Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Unemployed, America

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Unemployed, America

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Unemployed, America

While liberal state governors are encouraging stay at home orders in the name of “an overabundance of caution”,
our economy continues to tank. The stay home, stay safe orders some governors have issued as of late will ensure that some Americans will stay unemployed.

In a surreal turn of events, the governors of the left coast all seem to be in competition for the award of Most Outrageous Stay-At-Home Order Extensions and Measures. California governor, Gavin Newsom, in partnership with local municipalities, took the beach to the skate parks and closed the beaches because “people were not social distancing”. Washington governor, Jay Inslee, extended the state’s Stay Home, Stay Safe initiative until May 31 and pretty much looked like a deer in headlights when talking about “planning to formulate his plan”.

But Oregon governor, Kate Brown took the cake. In a state with significantly smaller COVID-19 numbers, Cruella de Brown extended Oregon’s stay-at-home order through July 6th. Take THAT, Newsom! Take THAT, Inslee! Bonus for what Brown can do for you in The People’s Republic of Oregon? A haunting advertising campaign for Oregon residents:

Shared needles in tent encampments along I-5 in Portland could accidentally kill people, too, Kate. Where was the advertising agency then? Crickets.

I came across this article yesterday that hit a little too close to home.

United on Saturday sent its pilots an email announcing a bid for work slots effective June 30 that involves the “displacement” of 4,457 positions. That makes United the first U.S. airline to disclose its staff reduction plans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its staggering impact on travel. United, like nearly all U.S. carriers, received large grants and low interest loans from the federal government aimed at keeping their staff employed across the summer and ready for a swift return of travel demand. United’s share of those grants and loans totaled about $5 billion, roughly half of which already has been received with balance to arrive in a few weeks.

Now, a quick rebound in travel appears highly unlikely.-Dan Reed, Forbes

Reading this grim news on the airline industry only adds insult to injury as we watch our state governors mess with people’s lives in the name of politicking or, in Inslee’s case, not having a damned clue. In fact this just pisses me off. My husband is not with United but we know people who are with the airline. His airline, also a legacy carrier, is projecting numbers to possibly increase in summer of 2021. There is no way, currently, to tell how much business and leisure travel will increase once lockdowns get lifted.

Furloughs and lay-offs in the airline industry are determined by a seniority number. In reality, some of the more junior pilots and captains that make up the workforces of our airline industry are 20-plus-year veterans of one of the Armed services. My husband has put in roughly 22 years in The United States Marine Corps. He enlisted right out of high school and was a loadmaster on a C-130 before he went back to college and subsequently, flight school in Pensacola. Flying is his life. He knew this since before he could read as a young boy.

Sure, my retired Marine has a pension to fall back on but this is not the point. The point is that he has gone into harm’s way and served his country. He made the choice to do this and then go into the civilian sector. The truth is, there are government employees collecting paychecks in perpetuity who are driving this lockdown-all while they do nothing and still refuse to show up to work!

Now, before I get too far into the weeds here, I’d like to add a disclaimer. If you or someone you know is a government employee who has never been in the service, this is not about you. We appreciate the work and sacrifice you and your families make because we know you’ve made them, too. This is about our elected officials who are sitting on their assess eating $12-dollar pints of ice cream. This is about elected officials who are frowning upon corporate bail-outs (corporations provide JOBS) whilst encouraging social reform and programs that encourage people to stay home and collect off of the government. This is about these bottom-of-the-barrel, low-life SCUM who want to drive everything we stand for as Americans into the ground because they think they can. This is about the human excrement who want to take away what individuals poured their blood, sweat and tears into to build in the name of their self-serving agendas.

We can goof all we want about being grounded by our governors, making Borscht and getting back-alley haircuts and brow waxes but the underlying tone of all of this is not comical in the least. What can we do? We can continue to support the local businesses that stay open. We can continue to hope and pray that our lawmakers come to their senses.

The fear mongers want individuals to stay home and to stay on lock-down. The news media and celebrities alike promote the clear skies in Los Angeles. What they do not realize is the sheer insanity that is brewing underneath the surface. “People are dying”, they say. Yes. COVID-19 patients are dying. But so are the livelihoods of honest, hardworking Americans. People are dying to get back to work, people are dying to get back to normal. People are dying to start their engines again. We need to be cleared for take-off. Those who want to stay home, will still stay home. Those who want to stay safe, will stay safe whether or not they choose to stay home or go to work. As Americans, we should be trusted to do as we choose. I know for a fact, most of us do not choose to be unemployed. We can only stay so much. We can only sit idle for so long. We shouldn’t have to beg. And rolling over and playing dead is not an option.

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  • GWB says:

    the underlying tone of all of this is not comical in the least
    That’s why so many of us have been talking pitchforks, tar & feathers, rope……

    What can we do?
    Make sure there’s less rope on the shelves than TP. Just maybe one of these folks will notice.

    “People are dying”, they say. Yes. COVID-19 patients are dying.
    So are all the other people who die every damn day not from Winnie The Flu. It happens. Life sucks, then you die. Some of these people are actually too stupid to figure this out, but others of them know it and want you to suffer and become dependent on their benevolence.

    And rolling over and playing dead is not an option.
    Oh, they don’t want you playing dead. They want you to BEG.
    It’s time to bite the hand that wants to feed us gov’t cheese and tofu.

  • The situation is quite serious. Business bankruptcies and permanent closures will accelerate. We’re going to have high levels of long term unemployment. This increases mortality. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has forecast 32%; that would likely give 77,000 excess deaths from suicide and substance abuse — that’s based on historical data, not fantasy epidemiological models.

    And if supply chain problems worsen, or hospital closures become pervasive, it gets worse. Regardless of why governors say, we will simply have to open up. Should be thinking now about how to do that.

  • Far too many people have been persuaded that the “bailouts” will protect them and their families. But these bailout bills merely distribute money. They cannot put goods on the shelves on which one can spend that money.

    We’ve been eating into the nation’s REAL savings: its reserves of production and productive capacity. I have no idea how far we are from the bottom, but if we don’t get back to work, we’ll continue to eat our way toward it — and should we actually reach the bottom, we’ll discover what our bank balances are really worth.

    Ignore the politicians and their pet “experts.” Resume your normal lives. Get back to work, America!

  • Chris says:

    “We can continue to hope and pray that our lawmakers come to their senses.“

    I’m afraid that’s not going to work in some cases. Need to seek redress in the courts. And if that doesn’t work, civil disobedience

    • I’m not against lawsuits, they have their place, but they will not do the job. 1) They are slow; we’re going to have massive business failures, long term unemployment, and breakdown of things like food production and distribution, and health care services before court cases are resolved. 2) Often as not, courts are likely to say that governors are legally exercising their powers.

      We’re going to be given the choices of obeying and watching economy and society fall apart, or disobeying. Massive disobedience by opening businesses and going to work…that would be really interesting civil disobedience. I can’t predict the consequences, but I think it’s a good idea.

      • GWB says:

        There need to be 5th Amendment “takings” lawsuits. Because those will (maybe) have an effect on the people making the decisions. And it would be a good avenue for those bits of civil disobedience.

  • Ampleforth says:

    No one is talking about the Declaration of Independence through this government made crisis. There is no discussion about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not one word about the consent of the governed.

    These words are certainly ignored: “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

    This one has been forgotten and ignored for a very long time: “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

    My family and I were at Colonial Williamsburg many years ago, and we watched some introductory video about the town. It included video of comments of tourists, who were interviewed while riding a shuttle bus. A young lady said that the Declaration of Independence was written by a bunch of rich white men who didn’t want to pay taxes.”

    It was jarring, but not as jarring as what is going on in the republic at this moment.

  • Sasquatch says:

    Hi, United pilot here. Just to clarify, the coming 30% layoffs (furloughs, for pilots/flight attendants) are just the starting point. If people can’t return to work and begin traveling again, there will be many more to follow.

  • buddhaha says:

    Here’s a little data on OR (pop. 4.1M) from: https://govstatus.egov.com/OR-OHA-COVID-19.
    109 total deaths , ZERO under the age of 40.

  • Daniel says:

    The normal flu bug KILLED 80,000 Americans in the 2017 – 2018 season. How do the authorities think these people caught the bug back then? Yet there was no shut-down, no stay at home orders, no safe distancing directives, no mask requirements, nobody even noticed. The same unfortunates who are dying from this bug are the same ones that would die from the normal seasonal flu.

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