“When half the working class is facing economic devastation and the other half still has to show up to work, are we really all in this together?”
Absolutely not!
The new class divide is the old class divide. No government employees have been laid off.
Ok, what’s he willing to give up to be “equal” with everyone else.
The constant drumbeat from celebs and politicians is “we’re in this together”. Meanwhile, the privileged class has everything they need a home. Their own workout room, rec room, movie room, etc.
‘eff them, each and everyone of them. Every time I hear the sad music and the “uplifting” message of some wealthy idiot telling me to forgo my liberty, because we’re in this together, I just want to projectile vomit.
This absolutely checks out. And it also tracks with how upset people are with the shutdown/lifting of shutdown. The richer you are, the more willing you are to just shelter in place. Especially true of rich people without jobs( housewives and inheritors).
I’d like to see a comparison between how many private company employees have lost jobs, due to China Virus, to how many govt employees have lost jobs.
The author is a virtue signalling ass. Appreciating those whose day to day work form the links in the supply chain(s) is fine, but the sneering condescension in his final paragraph shows he believes he is in the “enlightened elite”.
Lockdown Exposes the Machinations of EVIL Megalomaniacs.
This guy really gets it. I’m hoping that “working class” people will remember in November and put aside habitually voting for Democrats and send President Trump back for four more years.
For his part, I think Trump needs to push “back to work”.
You couldn't PAY me to move to any BLUE state or City!
How many high school seniors and college students will course correct to a more secure job future? Too many college majors that cost a fortune with no prospect of comparable income....
There are tons of jobs around here delivering stuff, stocking stuff etc. going unfilled.
My definition of an essential worker: anyone paying income and/or property taxes.
When you have a job of actual work like building things it’s kind of hard to do it from home.
I’m thinking it’s the Plantation owners vs. their slaves...
The most heated arguments that I have gotten in with the more liberal, Trump-hating members of my family are over this issue. It absolutely amazes me that they don’t understand that some people have to work to live - physically go to a location (not work remotely) and do work. And the risk of getting COVID-19, as bad as it may be, is much, much less than the risk of becoming homeless and starving to death. That is a really risk that Liberals don’t want to acknowledge. Or if they do, they simply say that government should hand out checks (what a pathetic statement that is - do they really think the government can support half the country for months?). Or they scream about how its all Trump’s fault. This issue, more than any in this pandemic, really gets my blood boiling.
Good article. I recently wrote to a city official urging that the public schools be reopened....not because I have a high opinion of them educationally, in fact quite the reverse...but they are essential as “daycare” to the part of the population that couldn’t work from home or stay home and supervise their kids’ on-line lessons every day.
There are many people, usually in low-wage jobs, who had to go to work everyday and simply didn’t have any alternative to just letting the kids roam the streets and get into trouble. It certainly wasn’t good for the kids and was a real hardship for the parents, many of whom try to do the best they can with their kids but probably, even if they could have stayed home, wouldn’t have been up to assisting with the lessons anyway.
I suggested a special summer session to start immediately that would help these kids to catch up on what they missed in an abbreviated class schedule and might even be heavily recreation-based so that much of the day would be sports, etc. - just something so that their parents could go to their “essential” low-age jobs without so much to worry about.
I was told by someone that the teacher’s union might object, which tells you all you need to know about the true priorities in all this.
Bump