COVID-19 Don't Panic!

[Mortalis5509]

I would say it's their problem, not yours.  For all you know they've all had it and recovered or all tested positive and are partying before the symptoms appear.

Damn straight!

I kind of wish I could get it and either die, or know I am good to go out into public.  I say that having not had even the flu in 20 years (and at the time wishing I was dead), and without scientific knowledge about passing it around after having recovered from having COVID19.  My perspective/attitude may change

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i'vre said the same multiple times in past 6 weeks; just get me exposed and let me ride it  out or be remebered. I do not wish anyone bad or ill will, just am tired of this. I got same flu scenario Clark.  I am pretty resilient ; just wnt some antibodies.

Re: neighbors, I appreciate the perspective.
I think we all have more extra time on hands and everyone is looking for stuff or noticing things we would not normally care much about. It wigs me out not being able to have that monthly gatr camp and crawl, mostly.

Ehh....leave them alone.

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[tjsahara00]

Back to work tomorrow after 3 weeks
We're cutting back from 4 shifts 24 / 7
down to 3 shifts 24 / 5 days.
They laid off almost 100 employees out of over 400.....
I had 1 employee get laid off and 3 moved to a different department for now.

[clark123456]

Back to work tomorrow after 3 weeks
We're cutting back from 4 shifts 24 / 7
down to 3 shifts 24 / 5 days.
They laid off almost 100 employees out of over 400.....
I had 1 employee get laid off and 3 moved to a different department for now.

Is everyone happy to be back at work?

[tjsahara00]

Very small crew today on our side of the plant trying to start our 16,200 ton extrusion press (largest production extrusion press in the world) up. Boeing
is supposed to start back up today but we're not sure about some of our other customers. Everyone has to wear some form of face shield, face mask, or bandanna.

[kvom]

My extrusion press dispensed toothpaste. 

[Blue J]

Very small crew today on our side of the plant trying to start our 16,200 ton extrusion press (largest production extrusion press in the world) up. Boeing
is supposed to start back up today but we're not sure about some of our other customers. Everyone has to wear some form of face shield, face mask, or bandanna.

Aluminum Extrusions ?

[tjsahara00]

yes for Aerospace industry mainly

[clark123456]

Game on bitches!  We're free at last...thank you gub'ner Kemp.

Now we need a lot of MAGAt rallies...lots and lots of them!

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[Big Dave]

Now we need a lot of MAGAt rallies...lots and lots of them!

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Only if you plan to attend every f'ing one of them. SMH.

[tjsahara00]

Well it's not just for trail riding.....

[Trailabite]

Well it's not just for trail riding.....

You should wear that all the time lol

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[TravisMac]

Interesting take on the "re-opening" of GA and what the motivations could be behind it. The TL;DR is that the unemployment fund will be dry in 28 weeks or less, re-opening lowers the number of new people that would be eligible (a server, hair dresser, etc... making $2.13 an hour + tips isn't eligible just because that tip number is 1/10th of what it used to be). Also the people in those jobs don't typically vote red anyways, so it looks like a win in the eyes of his base which skews more towards "essential" roles.

You really want to know what I think about the governor’s decision to reopen many businesses closed by COVID-19?

It’s about making sure people can’t file unemployment. It isn’t about saving lives, certainly. It’s not about the peak of the curve. I think lots of people are going to ignore the governor and stay home regardless. This isn’t a decision being driven by epidemiology. It’s the rawest and most lethal of political decisions, and it will kill people.

Kemp is looking forward to the fiscal discussion in 2021 and 2022, when all of this really starts to hit. He got elected by out-yahooing the field. His base has been trained to view government spending as a crime, and he knows that he becomes politically vulnerable to an attack if he raises taxes. He is not capable of delivering a nuanced message around necessity, because his base doesn’t know how to hear it.

The state is staring at one million unemployment applications. It probably cannot pay those over six months. The unemployment fund has a reserve of about $2.6 billion. Last week it paid out about $42 million — which is about three times as much as it usually does. That figure will double in two weeks, give or take. Maybe more.

At that rate, the fund is empty in about 28 weeks. Probably less. Even if things improve later, that fund will run dry in a year, because unemployment isn’t going to return to 5 percent for a long time.

Georgians did the Kansas thing a couple of years ago and instituted a hard constitutional limit on income taxes of 6 percent. It cannot go higher without amending the state constitution. What that means is that there’s no easy mechanism for the state to accommodate an extraordinary expense, like this, without somehow telling Republican reactionaries that they must raise taxes.

Those reactionaries are the ones who will be protesting in front of the statehouse Friday when businesses start to reopen.

If there’s no state order calling for businesses to be closed, the people who are unemployed can no longer claim that their unemployment is involuntary, even if it would be utter idiocy for them to return to work. A hairdresser or a massage therapist cannot maintain social distance. But they can certainly file for relief … unless the law says they can work.

“Gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools & massage therapists.”

Not banks. Not software firms. Not factories. Not schools.

It is no coincidence that the businesses on this list are staffed by relatively poor people. Because that’s who he wants off the unemployment rolls. And if they die … well, they’re mostly black people, or Asian, and poor, and an acceptable political loss for a Republican governor.

The purpose of this isn’t to open up these businesses. It’s to get the workers there off the dole. Work, and die. Or don’t work … but you’re on your own. Because we can’t raise taxes to cover the time you spent trying to save your life and the lives of the people around you.

– George Chidi