Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
-I already know this will not be popular in the circles i frequent and will fly in the face of many MoP mantras over the many years but I am having a hard time, difficult time, impossible time trying to feel sympathy for the businesses that now cannot hire minimum wage-like employees to come running back and break their asses working round the clock so that very few people can really prosper other than perhaps the business owner. Without diving into specifics I think many of these jobs are within companies that have questionable benefits in terms of health to most of their customers so if these businesses did perish i have a hard time finding many tears for them.
-I'm irritated because we need to be understanding of people who were doing nothing wrong prior to the pandemic and were pretty much stripped of their jobs not because they wouldn't work but it was simple taken away from them or they were forced to operate in conditions I could not or would not choose to...my 21 year old wore a mask the whole time at Publix, i never wore a mask other than to buy groceries let alone have one strapped to my face 8 hours a day. Some of you DID have to experience different forms of this.
-I would normally resent anyone sitting at home collecting a government check but for some reason this time around I am having a hard time cheering these 23 States for likely doing the right thing in most instances but here I am questioning why we need to do this.
I'm having a hard time sympathizing with most of the businesses, many who seemed eager to get into the pandemic and change policies almost overnight. I've watched WallStreet SOAR from a low of around 16-17,000? It's doubled from that bottoming out about a year ago, that's absolutely insane to me and most Americans. How can they be making so much money when places were closed? Entire cities or downtown areas of major urban areas were ordered to be shuttered during the pandemic, were they not?
I'm not doing well on this issue and not finding myself agreeing with folks saying "Good, get their asses back to work"
Was it really a total vacation for everyone?
-I'm irritated because we need to be understanding of people who were doing nothing wrong prior to the pandemic and were pretty much stripped of their jobs not because they wouldn't work but it was simple taken away from them or they were forced to operate in conditions I could not or would not choose to...my 21 year old wore a mask the whole time at Publix, i never wore a mask other than to buy groceries let alone have one strapped to my face 8 hours a day. Some of you DID have to experience different forms of this.
-I would normally resent anyone sitting at home collecting a government check but for some reason this time around I am having a hard time cheering these 23 States for likely doing the right thing in most instances but here I am questioning why we need to do this.
I'm having a hard time sympathizing with most of the businesses, many who seemed eager to get into the pandemic and change policies almost overnight. I've watched WallStreet SOAR from a low of around 16-17,000? It's doubled from that bottoming out about a year ago, that's absolutely insane to me and most Americans. How can they be making so much money when places were closed? Entire cities or downtown areas of major urban areas were ordered to be shuttered during the pandemic, were they not?
I'm not doing well on this issue and not finding myself agreeing with folks saying "Good, get their asses back to work"
Was it really a total vacation for everyone?