Traffic in Calibama is same as ever. Not sure where people are going. Grocery stores don’t seem overly packed. Maybe there aren’t a lot of work from home jobs out here?
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I live in NY. This is 100 percent accurate.
Yeah I’m assuming we are going to get the lockdown/shutdown order by end of tomorrow. It’s absurd we haven’t yet.
From the article:
The coronavirus relief bill originally required a permanent paid-sick-leave requirement. Republicans pushed back, and it was dropped.
McDonald’s has asked franchisees to reach out to local representatives to express concerns about the bill’s funding mechanism. The International Franchise Association has also pushed back on the bill.
“The construction of the paid leave mandate and refundable tax credit leaves small businesses with a significant and immediate cash flow crisis for the next six to eight critical weeks,” Matt Haller, the IFA’s senior vice president of government relations and public affairs, wrote in an open letter on Monday.
It says the original version, which Democrats also wrote, had a permanent paid sick leave provision which was dropped due to Republican opposition.
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It’s crazy that they are still open nationwide and unable to provide sanitizing supplies to employees.
There is no need for them to be open as the article makes its case.
They have been circling the drain for a while. I assume they believe if they close that will be the end of them.
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https://twitter.com/violazhouyi/status/1240599057984176128?s=20
Of course this was just the fault of a few idiot policemen and not the entire system.
I was assured that the exempted employers were already providing paid sick leave. Are you saying that the reason they were exempted was because they DIDN’T want to provide paid sick leave?
Oh my heavens. @ViridianDreams is going to be really upset when he learns about this, I’m sure of it.
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Does anyone else think USA #1 is going to lead all statistical categories when this thing is done? (Cases/Deaths) Seems pretty obvious we are nowhere near the peak here and frankly still not taking it seriously. Still massive testing shortages, about to have hospital bed/equipment shortages if we aren’t there already and still a large part of the population isn’t taking this very seriously. I walked around my neighborhood that has confirmed community spread nearby and there were large groups of kids playing everywhere. I drove to my closed office to pick something up to wfh and traffic was normal and parking lots were mostly just as full as always.
My sense is a lot of people here think this is still a joke while we are a week or less away from making Italy’s body counts seem tame.
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Good to see these lads are taking it seriously.
ISIS highlights “the counsel to put trust in God and seek refuge in Him from illnesses” and “the obligation of taking up the causes of protection from illnesses and avoiding them.” The terror group also added that “the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it,”
ISIS also reminds followers to “cover the mouth when yawning and sneezing” and cites a hadith about germs and contamination: “Cover the vessels and tie up the waterskins, for there is one night in the year when pestilence descends, and it does not pass by any vessel that is not covered or any waterskin that is not tied up, but some of that pestilence descends into it.”
People should also “wash the hands before dipping them into vessels,” ISIS concludes.
I am fine with summarily executing her. That’s basically an act of terrorism.
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India has got off to the slowest of starts but if this thing gets a strong foothold it could rip through the country.
Keep exaggerating. If we are to believe the article, the reason was because the funding mechanism would cause liquidity issues for franchisees. I mean, I guess you could pass a bill (assuming it would pass the senate, which, lol it wouldn’t) that forces these people to pay employees with money they don’t have. I don’t see how that helps anyone, but hey, it’s a great meaningless gesture toward leftist ideals! Bernie would be proud.
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Most likely, yes.
Sure but they have the money. It might be uncomfortable for them, but they’re not going broke.
How do you know that?
There are STILL “this is just the flu” people on my Nextdoor.
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Some people will be that way all the way through the whole crisis. Even as people die in their communities, they will be saying that it was the illogical panic that overwhelmed the health care system, not the public policy failure and certainly not their own choices and actions. It will be frustrating but unavoidable I think.
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Tell them it’s just a less deadly AIDS.
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