous. Look at Sweden. They did nothing and they ended up with death rates among the highest in the world. The currently plan has been a failure, but under the circumstances (not acting fast enough), I don't see any other way of dealing with this until a vaccine comes out. This is literally what it is, and there is little else that can be done.
What lockdowns? The travel industry alone is destroyed and that's by people's choice. People aren't travelling. Planes aren't flying. Hotels, restaurants, attractions are suffering. All the businesses that supply and support them. That's a lot of employees right there. Poof. Their business is gone and you can't flip a switch and turn it back on.
Is what it is. Victims of the virus paranoia created in no small part by the media...
The wife is in medical billing and I work in metalworking related to the food industry... (think stainless steel conveyor systems at the meat processing plants)
Both jobs deemed essential... both haven't missed a day of work.
Glad we aren't flight attendants or McJob cashiers.
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RE: lockdowns - yeah we have opened up a bit from where we were 4 months ago, but there are still shutdowns in place and likely to get worse in the fall.
Yep.
Haven't cancelled the December cruise vacation and trip to Disney Orlando just yet... but not expecting it to happen. Still may take the flight though... her parents live there and our vacation may consist of spending 2 weeks at their house.
RE: lockdowns - yeah we have opened up a bit from where we were 4 months ago, but there are still shutdowns in place and likely to get worse in the fall.
We never had a real lockdown. Exceptions and willful defiance were everywhere. We just took a half-assed piecemeal approach with predictable results.
And the democrats won't do anything to help them !!! Democrats believe that causing them pain increases their election chances !!! They are willing to gamble with the lives of people in need to try and win elections !!! We shall see how that works for them !!!
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