COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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The professional classes feel like this is a virus only grocery workers and meat packers should be exposed to.

Not true.

As far as my comment. The comment was because a major fortune 500 DoD company that currently has the biggest contract in the history of the world (F-35, 400 billion plus dollars). Has operators, mechanics and technicians protesting.

This is also the facility that makes said plane (F-35), and ships the planes out to allies all over the world (the F-35 is now the most exported defense weapon in the world) with a blue color staff that are union workers. Who also has a history of going on strike at this very same facility.

Included in this equation is a White house with a president and administration that is pro defense, has stated that the coronavirus is a threat to national security and has said the F-35 program is too big for funding to be cut and must meet schedule deadlines (not just deadlines with the navy and airforce, but deadlines all across the world).

Thats why this is potentially big news!
 

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Breh I appreciate you and the other doctor brotha on here blowing the whistle.

My cousin a doctor and been saying similar shyt the last 3 months. She been telling me protect me and my family and whatever the numbers are they probably worse.

honestly it should have never come to this. It's just America and greed :manny:
 

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U have to understand the mentality of Americans. When a person is in an nursing home there expected to die, Americans cast off their relatives even though most are still mentally/physically functioning to this end. Look at societies around the world, the elderly in Japan only go to rest homes if their mentally and physically gone but the rest live with their families until death.
Point is, you’ve got a country where at least 35% of its deaths were nursing homes. Many states it’s over half their virus deaths, yet the states still have severe restrictions on what the average citizen can and can’t do. If 60% of your states deaths are nursing homes, and you already closed off your lives and business for 2 months to flatten the initial spike and that goal was accomplished, why are you still preventing folks from going on with their lives? At some point you simply have to adapt and learn to live with the virus, put in the requisite hygienic and testing measures to enable things to open, and if you’re vulnerable or hesitant you stay home

One-Third of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents or Workers
 

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Waking sometimes at 3 or 4 O'clock in the morning to meet the needs of the city is what the sanitation workers of New Orleans do on a daily basis. They are tasked with handling and disposing of the City's trash. These men work tirelessly for hours on end to ensure these needs are met but, they are now having to fight for fair treatment and fair pay. These men have not been provided any protective gear to guard against or combat the pandemic we are all facing. Instead of addressing the concerns of the workers who are risking their lives in the COVID19 riddled city of New Orleans; they were fired or told if they didn't stop fighting for what is right, they would be fired.

This fund is being created to show the City as well as the company's not addressing the problem that the city, the world, support these workers. These individuals deserve hazardous pay and benefits for the work they do.
 

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The curve doesn’t stop once it’s trending towards flat
Neither does livelihood. Most folks have to start back up, or there’s nothing to go back to after too long. Increase testing capacity, tracing measures, keep pushing PPE/hygiene, and learn to live with it. It ain’t gonna go away no matter how long you close everything down. Protect the old and vulnerable, and life goes on in with the virus
 

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Neither does livelihood. Most folks have to start back up, or there’s nothing to go back to after too long. Increase testing capacity, tracing measures, keep pushing PPE/hygiene, and learn to live with it. It ain’t gonna go away no matter how long you close everything down. Protect the old and vulnerable, and life goes on in with the virus
We don’t have leaders in place capable of creating, managing or putting that type of planning in action
 

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We don’t have leaders in place capable of creating, managing or putting that type of planning in action
That’s what the shutdown was supposed to be for. It wasn’t to eradicate the virus. Because the virus isn’t going anywhere. You can’t turn off the faucet for an extended period of time, or the well runs completely dry. If states have more than half their deaths in long term care facilities why are they still shut down after already sacrificing 2 months of everything? Life goes on. Learn to move and live as if it’s around you, because it is. Can’t hide from it. It’s going to infect the majority of citizens, the shutdown was to spread that out over a longer period, which was accomplished. Get healthy, start eating right, supplementing the right vitamins and minerals, work out, lose some lbs, lower that blood sugar and blood pressure, take hygienic precautions, and adapt. Don’t need leaders making decisions to do any of those things, and they can increase the likelihood you beat this virus when you come in contact with it tenfold
 

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That’s what the shutdown was supposed to be for. It wasn’t to eradicate the virus. Because the virus isn’t going anywhere. You can’t turn off the faucet for an extended period of time, or the well runs completely dry. If states have more than half their deaths in long term care facilities why are they still shut down after already sacrificing 2 months of everything? Life goes on. Learn to move and live as if it’s around you, because it is. Can’t hide from it. It’s going to infect the majority of citizens, the shutdown was to spread that out over a longer period, which was accomplished. Get healthy, start eating right, supplementing the right vitamins and minerals, work out, lose some lbs, lower that blood sugar and blood pressure, take hygienic precautions, and adapt. Don’t need leaders making decisions to do any of those things, and they can increase the likelihood you beat this virus when you come in contact with it tenfold
I’m saying nothing was done to prepare citizens for when the country opens back up.
 

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I’m saying nothing was done to prepare citizens for when the country opens back up.
Testing is increasing by the day. With that, positive test percentages are remaining flat or decreasing, which is a positive sign. You continue to increase testing as you phase in reopenings. No ones arguing it’s been as inept a response by the government as it gets. They wasted the bulk of the shutdown. But you can’t stay shutdown, that’s not the solution. By the time June rolls around things need to be pretty much opened back up again, that’s pushing 3 months. You’re lost if you stay closed much longer
 
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