DON’T MESS WITH MOTHER NATURE
By John P. Flannery
There’s a real language reality gap on “re-opening” — being “allowed” to go back to work.
Governors of various intelligence and selfish anti-service ideologies give license to go to work in disregard of the science of this virus.
But the circumference of our freedom is truly defined not by any governor but by the virus, what we know about it, how it’s transmitted, how it takes you down.
When some go to work, if they do because they feel economically they must, who is going to shop retail or for services given the circumscribing virus?
The right answer is that the 4th congressional bill is not about stimulus — it’s about subsistence living — a save the worker transfer payment — to avoid the forced choice of work to live and risk death, rather than staying at home until the all clear siren is sounded.
The right answer is a bill that forces the production of testing and tracing nationwide, and every bit of equipment that is necessary to protect our medical workers.
We must as a “civilization”protect all those workers who can’t telework and who have been excluded for decades from the profits that the wealthiest plutocrats enjoy and that has been derived from the workers’ productivity without giving these workers any share of that enlarged economic pie. It’s why these workers couldn’t save for this rainy day — a veritable monsoon — because they didn’t get their fair share to set it aside. In the lowest income brackets their savings are negative — that’s right, it’s about debt.
The right answer is to rescind the Bush-Trump wealthy tax give backs. It has to be forced because we’re observing from the West Wing down to many state houses how lawless have become those best able to bear the burden of this pandemic, putting any efforts at recovery and us all at risk.
The final right answer is to fire every one of these worthless sociopathic brutes with your mail ballot this November, set the Republicans at reset, vote against every republican at every level of government service, as they have disserved us, they made this pain possible for our workers by never caring to lift all boats, indeed have fought for years to sink them.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
JPF
