When politics and reality conflict, reality tends to have the Ace Cards.
Reopening America is Happening
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Personal note: Two of my sons who live in Michigan are trying to re-open their businesses but can’t get the workers to come back who are paid $1000. per week to stay home in total unemployment insurance due to a $600. virus supplement. This is plainly insane. My guess is this may be the real reason for the continued lockdown. Isn’t Democrat largess wonderful?!
In 2020 money doesn’t grow on trees; it is trees, ground up to make paper money.
PA is divided into “yellow” and “red” zones, with <50 new daily cases per 100,000 population as the demarcation. Several counties are rebelling against their classification as red and, despite Gov. Wolf’s threats to cut off federal aid, suspend licenses, etc…. , going to the yellow phase without the gov’s approval. See here
https://www.wtae.com/article/map-of-pennsylvania-counties-and-their-phase-of-reopening/32345753
and here
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=PA+Counties+Going+Yellow+Independently&qpvt=PA+counties+going+yellow+independently&FORM=EWRE
California’s’s mostly rural northern and inland counties (18/52 total) went to “phase 2” recently and the demand is growing. Governor Nuisance is letting local authorities have a lot of leeway in the matter, which has its good and bad points.
Rules must be different than here. In my right to work state, if you’re recalled, and you don’t want to go back to work, the unemployment stops. There was a sob story on the local news last week about a couple of women who were afraid to go back to work because they were afraid (perhaps legitimately–both are caretakers for immuno-compromised relatives) of contracting the Red China Flu, and they didn’t want to lose their unemployment checks.
If I was one of your sons, I’d be telling those employees not to expect their jobs to be there when they’re ready to go back to work.
Or maybe it’s time they relocate to a more business friendly climate.
Funny how that map looks so much like an electoral college map from 2016…and maybe 2020 too.
And more on Michigan. Seems Her Highness is having a tough time with actually enforcing her diktats.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/05/15/lockdown-lawsuit-doctors-hit-gretchen-whitmer-with-suit-over-medical-time-bomb-n393601?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=90d278d38d982d17bf37b6c622848692&recip=26196010