and all because the war of staying home is much too hard. ( well hard on corporate earnings anyway )
there’s this long standing americanism where bad things don’t happen to good people. there’s always got to be something you did wrong to get sick, or be poor, or be a victim of crime, whatever.
it’s this weird mix of needing to control the uncontrollable and let god sort it out christian righteousness.
i think it’s so ingrained it becomes people’s pre-logic response for all sorts of situations
That’s administration policy. We know what Trump’s own policy is.
Trump sure does need a personal braincare specialist…
Asked about his tweets [cited above] at Friday’s White House coronavirus news conference and whether those states should lift their stay-at-home orders, Trump said, “No, but elements of what they’ve done are too much. … It [quarantine] is too tough.”
(source)
Which is the same as official White House policy (easing restrictions, not ending them).
The only reason that policy has escaped his attention is because it is written, and long. If someone summarized it in a sentence or two and wrote it in crayon, he’d be willing to read it and rescind it.
Again, the so-called “Deep State,” a.k.a. career public servants like Fauci put their careers on the line to try to save the public from the worst impulses of the Conman-in-Chief.
He is out of his mind and we should be getting rid of him right now.
Isn’t there a name for a “leader” that would put the people in long term harm’s way for short gain?
If not now, hopefully soon, although it may take a little time to lose the uppercase initial the way “quisling” did.
Trumpian? I like the ring of that.
I was raised a Roman Catholic and became an Atheist. I used to be a Republican, people change. So, yes, there is probably a small minority of open minded conservatives reading this site. Not all “Conservatives” are Christian horror shows … or Trump supporters.
Actually the word would be “trump”.
Which is exactly why everyone I know who lives in rural areas (and Trump, who is playing to them) would really like to talk about easing (but not eliminating) restrictions.
And another way of thinking about it is that if the restrictions are perceived as too strict, fewer people will obey them.
If you’re in a sparsely populated rural area then the same social distancing restrictions should be easier to follow, not harder.
Agreed. The main thing I hear people complaining about isn’t social distancing rules, it’s most stores being closed by order of the state, people not being able to use their own second homes, parks being closed, etc. That’s the sort of thing they (and, according to the official White House bulletin, Trump too) are talking about.
Wait a second—I’m supposed to be muster sympathy people who have second homes?
Has even one person in rural America been fined or arrested for leaving their primary residence to visit their secondary residence?
No, you’re supposed to complain about people who own second homes and allow their rights to be trampled of course.
https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/faq/can-i-travel-marin-my-second-home
But I have a lot of sympathy for people who own or work for businesses that are now failing because the government has forced them to stay closed even though they’re perfectly able to do business safely, just because they’re deemed “non essential”.
And I have a lot of sympathy for people who want to use parks and open spaces that are closed even while effin golf courses are specifically allowed to stay open:
https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/appendix-1-parks-order-april-29-2020
I’m pretty sure the number of rich people who have been arrested for visiting their second homes in Marin is at or near “zero.”
And yes, owning a second home in Marin does pretty much automatically classify you as a rich person (median home price: $1.2 Million). Not exactly rural Montana.
No one told them they can’t drive to their second fucking homes!!!
Maybe instead of putting the lives of others at risk, they should demand an actual small business bailout?
Life above profits. Always.
[ETA] BTW, here it is, in rural american you claim to care so much about:
REAL human beings ARE DYING. Businesses be rebuilt. People dying is forever.
You’d be wrong. At the height of the quarantine neighbors were turning in neighbors and police were arriving and forcing people to leave their own homes. And there were literal roadblocks preventing people from reaching their own homes. Ugly stuff. And the law remains on the books. Maybe necessary in the early stages of quarantine, but I don’t think so anymore. But screw the rich, right?
But it’s not just rich people who are impacted by business closures. In fact in terms of numbers and impact poor people are hit far harder. Remember, poor people tend to live paycheck to paycheck. And rich people can go play on their legally protected golf courses, but poor people have most public spaces closed to them.
All those restrictions are of course fine if they’re continually deemed necessary, but what Trump is talking about in his official policies isn’t returning to life pre-COVID19, it’s evaluating whether all those restrictions are still necessary and, if not, slowly easing some of them.
More like “the rich are on the very bottom of my list of people to be concerned about right now, and citing people who own second homes in one of the richest counties in America as an example of how salt-of-the-earth ‘rural Americans’ are getting screwed over is not the most powerful way to illustrate your point.”
The. numbers. are. going. up. People. are. dying.
