The “patriotic” forces for “freedom”. “Liberty” and “personal responsibility” are the ones shrieking the loudest about the poor restaurant and bar workers:
The problem is that if everyone had worn masks and practiced social distancing in the first place and did it consistently, the rate of infection wouldn’t have continued to soar and we could have pin pointed where measures might have to be taken with greater accuracy.
If they didn’t buy into the distracting blame it on China game and realized that you can’t stop a virus from crossing state boundaries, maybe we could have gotten better testing, contact tracing and PPE issues resolved. Then the infection rate wouldn’t be so high.
If the MAGA nuts hadn’t let the Republicans politicize the act of compliance with public health measures, then the infection rate wouldn’t be so high.
But now, the infection rate is increasing quite a lot. Day by day, there is a new record spike in cases and deaths and the healthcare workers are exhausted.
And every time you walk out the door, your chances of bumping into someone with the virus is higher than the day before.
That’s why the restaurants and bars are closed and the workers are screwed once again while McConnell et al try to stiff the poor who are trying to keep their heads above water in this environment.
Don’t get all furious with the rest of us mask compliant sheep that there are thousands a people out of work requiring an even bigger stimulus bill that will wreck your bank accounts, precious investments and tax cuts that you’re about to lose.
All you had to do was wear a fucking mask, stay away from superspreader events and not go into crowded rooms with low ceilings with poor circulation. You should have encouraged your Republican Senators to do whatever it takes to make sure restaurant and bar owners could furlough their workers without catastrophic financial impacts. It should have been easy.
But you didn’t.
So, now the bars and restaurants have to close. More people will be out of work, more children will be at risk of hunger and homelessness. There will not be a Christmas for them this year. Some school aged kids don’t have access to high speed internet so their education will suffer.
Believe me, they will not forget the bad juju that they are experiencing in these formative years. They’re lives will be shaped by it.
Don’t expect to get kindness in return.
Anyway, it’s all your fault, maskholes. You could have limited the spread, bent the curve, been part of the solution. An ounce of prevention would have been worth a whole lot of cure.
Now, we’re going to have to do things the hard way.
Stop the whining and outrage. We’re thoroughly sick of it.
Filed under: General |
The Confluence 
Weekly reminder:
Friday nights 8 PM – 9 PM North American Central Time:
The Magical Mystery Tour. Host Tom Wood takes a look at the Beatles from a different angle each week.
Friday nights 9 PM – 12 AM North American Central Time:
Beaker Street, the legendary rock radio program, has returned. Iconic host Clyde Clifford has returned from his medical absence.
Both shows can be found at http://arkansasrocks.com/
If you can’t catch Beaker Street live, MP3 files are available soon afterward at https://beakerstreetsetlists.com/
If Arkansas Rocks’s own link isn’t working, here’s another one to try which carries AR:
https://tunein.com/radio/CER2-Radio-690-s32531/
i think that it comes down to a lot of very selfish and very stubborn people who have formed this twisted idea of freedom to mean, no one can make you do anything you don’t want to do, whereas you can force everyone else to do what you want them to do. This of course makes no sense, but it seems to best fit their demands that no one have an abortion, that birth control not be available, but that there should be no requirement to wear masks in public places, nor should there be any other restrictions on their right to not wear masks, to party it up in bars and restaurants, ignore every state and local health ordinance, if they choose to.
So there is no logic whatsoever. And there is no long-range thinking as to effects. They want what they want, and they have a leader who tells them that they are always right, that those who talk about health concerns are bad people, socialists and hippies and radicals of all sorts. They can’t think beyond that. They want their happy hours, they want to hang out with their friends and eat and drink and be rowdy, and no socialists are going to take that right away, because they are Americans. That is a very twisted and sad perversion of the concept of liberty, but it is pervasive in many areas, and probably always has been in this country. And they can’t think beyond their instant gratification. They don’t want vaccines, because no socialist radicals can tell them to take them. They don’t seem to want anything more than the ability to yell and complain and threaten, unless they get their way. I wish that we could move them all to a big island which they alone would inhabit, and they could unmask and drink and eat as much as they want, while the rest of us act responsibly and think about consequences. But we are all stuck here together, and we’ve got many millions of people who are proud to refuse to do anything that they don’t feel like doing.
William, IMO, what you describe is exactly what I see, and it comes from years of listening to the screamers on talk radio like Limbaugh. This is just another way (in their minds) to ‘own the libs’. The bottom line is propaganda works when you listen to it for an hour or two a day on your daily commute.
Yes,you got that right RD. Yes,yes,yes.
It seems to me the ranting guy on CNBC belongs to the world of MBA-educated bubble boys. They’ve been around since the ’70’s. It’s all about the market and the money! People don’t matter. “Human resources” are expendable. If jerks like this ever took a class in “Business Ethics”, they slept through it or paid some poor philosophy major to take it for them.
My SO used to watch CNBC like it was the SciFi channel. He’d say, “What planet do these people live on? My G-d, they are so far removed from reality.” Now we are all paying the price for their sociopathy.