CALIFORNIA SHUTS DOWN AGAIN

[Contrefaire]

If the government isn’t getting the small business loans to the places that need it instead of shake shake, churches and the Los Angeles lakers and the folks that work at those businesses can’t get on unemployment for weeks and months after a shutdown, what do you expect them to do? You have to either
A) sufficiently supply folks with a means to live while they stay home, while also not losing their insurance
B) open shyt back up and try to get as many folks on board with masks as possible

those are the only 2 options after they botched the first few months of the outbreak. Is newsom cutting meaningful, sustainable checks? No? Is the government? Doubtful. Folks are going to take their chances with a virus with a median death age of 80 to try and keep food on their families table. It’s as simple as that. You can’t just close down perfectly lawful businesses like bars, gyms, movie theaters, salons etc and not compensate the owners and workers. That ain’t how it works. If you’re going to shut those down, which is fine they certainly are non essential, you have to make sure the folks who’s livelihoods and health insurance depend on those being open are not destroyed. California, and every state. nor the government is doing that. They are just mandating things close and keeping food off peoples tables and unemployment processing can’t process large swaths of unemployed workers and then wondering why people pressed their asses to open back up.

But that's the problem. We should never have been in this predicament in the first place. And the government refused to cut any meaningful stimulus checks or extend/expand unemployment benefits because this is exactly where they wanted us. Trying to convince both each other and ourselves that "getting back to work" was and is the only way forward, instead of demanding more from the Fed.

Realistically, reopening wasn't/isn't going to bring us back to pre-Covid unemployment rates or anything close to it anyway. According to Market Watch, 41% of businesses that closed due to Coronavirus have closed for good. That shyt was never going to reopen and those jobs were never coming back. And that's not even mentioning the businesses that realized they could still function with only half or even a fraction of the regular staff by simply overworking the skeleton crew they kept on.

You think they were gonna suddenly decide to bring the whole team back after they figured out they could save $$$ by paying wages to fewer workers, or even earn the same $ with reduced hours and staff, with a clientele who has by now grown used to slower service and longer wait times?

Plus there are millions of people who didn't/don't feel comfortable patronizing various non-essential establishments because they know the virus is still prevalent and many places aren't/weren't following the rules like they say they are.

Frankly, what happens when a business reopens and then, after the initial surge of people who couldn't wait to (pretend to) "get back to normal", the novelty wears off, and once again business is slow. Slow enough to cut hours and staff. Boom, yet another spike in the already dismal unemployment numbers and more people unable to afford to live.

 

[Lakerman0834]

the virus is still there and in every other part of the country

You right be doing a great job not getting infected. You seem upset that common sense is the solution and that test of the country doesn’t have it

 

[TaxCollector13459]

Cacs were packing out the bars and breweries around the Southend here in Charlotte too

Few masks despite the order

Roy Cooper needs to follow suit in North Carolina

I mean, shyt pretty much still aint shaking, and it's mandatory for the state to wear mask